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4ize

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  1. The jobsworths are still on the march, then :| Either that or they're pioneering humour bypasses at Cornhill.
  2. Not sure that Caff's a shoo-in to replace Dods (hence Dods keeping his place at Caff's expense) and I couldn't agree less that Brown's been off-form recently. If any of them go it'll be CC's first major test as a manager other than winning games - interesting times...
  3. The counter-argument to professional referees has been for some time now that the game in Scotland can't afford them. I don't know how they're financed south of the border but with the SFA grubbing around for a sponsor at the same time as the SFL and SRU there won't be that much money kicking around. Now, between them you'd expect twelve SPL outfits to be able to fund a pool of, say, 18 professional refs, giving 50% slack for holidays and sickness etc: but if you want the linesmen and fourth officials on the list as well you're looking at every club shelling out for six officials apiece - £150K per year, minimum? Whilst that'd disappear into the Old Firm wage bill it'd be a bit more significant to ours, I'd imagine. If we can afford professionals then, fantastic, let's have them. I can't think of many areas of business where a company's fate, its profits and possibly its solvency is decided in a split second by an amateur in a situation, in the case of some offside decisions, where it's been proven that it's physically impossible for the individual to see what he needs to in order to make the call. However, if pro's aren't something we can afford then I think we could do worse than league tables. Yes managers will inevitably be biased but, equally inevitably, those officials who make the least number of crap decisions will end up towards the top. I'm also a big fan of instant replay, but that's a horse of a different colour.
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