SFA referee Charlie Richmond yesterday told the BBC he was resigning from his role as a top class official citing reasons that will horrify and resonate with many of you. Speaking last night he said:
“Referee’s committee members, who you would expect to get support from, have told me across the table ‘this is nothing to do with your refereeing ability, it’s nothing to do with your experience but you won’t be getting high profile games because you’re not seen as a team member.
“The fact that you don’t share the same conversation or the same humour doesn’t mean to say you are the bad penny.
“The fact that you don’t share the same conversation or the same humour doesn’t mean to say you are the bad penny.
“In any walk of life a natural progression takes place but the person underneath doesn’t need to stab someone in in the back to advance quicker.
“I received a phone call telling me to watch what I was saying in dressing rooms because this is 10am on a Monday and it’s filtered back already.
“Much more disappointing, is that they are believing that information.”
Coming hard on the heels of last season’s bullying allegations by an official and nature of what was regarded by some as suitable material to joke about in the workplace, the SFA sounds like an old boys club.
SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, tweeted in response: “Referee appointments are based on performance. Would prefer to see consistent under performers ‘retire’ without feeling need to blame others”.
Ouch. Listen to her.
Charlie Richmond may or may not be a rubbish referee, Mr Regan could easily persuade me of the former, but that is not the point. It is not the responsibility of the employee to manage the performance review process. If the organisation manages this process well, the employee becomes an active part of proceedings, even when performance is worthy of criticism.
This situation has not been managed well. It is a corporate failure at an organisation which has been dogged by corporate governance issues for years.
The SFA have been accredited as Investors In People. The scenario where a senior referee complains to the media about favouritism while the chief executive retorts online about “consistent under performers” (sic) is surely the antithesis of good Investors In People. It smacks of lousy people management.
If you have underperforming staff, make it clear to them where they are going wrong. Do so in an inclusive way, ensure those charged with performance communication are able to do so without accusations of favouritism (Richmond) or bullying (Craven), and for goodness sake, ensure the chief exec doesn’t get bitchy on Twitter.
If you or I accused the SFA of behaviour like this we would be dismissed as irrelevant but the organisation needs to take action to ensure there are no more accusations of bullying, favouritism, selective-humour-bonding and executives disrespecting officials on Twitter.
Can you imagine what the very same people would be doing today if Neil Lennon had a go at a referee on Twitter?
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Bigot game prematch entertainment….
The non bearded woman
jc2
What i’d give for a Greggs! I eat like a man possessed when i’m home & starve myself when i’m away.
I should have told my lady what to expect with the strips, She said the other day “how many bloody strips did you order” haha. After telling her what they are for she is doing a fine job sorting them out for me. HH
So Craig Whyte is top listen to the bidders for his club.well he better hurry up for between him and a few other shady rangers peepil are heading for the Big Hoose, Barlinnie that is.Pay your dues ya bunch of crooks.
Seem to recall that a little while back, rangers opened an office in London to widen their international profile and that gordon smith visited Brazil with the same objective…..does anyone know if this has made a substantial impact on their level of debt ?
‘I heart Hillbillies’
-coming to a car bumper near you.
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 11 April, 2012 at 13:59 said:
‘I heart Hillbillies’
Dolly Parton, she’s all right.
Philvis
Pitch ‘n’ toss = Jingles?
Apologies Edward Ursus if I sounded like a tw**t the other night.
The great thing about winning in April is PL, the board , Lennie, whoever buys the players have loads of time to scout/report/ trial etc.hopefully help us avoid a repeat of juarez although I’m not complaining, on balance they’ve got it right.
socrates mulligan 13:58
Yes! Duff&Duffer paid the guy off and shut the office.
Sir Paul
Great Leader. Interesting.
I am not in the least surprised,though.
Folks, are Like that..
Folks, have their likes and dislikes..
In this case, the storyline concerns the Trials and Tribs of a Member of the Refereeing Frat House..
but, it could easily be a recounting of the problems which are faced in gaining recognitiion of one’s abilities,in one’s daily workplace.
Office Politics,are a Fact of Life.
Folk, like certain other folk,and Folk, dislike certain other folk.
Shoot… Incidents, concerning, Petty Jealousies and egregious acts o’ Favouritism,Happen..daily,right here…
on This Very Sacred Spot in the Blogosphere.
Like Ah said..
Folk are Like That.
Kojo
Still, Laughin’ , though.
Vogue p- you’re not wrong.
Wee Dolly is a great woman.
Just back from County Donegal where the League Flag 2012 was well and truly celebrated.
I had the great pleasure to be met in Sharkey’s Bar, Annagry by excellent CQN’er thomthethim who was a tremendous host, as well as another excellent CQN’er, ardmacha. Thanks for making it a fantastic day bhoys.
thomthethim’s son and other family members were there, and I had my brother, and a couple of my extended Donegal clan with me.
