Motherwell V Hibs 21/03/2026

[grizzlyg]

26 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:

JBA sums up the current state of Scottish VAR perfectly in this article from the Sun

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/16067918/askou-fumes-var-lines-drawn-by-five-year-old/

Tight but correct call. Was exact same as one Killie had chopped off against us.

Jens should be more concerned about that effort being only 1 of 2 shots on target in 94 mins

[texanwellfan]

5 hours ago, Spiderpig said:

Hibs were well organised yesterday, they stopped us playing through midfield, two lines in front of us all the time. It forced us to try to go round them down the sides to get in behind and thats not our game.

And i though  VAR  had done away with the big toe or half a boot being offside, that decision was a joke.

 

I’m not aware of any changes having been made to VAR and offside, so the way things are it was the correct call but I’m all for scrapping the lines and unless playback shows it to be blatantly obvious, on side or off side,  the on field call should stand.  

[texanwellfan]

Yesterday’s result a wee bit more disappointing now after seeing that Celtic got beat today. 
Go to keep the faith though. We know there will be bumps but I trust JBA to keep us going in the right direction. I think we Missed Longelo more than some people thought we might have. Fancy us to beat Falkirk and then our game at Hearts should be a good one. 

[numpty]

18 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

I’m not aware of any changes having been made to VAR and offside, so the way things are it was the correct call but I’m all for scrapping the lines and unless playback shows it to be blatantly obvious, on side or off side,  the on field call should stand.  

Trouble is, "blatantly obvious" is just as much a judgement call as any other way you can decide it with a human involved. Until the ball and everyone's extremities have millimetre-perfect position sensors in them and offside calls are made my some magically-infallible computer, there will always be controversial decisions.

[texanwellfan]

18 minutes ago, numpty said:

Trouble is, "blatantly obvious" is just as much a judgement call as any other way you can decide it with a human involved. Until the ball and everyone's extremities have millimetre-perfect position sensors in them and offside calls are made my some magically-infallible computer, there will always be controversial decisions.

True, wherever you place the decision point, that’s where the argument will centre around. 

[MJC]

2 hours ago, texanwellfan said:

Fancy us to beat Falkirk and then our game at Hearts should be a good one. 

We will draw with Falkirk and lose to Hearts.

We have peaked.

[grizzlyg]

19 minutes ago, MJC said:

We will draw with Falkirk and lose to Hearts.

We have peaked.

Fact you have tipped us to get at least 1pt concerns me 🤣🤣

[Kmcalpin]

6 hours ago, Happy Dosser said:

I also noticed yesterday that Nicky Cadden was always in the referee's ear (and other Hibs players  surrounded the ref at times to with their helpful opinions). I thought only the captain could approach the referee or is that another law that has quietly been dropped? Wasn't it also Cadden who raised two hands  to push over SOD?  Nothing was done about that  either.

Comonplace now in games and we saw it most recently when Dundee United players were harassing the ref. 

As for Nicky Cadden, he was very lucky to stay on the pitch, but in reality wasn't even yellow carded. He put in a late tackle on SOD (worse than Sparrow's yellow card tackle) and was warned by the ref. Then as you say, he went head to head with SOD, lifted his hands and pushed him aggressively in the chest (not merely pushing him away).  Still no yellow card.  After that he put in another bookable late tackle and wasn't even warned.   

[Happy Dosser]

3 minutes ago, Kmcalpin said:

Comonplace now in games and we saw it most recently when Dundee United players were harassing the ref. 

As for Nicky Cadden, he was very lucky to stay on the pitch, but in reality wasn't even yellow carded. He put in a late tackle on SOD (worse than Sparrow's yellow card tackle) and was warned by the ref. Then as you say, he went head to head with SOD, lifted his hands and pushed him aggressively in the chest (not merely pushing him away).  Still no yellow card.  After that he put in another bookable late tackle and wasn't even warned.   

Agreed: so  this must be  down to incompetence or something worse, surely? The usual get-out is  for referees being "psychologically influenced" by a large  crowd but this could hardly have  applied at FP yesterday, given the lesser size of the Hibs support.

When I think of our two dubious sendings off against the Mutton Molesters in the cup with your litany of Cadden's offences I'm beginning to smell a rat 🧐.

It seems VAR deliberations now  are a kind of  Easter-like moveable feast, where an excuse can always be found to support a inconsistent application of the laws when it suits.

And yes, taking spontaneity out of the game is actually a disincentive for spectators to come to see what is supposed to be entertainment, despite all our club's best efforts this season.

All in all, it's somewhat disappointing 👹👹👹👹👹👹..........

[Happy Dosser]

@Kmcalpin: FTS it's time you were King of Scots again ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊. Might have a chance of the title.

[Kmcalpin]

42 minutes ago, Happy Dosser said:

@Kmcalpin: FTS it's time you were King of Scots again ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊. Might have a chance of the title.

Not me! My lowly ancestors came across the Channel with William the Conquerer!