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The midfield signing I'd most like to see us make is Bailey Rice. He's OOC at Rangers, our former academy player and when he was coming through was thought of as a better player than Miller. He's also 6'0 so would add some physicality to the side which is something we are currently lacking and if platformed correctly has the potential re-sale value the club would be looking for.

Longelo v Livingston for me. Great team goal with just about everyone in the team getting a touch. If Brazil 1970 had scored it, folk would still be raving about it.....

Putting McEntee on his arse was delightful! If only he had finished it, I might have had a dilemma for goal of the season!

From the admittedly limited times I've seen Chilvers, he seems technically clean, comfortable under pressure, and makes good decisions. But he’s not a player who directly influences matches regularly, and that’s the difference. If you look at it from our point of view, he’d fit the way we play under Jens from a structural point of view. He’d be fine in build-up, understands space, and would slot into the system without any real issues I think. But I’m not convinced he actually gives us something we don’t already have. He’s probably closest to Fadinger in profile, just maybe a bit safer and with far less upside. He improves the floor of the midfield, but I’m not sure he raises the ceiling, if that makes any sense? And if we’re looking to push on, what we probably need more of is goals and real impact from midfield rather than another tidy connector. So I get the appeal, and in the right setup he probably looks a good player again. I’m just not sure he’s the kind of signing that moves us forward in any meaningful way.

Just to add P&B Ross Co Fan Chilvers is probably the big disappointment as, based on last season, I think he’s one of the most talented footballers in the league and we simply don’t have anyone else like him. Fair play to him for coming through such a tough injury though. I accused him of chucking it a few weeks back but I would absolutely like to retract that statement. I wish him all the best wherever he ends up next season.

For a left field punt - Noah Chilvers at Ross County - was dynamite prior to a Slattery type injury. Not playing well currently in a terrible terrible team - don't think he will fancy D1 much.

That's probably a given, but if VAR in Scotland can't conclusively prove there was contact on Maswanhise, there can be absolutely no doubt it's not fit for purpose.

I think it is all going to come together for this one and it is going to be the statement win of the season. The jewel in the crown!!!

Hope to see Slattery and Johnny K back for this one. RCC and Thor too. We are capable of winning this, with a wee bit of luck and a focused performance we can leave Ibrox with all 3 points.

He probably holds grudges a lot better than he does a whistle or VAR controls.

I didn't know that but I always had the feeling that he never forgave us for releasing his brother Brian, since the former's "performances" against us almost always seemed inconsistent at best or incompetent/biased at worst. It seems such behaviour is typical in the petty and largely unchallenged world of Scottish football refereeing. Dae ye mind o' Craig Thomson? Dae ye?

Hearts wont win the title, for me its MJC,'s big team, as they will get most of the Var calls in their favour as they always do.

It was a great move that took two defenders completely out of the game, but not finishing it off by scoring was very poor, that was the game and 3 points right there.

With all the talk about the PK and our missed chances we never really gave JT some credit for his move that should have ended in a goal. That was a superb move that left the hearts defender helpless. I think JT could have had a better touch as he ran in on goal but then done well again to fake out the sliding hearts defender. Haven’t watched it back but not sure if a pass to Longello was on or not but JT should still have got it on target. Although he didn’t score that was His best game for a while, much more involved. Looking for more of that after the split along with a few goals.

Aye the phrase tainted title will be bandied about by supporters of the two losers no doubt.

They’ll just say they didn’t have the angle that confirmed it the same as they did with the Fadinger one at Ibrox.

But we all know it will. Hearts fans were delighted to take Saturday's decision, but you can almost guarantee they'll be greetin about VAR before the season's over. Three sides going for the title - it's an accident waiting to happen.

