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I quite agree but I hope you don't give up. A sense of apathy or helplessness only helps the authorities perpetuate the status quo and, when push comes to shove, Hearts might well end up biting the carpet like us over refereeing decisions before this season is decided. Having said that, my attendance at games is the only resistance I can think of, unless clubs unite to mount some kind of challenge to the obviously unfair decision-making by the authorities.

If this is indeed the rule then it suggests that not only the referee does not know the rules but the VAR assistant does not know the rules either. The referees need to go full time and be held accountable for not applying the laws of the game if there is to be any improvement in standards in this country. The subjective nature of decision making is killing the game in Scotland. Despite Motherwell having the best team in recent memory, I have lost interest in the game in recent months. The Slattery punishment is bizarre. The process is incoherent and it's seems that we are still paying the price for Slattery's stupidity. There have been about a dozen incomprehensible decisions in the game this season (not all involving Motherwell). The Rangers v Livingston non handball decision at Ibrox was the final straw for me. I think that decision was as clear a display of cheating by officials that I have ever seen. A clear handball to deny a goal scoring opportunity and the only person on the entire planet that did not see it was the VAR assistant. The astronauts from Artimas 2 would have seen it from the other side of the moon. The playing field is not even. I feel sorry for the Motherwell manager and the Motherwell players who have created a new vision in Scottish football this season and to some extent the project has been detailed by really poor refereeing standards. There was a sense throughout the 90 minutes today that a refereeing decision was going to decide the game and that is how it turned out. We can talk about missed opportunities but until that decision is made Hearts have only scored one goal to our one goal. The decisions tip the balance. People are free to make their own decisions about their investment in the game in Scotland but for me it is too much of a lottery to be something I waste my Saturday afternoons on. It is a shame because the team and the manager don't deserve my apathy but it is what it is.

Adding the fact that I think there was aspects of Kettlewell not playing players. McGhee is a hard as nails SPL quality player. I'd like to see more of him.

It was no surprise they scored from a corner. Fadinger and Said were one foot smaller than the guys they were marking. I'm not saying it was their fault but it is an exposed weakness. Ball playing six footers anyone?

Putting aside our recent inability to take our chances and the blatantly poor officiating, my other big concern is the complete lack of aggression. It showed again today against an aggressive Hearts side. We can’t defend set pieces into our own box, and at the other end our set pieces and most of our crosses are basically pointless because we’ve no real presence or aggression in the box, with defenders often winning everything. Also. For all the decent football we play in the middle of the park, we’re far too powderpuff across the pitch. We need to be stronger and more aggressive if we want to be winners, and it’s a glaring issue that has to be addressed in the summer.

Moving sideways a little bit re VAR. Clear and deliberate - can't take as long as it did at the Killie game. Here's the solution to the powers that be, for the love of the football fan in the STADIUM who are being made again secondary considerations. If it's not decided in 2 mins. Play on.

I’m not blaming officials for our defeat. I’m calling them out for not knowing the rules. I’m not 100% sure but did the Hearts player actually move the ball with his head? Even if he didn’t, It looked to me like he tried to play the ball with his head while on the ground. So should be indirect kick for us.

Yes and I agree with you regarding officials. It's a different disappointment just now as we are still playing decent but obviously not finishing off. Didn't notice at game but another poster said and I just watched sportscene highlights but maswanhise sitter if he passed to longelo he had another tap in.

Getting bored of blaming the officials when we should have buried at least 5 chances. Becoming a bit of a habit.

On sportsound after game as well they all agreed it was a penalty. Hopefully when the rules are explained to them they will backtrack. Collum will have some explaining to do as it is in black and white.

Obviously don't know rules and to be fair I didn't know either until after the game. But for referees on var with time on their hands not to know is disgraceful. The problem we have just now is every week recently jens has been moaning about decisions but he has imo and to be fair all rest of scottish football other than teams wev been against in the right.

Not according to S. Naismith on Sportscene, unfortunately. And two Hearts players looked offside to me at Hearts first goal in the BBC coverage.

Exactly! How the fk can officials arrive at PK decision? as I said earlier, not a soft penalty, a wrong decision.

Penalty to Tavernier , and Rangers of course. Hopefully not though

At Kilmarnock today, though it took 8 minutes to review, and the ref still managed to feck it up by not red carding the Killie defender, despite the fact he made no attempt to play the ball. And it probably wasn't a penalty. And it was possibly offside.

Maybe a wee read at rule book would help yourself and some others.

Having watched the highlights the penalty is harsh but you need to look at our missed chances. Longelo's is on his wrong foot.....Just could have done better but for JT to not even hit target really was poor...after doing sll the hard work before it

That's not personal in my book..just factual ....but I did write the book 😂

Another Saturday spoiled by inept officials. From being one of the most enjoyable seasons in nearly 40 years we have Collum and his group of fellow twats going out their way to “put us in our place” . It is no surprise that there are no Scottish refs at this years World Cup,highlighting their total inability to do their job to a level anywhere near being acceptable. We have a Somalian referee at this years WC which I can only assume is coming from an association deemed to be more professional and less corrupt than our bunch.

"unlikeable guy" is a bit personal, although in fairness I suppose MJC has been called much worse over the years

Not all refs , but if you take the falkirk games at fp alone, we could have at least 4 more points.

A good question for Wullie Collum at the next pointless VAR review video with Gordon Duncan. It's pretty much a waste of time even pursuing these howlers because the authorities' incompetence/bias have no consequences for them. More word salad and twisting than a Philadelphia lawyer will doubtless ensue from WC etc. and nothing will change for the better. The Slattery incident seems to have been a possible catalyst for the slew of inexplicably harsh decisions against us in the past two months but I'm not exactly sure why. Slattery's feigning was embarrassing but a) the referee missed it originally and b) VAR decided to send King off for the slightest of contact, which was later rescinded. Yet eventually Slattery is banned for two games for what is normally a yellow card offence, plus a two-match suspended sentence, which is a Sword of Damocles hanging over him for an indeterminate period (has this ever happened to an OF player?). Was this simply because yet again the authorities were shown to be incompetent (and I also still think Longelo was probably offside from the angles on the BBC coverage) and thus they have "doubled down" (but only against a "diddy team", of course) like a frustrated sad-sack gambler in Las Vegas? Posters above who say it's hardly worthwhile attending 'Well matches because of refereeing "inconsistencies" have my sympathy and our next game is, of course, at the worse venue possible for such things, yet we still have the some concern troll posters on here ignoring the blinking obvious and putting the boot in to the team when we have well and truly been stitched up by unfair decisions recently. This has still been for me one of the best seasons ever supporting MFC since 1962 and I am proud of our style of play, not something I have said often in my time. Our big increase in attendances shows I'm not the only one who thinks so either. 'Mon The Dossers!

It’s not soft. It’s just plain WRONG

What did I say that's personal?

When have you seen a scottish ref go to the monitor and stick by his original decision?