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Doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's now two separate leagues, we're the worst team in ours and they're the best teams in theirs. You'd expect their record over the last few games to be better than ours.

There will probably also be hundreds who now can. Maybe even more than could have gone on the Sunday. We'll never know.

Not that I've noticed, but supposedly only 1 club voted against and it seems unlikely that it would be us.

Overall perhaps, but since January 2015, they have 5 wins each in the league, and 2 wins each in the Scottish Cup.

This is what the new(er) guidelines described in the article I posted above is pretty much all about... less confusing lines, and more benefit of doubt to the attacker.

Fwiw, the average VAR offside decision in the EPL (a couple of years ago) took 34 seconds. It's the other decisions that tend to take longer.

Here's a decent unrolled Twitter thread explaining UEFA's VAR offside guidelines compared to the previous EPL guidelines. I assume this is what we'd adopt: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1424680910696427523.html Interesting to note that the Dutch system is slightly different, there the linesman's original decision stands if it's marginal.

I hardly think he'll be in a position to hold us to ransom. He chose to leave and we'll have started planning accordingly. If he decides he doesn't want to leave after all, a new contract will be at our discretion, not his.

I'm not exactly in the Alexander Must Go camp, but I don't think it's hard to understand why a manager that turns a losing team into a winning one might be more appreciated than one that does the opposite.

Well, you would hope that as both our manager and his assistant made a career out of being defenders, they could coach ours to stop doing it every week.

Better just make sure we score a few from open play without relying on their opinions, then. Works for me

Whatever else is wrong at the moment, I'm not unhappy with the amount we've spent to be honest. Especially given how underwhelmingly we've spent the relatively high amount (by our recent standards) that we have. It's perfectly possible to put together a lean and effective SPFL squad on our budget, right now we are just failing to do so.

That's precisely why. Any or all of those can apply whether you touched the ball first, last, or not at all. (The laws were changed a good 10 years ago to remove the bit about whether you touch the ball first.)

Irrelevant, I'm afraid, unless you don't think it was even a foul. The criteria for deciding whether a foul merits a red card don't include whether the player touched the ball.

Well, it did after the Cup wins that got us this far...

There's your answer.

Plenty of promising talents have been stalled or ruined by bad man management and bad coaching. Robinson might not be able to claim any credit for their natural talent, but he and his coaching staff played their part in shaping all the players we sold.

Had to look up how old Alan Gilzean was in that photo... he looks about 50, but he'd only just turned 32.

They did at one point, but not when anybody was anywhere near the ball tbh.

Looks like their goalie is just as bad, however.

Lee Erwin off to FC Haka in Finland.

I retract my half time abandonment request.

Ball's hardly moving already, might get lucky with a half time abandonment...

Currently watching Glentoran v Linfield on BBC NI. As well as all Manzinga, Bigi, Jake Hastie and Ben Hall in the squads (no place for Mich'el Parker tonight), Ian Baraclough is on co-comms, and Craggs is reporting from pitch side.

Certainly shades of Louis Moult at Pittodrie about the hit, albeit with a rather more pedestrian build-up.