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Great performance and result today. The ref was utterly horrendous and, once again, so was our final ball.

Just brilliant.

Yeah, we’re in a strong enough financial position and on an upward trajectory that we don’t need to accept any of the usual pathetic offers from rival clubs, especially when most of our best assets are on good long-term deals anyway.

While I’d be gutted to lose a lot of our players, everyone is replaceable, and with a top-quality manager in place, I’ve no doubt he’d find the right replacements to fit his system and style of play.

Yep. Called it last year.

Robbo has already shown JBA his hand in the semi final, so I fully expect us to counter their tactics far better and improve on our last performance against them.

I’d imagine there are plenty of good players out there short on minutes, looking at us and desperate to come here, at least on loan, in January.

The KMI panel outcomes don’t matter a jot anyway. All they do is highlight incompetence and cheating, and further infuriate fans because there is no accountability.

We owe these lot an absolute doing. Bring it on.

Who needs a striker… when we’ve got Said and Just taking it in turns to break the defensive line.

We absolutely dominated that game.

Totally agree. As I’ve said all along, it’s the idiots operating VAR, not the technology itself. Rangers and Celtic have benefited from this level of incompetence and cheating for decades, VAR or no VAR, while the rest of the league suffers. The only real solution is to bring in officials untainted by the sectarian nonsense that infects the Scottish game. It’ll never happen because the SFA is a shambles, but we should return to the 2010 strike model and hire neutral, top-tier officials from Europe.

Calling it a conspiracy is just an easy way to avoid the bigger picture. I’m not saying “Rangers get everything”, it’s about patterns and who benefits over a season in terms of big decisions. If you’re focused on individual incidents, we’re simply looking at this differently.

It’s reality, not theory, and it doesn’t seem like you’re seeing it past your blue-tinted specs.

Because they’re still getting their story straight with Collum.

Your soft spot for Rangers here is showing.

My point isn’t that officials are secretly plotting every decision to conspire against teams. It’s that the system lets bias run unchecked, especially in big moments. VAR hides subjectivity behind supposed objectivity. Smaller clubs keep getting screwed, and the media only shouts as loud as its viewership, while the same officials face zero consequences because the likes of Collum keep calling things honest mistakes. If nothing changes and the same clubs keep benefiting, it isn’t random or nonsense, it’s cheating in plain sight.

On what evidence? Udinese haven’t exactly been flying this season, and Miller has barely had a sniff. Runjaic simply hasn’t given him a proper chance, preferring instead to talk shite about him to the press. Miller needs to move on to get first team minutes, although I suspect he’ll still be an Udinese employee long after Runjaic is gone.

Aye, but how much did that idiot Kettlewell blow on Stama? More than £200K apparently.

We all need to accept that VAR simply doesn’t work for smaller teams. In Scotland, when most officials are either biased or incompetent, and subjectivity is allowed to operate a supposedly objective technology, smaller clubs have no chance of being treated fairly. It’s cheating, with the same people acting as judge, jury, and executioner. We won’t get fair refereeing in our game until bigotry and ignorance stop being tolerated, let alone celebrated.

Clear penalty for Fadinger ignored by the ref and VAR. That is cheating, plain and simple.

We’re not suddenly going to start being clinical in front of goal by Tuesday, and our style of play won’t change, so I expect this game to play out much like our loss to Rangers. Another decent but frustrating performance is likely.

We’re a proper number 9 away from this being an outstanding season. Hopefully the board push the boat out and give JBA the backing to sign one in January. Otherwise, we’ll look back on this season and wonder what might have been.

Can the Ox play centre-forward? He won’t need to use his knackered hand(s).

Ward.