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From memory, in all three the referee David Dickinson had no hesitation in giving all three decisions, to give Rangers the penalty on two occasions and to dismiss Motherwell's claim for a penalty.I don't think VAR was involved in any of the three. Interestingly in last night's Tarvenier decision, VAR did not get involved whereas it did get involved to upgrade Trusty's yellow card to a red. There are huge discrepancies in that system regardless of which team you support.

No arguments with that. VAR is an absolute scourge on football.

Just bin VAR. It's that simple. Subjective decisions in the booth are wrong just as often as subjective decisions on the pitch. If we must keep it, go with the 20 or 30 second rule. Can't see any error within those 20 or 30 seconds, no clear and obvious error, decision on the pitch stands, and we move on.

We’re long overdue a win at home against Rangers. We’ve beaten them twice away in the last two seasons but a win at Fir Park in front of the home fans would be that bit more special I think. A draw is the most likely result here but you just hope that we might be able to get the win. Another 1-1 with us bemoaning missed chances I reckon.

On the three decisions mentioned above did VAR get involved? I know they didn’t for the Motherwell game but don’t know about the others. If they didn’t then it brings into question their impartiality, not for the team involved but not wanting to disagree with the match referee - I do believe that there’s an unwritten agreement between them not to interfere with 50/50 decisions so not to make each other look bad - which in turn makes VAR ineffective. So my view is scrap it or let officials from another country with no bias to teams or officials do the checks.

I'd much rather it was off, than played on a lottery of a pitch, or abandoned 30 minutes in.

They r not as bad as they were a few weeks ago. Should be an evenish match with our silky passing winning the day.

They will give it every chance because its on Premier TV. No chance it will be on with heavy rain from now until kick off.

Don’t see how continual rain would result in anything less than the match being off. hopefully there will be some rare common sense applied to provide an early notice of the game being cancelled. If the pitch is unplayable tomorrow and further rain is forecast then call the game off on Friday, why wait till Saturday.

Can we not have David Dickinson as referee please. Not suggesting he is corrupt. But would just like to be talking about the game instead of him for a change!

From MET OFFICE - "Aberdeen has had no sunshine for the past 14 days, according to the Met Office. This is its longest sunless period since records there began in 1957." Rain today, tomorrow and Saturday. Will be surprised if it`s on.

Celtic fans going apoplectic. Someone on Kerrydale St suggested it was Israel getting their own back for their support of Palestine by using technology to cause rain clouds to form over Aberdeen. I kid you not. Anyways a narrow win for us and no injuries please.

I just had a quick look on YouTube at the penalty decision you mention involving Aberdeen and Dundee Utd v Rangers. Both, in my opinion, are correctly awarded. And I have already said in this thread that Fadinger should have been given a penalty at Ibrox and I don’t know why it wasn’t given. Now, the point you mention about the home crowd at Ibrox helping to bring about these inconsistencies is very valid. The same could be said of any ground with a large and partisan crowd all shouting for a call at one time. Referees are only human after all. What I would say though is, to bring it back to the point I made about Rangers opponents not receiving a red card domestically for almost two years. The same referee you mention, did in fact red card a Rangers player at Ibrox in a game against St.Johnstone in October of 2024. And let me make this clear, I only know this after a check on soccerbase. I didn’t see this incident and I have no recollection of it. But on that occasion David Dickinson obviously didn’t allow the Ibrox crowd to influence his thinking.

It's the only stat that lets us down over the past 3 decades and the only stat that allows supporters of our peer clubs to argue their merits when discussing relative success...its something we need to right, asap

Fuck Rangers

I think we are all frustrated by the inconsistencies but there have been some really crucial decisions that have favoured Rangers this season and a good few of them involved this same referee. As an example, three penalty incidents involving Rangers, all with very similar degrees of contact in the box. One v Aberdeen: penalty given for Rangers. Two v Dundee Utd: penalty given for Rangers. Three v Motherwell: penalty not given to Motherwell. The consistency comes from the fact that the incidents are all very similar, that Rangers get the benefit of the decision in all three cases and that the same referee is involved in each decision. The inconsistency is that the referee has used different criteria to arrive at a decision. Is this proof of conspiracy? No. Is it worth considering the environment that brings about these inconsistencies? Yes. That is free thinking.

Rangers were also unfortunate to have a goal at ruled out against Hearts at Ibrox when only 0-1 down. They also had a goal harshly ruled out against Aberdeen at Pittodrie. I actually thought we were very unfortunate to have Hendry’s goal against Hearts at Fir Park ruled out for offside. And Celtic should already have been down to ten at Tynecastle when their new signing, the striker, literally wrestled the Hearts player to the ground right in front of the referee. Again had either of the two above gone in Rangers favour then a lot more would have been made of it.

That’s what I mean when I mentioned the inconsistencies with decisions. We see it week in week out with different referees giving a particular decision one week and a different referee gives the opposite decision the next week. The same applies to VAR. How many times on this forum alone on match threads has decisions been questioned where similar incidents with other games have resulted in a different decision? You could literally scroll through the forum and select any given match thread and find one.

Rangers have benefited in 3 potential game changing decisions and been potentially cost points in 1 against Hearts but I suspect Hearts would have still won the game. Celtic have benefitted from 1 game changing decision that I can remember against Kilmarnock. I can't think of a dubious decision we've had in our favor. Said's goal against Falkirk should have stood which could have changed the game. We should of had a penalty against Rangers that could have impacted the result. When you look at that it's no wonder the monopoly in Scotland can't be broken when they're getting game defining decisions in their favor.

Massive moment in the game when Killie are only 1-0 down. Funny how Trusty is a red card and in an almost identical incident last night the ref gives nothing. What about the Fernandez hand ball against Livingston? Again critical moment in the game. Massive decisions that are really difficult to explain. You talk about thinking for ourselves. I think it is very reasonable to ask the questions. They are strange decisions and deserve some further consideration.

Did you miss the end of it where it says Hearts would be 2 points worse off? Did you miss the Celtic 2 points worse off? Did you miss Rangers being 5 points worse off (At a minimum)? I accept I have edited it from the OP but was still edited before you had replied.

Right, so Hearts getting a goal at Ibrox that shouldn’t have stood wasn’t a key decision that would have impacted the result? And then there was Celtic’s ridiculous penalty award against Killie at Rugby Park which even Willie Collum admitted was wrong. That didn’t impact the result?

The standard response when you’ve got no argument against the facts provided.

Yes it was. And Trusty’s was a red card.

A detailed response, that backs up the old adage " if you want to know anyting in detail about Celtic, then ask a Rangers fan first"