Hugh McGhee

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[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@smithj1978 @McgheeCalum Yeah McGinns only scored 21 international goals. And got the one we did get against Haiti. I’d definitely drop him.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@afc1903mad @kelman2627 @BlairKaylor Except the bail didn’t hit his hand in the first one and it hit the arm across his body in the second. Hanley had a very good game.

[𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @_DIGB]

Was due to finish work at 5pm but a pack of Celtic fans have just tore into the office so we’ve all just finished early

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

VAR

I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.

But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.

Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.

Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.

Subjectivity.

I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.

Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.

For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.

Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.

As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.

Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.

VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).

Enough is enough, fuck it off.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@JRutherford97 @McgheeCalum Fully expecting you to see the light next season ! 😉🔵⚪️

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@cal_scott1995 @ewanpaton22 @GabyMcKay Congratulations. All the best 🍺

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@killiechronicle @GabyMcKay If those 6 figures are in £s then that’s deal of the century. Sorry Millenium.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@StuartBoyd83 @soorploom Can you imagine that team fighting for their Premier lives in a play off. Don’t have the mentality for it. Defence been making same mistakes since the start of the season. Ones that Junior players wouldnt make. No way can they just switch that off. I wouldn’t put a fiver on us

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@C_Dawg99 @FEAE_KilliePod Spot on . How Deas has been an ever present this season is one of the great mysteries of our team

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@KilmarnockFC @spfl Jeez. That was a great watch and a hard one in equal measure. Terrific to see the spotlight put on unsung guys like Lenny making a huge contribution to the Killie Community - and to hear what he gets back in return. Well done Lenny 👏👏👏

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@SweegerOfficial That’s exactly what should be happening

[David H. @facetsquared]

I hope the folks who piled on in the forum are pleased with themselves. So much for the #killie family. Martin and the boys put a lot of effort into this to provide some content for fans, and I’ve enjoyed it. Come back stronger lads.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@Killiedata Saves the top of my head exploding !

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@Greg_Hodgson Absolutely to the Championship. No one half decent will want to sign for us . We are unable to avoid making basic errors that ship goals every week.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@chrislove1990 @jackwilson14499 Spot on

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@pieandbov It’s a penalty for me by the way. We got away with one. Presumably VAR checked it . I’m bored shitless now watching incidents at games and not having a clue what the decision should be. It’s all been made too complicated - as a way of hiding up inconsistency and incompetence

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@pieandbov This is as clear an incident as you can get. No deflections. Lyon’s is well away from the player who heads it. Ball isn’t travelling at fast pace like it would with a shot . Looks like it hits his elbow. And yet none is us know with any confidence whether it’s a pen or not.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@BillMovements12 @Micksyy19 @KilmarnockFC Yeah you’re right. It was all going so well. So unfair to sack him after 2 points from 30.

[Hugh McGhee @killieshug]

@RuarBro @LisaM_x We didn’t need hindsight to work out that contracts for Magennis and Lowery were mental gambles in a season when we were cutting the budget and Kennedy Thomson and Watkins were already on the treatment table.

[David H. @facetsquared]

Let’s offer Kettlewell his signings back to him at County and see how much he still believes in them. #killie