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The fact that yahoos are even questioning the penalty we got demonstrates just how utterly paranoid they are. It was a stonewall penalty.

I've been a bit disappointed with Butland recently. Possible he is suffering from not making the England squad but he needs to do better if he wants to make that level. He did have a couple of cracking saves yesterday but was dodgy a few times. As for Tav and Goldson, I have never subscribed to the serial losers mantra but yesterday was a different level. They are the 2 guys who should have been leading the charge for the league title and they were woefully inadequate. Time for a change.

Whether or not it was a foul by Lawrence on iwata I think is debatable. He cuts across the front of Lawrence & looking to go down. Beaton has a perfect view of the incident 5yards away & plays on what I would say if the same thing happened to us at Celtic park(Rangers player fouled) & one of the gang of 4 refereeing( Collum, Clancy, Robertson or Walsh) then the goal would stand

I'm not convinced about that. He looks far better in the midfield or even playing right wing. He can certainly cover but I wouldn't want him as our first choice right back for next season.

These big games leave no hiding place. Yet again our defence is prone to huge lapses in concentration, mistakes and generally look awful. Goldson has long been a concern for me, and I know I am in the minority but he has had one really good season and 5/6 poor ones. What on earth was he doing at their penalty? He is a complete and total liability and is our top earner at £38K pw. He simply has to be offloaded or we will continue to struggle when attacked. We need two new left backs as Borna is done and Yilmaz is unreliable, yet another big game he isn't available for shows a brittleness we cant afford. If the rumoured fee of £6M from Saudi for Tav is correct, we have to accept this. His defending has come a long way but yet again in a big game he makes a howler that costs a goal. I am a huge fan for what he brings going forward and we will not replace him like for like but I think now would be the time for change. Butland had a great chance to prove himself on this big stage in front of the England manager and has done dreadfully for all goals. His antics at penalties is not working, stand up and wait to the striker commits, he has been beaten too often down the middle. Less said about 1st and 3rd goals the better and while generally he has done a good job but you have to do it in OF games to become a hero. That leaves one CH position which is currently Souttar, a whole-hearted proper defender but not quite the quality to be a regular starter and quite injury-prone up until recently. Alternatives are Balogun and Davies who are both not the answer. In the last 2 windows we have concentrated on the middle to front positions mainly, this summer it has to be the defence.

FWIW I thought the VAR team got all 3 decisions correct yesterday.

Anyone who threw a coin is a fuckwit, but it shouldn't give Kennedy the right to physically attack Alex Rae at the end of the game.

I'm of the opinion that it's wingers / forwards that is the most pressing priority in the summer.

Watch the highlights (5mins in)- he has two attempts to tackle / clear the ball and fails both times. Then Butland let's the ball squirm under him. Both equally at fault.

SPFL Highlights of the game. Never saw the first goal before that and wonder how the ball ended up where it did. Tav hammered the ball at Maeda and it made a bee-line in the corner. Never seen somesuch ever before. If you watch the following sequences, our captain was all over the place. Not that most of our other defenders were much better. In such circumstances, with 2 DMs (who were equally all over the place) you wonder why we did not switch to 3 at the back. We never saw a slow motion of the first foul on Silva, just ahead of him winning the penalty. Not during the game, not in the highlights. That foul by Lawrence before our VARed goal, Beaton was 3 meters away and deemed it a typical Scottish challenge. Remember when Maeda wrecked Cantwell, and it was neither a penalty, nor a foul, nor VARed. One decision was correct (Lawrence did foul him), the other blatantly not (Maeda clearly wrecked Cantwell). Scottish refereeing consistency at work ...

That’s as maybe but all this pish about the number of passes interceptions throw ins fouls etc go for nowt when a player scored in about thirty seconds the overall stat on that should be defensive fuck up that should be on the stats list 😆

Tough one this week - went for Dessers as thought he gave a good account of himself over the entire 90mins. Don't thinknany other player could say the same.

We started so slowly and the early goal almost killed us off. We had several players that were rank rotten. Full credit to the players in the second half. The draw almost felt like a victory by the end. I still think we can hurt them in the next game but we need to be at it from the off and earlier changes made if required.

