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Didn't notice the glitch myself, but delighted with the result (And yes, I do realise this is reference from 1999). Now take your pick...

It is, but on the other hand, just as well we picked up the 3 points.

Did not see that coming, but well deserved in the end.

100% It's like the old boxing adage that when you fight the champion in their home town you need to knock them out to get a draw.

Keep playing the same way and keep taking our chances.

That's also works!

Aye, it's an old cliche, but the next goal will really be crucial.

Score another 2 goals here and the officials might need to let us get away with a draw.

That has also gone out of fashion. Was reading an article a couple of weeks ago about the modern game almost completely eliminating the traditional goal scoring centre forward.

Celtic, Wycombe and Jagielliona Bailystok no less. The ship has sailed on keepers with shot stopping and crosses skill in the same way defending and tackling is no longer a top priority for full backs.

If you believe the man himself, the reason Campbell parachuted in this mid-season is because he had multiple offers from England and Europe over the summer, but wanted to wait for the right one. Rather than join, say, a Scottish Championship side to get some match fitness at the start of the season, he opted for no game time. I like the guy, but something has gone seriously wrong and if Robbo couldn't help him at St Mirren he is a very long way from returning to form.

His league strike rate improved from 1 in 10 with us to 1 in 5 at St Mirren, but not exactly a goal machine.

Campbell been lost for quite some time, unfortunately. His form dropped off a cliff and he's struggled to regain it.

The linesman saw the Slattery incident and the video used by VAR was the same video that was reviewed by the SFA. If the 4 game ban was for Slattery's actions, then the same punishment should be handed out the every player that has been found to have behaved the same way. If the 4 game was purely because the officials on the field and the VAR review team got it wrong, then that isn't punishing the incident, it's an attempt to deflect from the incompetence of the officials. (and I say that as someone who criticised Slattery from the moment it happened).

But the bar has been set at a 4 game suspension for that kind of cheating, so that needs to be consistently applied now, no?

He might be OK, but for me, if you're a decent guy, that decency shouldn't disappear when you're inside the OF bubble. If anything, it should be even more apparent.

Always good to have a Plan B.

Pity about having Lennon as a manager, but also pleased to see Ox and Dunfermline get to the final. Always enjoyed my trips to East End Park.

Is it from St Mirren?

Clarke's tactics would destroy every bit of football in our players.

I was with you until the last sentence.

Sometimes players just aren't a good fit - even good ones. Paul Pogba at Man U is an extreme example. There can be many reasons, but if AP is enjoying being back home and playing well then good luck to him.

Interesting article about the demise of the Number 9 - and it's not just a Motherwell problem: Where have all the No 9s gone? Why has the striker become a dying breed? Can anything be done to arrest the decline? “It’s no longer a sexy position,” says Emile Heskey, a traditional centre-forward who won 62 England caps. He grew up watching strikers such as Cyrille Regis and Gary Lineker. “Now it’s possession-based, the striker generally doesn’t get involved in play. The striker’s job, especially in the buildup, is to create space for the No 10 or the two 8s or the two 10s or the wingers.” The redefinition of the No 9 role can be traced, in part, to José Mourinho’s arrival at Chelsea in 2004 and his success with a solitary striker in a 4-2-3-1. Pep Guardiola went further, reimagining football without a striker altogether. At Barcelona he created majestic football with Lionel Messi as a false 9: a central forward who drops deeper. On the way to the 2020-21 Champions League final, Guardiola even deployed two false 9s for Manchester City. Erling Haaland remains the modern outlier clinging to a bygone era, but even he has adapted in recent seasons, bending to Pep Guardiola’s will. The shift has changed the entire landscape of training and youth teams. René Meulensteen recalls doing 15-30 minutes of finishing work with strikers every day during his time under Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United from 2007-2013. Now, he says, beyond goalkeeping, training has become far more generalised. More matches at elite level and a greater emphasis on strength and conditioning have squeezed time on training pitches, where possession is prioritised. Strikers “don’t get developed, it’s as simple as that”, Meulensteen told the Sacked podcast. “Everybody does the same thing. There needs to be much more specialist training.”

When you're a Gen Xer like me, the Millennial, Gen Z and Gen Alpha marketing all feels like this.

It does matter, though, because when the pool is small there is no incentive to improve. With a larger pool, there might be some officials who take action to improve so they can replace the clueless refs in the top games.