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I wish they would also go back to calling shirt pulling as a foul. At the stage now where it’s, “well that wasn’t enough to give a penalty” so apparently there’s varying degrees of shirt pulling that are allowed that the referee or VAR officials have to make a judgement call on. BULLSHIT!! Pulling another players shirt is 100% a foul but the powers that be have decided to let some of that slide. Start calling it and they will stop. Another thing they let slide now is players blocking opposition run about 15 to 20 yards from the ball. Clear as day in the fifa rules, that is obstruction cause it’s not within playing distance of the ball. I’ve heard commentators say “well, he’s entitled to go anywhere on the field he wants”, well, no he isn’t and the obstruction rule covers that. FIFA's obstruction rule, officially known as " Impeding the Progress of an Opponent" (Law 12), prohibits moving into an opponent's path to block, slow down, or force a change of direction when the ball is not within playing distance. It is deemed a foul if a player is not actively playing the ball. Instagram

Only in the UK it seems. I was reading an article in The Guardian earlier in the week (because that's how I roll) that was pointing out how a number of the English teams became unstuck in Europe because: 1. They relied too much on scoring goals from the chaos at set pieces 2. European refs were penalising their fouling in the box at those set pieces I'd love to see our refs clamp down on it too.

Enjoyed that.

I'm starting to think he might know what he's talking about.

Uh huh

Its the contesting the ball part that is the problem. Players jostling and wrestling for the ball happens at every corner/free kick and is generally unpunished by referees until the ball comes in the vicinity of the players contesting. At that point the players know they risk giving away a penalty which in this case you admit was rightly given. If Longelo and Maeda have equal chance of getting their heads on the ball it probably isnt a red card, but Maeda rolls Longelo and gets in front of him, at that point Longelo just has to let go as there is no way he is getting to it. He doesnt, prevents a clear goalscoring opportunity and given that he wasnt trying to get to the ball, just stop Maeda, its a red. You cant change the wording of the laws of the game to suit our purposes.

A really uplifting interview. Jens never disappoints. Please be here next season, and lets kick on from here.🤞

I was one of said posters, and taken nothing personally 😁 Defending a corner is entirely different to defending, say, a player through on goal though. If you are defending a corner man for man, I am not sure how you can without knowing where your opponent is... Longelo is looking at the ball to begin, maeda makes the run at which point longelo, turns to face him, ends up in a knot and fouls him. No issue with the VAR intervention for a penalty. Its the VAR intervention for a red and how it can be "clearly and obviously" deemed as anything other than "hes tried to defend the corner and made a mess of it".

Their new brilliant goalie didn't look too clever at that.

Watching it back Ward was absolutely howling for that corner that resulted in the penalty he was wasn't even close to whatever he was trying to do. And that third goal we lost was a total shocker one of the poorest we have let in this season.

Maeda has immunity. Game after game its foul, foul, foul, foul and action is rarely taken.

that was a brilliant insight into the team, season and club in general. I thoroughly enjoyed that. He never fails to impress me. for a guy to be able to speak in this way and come over so clearly when English isn’t his first language is utterly incredible. and Jens was quite good too (joke)

Fantastic interview. Ferry comes across as a total fanboy, but I actually quite like that. The insight into Jens mind and thought processes is incredible. He really is a special guy. (Psychological safety!) The more I hear him speak though, the more I feel he see's us a project he can mould in his own image. He clearly loves it here, and I think it will take more than just money to prise him away. It will require the right club, with the right ethos that he views as a compatible match for him and his aspirations. (I am aware there are likely to be a few of them around and at some point one of them will come for him).

Thought I would share this here

Ive seen a number of posters referring to the double jeopardy rule, so this isnt directed at you, but...... It only applies if the defender has made a genuine attempt to play the ball. Longelo makes no attempt to play the ball, so the double jeopardy rule does not apply here.

It's a simple enough rule in theory, unfortunately it comes down to making a judgement call about a player's intent which refs are never going to get right every time. In this case, Longelo wasn't even facing the ball half the time it was in the air from the corner, and by the time he was facing it there was no way he could play it as there was someone else in the way. So I guess that's why they decided he wasn't making a genuine attempt to do so.

I got around to watching the game again. I think Chamberlains crunch on Just was a booking although I have seen reds given. I don’t think it was intentional and it wasn’t as bad as Gogic on Slattery which also resulted in a booking so fair enough. Maeda should have got at least a booking for the arm to face on said. The boot in the baws afterwards definitely merited that in its own right. I think JTs penalty claim is a penalty…. It’s a push in the back and if JT stumbled and goes to ground like a normal human being I think it’s given….. unfortunately he does what appears to be a star jump and makes the whole thing look ridiculous and I can understand why they’ve not given it. the penalty was unfortunately a penalty. I’d have been screaming for that if it was at our end. The double jeopardy stuff is beyond me though and beyond the referees as well…. God knows what the bar is with that.

Not sure if any of you watched that eye bleeder yesterday St Mirren v Rangers (honestly one of the worst games I’ve seen in years) but Allan Campbell played most of the match and that boy has went so far back it’s criminal. By the second half when he collected the ball he was getting booed by his own fans (no surprise the booing and St Mirren, they are excellent booers) I felt for the boy, he’s certainly no where near the player we had. Seems to have lost every shred of confidence he had.

Just in case anyone was wondering, and they're probably not, Willie McCallum and Bobby McCallum weren't related.

Hee! Hee! I doubt Mrs Dosser would agree 😈. I'm finding if AI doesn't "know", it just makes stuff up sometimes. Oh, wait.....

I know people are laughing, but at the very low level of football I played, if a defender behind you put an arm round to hold you back, trapping his arm under yours and falling over, or trying to run forward (and subsequently falling) was pretty standard practice. That's what it looked like to me. To me, they were holding each other. Maeda just had pole position.

As long as they're not the Hibs psychos. 🤣

Just again for me hope we keep him a bit longer

You’re our AI mate 😉