Jack calls for Willie to be demoted after derby-day mistakes
and we have to live with that, but if it is a free-kick it’s different.
“I don’t know if anything gets done about it, if referees get things wrong. I don’t know what it’s in place if referees do make mistakes.”
Asked if he thought referees should go down leagues if they make errors in big fixtures, he said: “I think that’s what should happen.
“If you’re making mistakes time and time again, why should you be refereeing top games?”
Jack revealed that Collum had refused to speak to him about the flashpoint afterwards and expressed his exasperation at the lack of meaningful dialogue between players and match officials.
“It’s frustrating for players that you can’t actually approach a referee and ask for an explanation,” he said.
“I feel like I can’t approach him [Collum], but that goes for most referees nowadays. You can’t approach them, you can’t speak or they’ll book you.
“I said: ‘Willie, I thought that was a foul’. But you get nothing back. It’s ‘go away, get out my face, whatever’. There’s nothing you can say.
“If you do try to approach to ask why, it’s a booking and another rash decision that’s going to be made pitch.”
Jack also questioned the purpose of having a fourth official standing on the sidelines if the referee is going to ignore his advice.
“It makes you ask why he is there,” he said. “He’s obviously watching from the side to give his input and advice to the referee. The referee didn’t want to listen and wanted to go with his own decision and what he thought but, as I say, it was us that suffers.”
Asked if he thought, like his Rangers team-mate Connor Goldson, that Collum had been influenced by the Celtic fans in the 58,865-strong crowd, Jack said: “I don’t know, but it comes back to the point that we don’t get answers.
“No-one gets answers. It’s brushed under the carpet. You’d like to think there could be a relationship where players could give their views. Maybe some refs haven’t played the game or see it different. You have to get on with it.
“There is definitely a massive improvement in the squad, in the staff, in the playing style, in the feeling around the club and among the fans,” he added.
“Everything seems to be on the up at the minute. We just need to focus on every league game when we’re back.” on the