RicoS321

It's not defeatist. Shinnie is very, very good at playing on a booking. Your suggestion is a decent one, but Nilsen would have left us very short in midfield too. Leven took a calculated gamble that didn't pay off. Given the options, and past evidence of Shinnie's ability to avoid reds, I don't think it was a ridiculous decision.

Again, I've probably said that a dozen times when Shinnie has been concerned and been wrong each time. It's easy to criticise Leven, but Shinnie was the only midfielder on that pitch pulling his weight and there's not a single midfielder on the bench that could replace him unfortunately. Where I think Leven made the error was (as @OrlandoDon suggests) not taking off any of the other midfielders to give Shinnie some help in there.

Nothing in that challenge met the threshold for a red, and I'm not convinced at all they met the threshold for a yellow. There was absolutely zero force in an accidental collision. He's actively trying to pull out of the way of the player. The only thing it could be a yellow for is repeated fouling, but I'm fairly certain he only had one innocuous foul after his booking. A red is a fucking terrible decision. Really bad refereeing.

Shinnie has had hundreds of those chats in his career though. It's actually quite rare for him to get sent off, and not unusual for him to get an early booking and last ninety minutes.

On what grounds? He barely touched the player.

There was nothing predictable about a straight red.

That's the worst decision I've ever seen

That's never a red. It's not even a yellow, but they'll feel they have to give one.

You wouldn't agree if you ignore the point I'm actually making.

He has been much worse than the others. The others are doing nothing to create chances (although Keskinen has been okay), whereas Bilalovic is actively giving them chances as he's completely unable to hold his position and press his man. Whilst Keskinen isn't playing brilliantly, he's covering his fullback every time and showing discipline. It's an indisciplined display by Bilalovic that's the issue. I agree, we could take off any of the others for their performances too.

Need to get Bilalovic off. He's all over the shop on that side.

Morrison moved across. Good call!

Fuck sake, Knoester off and Nilsen on. Assuming that means Nilsen on his left foot, which is basically like giving away a goal. I'd have considered Jensen on and Devlin at left centre half. Devlin is much better at keeping it simple on his wrong side. Watch how Nilsen plays on his left, drawing the player in and then taking an age to get it on his right and probably losing it.

Anyone else's stream terrible? Mine's skipping and buffering constantly. Fawa.

Bilalovic is terrible defensively. A real liability. It was the same against Livingston. He just saunters miles in field leaving the guy in heaps of space.

That first goal isn't Mitov's fault. A good punch, with plenty of distance. Armstrong doesn't bother to close. Morrison doesn't look positionally great so far, but expect he doesn't know what his teammates are doing. Two goals deserved.

Yep. Hopefully teams with quality pitches, like Partick, can come up. Obviously it might take a bit of time to get to the level of Dundee United's pitch, but grass is certainly the gold standard.

Shouldn't have put them up there in the first place

Good bit of business from Hibs like.

Have you considered that maybe you did die, and everything since has been just the construct of your soul making its way to heaven?

The biggest killer in the 70s and 80s I believe. Dangerous things.

I have a feeling that Milanovic could be like a new signing under the next manager.

Too much competition in the league?

You're right. Probably the way it should be to be honest. When none of us have a clue about half the options, we'd really only be telling each other how much we don't want Robinson, but that we'd get behind him if he did get the job. The new manager every season got boring before and after Calderwood, and again after McInnes. It's quite jading.

When was that taken?