The Official Scottish Football Thread (Vol. 2)
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Incredible result and a great performance from Rangers over the two legs. Any accusations of being bottlers or unable to play in front of fans shown as the nonsense it is. Even though I didn't think the decision was correct last night, over the two legs, bar showed why it should be in place in the league.
hongkongdonkey said:
Incredible result and a great performance from Rangers over the two legs. Any accusations of being bottlers or unable to play in front of fans shown as the nonsense it is. Even though I didn't think the decision was correct last night, over the two legs, bar showed why it should be in place in the league.
There's a big difference when Rangers are the underdog and when they are expected to win. Fans do get on the team's back and players lose their composure when the pressure is on. Another massive VAR error in the Everton v Man City game tonight. One of the most blatant handballs you'll see and VAR deemed it wasn't a penalty.
Everton forums are convinced the league is corrupt. They are also raging as the VAR official is from Manchester and they assume biased.
It's a tight title race down south. This type of decision is massive.
Drive Blind said:
Haven't read any match reports yet, was it the referee's fault ?
Probably lol.Watched the Celtic v Hibs game while doing the ironing. Getting a crease down the sleeve of my shirts was more exciting than the game. To be fair, Hibs were decent, but precious little excitement.
The Hibs V Celtic game was terrible. A really awful game of football. Celtic were off the pace from the start, but Hibs broke the game up. So many nothing fouls in the first half. The amount of injury treatment and time wasting in the second half was very poor. A game was never breaking out.
It looked like Rangers were going to batter Motherwell. At the start of the second half the pace dropped, the fans got nervous and Rangers started looking shaky. Once the first goal went in for Motherwell it felt like a second would come. A third nearly came after that. It's only going to add further questions about Rangers' lack of bottle.
A big chance to catch up two points and they choked again today.
It's just an automatic reaction. Again more dropped points and all the blame is going on the Celtic supporting linesman. He's getting called out everywhere. Torrents of abuse even when many Rangers fans agree the linesman got both calls right.
They were watching on poor quality streams and the camera angles are poor. Still the abuse is relentless and the credibility of officials wrongly brought into question again. It's out of control.
It looked like Rangers were going to batter Motherwell. At the start of the second half the pace dropped, the fans got nervous and Rangers started looking shaky. Once the first goal went in for Motherwell it felt like a second would come. A third nearly came after that. It's only going to add further questions about Rangers' lack of bottle.
A big chance to catch up two points and they choked again today.
Drive Blind said:
Haven't read any match reports yet, was it the referee's fault ?
You knew before you asked. It's just an automatic reaction. Again more dropped points and all the blame is going on the Celtic supporting linesman. He's getting called out everywhere. Torrents of abuse even when many Rangers fans agree the linesman got both calls right.
They were watching on poor quality streams and the camera angles are poor. Still the abuse is relentless and the credibility of officials wrongly brought into question again. It's out of control.
Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 27th February 20:32
Drive Blind said:
Do we think the Scotland V Ukraine game will go ahead on the 24th ?
Chatting with a mate at work on this today. There isn’t a reason logistically it’s can’t go ahead, but it is a bad situation all round. I’m guessing a good number of first choice players are stuck in Ukraine, although they will probably be able to raise a team. If Scotland win against a second string we could be derided as heartless sods, beating a country that needs all the help it can get. Might be an opportunity to take the higher ground and concede the tie. It popped up on my newsfeed that Bill Leckie also thinks we should forfeit the game.
Whilst it's tragic what is happening in Ukraine, I don't think it's the right thing to do. If we let them go through, I couldn't see Wales or Austria doing the same and giving up the dream of playing at a World Cup.
Whilst it's tragic what is happening in Ukraine, I don't think it's the right thing to do. If we let them go through, I couldn't see Wales or Austria doing the same and giving up the dream of playing at a World Cup.
Driver101 said:
It's just an automatic reaction. Again more dropped points and all the blame is going on the Celtic supporting linesman. He's getting called out everywhere. Torrents of abuse even when many Rangers fans agree the linesman got both calls right.
They were watching on poor quality streams and the camera angles are poor. Still the abuse is relentless and the credibility of officials wrongly brought into question again. It's out of control.
Absolute nonsense. Rangers fans complained about the officials in the Hearts and Hibs games when they comfortably won so it is not a reaction to a loss. I think Rangers got a lot wrong in the second half at the weekend but the fact remains that if the correct decisions had been made by the officials in the last two games, Rangers would be 4 points better off. Of course that will pThey were watching on poor quality streams and the camera angles are poor. Still the abuse is relentless and the credibility of officials wrongly brought into question again. It's out of control.
s off a support.hongkongdonkey said:
Driver101 said:
It's just an automatic reaction. Again more dropped points and all the blame is going on the Celtic supporting linesman. He's getting called out everywhere. Torrents of abuse even when many Rangers fans agree the linesman got both calls right.
They were watching on poor quality streams and the camera angles are poor. Still the abuse is relentless and the credibility of officials wrongly brought into question again. It's out of control.
Absolute nonsense. Rangers fans complained about the officials in the Hearts and Hibs games when they comfortably won so it is not a reaction to a loss. I think Rangers got a lot wrong in the second half at the weekend but the fact remains that if the correct decisions had been made by the officials in the last two games, Rangers would be 4 points better off. Of course that will pThey were watching on poor quality streams and the camera angles are poor. Still the abuse is relentless and the credibility of officials wrongly brought into question again. It's out of control.
s off a support.Rangers should have had one penalty against Dundee Utd. You're assuming it's scored. There wasn't anything key in the Motherwell game. Just a list of more invented trivial issues. It's uncomfortable reading how Rangers fans are now reduced to dissecting every game to find fault to attempt to prove they are cheated. Read opposing fans opinion's of playing Rangers and they are convinced they are always cheated against when playing Rangers. Strange that eh? How can two sets of fans watch the same games and be convinced in totally opposite ways?
Motherwell are still owed one. Remember the last game at Ibrox where Sakala was obviously offside when he scored to deny Motherwell the points? Some errors are understandable, but that was a really easy and obvious call missed. Aberdeen fans are still raging about being "mugged" twice.
The disallowed goals against Motherwell are both offside. Even plenty of Rangers fans agree that the linesman was correct. Still look at the reaction. He's still being called out by name, the team he allegedly supports, abused and branded a cheat. That's for decisions most fans say were correct.
It's really wrong the efforts are going to attack and discredit officials. You won't see that and I'll expect whataboutery to deflect.
I can understand outrage at a wrong decision. How on earth can they be this out raged that the linesman called the correct decision? Absoloute loonies. Imagine when var actually gets here and some of the decisions you see in England come in. Itll be absoloute mayhem. Atleast those in the VAR room can be hidden from this full scale personal vendetta against a linesman for calling the correct decision.
hotchy said:
I can understand outrage at a wrong decision. How on earth can they be this out raged that the linesman called the correct decision? Absoloute loonies. Imagine when var actually gets here and some of the decisions you see in England come in. Itll be absoloute mayhem. Atleast those in the VAR room can be hidden from this full scale personal vendetta against a linesman for calling the correct decision.
The VAR officials are named. VAR in England has had a few big moments in recent weeks. Imagine the handball in the Everton v Man City game not being given here when there was a tight fight for the title.
There was also this one from the Cup Final at the weekend. Lukaku scored, but was ruled offside. Here is the official picture proving he was offside.
VAR says it's offside, but I'd put my house on a lot of fans not willing to accept that. A few Liverpool fans responded to say they also had a goal wrongly ruled out when VVD was harshly accused of interfering with play when they scored.
A big game and neither set of fans happy with VAR.
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