Scarecrow

I've got to admit, that I am slowly falling into the ' can't be arsed anymore' category. Which, in itself is bewildering to me, as Ive been going for well over fifty years now and this season has been one of the best from a pure footballing perspective. Over the years, we got some absolutely stinking decisions against us and probably quite a few in our favour, which don't get memorised so much. However, the introduction of VAR, should have been a force for good, but has now became the antithesis of what it was supposed to be. Games are now being refereed from a secret broom cupboard somewhere, because the on field officials either cannot, or will not, make an decision or, in the few occasions that they actually call it, as they see it, have the balls to stick with a decision, when they are called the monitor to have another look. Modern day players add to this by going down at every opportunity, both sides were guilty of this yesterday and it seems to happen everywhere, every week. However, having a game re-refereed, five weeks after the event was a tipping point for me, we've all had our say, on what did/didn't happen that night. But I've always been in the 'when the full time whistle blows, then the game is over' camp when it comes to on field activities. Over officialdom is killing our game at an ever rapid pace and the people at the top need to get the message, but that message has to come from the fans and by that I mean every club, that is forced to use VAR on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, what should be an exciting post split period looks like a bit of a slog for me personally, however I very much doubt, I am the only one.

Those of you of a certain vintage will remember that it was a home match against Dundee Utd that wrecked our last serious title attempt. If someone could keep the lightning away from Fir Park this weekend, that would be fine.

A wee early heads up Just had a look at the Met Office 10 day forecast on You Tube. A fair chance of snow and below freezing daytime temperatures all of next week.

Unfortunately Stefan passed away last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Lindqvist

Remember that time Brian McClair returned

It won't be long now

Nashville done OK for their first season in the 'Big time'

Get onboard with Nashville SC, just tell the CEO that you know me and you'll be good.

Yip, you are correct, I forgot the next round was being drawn tomorrow. I'm just putting it down to an auld age brain fart.

For that to happen, 22 out of the 26 seeds would have to lose in Round 2. Not happening.

Miller was still in charge when we knocked them out the cup. Holt has went in there and got them playing a similar style to last season.

This. The league performances since the triple header against Celtic have been well below acceptable limits. A lot of this was masked in the 2nd half of the season due to the Scottish Cup run. The same glaring deficiencies that were there last season are still there to be seen by everyone. Even that, shouldn't be held up as an excuse, A quick look at Livingston at the moment will show you what can be achieved by playing to your strengths and not by trying to hammer round pegs into square holes.

I was thinking more about if the Clubs pro-actively used a bit of common sense when it came to travelling fans etc. But yes, Police Scotland would have the final say

SKY will have a big say on whether the game goes ahead or not, if the weather goes downhill. Remember Boxing Day a few years ago when we played Rangers at Fir Park in the middle of the last REALLY cold spell that we had. Burst pipes in the East Stand toilets and all sorts of stuff flowing out of them down the stairs and on to the track. I can remember thinking that day, that the only reason that game went ahead was because SKY were already set up and ready to go. But, to be fair to them SKY paid the (pittance of) money for the rights and could make us play on the moon at 2.30am on a Sunday morning, if they wanted. Just checked there....that game was on 26th December 2010.

Very fine margins in this league. Hibs took their chance and we didn't. Always noticeable that fans seem to default to blaming refereeing performances after a defeat, I agree Madden didn't have a good game today but he wasn't a patch on Finnie during the week at Dens Park and we won that one. Three games in six days was always going to have an effect on the overall squad performance, Hibs had three games in seven days, playing Saturday, Tuesday & Saturday. As I said, fine margins.

He signed for Cork City.

Conversely these teams will licking their lips at the chance of playing against a team who have shed a barrowload of goals this season. Inverness for example have been doing the same to bottom 6 dross as we did to them last season.

Think of Utd fans who booked buses for the Wednesday and were then told 11 days ago that the match had been moved, they had to rearrange their transport to tonight. Then they get hit with this. Another example of clubs taking their fans for granted. No other type of entertainment treats their paying customers as badly as football does.

That was my first thought when the postponement decision was made

Letter by letter that was exactly what I was going to post. Thanks for saving me the effort bud.

Bugger Time for Plan B.......oh hang on!!!

From Utds twitterfeed: Fixture amendments: V Motherwell now Tuesday 27th November at 7.45pm instead of Wednesday 28th.

Its good to know the HCC are still going strong

Tony Parks on SSN......remember him going off like a kep at Fir Park? lol