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Thank god he has gone it was a stupid appointment a 麻豆官网首页入口 pundit gets a high paid job at the SFA he has made a lot of mistakes from the first day and he deserves to be gone. Now all we need is a total reshuffle of the SFA and get scottish football out of the predicament that we are in....Good bye Gordon you wont be missed

I don't know the guy but to an outsider, he seemed to be suspect to foot-in-mouth disease. Some of the comments he made about Burley or Boozegate for example, were ludicrous: illogical, inconsistent with what others were saying, and apparently in haste. And then there are the issues about referees having the final say, Livi and Robbie Winters and so on.

So I won't miss him in the slightest.

But I do think the SFA has to drag itself into the 21st century (some might say that even the 20th century would be an improvement). Surely the SFA is just the sum of the parts of the clubs - so come on clubs, get a grip.

I might be the first but Gordon tried to do a good job. Let's go through his tenure and rate him out of 10 on a set of points.
1) Summer football - Look at this season (snow, Fir Park, Easter Road etc.). - 10/10
2) George Burley - Could have got better but at least he didn't leave for a club job unlike the previous two but didn't qualify for a continental tournament like the previous two. 5/10
3) Boozegate - Two employees get drunk whilst at work excursion then turn up to training in no fit state to work then swear at clients. Employees sacked which is right decision. 9/10
4) Craig Levein - Good choice hopefully long-term, hopefully not lured away buy (sic) plain traitorism (McLeish and Smith). 7/10
5) Recalls - Bad execution, Smith had all the power and stupidly let previous misdemeanours go (a normal person who did what Ferguson and McGregor would never get job back). 0/10
6) Diving - Crusade for right reasons. If he saw Winters dived he had every right to take it further. 7/10
7) Goal Line Technology - Right noises not his fault iFab and FIFA are dinosaurs. 10/10
8) Organisational Reform - Turkeys voting for Christmas unfortunately. Right noises pity there are dinosuars (Peatosaurus) at the SFA, The Old Firm at the SPL, and self interest at bottom of the SFL. 10/10
9) Link between fans, game and association - Ex-player, Ex-agent, Ex-pundit. All three good points pity Peat and his cronies weren't more similar. 8/10
10) Hope for future - Laid good groundwork hopefully it will not be in vain, to paraphrase 'Aye We Can'. 9/10
Overall = 75% which is not a bad score especially since his Old Firm past could have skewed him a bit more. Would have been nicer to see him stay and the blazered lot go. Also to have a merger with SPL and SFL would have been brilliant.

celtic fans be happay and you no why

I wish Gordon Smith and his family all the best. An intelligent, articulate man, I support many of the initiatives he tried to deliver. He also projected as even handed a position as possible. A realist more than a radical, he did try and drag the SFA into the 21st century. Alas the decisions, appointments and rulings suggest that SFA is still struggling to get into the 20th century. An International recruitment drive is required if SFA wants to be taken more seriously than simply another branch of Rangers football club.

Let's remind ourselves of the job spec:

The chief executive of the SFA should have the following abilities:

To develop and implement strategic and operational plans.
To maximise revenue generation.
Ensure sound financial management and control.
He/she should most likely be an MD or CEO, or be an ambitious deputy.
Will have a proven track record of success in leading a complex business."

With that brief it's clear to all and sundry that he was never the right man for the job and it shouldn't be a surprise that his time at knowSFA was a failure given that he was grossly underqualified by the organisations own criteria for the post.

I was beginning to think someone might have locked Henry McLeish in a Mount Florida cupboard, it's been so long since the heralding of his review.

But Jim's hints about its contents have got me all-a-quiver. Let's hope there's the political will and might to translate its findings into genuine change.

PS. respect to Smith for sticking his head above the retrospectively-suspending-players-for-diving parapet. I still think he's set a precedent on what is surely the best solution to the diving problem.

Who is Jim Trayner going to blame the world's woes on now?
(Try saying that after a few shandies)

Think its a shame he has gone all things considered.

He did have a habit of foot-in-mouth at times but an intelligent guy none the less and I liked the broad thrust of his tenure which was about tackling the cheats (or simulators!) and the introduction of video technology. Spot on. Unlike people like Jim Farry who was found to have been dishonest over the Cadette affair and should have been sacked, Smith was refreshing in many ways: media-savvy, willing to criticise UEFA and FIFA and supportive about new ways of structuring and packaging football. He brought an understanding from a player's and pundit's perspective that you expected would eventually run foul of the pen-pushers and small-club jobsworth's who wield power in the SFA. Looking forward to reading his account of life in the SFA. I think their lack of grace and appreciation at the end of his tenure really says more about them than him. Sometimes organisations need less of an emphasis on people doing the actual job spec as opposed to something more charismatic to drag the whole thing forward. Smith brought some of this and I'm just surprised he stayed around so long to be honest. I mean honestly, who is George Peat?

The interesting issue is what the George Peat's (and the rest of the cloned blazers) of the SFA will do now? Can you really see these guys embracing a more modern vision of the Scottish game from the McLeish Report? Can you really see them tackling poor referee standards? They'll be back to checking their rule books, booking the foreign trips that Chairmen of Brechin wouldn't otherwise get, comparing the crease standards of their bowling club committee trousers and telling the rest of us how to run football. Tail wags dog!

Gordon was a modern man who faced working with Scottish footballs controlling dinosaurs. I am surprised he stayed as long as he did his loss is understandable but regretable. I wish him well and thank him for trying to update the prehistoric controllers. You can't change the old dogs what we need are new ones.

