texanwellfan

What you mention also annoys me but I am talking about obstruction. Eg ball played back to goalie. Forward moves to chase the keeper down. 15 yards from the ball opposing players steps right in front of forward to delay him getting to the ball. Read Law 12 obstruction section. It should be a foul. If no contact with player it’s indirect. If contact made its direct kick. The refs have apparently stopped calling it now. The usual response is a player can go where he likes on the field. The law covers that response and if the purpose is to obstruct an opposing player from getting to the ball when the defender is not within reasonable playing distance of the ball then they are not allowed to do that

I’m sure if they sat down for a bit they could reword the offside law to enable quick VAR decisions. Another area needing some focus is handball decisions and again I think if they put their heads together they could come up with a quick checklist for VAR team. Just a few questions with yes or no answers. Perhaps you need all answers to be yes or maybe if any answer is yes then it’s a penalty. Third area than can affect a game in a big way is red and yellow cards. This one might be the hardest to resolve and I’m not sure how we get around that. Not VAR but Last point is my current pet hate and not sure if rules have changed or not but apparently refs just ignore the obstruction rule now as players get away with jumping if front of opposing players, well away from playing distance of the ball, and don’t get penalized. Seems to have started happening in the last year or two.

I forgot about Nicholson. If we can keep I’m injury free for a decent amount of time, he’s a good player to have.

We started the season with McGinn Gordon and Casey as the back 3 and looked solid but then injuries cut that short and didn’t allow us to play it for very long at all. I wonder if it would have lasted or would have lapsed into Swiss cheese after a few more games.

I still have my hair but it’s all in my nose and ears now 😳

I forgot one was chalked off in first half

Apparently 2 goals chalked off. I only saw one as I had to step away now and again. Definitely Moses was offside when Sparrow’s shot hit the post

That was in reference to O’Donnell’s mistake causing the goal.

Oh well Hearts won anyway.

Should have won that!!

C’mon. One more Motherwell

Hearts down to 10 men. If we can actually get the finger out and play we could get 7th spot.

Terrible stuff from O’Donnell again

Pretty dire stuff so far

Wonder when we’ll turn up for the game ?

Why do we want hearts to beat Killie?

Hoping Dundee fire in 3 early goals against St Johnstone. That should dampen the fire a bit. Would like to have seen Dundee in the playoff spot but we need to beat County and hope Killie beat or draw with Hearts so we can get 7th spot.

😂😂😂😂 only 4? Must be on a diet.

That’s about as good as I’ve ever seen us play against ten men. You could easily tell which team had ten men which is not always the case with us.

A tie will do but either way we need to beat County

Good way to end the home schedule. 3 good goals and a clean sheet.

What a finish

Great goal!!

Finally !!!!!

Sounds good to me