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Totally agree. As I’ve said all along, it’s the idiots operating VAR, not the technology itself. Rangers and Celtic have benefited from this level of incompetence and cheating for decades, VAR or no VAR, while the rest of the league suffers. The only real solution is to bring in officials untainted by the sectarian nonsense that infects the Scottish game. It’ll never happen because the SFA is a shambles, but we should return to the 2010 strike model and hire neutral, top-tier officials from Europe.

Calling it a conspiracy is just an easy way to avoid the bigger picture. I’m not saying “Rangers get everything”, it’s about patterns and who benefits over a season in terms of big decisions. If you’re focused on individual incidents, we’re simply looking at this differently.

It’s reality, not theory, and it doesn’t seem like you’re seeing it past your blue-tinted specs.

Because they’re still getting their story straight with Collum.

Your soft spot for Rangers here is showing.

My point isn’t that officials are secretly plotting every decision to conspire against teams. It’s that the system lets bias run unchecked, especially in big moments. VAR hides subjectivity behind supposed objectivity. Smaller clubs keep getting screwed, and the media only shouts as loud as its viewership, while the same officials face zero consequences because the likes of Collum keep calling things honest mistakes. If nothing changes and the same clubs keep benefiting, it isn’t random or nonsense, it’s cheating in plain sight.

On what evidence? Udinese haven’t exactly been flying this season, and Miller has barely had a sniff. Runjaic simply hasn’t given him a proper chance, preferring instead to talk shite about him to the press. Miller needs to move on to get first team minutes, although I suspect he’ll still be an Udinese employee long after Runjaic is gone.

Aye, but how much did that idiot Kettlewell blow on Stama? More than £200K apparently.

We all need to accept that VAR simply doesn’t work for smaller teams. In Scotland, when most officials are either biased or incompetent, and subjectivity is allowed to operate a supposedly objective technology, smaller clubs have no chance of being treated fairly. It’s cheating, with the same people acting as judge, jury, and executioner. We won’t get fair refereeing in our game until bigotry and ignorance stop being tolerated, let alone celebrated.

Clear penalty for Fadinger ignored by the ref and VAR. That is cheating, plain and simple.

We’re not suddenly going to start being clinical in front of goal by Tuesday, and our style of play won’t change, so I expect this game to play out much like our loss to Rangers. Another decent but frustrating performance is likely.

We’re a proper number 9 away from this being an outstanding season. Hopefully the board push the boat out and give JBA the backing to sign one in January. Otherwise, we’ll look back on this season and wonder what might have been.

Can the Ox play centre-forward? He won’t need to use his knackered hand(s).

Ward.

Three points dropped after we gifted them a cheap 1–0. We were shite in the final third and full of laziness and individual errors today. Exactly the result we deserved. Credit to Ward and McGinn though, both were good.

Longelo hasn’t defended well all game. He’s been repeatedly caught out of position, jogging about as I said earlier, and that’s what eventually led to their goal. Defensively he isn’t good enough, even if he does offer a threat going forward.

Right, that’s it. Hendry is a donkey. On the other hand, Just is a bawhair away from being world-class.

We’re riding our luck here a little now. Time for some subs.

Too many players caught sleeping on the ball or jogging around aimlessly.

The jury’s no longer out on Hendry. He’s every bit as ineffective up front as Stama.

Chris Sutton is a full-pelt moron. Being a Celtic fan is basically membership of a delusional cult, so it’s no surprise he’s as thick as he sounds.

If the last six months have taught us anything, it’s that JBA knows exactly what he’s doing at Motherwell, so I fully expect a good January transfer window.

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Fadinger. A really important player for our system. Constantly winning the ball back, looking for passes, and hauling us up the park when needed. That said, several other players were good today.

Our final ball and finishing were crap for large spells, but that’s nothing new. Overall though, it was a professional performance and we got the job done. If we can hold onto our key players and sign a striker who knows where the goal is in January, we’re winning the league.