While I get the disappointment over todays score (and performance), I simply don't subscribe to the notion that 3 points are a given for Celtic in the next OF game. Granted our record there is shocking but we will be going there with a stronger team than today and will have something massive to play for and hold onto. The pressure will be all on them. And of course this is all based on the premise that both teams will win all of the other games. Looking at how poor both teams were today, I simply cannot see that happening.

Didn’t take long on Sunday for the back line to fall apart think it was around thirty seconds so who’s the weakest link who has to go or are you like me and get rid of the lot of them might be hard on the goal machine Tav but heads have to roll we can’t go on giving away silly goals .

It was a goal Var can only be used for fouls in the current phase of play. Two Celtic defenders had played the ball before Dessers scores. The ‘foul’ was committed in an earlier phase of play var can only return to previous phases for red cards, violent conduct & mistake identity I believe.

Souttar will do for now. He may become better with a more reliable partner.

He constantly went back the way in the first half. We really suffered from having a right footed player at left back. Possibly not his fault but he wasn't particularly good in the first half, but a big improvement in the second.

And yet the ruling bodies somehow haven’t got round to City and Chelsea easy to hit the toffees so why the dawdling with the bigger clubs .

The 2nd yellow for Johnston is debatable - ref watch on SKY mentioned it and the agreement was a penalty was the correct decision as was the "non-card".

Our defender's are probably out in front in this category

Tom English must've been availing himself of the literary fruits of the drug addled imagination of Philip K Dick recently. Apparently, Precrime and the projection thereof, is a welcome byproduct of these hateful, orwellian times in which we live. Especially when safety in numbers can be comfortably assumed thanks to those taxpayer funded airwaves. Defaming a UK sports media heavyweight, who just happens to be Rangers all-time leading goalscorer and a former club manager, is but a mere trifle in the greater battle for civil obedience and essential mind control. Rugby loving Tom has allegedly since claimed that he 'went too far', stopping short of an actual apology. Apparently, contrition is just a ten letter word? Maybe a legal missive fired up Auntie's farter by Mr McCoist's lawyers might prompt the dismissal of PQ's Chief Sports Reporter? Over to you Ally.

Except for when he gave the ball away leading to their first, or when he was involved in the comedy of errors for their third?

'Errors leading to goals' is also a stat...

But they were also an excellent footballing team.

It has to be a clear and obvious error. Compare and contrast to the handball in the game at Parkhead. I accept that there's an argument that it was that, but it also has to be in the same phase of play, and I'm not convinced it was. I'd have thought a new phase of play starts when the first cross is blocked

Arsenal have two difficult and two-half difficult matches. Neither City nor the Scousers have a game where they will have any trouble. ’Spurs feature in all three programmes. They will be determined to thwart Arsenal whereas though they will want to beat the other two, the same intensity won’t be there. Cockerels kingmakers. Their manager has done well.

Lawrence fouled the yahoo. I was surprised Beaton let it go but I think it was the correct decision in the end.

I think they go back to it because the end result was a goal, even if the referee did see it. I'll wait for Dermot at 11:00 before speculating, though.

The ref clearly saw it so was it an obvious error? I don't think it was. I also don't believe it was in the same phase of play, based on the way that the EPL is reffed, but I'm not clued up about the exact rules on that.

Gave it to Matondo for the best moment of the match.

Lammars got a double today in a 3-2 away win for Utrecht.

100% made me pop a few blood vessels passing straight from the back 🤣 , I thought we were a shambles first half didn’t look at home whatsoever, whatever the 👨‍🦲 one said at half time worked to a certain extent.

Definitely a tinge of disappointment tonight. Long way to go. Win every game and avoid defeat at Parkhead then we will win it - glass half full loyal

We've still to play them once 😉 Optimist loyal

Stats go for nothing it’s goals that win games

I agree, he's the only outfield player who I thought tried to put a foot in and win his duels.

Never ever seen them make a dirty tackle but probably wouldn’t last five minutes now with VAR two hard but clean players.