As you can imagine, just about every bar around the Rosses/Gweedore area of Donegal is Celtic friendly but Sharkeys is a real Celtic Bar, with top class Celtic memorabilia, and the place was rocking even before we started banging in the goals.
If you are ever in the area, make sure to go and visit.
To top it off, the taxi driver who ran us to our next haunt in Burtonport had met us 4 years ago in Aalborg and there was a good wee Celtic sing song going back.
Paul67 – thanks for putting me in touch with thomthethim. Great to witness the CQN community in action.
Final note for ardmacha – I won’t bother mentioning Sunday’s GAA score amigo…….oops..…too late!
Thanks bhoys and Hail Hail.
tully.
Dontbrattbackinanger.
Thanks for that information re Glyphosate. I can see you looked it up on the internet,I should have done that myself.getting a bit lazy in my old age.Thanks again.
ASonOfDan
Thanks for that…..that is good news
If the SFA try and do Neilly this week he should just ignore them and refuse to pay any fine and take his seat in the dugout as normal.
I mean what could they do to stop him?
gerryguk7 on 11 April, 2012 at 13:00 said:
Fud…….
Old Tim- no problem.
Not enough gardenin’ on the ole bhlog, IMHO.
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A wee picture of hillbilly themed sausage merchandise
Off topic but…
Whatever happened to that pair of Indian chaps brought over by thems in a clever marketing ploy to the sub continent?
Are they still here?
Tully57
As a wee side the Pencil drawing of the great man you’re named after was mine and my Dad and I gave it Joe and Michael to put up on the wall. It was drawn by Jim Derby who I went to school with!
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 11 April, 2012 at 14:10 said:
A wee picture of hillbilly themed sausage merchandise
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Is that ootside ipox?
bunburybhoy on 11 April, 2012 at 14:11 said:
Off topic but…
Whatever happened to that pair of Indian chaps brought over by thems in a clever marketing ploy to the sub continent?
Are they still here?
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They were sent back home after a training session.
Sally said they did not look fit…pot ,kettle etc.
bunburybhoy on 11 April, 2012 at 14:11 said:
No they went home with at least one of them saying it was a total waste of time and they wished they hadn’t bothered.
Senor Pablo Diablo on 11 April, 2012 at 14:02 said:
Philvis
Pitch & Toss = Chippy……well it did in Hamilton
bunburybhoy
I remember reading they were treated terribly by rangers, went home after 4 days and played 1 game i think
ParkheadcumsalfordwhoisNeilLennonand PaulMcBrideandTrishGodman on 11 April,
I watched those Andre Rieu concerts the other night.
Absolutely magical.
The scale, the music and the logistics of performing those concert are incredible.
I was blown away by the delectable Carmen Monarcha’s rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” with the Mastricht Children’s Choir.
I looked in vain for it on Youtube.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail on 11 April, 2012 at 14:08 said:
Think what you like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCZul6t9N5o
Thomthethim there you go.
jimbo67 on 11 April, 2012 at 12:54 said
I remember that episode, hilarious. “I thought it was only a friendly ? Against Rangers, you must be joking”
likelyladsCSC
Fin75
“Jingles” was what folk I knew from Bellshill/Viewpark called it.
Robbie Williams loves sausages
http://www.football-marketing.com/2011/11/19/rangers-fc-hindi-twitter-commentary/
Nuff said.
HH
thomthethim on 11 April, 2012 at 14:16 said:
ParkheadcumsalfordwhoisNeilLennonand PaulMcBrideandTrishGodman on 11 April,
I watched those Andre Rieu concerts the other night.
Absolutely magical.
The scale, the music and the logistics of performing those concert are incredible.
I was blown away by the delectable Carmen Monarcha’s rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” with the Mastricht Children’s Choir.
I looked in vain for it on Youtube.
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Great concert in what looks a great location.
The highlight for me was Kimmy Skota singing Bach’s Ave Maria. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
greenjedi on 11 April, 2012 at 14:12 said:
greenjedi – seeing that drawing of Charles Patrick was brilliant. I was told by the barman it was a gift and your pal who drew it is certainly gifted. Well done for handing it over….what you lose in not having it permanent is more ethan made up for by seeing it up in the wall in such a fine pub when you re-visit….or like now by having others comment on it…..
Me and my brother handed over a large framed photo of Henrik scoring the 1st goal v St Johnstone that helped say cheerio to 10 in a row back in ’98 to the owner of Kellys Bar in Burtonport and it’s always great to see it still up there.
tully
voguepunter on 11 April, 2012 at 14:18 said:
Thank you.
Off to drool!
alex thomson @alextomo
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Seen a picture of that Bill Ng in one of this mornings chip wrappers… Bears a uncanny resemblance to Steve Lamacq….
HalfmanHalfbiscuitLoyal…