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Just BIN VAR it's been a massive failure if reducing controversy was ever it's intended goal. For me it's been introduced with the purpose of entertaining armchair fans. Probably at the behest of the TV companies who now have a massive say in the game. The in your recliner chair experience is admittedly quite good especially if you're watching a game as a neutral. However the in the stadium experience is entirely different and not in a good way.

That’s fine in a pre-VAR world where games were officiated in isolation to some extent. Even then there were still ‘rules’ being applied, there was just a lot more interpretation allowed. VAR has almost enforced a level of scrutiny and specific clarification of what constitutes a foul in granular detail. On top of that, we now have officials who are either not willing or not able to referee the game in front of them so we are operating with a different set of standards that lean towards consistency of application. I’m not a fan of the current situation and would gladly see us revert back but I’m not willing to accept that I’m an idiot for hoping for the rules to be applied consistently either.

The fact that he has been at hun games over the years suggests he is still one. He was probably pissed off with folk at the club during his time, rather than the club itself. Your team is your team. Even if it is the huns or tims. I've have even less respect for folk that switch their teams.

I am. Huge Dandy. Well dressed, and great hair.

I've never understood the expectation, and constant call - mainly by pundits and idiot managers - for consistency. It makes no sense. Ironically, it's likely the cause of most of the issues we see. It's created this ridiculous scenario where we strip incidents of all context, all deliberateness, and package them all neatly into a particular "type" of foul or punishable crime. No incident is the same, and the motivations and actions of the players involved are very often different, and can most often be interpreted best by a referee in real time and at real speed. Asking for consistency across multiple games, at different times, involving different referees and different players is the height of stupidity. It's like asking for consistency between Nisbet firing one in from ten yards, and Olusanya kicking it with his standing foot first from exactly the same spot.

That was assumption when saw the team yesterday and Vitols was on the bench.

I don't know about "always a hun". After the way that club treated him, I like to think his love for them ended when he left Ibrox for the last time as a player.

Apologies my mistake.

I watched Sportscene highlights. Another cracking hit by a Dundee player to earn them a draw. The lad Congreave looks a decent player. I remember us all laughing at them appointing Pressley and having him down as first to be sacked this season. He's actually done a decent job with them, considering their transfer policy has been even worse than ours in recent seasons. He has also brought in some decent young players. Don't worry. I'm not campaigning for Pressley as our next manager.

Is our new goalie injured? I just noticed he wasn't on the bench yesterday. I had assumed, he was just dropped for Mitov.

Not a significant problem no but a frustration that in the modern game you can force that play, the rules are unclear and most importantly not applied consistently by the officials or VAR. I doubt there is much to be gained by debating the inconsistencies in officiating, it’s been done.

It wasn't you my troll post was aimed at. A certain someone else on here

Bollocks. The Judas cunt should never have left us.

So we turning on an 83 year old man, who won us three titles, four Scottish Cups, one League Cup, one European CWC a Super Cup and the 1986 Tennents Sixes Doesn't matter where he watches his football or the colour of his tie, the important thing is he gave us our greatest spell as a club. We should focus our anger on the shitshow we put up with on the field, instead of turning on Fergie. He was always a Hun, which makes his record with us all the more sweeter.

It's not much of a problem though is it? The ref had already given a pen in the Dundee incident. The two incidents are similar-ish, but not exactly the same. Armstrong is already falling over and receives little to no contact. Most importantly, that we got a penalty given against us that our manager doesn't believe was a penalty doesn't mean we should get one that is also never a penalty.

I don't think @TheDonbytheDee meant that you were trolling.

I guess the difficulty here is the penalty Dundee got against us. In my head if a player deliberately gets in front of a player who is travelling forward and initiates contact it’s not a foul. Both the Dundee penalty and the Armstrong one are not penalties but one is given. This is the problem.

Genuinely don’t think that was a penalty. Don’t get me wrong I shouted for it at the game but on watching it back Armstrong goes down very easily from what is a coming together nothing more. It’s a contact sport and not all contact is a foul.

Someones got too much time on their hands.......

Thats what I thought.....

I think we're being trolled here.

That is not a penalty. Just two players coming together and one going down easily.

Think their gambling on the locals already being scunnered enough by the alleged suspicious deaths of protesters in recent times to rise up and take over. Naive madness. Meddling in the middle east doesn't work.

You see this is a penalty. It's given and there's a very real possibility we at least get a draw away from home against a team that has been on top of the league table all season. People really need to stop watching games already having decided we're shite and the players are all shite. It's simply not true. VID-20260301-WA0000.mp4

They've clearly not been listening to the oil lads' orders. Didn't these cunts learn anything from Iraq? You dinna kill the bad guy straight away. You need to milk it for a few months or years. Then take the oil when the populace is fed up.