The SFA's VAR presentation opened my eyes but one simple solution to the drama is staring right at us - Chris Sutton

The SFA talks a good game when it comes to VAR this coming season. Now they need to mic up the referees so everyone else can hear as well.

I was treated to the Clydesdale House tour this week as part of the SFA’s plans for transparency over the video assistant system. In fairness, it was pretty interesting and they were very thorough. Referees’ chief Crawford Allan talked us through the process and we watched certain incidents and how they were handled last year and how they will be handled this time around.

It was a real eye opener. I was critical of VAR last season and I stand by what I said. I thought it was ridiculous to roll it out in the middle of a campaign. It wasn’t fair for starters. Tackles that were red cards after VAR were only yellows before the set up was introduced. Teams would have got away with penalty calls when others were punished once it was up and running.

Decisions are meant to balance themselves out over a season but the radical change in the rules ripped up any chance of fairness. It was also clear Scottish football wasn’t ready for it. I had some sympathy for the officials as chucking it in at that stage they had to learn on the job.

No wonder there were teething problems. We’ve seen VAR in England for a few seasons now and there are still issues.

I just hope lessons have been learned. We all know the problems. The video assistants were too quick to get involved. It’s meant to be there to clear up clear and obvious errors but it almost felt like they were looking for incidents.

There were too many debatable calls that would have been best left to the men in the middle. And when VAR did get involved it took far too long to sort out.

It looks like there will be more information available to fans