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Ian Murray and John Hughes!

Glad they are all good church goers...might help in the long run 🙏

McBookie take bets but they close it down at around 4/5pm every day and it re-open it again at about 9/10am.

Wiki says Lowe plays 3-1-4-2 Love it, after the last 5 years dross im all in! At least if it fails it will be glorious & hopefully some fun along the way.

Lowe or Evatt for me only names I have seen that's peaked my interest.If we could get one of them I would be happy. Said it before would love David Healy to get it he has done everything with Linfield they are like 15 points clear so he could be tempted if we dangled the carrot for a change.

At least he's a midfielder

Norway (hopefully) leading the way with VAR Norway is on the verge of abolishing VAR from its domestic league after clubs in the country’s top two divisions recommended formally that it should be discontinued. The decision by clubs in Norsk Topfotball, which represents the 32 sides in Norway’s Eliteserien and first division, marks the most significant step yet in a fierce debate over VAR’s future in the country. Now Norway is one step from joining Sweden, which has resisted introducing the deeply controversial technology so far, in staging games without its intervention. Norsk Topfotball’s clubs passed a motion that “requests that the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) board recommend, and that the federal assembly adopts, the discontinuation of video-assisted refereeing as soon as possible”. Their verdict will now be handed to the NFF ahead of a meeting in the first week of March at which every club in Norway, including those at much lower levels, will take a final vote on the future of VAR. Cato Haug, the chairman of Norsk Topfotball, said clubs had agreed that VAR, of which the implementation has caused a strong backlash among fans, is unworkable in its current form. “We see the technology has potential,” he said. “But through today’s discussion and subsequent voting, we see the majority of our clubs believe the current version of VAR does not work well enough.”

Transparency matters not a jot here. It won't prevent bad decisions and it won't lead to consequences for those who continually make them. All that the KMI panel and the monthly VAR review does is further wind up fans. Oh look, we were wrong, but f**k you. Sweep sweep.

Thats my beef with it. Keeper can get away with that but Watt is punished for less. The Dundee United handball as well. Comes straight over his team mates shoulder, his arm is up to help him jump (natural position for the action) and it comes off his head and steikes his arm. Not sure what the defender can do in that circumstance, other than not challenge for the ball in the first place, which is clearly a ludicrous suggestion. Anyway. Better than no clarification at all, so more power to them.

I'd agree with that. A small point about Tony Watt's chalked off goal. Just before the ball comes in the keeper pushes Watt away; not violently but a push nonetheless. Presumably its ok for a player to do that in the box?