Re-refereeing is not helping game
EVERYONE is going to have an opinion on the Scottish FA disciplinary system and the everyone is going to have an opinion on every incident that is raised, or not raised.
We are seeing games getting re-refereed the next day and that has to stop. I don’t know what the best solution is right now, though.
Allan McGregor has been cited for his challenge on Lewis Ferguson last week and you would probably say that the challenge is a red card.
The thing that annoys managers, players and supporters more than anything when it comes to disciplinary matters is the lack of consistency from game to game and week to week.
That is what Steve Clarke was calling for the other week. There has to be a level of consistency.
When the footage is available from every single game and we all know what has happened in games, there is no excuse.
He is not getting sent off for elbowing people in the face or flying into lunging tackles that threaten careers. It is just petulant, and he has that in him.
Steven has got to try and manage that side out of him while not taking the edge off his game. That could be a slow process.
The manager said after the game at Pittodrie that Alfredo had to control his aggression if he wanted to reach the level that he thinks he can play at and prospective buyers will be looking at him in terms of his temperament and his disciplinary record.
Nobody is perfect. That is a flaw that Alfredo has in his game but it can be worked out of him with the help of those round about him.
He seems like the type of boy that wants to get better. He listens and he has that work ethic to improve, which he has done a lot this season.
That side of the game can’t be taken out of him completely. When you are playing up front yourself, you have got to be aggressive when you have big centre-halves breathing down his neck.
There is pressure on him to get goals every single week and he has done extremely well once again this season. If he can get that petulance out of him, what a player he could become.