texanwellfan

Obviously our downfall today was, we didn’t score. Not many games we don’t score but just wasn’t working today. Spittal was a bit off, Bair’s touch was lacking. We didn’t seem to play as a unit and looked disjointed. Top 6 probably gone but let’s hope we pick back up again next game. No surprise today really, we are consistently inconsistent!

Also, was expecting at least 5 mins stoppage time

Other than everybody saw Shinnie’s and no one saw Bair’s but yet one is called and one is not. Would at least be good to have the officials explain the different outcome for the two instances

So how is that not a pk when our goal is disallowed

Only people who had issue with the goal was VAR 3 officials, players and managers all fine. But even after looking at it, how can that be deliberate hand ball the guy is up against Blair heads the ball off his hand. Ridiculous hand ball decision by the officials.

Hopefully SK can get them fired up and playing better for the second half.

Hopefully Gent has half a game in him.

That didn’t age well

Absolute bullshit

VAR heck ridiculous

Nice to get a wee bit of luck on a deflection

What’s the line up?

They also played last weekend when we did not. So hopefully they are tired bruised and battered and we can take advantage and beat them soundly although any type of win for us will work, just as long as it’s 3 points.

If they have a shortlist then Lennon will be on that 😅

I may have to go download the rules again. So many changes over the past while I’m not 100% sure what they are anymore. I’m not sure if it’s included with the rules but FIFA also have guidelines on how the refs should apply the rules or Interpret them and that would be good to read also. I would assume that now there are also documents pertaining to VAR which might be interesting to read. Regardless Of what is out there, there is definitely an issue related to the consistency of some officiating calls which I think falls fair and square at the feet of the officials organization to sort out.

I sometimes think of the referees in a little bit different way in that they are not so much there to make the correct calls (I know they are but hear me out 😃) but more so the be the person who picks the call when there is a disagreement. “He pulled me! No I didn’t he pushed me”! So the ref decides. “That was handball”, “No it wasn’t” so the ref decides. As stated above, there are numerous incident every game where the ref may make a correct call but one of the teams completely disagrees and many instances where both teams disagree with each other and so the ref is the one to make the call. I think there is a lot that could be done from both officiating side and club side if they really wanted to improve things.

Let’s look at it a different way. Who do you think makes the most mistakes in a game? Players or the ref? Who is trying to deliberately cheat? The players. It might be said in less harsh terms but basically players routinely try to cheat. So maybe they sort themselves out before running the refs into the ground. I used to referee a lot of high school games her and often used the phrase, “once you’ve made less mistakes than me then I might listen to you”. That usually kept them quiet for a while. Especially when their mates found it funny!! Of course a lot tougher dealing with the pros, plus, at least the HS kids were trying to play an honest game.

You mean, is out of contract?

The challenge for him now is to see if he can keep up or improve his performances as teams will be paying more attention to him.

Might be more down to Mcinnes than KVV but definitely, what’s was the point of signing him and then not playing him. I’m pretty sure he won’t be enjoying sitting on the bench

Any info on bounce game against Ayr Utd? Hopefully no injuries.

I hope everyone wished rangers a happy Easter yesterday then?

I think the technology is fine. The issue is definitely related to your second point above. You just have to look at all the back and forth from last weekend where referees, ex-referee's, ex-players, pundits and punters all had different opinions on what various calls should have been. So tackles, a lot of handball situations, hairline offsides, penalty calls or non calls will not necessarily be resolved by VAR. it needs to be used more sparingly and specifically when it can show a clear obvious error. Following from that, there should be a very short time limit to present a contradiction to an on the field call because if it’s obvious and clear you should see it in a couple of seconds.

These are the type of situations VAR was made for, clear and obvious error by the officials. Right now the VAR looks at hairline offside decisions, possible errors by the officials and anything else that takes their fancy.

Games are on Wednesday 13th. So Aberdeen play cup game Saturday, make up game Wednesday and then us Saturday. We have been caught like that from time to time so hoping it takes a lot out of them maybe some injuries or suspension. I’ll take whatever advantage we can get.