Happy Dosser

And yet some folk on here will criticise 'Well's recent form and performances. Our game is totally corrupt and we've suffered from about March onwards from dreadful refereeing decisions. "Cheating Beaton" sure lived up to his reputation. It's no wonder we don't have a Scottish referee at the World Cup. Clearly Nicholson heads the ball out for a shy and yet Beaton things a hand can achieve the same thing. Why even bother trying to challenge the OF on the pitch when they have it all sewn up? 'Mon the Jam Tarts (never thought I'd say that!).

Thought he spoke really well and was outstanding against the Jam Tarts. I don't expect SW to be here next season so happy to keep him on the basis of Saturday.

Very refreshing to hear some positive comments from Ablaw The Dyke on Scottish football for a change:

Conspiracy theorist 🤣. Bring back Craig Thomson, a fine, impartial referee you could always rely on in high-pressure games.

Thanks for reminding me about that. We were all scoffing in my area of the POD at his amazing recovery, that is until the VAR review was announced. I fully expected another convenient penalty to go against us, so hats off for once to the referee. Although anything is better than the OF winning the title, Hearts look like just a modern version of the team of excessive Levein/Hogg physicality and Robertson/Colquhoun "simulation".

Just has been targeted for a while now yet, despite looking like a frail teenager, he gets up and gets on with it, to his credit. The game today doesn't have a giant like "Tiny" Wharton who would have sorted out a team like Hearts who simply and cynically shared out the fouls on Elijah to stifle him yesterday. As Grumpy hints, I doubt this treatment would be tolerated if he played for either of the OF, just another hurdle a team like Motherwell have to cope with in the Scottish game. I'm going to go full Kevin Keegan now and say I would love it, really love it if we beat the Seat-Smashers on Wednesday, mainly because they seem to think both JBA and Just will inevitably end up at Celtic Park next year. Their sense of entitlement really gets on my nazzums.

Those three defeats to Falkirk will go down as one of life's great mysteries and I suspect JBA still loses sleep over it. I suppose it could be explained by concluding that the spawny, diving Bairns got every refereeing decision in their favour and we got hee-haw but I'm not really qualified to judge 🤣.

This is desperate, desperate stuff, intit? The Celtic "fairy dust" isn't as strong as their deluded fans imagine. I remember Tommy Coyne telling them where they could go when they came sniffing around him again during his long, hot spell at Fir Park (wottaguy!). All our boys will be out for the three points on Wednesday so COYW!

Thanks! What's wrong with being a grandad? 🤔

Yes and if that pen had been given, so should Maswanhise's, since there was contact on his shin, though not much. We also had a claim for a hand ball from Watt's shot, though I can't understand why Longelo's arm ball in the first half wan't looked at by VAR (or spotted by the linesman and referee). Overall I think a draw was fair but Treacle Tan Man is rather annoying with his fake outrage. "If they overturn, there can be no guesswork, why is that such a difficult notion 🤷‍♂️ well done to mclean for sticking, would have been easy to cave in there. " Spot-on, mfc88.

Surprised to hear Faddy say in his post-match comments on MurdochVision that Hearts should definitely have had a penalty in the Kyziridis incident. I can't see it clearly even on watching several replays. Obviously, Boyd agreed ("Derek will be raging", etc.) and made it worse by claiming the penalty in the previous game at Tynecastle was correctly given too. Maybe if K. hadn't rolled about so much it would have looked more convincing but I agree with JBA that it was surprising it wasn't given in the circs. I thought McInnes was going to have a cardiac arrest at one point.

I must admit my heart sank when I heard Gordon had to be drafted in tonight but I thought he played really well too, though I felt we missed Paul McGinn's composure and passing in general. I've been critical of Steve McLean in the past but thought he withstood the pressure to give Hearts their penalty admirably. The VAR team must have thought that it should have been given but credit to him for sticking to his original decision. So I was wrong twice tonight but Mrs Dosser assures me this is par for the course 😱.

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Yes, just another example of the dire state of Scottish football. I'll be very surprised if there is no contoversial decision like a penalty or sending off to torpedo our chances. I fully expect Hearts to exploit his "incompetence"; they will be very physical but curiously fragile when tackled themselves. Wonder what the odds are on a Slattery red card?

It's all falling into place nicely.........😱👹😱. Probs only Beaton could have been worse.