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It was consistent with the ref's entire performance, he was incredibly bad. Showed a complete misunderstanding of the game of football, with 47 fouls given. Livi were slowing the game down and doing plenty of niggly fouls that would have been nipped in the bud with an early booking. However, he was blowing for the slightest contact on any player on the pitch (by that stupid standard, it was a pen). Football is a contact sport, you have to allow the type of collision (and it was barely that) that occurred between Campbell and JET. It's not helped by the idiot commentators that parrot the EPL/MOTD shite of "there was contact"/"entitled to go down", which is just a slippery slope toward a game where nobody can touch anyone at any point. It gives refs an excuse for making shite decisions, but also gives added confusion for those refs who haven't played the game and don't understand it. Going by the ref's ridiculous standard of non contact at the weekend we should have had a pen for their defender pushing Henry into the goalkeeper (it wasn't a pen, but more of a pen than Campbell's one). He shouldn't be reffing at professional level at the moment, he clearly wasn't up to it.

It's just a logical extension to the existing model, I'm failing to see what their issue is. Are they seriously trying to suggest that the leagues of Europe aren't already available to the highest bidder?

I think it's a bit of a myth that we punted the ball long regularly under McInnes, and we did so just as often yesterday. That's often just a function of the shape and the movement in front and there's little the defence can do about that. It seemed to me that Considine especially just took it upon himself to stride forward with the ball which forced the movement in front of him. The difference being that McInnes would likely have told him to hold his position and exercise caution. Until Glass decides his best formation I think we'll not see massive changes in our approach.

Aye, I thought he was shite in the first half but finished strongly as the rest of the team found their feet. Ferguson a lot more dynamic today too, obviously been told to get into the box a lot more and I think we'll start to see him back to the level he can perform at. Thought McRorie was gash and Hoban poor too. Considine played like a captain, the only one with complete commitment and drive throughout the game (although some honking passes in the first half) when others were hiding. Henry and Kamberi did well and McGinn showed his class again. They played anti football for most of the match and deserved to lose. Great to see us run up and take throw ins and set pieces quickly, instead of the nonsense under McInnes where only the designated throw in taker was allowed to take it after everyone was in their correct position.

Never in doubt. Shat myself when I saw the former England striking coach giving advice on penalties though.

Forgot, the ref been very, very bad. 800 free kicks. Fucking awful.

Two goals. Fairly entertaining after our goal. Considine been good, McRorie and Hoban gash. McGinn class for both goals. Henry and Kamberi made a difference.

Fuck sake McInnes, fucking change it.

I've heard that instead of playing it out from the back, we've adopted a style whereby the ball isn't allowed to touch the ground. Volleys only, no headers. All very American apparently.

Looks very much like a McInnes team, will be interesting to see the setup. Harsh on McKenzie, I'm guessing Hayes will be left back, or no left back in a three.

Jack would definitely have been in. Now we can go back to McTominay in midfield.

Aye, that'll work well. Can't wait to see our midfield of McRorie, Campbell, Ferguson, Brown, McGeouch and virtanen next season.

It's a serious gamble if true. He's been pish for a very long time.

Not sure that would stand up in court! If he'd punched the guy square in the face the minute it occurred I'd have understood, but there was a decent amount of time between the abuse and the assault. I don't think he'll be charged, but he'll be lucky not to be. I think uefa have got it about right there, with the Czech guy missing out on the Euros. Again, the Tims being lionised (by Anwar this time) on the BBC without a single mention of the Logan incident. It'd be an interesting thought experiment to consider what would have happened had Logan been playing for the Huns. I think they would have hung their player out to dry. That's the biggest thing in the eyes of Scottish football, the relationship between the two cheeks. Much bigger than racism, ironically.

Looking forward to it, wouldn't expect much change from the second half of last week. Glass had been fortunate with the timing of his arrival. Hornby being fit makes a big difference to the setup of the team. It's not that I think he's particularly great (jury is still out), but having a number 9 on the pitch completely effects the way we play and brings out the best in the other players. We've not had a fit number nine this year and arguably all season despite Watkins playing the role very well. Hopefully Hornby shoes what his large transfer fees were all about.

If we don't win the cup and finish third, he can fuck off back to Atlanta. Welcome aboard Glasser. Looking forward to it.

He's already in the UK, I've been outside his quarantine hotel for days now on my replica coca cola mountain bike.

Tuesday I think.

I think it was more than that, and we've seen it in every game Sheerin has managed. It's clearly been forced on them and it's clear that they've been told that they have to do it every single time. In other words, their game intelligence is being overridden by management ideology, as it was very clear that they were doing it when they weren't comfortable doing so. It's our new version of game management, which was drilled into our players under McInnes, limiting their freedom to instinctively move forward with the ball. I'm really hoping that Glass ditches it immediately and allows players to think for themselves. It's a very immature form of management, especially when it leads to so many opportunities for the opponent.

A half decent second half performance. A much better shape, Hayes and McGinn and even Kennedy performed much better around Hornby. All their opportunities in the second half came from us trying to play out unnecessarily. Took until the 89th minute for Lewis to go long from a goal kick as he'd clearly been told to go short every single time. McKenzie caught a couple of times. He looked good defensively and going forward but giving him the ball under pressure with no out ball wasn't clever. It's stupid stuff like, it's fine to play it out from the back if you're quick about it, but don't wait until the opposition is settled then pass to a centre half on a hard fast pitch. Poor coaching.

It's not playing out that's the issue, it's doing it every single time when you're already under pressure. Lovely goal, great play by the two wingers. Good start to the half. Hornby already done more than Kamberi.

Yep, terrible stuff so far, look like we'll be our own downfall with the championship manager pish from the back. Saints should just allow the first pass from Lewis and then close down quickly from there. Hopefully Hornby can manage a half. Kamberi and McGinn not working.

4-4-2? McRorie at right back? Not sure how both Hayes and McKenzie fit in otherwise.

Died according to the AFC Twitter account. Didn't know much about him. Saw him at Burnley having a good day out that's about it.

Totally agree. However, it's also important to note that our own chairman has said that it racism, or the defence of racism, is completely justifiable if it's one of your own (if one of our players was to racially abuse someone, it would be acceptable - perhaps expected - for our captain to back them). In other words, partisan club loyalties far outweigh any other form of abuse (racial, homophobic, child) or fraud in Scottish football. It would be great to hear some honesty regarding it as you say. The gaslighting kick racism out or knee taking just needs to stop. It portrays the game in an undeserving light.