Some interesting comments from Lee Wilkie in today's Dundee Courier. "I would scrap VAR in Scottish football tomorrow. The technology affects the game far too much in a negative way and we saw the very worst of that in Dundee’s seemingly endless game at Kilmarnock. Of course, we want to help referees get really close calls correct but the technology gets involved far too much. And it affects the way players play the game, too. Again, not in a good way. I think players dive even more now than they did before. I’m not talking about blatant dives where there is no contact. I’m talking about situations where the forward feels a hand on the back and hits the deck. They do that knowing the Video Assistant Referee is watching and they might get a penalty out of very little. For me, that’s not what football should be about. It is a technical game but there should still be the physical aspect of battling for the ball with someone else. When VAR reviews a decision, they only look for contact but crucially not whether that contact is enough to constitute a foul. You will see strikers running into the box thinking more about initiating contact with a defender than actually scoring the chance. VAR in Scotland has not had many successes to shout about and Saturday at Rugby Park certainly wasn’t one of them. An eight-minute delay doesn’t help anyone. Spectators don’t want to be hanging about that long and, even though Dundee eventually got the penalty, it didn’t help them either. It doesn’t look good for our game. The SPFL and SFA are probably breathing a sigh of relief that didn’t happen in one of the title-deciding fixtures coming up."

And that in one statement highlights the glass ceiling (pun not intended) many of our own fans put in place often artificially. The guy is saying weekly he wants the players to be the best they can be, exceed their what they assume is their own personal limitations and we’re seeing that played out. But yeah, with this, the bare minimum will suffice …. All I’ve said since my first post on the subject is it could be so much more with little effort or cost. Just my observation.

Ive said that for long enough

Even if we were to get a strong headline fee for someone like JT or Watt, it very rarely lands as a lump sum that can immediately be reinvested. More often than not, these deals are structured over a number of years, with staged payments and add-ons tied to appearances, performance, or team success. So while the “£X million” figure looks healthy on paper, the reality is that only a portion of that is available in the short term. It’s not always as simple as selling a player and having that full amount ready to spend in the same window. Young players are, by definition, not the finished product. Some develop, some plateau, and some fall away entirely. It’s easy to say they should stay, play regularly, and improve, but there’s just as much risk in that path as there is in moving on early. If a better financial offer comes in, especially from a higher level, it’s completely understandable for the player to take it. They’re being asked to secure their future, often on the back of a short window of opportunity. An agent will almost always frame it that way: take the deal, bank the money, and go and test yourself in a better environment, better facilities, potentially higher standards in training, and the chance to develop alongside stronger players. Jake Hastie is probably a good example of how this can play out. At the time, a lot of people felt he left too early. But looking at it now, he secured a four-year deal on wages we couldn’t have matched. When he came back on loan, and in his spells elsewhere, he didn’t really show that he was going to make it at our level. So from his perspective, he maximised his earning potential at the right time. The alternative could easily have been staying, not kicking on, and ending up at a lower level anyway, just without the financial security he got from that move. None of this is to say we shouldn’t want to keep our best young players as long as possible. Of course we should. But the reality is there are financial and career dynamics at play that make these situations far less black and white than they sometimes seem, especially from the players perspective.

There is no incentive to improve no matter how many are involved. Irrespective of how many errors they make or how many times they ignore the Laws, with Collum in charge they are untouchable and decisions justified to the extreme. You just have to watch the farcical monthly review to see the institution in action. Collum has devised his own personal rule book. Quote ' Our stakeholders don't want to see that'. Translation ' We will ignore the Laws (sometimes)'. Possibly one reason why none of his team of experts made the 150 heading to the USA. That speaks volumes. Change will only be possible when leadership is honest and prepared to apply standards. How about instead of an ex referee being in charge, they appoint a former non Scottish player who understands the game and can tell the difference between intent and accidental, the difference between natural and unnatural? Move on from mates covering mates. Better still, just scrap VAR. I am now at the stage where hearing the justification for the ever growing number of errors is more frustrating than the errors themselves.

I dont remember seeing that 100 people applied for the job , but my God they must have really bad if that clown got the job.

The other 40 have the collective power to enforce changes but somehow they seem reluctant to do so.