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22 minutes ago, JohnMc said:
I don't catch Off The Ball often these days but I caught some of it on Saturday. They'd a couple of ex-refs on and I assume they'd hoped to further fuel the Ange bonfire that Scottish VAR and refereeing was being placed upon. Instead, at least while I was listening, the ex-refs laughed at the ridiculousness of these allegations of bias against the Celtic. One of them, (was his name Conroy?) explained he was a Celtic fan and once got pelters from his pals for chalking off a Celtic 'goal' against us. Both easily explained the 'hand ball' rule and expressed surprise that Ange and co didn't know it. Cosgrove sounded uncomfortable at this breaking out of common sense, Cowan, to his credit, mocked Celtic and their acolytes.
Aye, generally the issue seems more to do with the hand ball rule / interpretation, than it is with VAR.
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1 minute ago, Rousseau said:
The case for Goldson for his consistency over the last two games:
We have the answer to our goalkeeping problem already in the building 😁
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58 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:
There's a strange fascination with his build. He's never been a skinny sort.
Anyway, he came on yesterday and we immediately improved. Not bad for a Sunday League player.
If he were more mobile, I wouldn't have a problem with his build.
He used to be more mobile.
We improved more down to a general increase in urgency and tempo.
The style of Morelos suited our game, more than an ineffective, injured and not matchfit Colak.
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1 minute ago, Gonzo79 said:
He's clearly not at his best and I agree we should be looking to part ways but I think that's a bit OTT.
You see a lot of players with his current build and mobility in non league football.
Probably in the Scottish lower leagues as well.
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1 hour ago, CammyF said:
Apologies - said I don't think Colak fits Beales style. I like Colak but can't see him fitting in.
Agree regarding Alfie but he just seems a bit "off it". Hopefully as he gets more games he'll get fitter and better
Morelos checked out long ago and needs shifted.
He looks like a decent Sunday Pub League player who has won a competition to be centre forward for Rangers.
If we could at least free up his wage, we could look to bring in a replacement because we can't go with only Colak and Roofe, for obvious reasons.
We are starting games badly and whilst we have been able to come back from behind and win against diddy clubs (Hibs and Aberdeen), we couldn't eek out the win against better opposition.
Beale has made a positive difference but this team would still suffer heavy defeats if they had midweek CL games to contend with.
A work-in-progress that needs two stellar transfer windows, but with limited funds.
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Dundee Utd 1 Rangers 2
Colak
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2 hours ago, 26th of foot said:
Sheriff Lyndsay Wood(Rangers shareholder) had a complaint against him withdrawn by the Law Society due to lack of evidence.
According to Scottish Legal News, it was ...due to the complainer’s lack of confidence in the judiciary’s ability to deal with the complaint properly.
David Grier, 61, had lodged a complaint against Sheriff Lindsay Wood with the Judicial Office in May. The sheriff was accused of a “glaring judicial conflict of interest”
A decade on, I laughed at the irony of David Grier accusing someone of a conflict of interest. If I had known then, this is how things would turn out for him (and others similar too him), I would have cried.
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22 minutes ago, Bluedell said:
Davie Edgar says the communications role has been split in 2, and the new roles are at a less senior position. Morrison is in charge of the non-football playing side.
I'm confident that we will manage to fcuk it up.
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2 hours ago, BEARGER said:
Alasdair Morrison ex Labour MSP is the new Head of Corporate Affairs, been in job a couple of weeks I believe. Why no announcement from club? Or did I miss it?
What !! No communication about our new Communications man 😁
Maybe taking time to translate it from Gaelic.
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20 minutes ago, CammyF said:
Celtic don't want VAR in Scottish Football (and never have).
From the 1st VAR game involving them (Hearts away), their patsies in the press have slagged and ridiculed VAR and officials. Now that there is sufficient noise around, this is the beginning of Celtics play to have VAR scrapped.
Liewell back in the fold, just in time to drum up support from other clubs and before you know it, VAR will consigned to the bin.
