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There is no way that McGregor will be cited, purely because it is impossible to prove that he meant it... ...he was at it all game, slowing the proceedings down, barging into our strikers with his elbows, verbally abusing our ballboys. The man is clearly a bit of prick

For someone with such a thing for big strong midfielders you're a right sensitive sally yoursel

Does seem a bit strange not to give Turnbull and Maguire a run out today instead of training when they didn't play on Sunday and the next game isn't until Saturday.

I think the old firm get the benefit of the doubt and more decisions in their favour, but it’s not that the referees are corrupt or biased. They are weak. It’s easy to give a decision against Motherwell, there are no real consequences, if you give a big decision (even if it’s correct) against one of those pair... Theres also the influence the crowd have. It happens the world over with the big teams.

Hugh Keevins trying his best to get McGregor done by the CO

ATS? I know he's short on fitness but thought he'd be getting some game time.

As I said earlier on in the discussion, this was my first time of seeing the team this season, and on that showing I have absolutely no idea what everyone was wetting their knickers about!! All the talk beforehand was about how Peter Hartley had done Rangers team-talk for them, on the evidence of the match though it looked like Steven Gerrards cries of 'we'll be bullied by nobody' actually gave the Motherwell team a wee incentive, with Campbell, Hartley and Aldred in particular crashing into tackles and challenges from the 1st minute and Johnson and Main up front causing Goldson and Katic that many problems that they had to re-arrange their defensive shape. Johnson and Main, look like a partnership that could work, throw Bowman into the mix and we have options...I also thought Frear had a smashing cameo appearance as well. Rangers have been getting lots of plaudits for how much they have improved under Gerrard, however upon glancing at their starting XI, it looked to me like there was an obvious weakness in the middle of the park. Any team with a central midfield pairing of Halliday and Jack, cannae be that good can they? This is where I think we took our momentum from, with Campbell and Bigirimana dominating that pair for reasonable spells of the game, while Rose was there clearly to shadow Ejaria, with mixed success. A wicked deflection off Tait, who I thought had an excellent match, a moments lapse in concentration from Aldred at the 2nd and an uncharacteristic error from Carson cost us getting the 3 points, but to come away with 1 point was probably more than most would have expected given our current points total. If we can play even 50% of our league games in the manner we played yesterday, then relegation will be a word that is never spoken about this season, while top6 is a distinct possibility and probably a straight shoot-out between us and Kilmarnock.

I didn't see the McGregor - Hartley incident clearly, though my brother-in-law described it a as body slam, I did see McGregor swing an elbow at Johnson though just before he was subbed, and if Johnson had reacted the way some players would have (for that read Morelos), it would have been interesting to see how Thomson would have responded. I know I sound like a paranoid Celtic fan, but I honestly don't think we have had a decent shake from the refereeing fraternity since we papped Rangers 6-1 in the play offs.