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If there are any potential conflicts we can just terminate his contract before the final. Dunfermline sign him as a free agent. Win - win.

Dunfermline wont keep out Celtic irrespective of who starts in goals, so there will be no pressure on him.

That is straight out of the Celtic/Peter Lawwell book of deflect and point the finger in the other direction. Funny that eh?

Will add to my above post. Someone politically savvy at the SFA has used the oldest trick in the book. Change the narrative from us being at fault to the other party being in the wrong.

I wouldnt trust this mob to commit to change. As ive said previously put rangers and celtic in a 2 team league let them hammer each other and let the rest of us get on with it. How many of us would happily never play them again.

Connolly has to start. Ox could be the difference in us qualifying for europe. Poor at Hibs puts us 5th and then he keeps out Celtic to win cup and put us out. Not fair to put that kind of pressure on the lad.

And no big Ox for Dunfermline, not sure if that’s been mentioned earlier

Always good to see Baraclough on the telly when it's playoff time.

Confirmed on the Beeb that Ward is injured.

Connelly to start then?

Or perhaps he should hang up his whistle.

Now official. Ox has been recalled. As Denny suggests I suspect Ward is carrying an injury. Will return to Dunfermline after tomorrow.

I'm not disappointed that nothing was released, it would only have come across as a reaction to the decision that night. What I'd rather they do is garner support from throughout the league and then have a group of clubs approach the governing body about the generally abysmal state of refereeing and get them to commit to change. A single statement will do nothing, there needs to be a coordinated campaign by the vast majority of clubs to apply sufficient pressure to force change for the better.

That Ward was injured when he clashed with Maeda? He got treatment at the time and was noticeably limping. Could just be a precaution if they brought Ox back as cover just in case. Big game for us so all bases need covered.

Rumours on P & B that the Ox has been recalled. What does that imply? He's not playing for the Pars tonight.

Hoping This will be our best display of the season with the result to match it. COYW!!!

Did they get Kettlewell to write that statement. Deflect the issue away from the real one. Make it harassment instead. After years of of mistakes AND bias he should be sacked. Yes I am still angry and we all knew from history with this guy something shady would likely happen.

Nah all they will get is a large fine for the club for all that pyro nonsense on Saturday.

There is nothing new in this sadly. I have said on here a few times before that my family were good friends with a prominent referee back in the 1980's and they had to be moved out of their house for a week after a controversial decision in a Celtic v Dundee Utd game. Needless to say it was not the Dundee Utd fans that targeted the family. That was long before the days of VAR. It was a very scary situation for them at the time. As I have also said before this particular referee was a Motherwell fan and I remember him saying that when he looked back on his career he felt that he refereed Motherwell more strictly than other teams almost like a unconscious overcompensation so that he could never be accused of favouritism.

I don't suppose the club shop has long sleeve replicas in smaller sizes than what's available online?

They still make plenty of mistakes, but they do at least follow a consistent process. English football, or at least the EPL has taken a strange turn. They implemented a more reasonable implementation of the handball rule this season, and also try to avoid awarding pens when strikers look for contact with a defender. Both good ideas. Where they have massively failed is in their handling of all the shirt pulling, blocking, shoving and wrestling that happens on every corner kick. Not just the trivial cases, but even when players are being hauled to the ground, they are often happy to ignore it. I read they are going to try and resolve that for next season, but it was totally out of hand this season.

Another take could be that JBA is putting more of his stamp on the back room things (I hope)

On one level the SFA statement is quite breathtaking yet on another utterly predictable. Mr Beaton and his family in the past seem to have been targeted by Celtic fans because he gave decisions Brendan Rodgers didn't like, and nothing seems to have been said or done about it by the "authorities", which is really poor. Now there seem to be claims that Beaton has been subject to harassment and threats from others (obviously not Celtic fans) since the Motherwell game and the SFA suddenly clutch their pearls and throw a hysterical strop to throw up a smokescreen and set hares running to deflect from the obvious wrongs of Wednesday night. Any personal threats to officials, players and managers is to be utterly deplored but I find the "Nelson eye" apparently deployed previously to Celtic fans utterly hypocritical and quite sinister. I expect the churnalists and presstitutes among Scottish sport journalists to run with the SFA response to ensure they stay on message and maintain their "contacts". As an old Scotsman once said, "Oh, what a dangled web we weave/ when first we practise to deceive." The SFA seems to be intent on bringing all of Scottish football down with them into the gutter. 'Mon The Jambos!

Agree with previous posts. No matter how angry we were with the decision at end of day Beaton is a human being with a family and should never be put in a frightening situation. I hope Hearts get the result they need tomorrow as hopefully we can thrn just move on. The penalty didn't change our situation ahead of tomorrow's game but it denied us a point and great chance to scupper sellik title hopes

England has far superior technology in use for VAR, professional referees that use it well and very rarely make a mistake, decisions are explained by the refs to the crowd as they happen. Compare this with the incompetent amateurs who take no reasponsibility or accountabillity, explain nothing running the poundshop Var in Scotland and its no wonder its a shitshow.