Happy Dosser

Blyth debates: "Shut it Pizza, ya silly big c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-clot!" Also the driver of the only Motherwell supporters' coach to enter Aberdeen from the north on one occasion 😱 (allegedly).

I quite agree but I hope you don't give up. A sense of apathy or helplessness only helps the authorities perpetuate the status quo and, when push comes to shove, Hearts might well end up biting the carpet like us over refereeing decisions before this season is decided. Having said that, my attendance at games is the only resistance I can think of, unless clubs unite to mount some kind of challenge to the obviously unfair decision-making by the authorities.

Not according to S. Naismith on Sportscene, unfortunately. And two Hearts players looked offside to me at Hearts first goal in the BBC coverage.

A good question for Wullie Collum at the next pointless VAR review video with Gordon Duncan. It's pretty much a waste of time even pursuing these howlers because the authorities' incompetence/bias have no consequences for them. More word salad and twisting than a Philadelphia lawyer will doubtless ensue from WC etc. and nothing will change for the better. The Slattery incident seems to have been a possible catalyst for the slew of inexplicably harsh decisions against us in the past two months but I'm not exactly sure why. Slattery's feigning was embarrassing but a) the referee missed it originally and b) VAR decided to send King off for the slightest of contact, which was later rescinded. Yet eventually Slattery is banned for two games for what is normally a yellow card offence, plus a two-match suspended sentence, which is a Sword of Damocles hanging over him for an indeterminate period (has this ever happened to an OF player?). Was this simply because yet again the authorities were shown to be incompetent (and I also still think Longelo was probably offside from the angles on the BBC coverage) and thus they have "doubled down" (but only against a "diddy team", of course) like a frustrated sad-sack gambler in Las Vegas? Posters above who say it's hardly worthwhile attending 'Well matches because of refereeing "inconsistencies" have my sympathy and our next game is, of course, at the worse venue possible for such things, yet we still have the some concern troll posters on here ignoring the blinking obvious and putting the boot in to the team when we have well and truly been stitched up by unfair decisions recently. This has still been for me one of the best seasons ever supporting MFC since 1962 and I am proud of our style of play, not something I have said often in my time. Our big increase in attendances shows I'm not the only one who thinks so either. 'Mon The Dossers!

Might have been a bridge too far for the surgeons. Sorry, I'll get my (C&A) coat.......

Well, the GBH assault by Hately on the Aberdeen GK in the first few minutes certainly showed the way the wind was blowing that day. It was hard to imagine Rangers being defeated at Ibrox in the circumstances: terrific pressure on the referee to do the right thing. BTW, I thought it was customary that the team leading the league when the post-split fixtures were finalised played their last game at home? Hearts have now to go to Celtic Park on the last day.

Well said: and both penalty decisions were wrong (and crucial). Even in the free-kick awarded from which they scored, the Falkirk player looked to me to be pulling McGinn as much as anything but the referee seemed to penalise us disproportionately throughout the game. I expect little from our referees nowadays, just to avoid disappointment 👹.

Haven't summoned up the courage yet to watch Sportscene so thanks for that: will take a look now. You know, I'm beginning to think some in the authorities don't like us for some reason 🤣. But then again, "Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness", as someone famous once said.

I was just about to make a similar comment. I like Priestman for his energy and passing and I thought we missed him today. Losing Thor (through injury, I presume, in training, since we haven't played for a fortnight) left Maswhanise unsupported and in any case he seems off the boil I thought the referee was typically poor and, as you said, he had his chance to penalise Falkirk and set the tone for the game but Just gets clugged every week and receives no protection from referees. Some of the ref's decisions were simply baffling. Falkirk played exactly how I expected from the previous gome game against them: they simply pressed us hard and waited for the inevitable mistake. They had lots of energy and looked well-drilled and, to be frank, could have score five or more with a bit of luck. We lacked physically and speed of movement and thought. The penalty was a mystery to me given the level of pushing, shoving and jersey-pulling in the box this season, which has largely gone unpunished (but not for us at Celtic Park). If J-B can get us back on the rails for Tynecastle and the split, he will have deserved all the praise he has received up to the end of February, since generally the team looks threadbare and jaded at the moment. This will be a big test of his managerial skills but I remain hopeful.

It's difficult to predict how they will react, especially if Falkirk are instructed to by Mr McGlynn to make the most of our tackles. The authorities are just as likely to regard J-B's pre-match comments about consistency as a bit uppity coming from a diddy team like wot we are and really rub our noses in it. On top of that we have the likely VAR intervention to spoil the game further and increase our frustration. I noticed our manager referred to Said's disallowed goal in the last home game against Falkirk again and wondered if it was wise in the circumstances.

Thanks for that: it was so little used I'd forgotten the real reason for the free kick!

Always remember him as a strong, dependable defender who had played in the Man. Utd. first team in the early 70s (recently saw a game on YT). He scored an unusual (and winning) goal at Firhill in the cup replay against Partick Thistle in Feb 1975 before our Great Airdrieonians Disappointment (as usual we had an extremely rare application of the laws when Stuart Rennie was supposed to have overstepped the 18 yard line when he launched a kick-out): STNC 👹. Thanks for the memories, Willie.

Any decade now.

Fanx! I feel pwoud, vewwy pwoud..........

Say it ain't so! Oh, well, I'll just have to wait until I am Supreme Leader of the Scottish Republic ✊.