WHEN it comes to the Scottish FA and the SPFL, it is fair to say it isn't working. The status quo can't continue.

I hate going backwards because we are trying to move forwards, but look at someone like Ernie Walker. Do you think he would be sitting there, with the greatest of respect, on these boards alongside some of the people from the lower reaches of Scottish football trying to run the game and make decisions?

Ernie Walker ruled the roost and he decided. He was the man that got the big bucks, so he made the big decisions.

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Trying to find someone like that now is very difficult and I think we are very, very weak at the SFA and the SPFL. I don’t think there is strength there.

It seems to be full of cliques and ‘I’ll vote for you if you vote for me’. It is an absolute nonsense.

We are not the biggest country in the world. Why do we need different bodies running our game?

Why do we need all the committees? Get one set of people to run Scottish football from the top to the bottom.

But you have to have the right people, you can’t have anybody sitting back and doing it part-time. You need solid people that know what they are talking about on the football side of it and the financial side of it.

But it is going to take time and we can’t just say ‘throw them all out and start again’.

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I am sure the people that are there are trying their best and I don’t want to be disrespectful to them. But we need people that are going to demand things, that are going drive us forward.

We are probably at our lowest ebb internationally and domestically at this moment in time so something has to change. We can’t keep going on year after year with the same people in charge. We can’t have the scenario of ‘you can be in charge because it’s your turn and you turned up at six meetings’.

It is like any business, it starts at the top and if it is not working there that filters its way all the way down. At this moment in time, we are very weak.