Motherwell v Kilmarnock 20/12/2024

[SteelmaninOZ]

It’s the referee show

[Orinoco]

This is crazy.

[texanwellfan]

BULLSHIT

[Orinoco]

Corrupt? He's given us nowt all game and now this. Never seen a red given for that before.

[mio]

50yrs I’ve watched football and I’ve never seen such a ridiculous red. That incident happens 10 times in every game. Shocking!! 

[Mccus28]

Im actually in shock at that

[Mad Dog]

I understand why he gave the red card but I don't understand why he didn't overturn it.

[Orinoco]

So moral of story, stop talking to colum the refs boss.

[Orinoco]

Draw fair enough, we were very flat. But that ref needs shamed. Appalling performance from him.

 

[mio]

I thought we played better when we went down to 10men 

Maswanhise was excellent when he came on.

im not a fan of appealing sending offs but that has to be highlighted and overturned or football is gone.

[SteelmaninOZ]

Aye we might have a better ref for the Celtic game….Oh wait 

[MJC]

Only way to describe that is ‘frustrating’. 

[Andy H]

Fucking farce.   Bin the 3 officials and the VAR team.   Oh wait, we are not Rangers so no one will give a toss

[texanwellfan]

Subs should have been at 60 mins.  Starting Watt was right call but Maswanhise and sparrow should have been on at 60 mins. 
one of the worst refereeing displays I’ve seen for a long long time but we should have taken care of business long before we got into that position. 

[weeyin]

Remember what I was saying the other day about never keeping a clean sheet when we start with a Casey/Blaney combo?

Still saying it.

[mfc]

Piss poor for two professionals team to serve up that crap,we couldn't string two passes together all game,take the point and move on.ive said it before about that referee,he's out the willie collum mould where he loves to be the centre of attention with the whistle in his gub every 10 seconds,if we don't get that card overturned then the game really is down the toilet.

[texanwellfan]

3 minutes ago, mio said:

I thought we played better when we went down to 10men 

Maswanhise was excellent when he came on.

im not a fan of appealing sending offs but that has to be highlighted and overturned or football is gone.

Was watching it on Paramount+ the commentators were arses but even they were gobsmacked. Fkn unbelievable that they actually reviewed that and still gave a red card. 

[robsterwood]

5 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

Was watching it on Paramount+ the commentators were arses but even they were gobsmacked. Fkn unbelievable that they actually reviewed that and still gave a red card. 

Embarrassing. That should be shown world wide too. Could have cost us 3 points. If it was old firm there would be major review.

4 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

Was watching it on Paramount+ the commentators were arses but even they were gobsmacked. Fkn unbelievable that they actually reviewed that and still gave a red card. 

 

[Orinoco]

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.

 

[SteelmaninOZ]

4 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

 

The referee stopping it at every opportunity, ment a disjointed battle. Time referees were fined or demoted like every individual in professional football.

 

That'll be the day 

[Spit_It_Out]

The fact we are sitting in 4th with pound for pound some of the most honking football i have witnessed at Fir Park in many of a year is such an achievement in itself.

Honestly you just dont know player for player who is going to turn up week to week.

[texanwellfan]

they play a lot better when we try to attack. 

[Orinoco]

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.

[0Neils40yarder]

Absolutely bizarre stuff from the refereeing/var team tonight.

Giving the red card is one thing...but having the ability to 'have another look' and then double down, is quite another. Totally baffling stuff and another black mark against VAR for me...

 

Less said about Killies penalty appeal, the better. Again, what are the VAR folk looking at?

 

On the game, we looked jaded, well off it and didn't really ever control the game at all. A point is a decent outcome

[Ya Bezzer!]

In the end the referee has done the players and managers a favour by shifting the post match conversation.  We were pretty poor tonight.

Thought we started well enough and were the better team in the opening stages but as soon as we scored we went completely off the boil.  Second half was all Kilmarnock and the equaliser was coming.

Could the goalkeeper have done better?  Might be being harsh but I thought in real time that he could have got a better set of hands to it.

Even without the red card incident the officials had an absolute shocker tonight.  Far side lines man looked like he did five minutes revision on the offside law right before the game and the less said about the referee the better.

In the end a draw was probably about right but it's disappointing when you are `1-0 up at home and you don't take advantage.