I have to agree - At times he talked a good game but his non-action will be what defines his time at the SFA.

I cant help thinking that the SFA need an appointment similar to Adam Crozier's at the English FA back in 2000. Someone who is not all about self preservation and can come in a shake up the old boys network, rid the game of the dinosaurs and get it running the way a multi-million pound orgasnisation should be run.

I really hope the SFA gets the right man in now, Scottish football is not where is should / deserves to be, and I for one would like to have the national rivalry in place (I'm English if you couldn't guess).

This fella seemed ballsy to a degree that many are not; Boozegate & diving being two KEY issues which I would say he got right. I also wish somebody would come in and scrap the stupid tier system you've got, and I would even say make the divisions bigger and have less. I'm sure these arguments have been done to death by you guys and I don't know what the consensus is... just my 拢0.02 really.

P.S. Can you get your new chief to reinstate an annual friendly between us & you please?!?

Agree with Ross Quinn #3

Decent enough job in some areas by Smith. he was a smallstep in the right direction.

What we need is something that will wipe out the entire hierarchy in there so that we can start again from scratch. George Peat first to be affected, hopefully

All the best to Smith鈥檚 folks I hope they make a recovery. As for Smith he was for me a failure as chief as the SFA granted it could have been mainly the 鈥淏lazers鈥� fault that he achieved so little but if he had pushed through reforms of the back of McLeish report he could have been a hero, however we鈥檒l never know now as he walked away. Perhaps the biggest crumb of comfort he should take as given the choice most fans in Scotland would rather have been shot of Peat than Smith.

@ Ross Quinn

1) Summer Football I鈥檓 all about that idea what has Smith achieved in vein, at 1st said nothing but no I the woman league is played in summer . 1/10

2.George Burley- I agree with you a good bit on that but its a results industry, Burley was a disaster Smith appointed him and undermined . 4/10

3.Boozegate/recall they weren鈥檛 sacked they were on the bench for the game after ( Vgate got them sacked), Smith not only chopped changed his line but also contradicted the manger. 3/10

4.Craig Levin- Too early to tell but part of the optimism around him is he seems to be he wants to do the things we expected him to do. Also think he got the job cause he was cheap. 6/10

5.Diving- I agree with the idea but of problems in Scottish football the most pressing one is Diving? Not an issue that should have been top of his list but at least did something though Winters incident poorly handled. 6/10

6.Goal tech/ Video refs, nedded and right noises but no action taken. 5/10

7.Organisational reform, he seemed open to t but what reform happened? Not much eh. 2/10

8.Links btw fans, game and Association, by this do you mean ones he鈥檚 forged and strengthened? Or are we talking an overall suitability of him being a 鈥淓x-player, Ex-agent, Ex-pundit鈥�? on the former I don鈥檛 see how he鈥檚 done much but not messed up either so. 6/10

9.Hope for the Future you got 9/10 I can I have what you鈥檙e on please at very, very, best 7 though IMO 6/10

Over all 35/90. Aye Smith had some good ideas but bottomline made little or no headway on any of them. And while true that may have been others fault its mean he failed.

Can't believe the number of people that seem to think he was an intelligent man. He was worse than Cameron, Clegg and Brown put together for saying what he thought people wanted to hear. In the end, he had several u-turns and made several high profile errors by opening his mouth before engaging his brain.

Remember, he wasn't even as good as Chick Young on sportsound!!

Don't let the door hit you on the back on the way out Gordon.

If you didn't read newspapers or listened to phone-ins then what was really different during his time apart from the talk?

#15, I don't think you could listen to him on the radio for all those years and not realise that he was an intelligent and articulate man. Yes, he appeared to have a big ego, but he certainly wouldn't be the first to suffer from that affliction. I'm sorry to see him go; I thought he was on the right track.

So Jim,
What are your thoughts on George Peat ? Or will you wait until he leaves ?

There have been many, many suggestions on how to improve Scottish football. The same points have been made 1000 times by pundits, players, managers and fans.

Even Smith himself came up with the odd bright idea.

And what has been done to act on these ideas? Nothing.

Spencey spot on by saying "It's difficult to see what he'll look back on with any great sense of achievement."

Peats name is very apt. He has the fans browned off and does bog all for Scottish football.

I give you credit for the reply Jim. However, after ripping Gordon Smith apart you then direct all your attention to the un-democratic nature of the SFA and the possible lack of qualifications that Peat may have.

Perhaps in future you may wish to pick apart his presidency .

I do however, agree to your criticism of the selection process and lack of transparency .

Like the rest of the esatblishment selective reaction, why Livingston???
and not Kyle Lafferty. Why only Celtic players called before video panel, why no Novo, McCulloch???

Let's be honest they are all a bad bunch!

Graham (23) it's been like this for as long as I've been alive (I'm 22). As a Hibs fan it pains me to say but we have to sell to the 'Old Firm' to survive.

Gordon Smith had his good points (as I said earlier) but Rangers have always been the establishment team for as long as I can remember. The best example of this is the UEFA Cup final season.

The fans destroyed Manchester, The season got all bunched up and moved (yet their fans claim they got NO help), They got Dundee Utd conned, Lafferty should have been hounded out of the country not the pitiful punishment he got, etc.

They then have the cheek to complain that we (the other clubs) never challenge them. We should get rid and get pyramidical.

Gordon Smith was simply on an ego trip.
He had no new plans or ideas to overhaul scottish football but loved the spotlight the job gave him.