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Kettlewell is a marked man. He needs to wise up.

Walsh seldom gives us anything.

Davor like a traffic cone there. As said now he is booked he offers even less than before. Not worth the red card risk. Off at ht at worse. Be nice if the ref would give us something.

Bad miss from Casey.

Nobody prepared to put foot on ball. It's all kick long and chase as expected. Be as well as taking davor off now he's booked.

Kelly doing Kelly things against Hibs...

With that line up i dont think midfield will see much of the ball. Direct approach i reckon. Need to take our chances today.

Well we know your not!

No urgency or desire and hoof ball. Hearts are cronic, but we deserve nothing.

Cross to back post and ox nowhere. Hearts time wasting now, bizarre.

Typical approach it seems. Try and keep it tight and then all guns blazing. To much respect given to a team low in confidence. Does not help when we can't hold onto the ball and our counter attacks are powder puff.

Hopefully get to halftime, still in it.

County score a wonder goal again! League is getting very very tight.

Mental to think we were not ready as a team for a hearts fast start. Hopefully we stay in the game long enough for them to tire. Not looking good tho. Change of shape needed.

Been saying for weeks, since his blunder versus Hibs, the Ox has been hesitate at cross balls. Quite worrying that one mistake and his confidence has taken a hit. Is he mentally weak?

Butlands initial shove on Watt was more aggressive than Caseys red card. Watt was probably to honest by staying on his feet. Yet certain fans in the future will point out we have not beaten them since the year dot. It's hard to win against incompetence and corruption. Can't wait for all these decisions to even out....

Seems it's only the Ox who gets no protection/soft fouls when opposition looks at you in a funny way... We were never winning that with the injuries, and officials hell bent in giving them every advantage. 13 mins of extra time is disgusting. I seem to recall we got the same negative treatment from the officials the last time we had the cheek to call them out. A point further away from the bottom two is never a bad thing tho.

It's going to be difficult, but if we get the rub of the green and officials who are fair, strong and honest you never know.

Dodgy penalty, watt getting in the way of kaleta goal attempt and deflected goal. I think at this point we realised it was not going to be our day. You need luck to beat them, and with the official being card happy towards our players, it's no wonder heads and effort went down. I think it's very harsh to have a go at the team under the circumstances. Looking at football in general, unless your an elite team, and even then, there are very few teams who constantly get clean sheets. Sure we have what 1 in 100 games or what ever, but even teams of our standard are hardly that much better than say 4 or 5 in 100. I personally don't care about clean sheets as long as we outscore the opposition. Outwith Celtic, don't think there is many clubs where their fans are totally behind the manager and their tactical approach to the game. Money, technolegy and negative coaching, ie where are the flair players? has given us a modern game which is as someone said is like a boring chess game.

We needed to be squeaky clean today to avoid conceding a penalty. When the old firm are struggling they always get the decisions others don't. Nothing has changed with the introduction of var. Whether Ox touched him or not, was he offside?, the tumble or should I say dive was not consistent. No wonder players heads drop, when they know all their effort counts for nothing. Scottish authorities are continuing to run our game into the ground, just so two clubs are kept sweet.

As I've said their is more footage easily available for referees to study and improve. The fact the officials is getting worse is not a good look for those in charge.

It will be Walsh. He's their goto ref just now.

It seem every time the refs and managers get together to discuss issues, standards get worse. With technology there is no excuse to not get the basics right. The refs get decent money for what is part time work. Humans make mistakes, but some of the latest make you question their integrity. Over the years there have been some awful corrupt refs. With var it was hoped this would help. It has not and made things worse or at least highlight how bad the officials are.

Seems it was the same ref when we played 30 mins up in dingwall. Blow blow blow this ref just loves to stop the game. Maybe cause he looks unfit. The rugby tackle at the end was worse than the red. Referees should be looking at keeping all players on the field when possible, for the sake of the game. It makes you wonder if he has even watch a game never mind played.

Maybe time for the Ox to be rested and let's see what the other laddie does. Ox form has dipped, low confidence on crosses, means he is hiding on his line. He should have saved that shot with his two hands on the ball. Midfield just did not work today and Watt and Ap got no service. Tho Watt seemed off the pace. The referee stopping it at every opportunity, ment a disjointed battle. Time referees were fined or demoted like every individual in professional football.