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Given “these things even out over a season” 9 man Celtic will be up against it even before our 2 penalties.

I've not seen it mentioned anywhere, but I thought Cadden had his best half in quite a while in the first half on Sunday. Playing in a more advanced role it meant he wasn't receiving the ball with 60 yards to run, and I thought he looked really lively. Obviously not a direct replacement for Tanner, but I'd be happy to see him continue in there with Frear/Tait at WB.

Was decent enough game but we basically did not create much, although their goalkeeper had a few good saves. It has to be said that the referee was one of the best referees have seen in a while with no controversial decisions in 90 minutes....very rare. May I also say it was lovely to watch a game with the sun our backs rather than freezing our b******s off.

It's his last season, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets the final as a curtain closer.

Now that it's been highlighted/suggested that the same ref has sent off a suspiciously disproportionate number of Motherwell players, I'll be very surprised if the SFA choose to validate that claim further by rescinding another of his red cards. As for the media, I was listening to Radio Scotland yesterday and the "journalist" reporting on the incident (not a biased Pat Bonner pundit that you might at least forgive) somehow managed to not make mention of Scott Brown whatsoever. It was as though Kipre assaulted thin air. The only mention he made of Celtic in his whole piece was to bring up the fact that Motherwell didn't appeal Kipre's previous red card in the Cup Final loss to Celtic which was clear proof that Motherwell agreed with the decision. I know I shouldn't be surprised but... People talk about Brendan Rodgers influencing the media. He doesn't need to. Our media will happily just make it up for him.

These factors expose his decision. He obviously guessed at a non existent stamp. He even motions a downwards stamp. Kiprés (very slight) motion was sideways at best and nothing like a forceful downward motion. Thomson has noticed Brown hitting the deck, gone straight for the red imagining what's happened and his decision has subsequently been outed as utter guesswork.