VAR is going no-where unless one day it was the financial cost of it that couldn't be supported.
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2 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:
If they're having a meeting about rules and how the refs apply them, other clubs will have to be represented too?
We and the press give their paranoia too much coverage. All it really warrants is a wee chuckle and a swift telling off.
Partly it will be to appease their support.
Partly to make a noise and influence refs.
I recall, when the combative war criminal John Reid was their hands-on chairman, they sent a video to the SFA regards decisions they were unhappy about. I think it may have been in Feburary 2010 when we were winning the league under Walter Smith.....Under the surface the crowds at Parkheid were significantly down and they decided on Mission Conflict to get the support onside. The extension of that was the springtime appointment of Neil Lennon.
Followed by a summer tour of various supporters clubs by Lennon and Lawwell, where they told the hordes that conflict would be stepped up if they didn't get their way.......Later in the same year there was DougieGate. Full blown warfare, rallying the hordes. Crowds increased significantly.
They completely forgot to mention bad decisions that benefitted them in a previous season that they had won the league. It was one after another, I recall an late Aberdeen equaliser at the Midden being ruled out for nothing and an opening goal for them against Falkirk (IIRC) punched into the net, etc. etc.
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Might have years mixed up but points stand.
The referee Iain Brines has admitted he wrongly disallowed the goal that could have finished Celtic's title challenge.
Brines penalised Aberdeen's Zander Diamond for handball seconds before the defender fired the ball into the top corner of the net for what he thought was a last-gasp equaliser at Celtic Park on Saturday. Instead Celtic moved top of the Scottish Premier League with a 1-0 victory.
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41 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:
Dont think Wilson was here when that came in so possible he wouldn't reference it
No, he wasn't but the wording in the AGM doesn't suggest it relevant.
Another thing re. AGM's
In 2019, DK said he'd been given numbers by Ross Wilson wrt squad value, current and projected.
In 2022, RW distances himself from them.
Relevant excerpts
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If CFC go to the SFA (as per press headline) without a handball to stand on......can we get to see the correspondence 😁
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1 minute ago, Uilleam said:
It's still moot.
The situation is similar to an appeal by a fielder for a boot sole level catch at cricket.
Oh no it is not......😄
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8 minutes ago, craig said:
It was Lille, their Chairman confirmed it on Talksport.
So the Chinese bid that our then board went to the trouble of trying to authenticate was bullshit?
Maybe it was a sideways dig at DK.
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1 minute ago, Uilleam said:
Well, it's grainy, and is taken from an unidentified source, and enlarged.
Not worth consideration.
It hit his fcuking hand, get over it but apparently the IFAB rules are in our favour 😁
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10 minutes ago, buster. said:
My contention is that it did hit his hand.
So no penalty (along with 49,000 others, would still have been screaming for one had it been at other end).... But it did hit his hand.
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Just now, Gonzo79 said:
The handball rule did swing far too much into them all being given and now has come back to a more common sense approach, where the referee/VAR can make a decision on a case-by-case basis.
If you get a shot blasted at your face from a couple yards, then it's instinctive to raise your arms to protect yourself.
I prefer the current approach.
Yes, it is similar to blowing up for every contact (football generally) to now allowing play to flow more.
And as you say, the inconsistency has brought confusion.
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1 minute ago, ranger_syntax said:
Didn't think to check first?
My contention is that it did hit his hand.
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8 minutes ago, Uilleam said:
Still not definitive,
especially as this image has been doctored/enlarged.
Doctored: might well be but where did you hear that?
Enlarged 😁
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1 minute ago, craig said:
You could scream about it all you like, and you would be wrong to do so. The rules on the penalty incident are very clear. It was NOT a penalty. Beaton and the VAR got it absolutely spot on.
What is the rule ?
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13 minutes ago, Uilleam said:
There are too many problems with depth of field, and angle of the shot for the photograph to be definitive. It's a 2 dimensional representation of 3 dimensional situation.
Face on shows it on the same line from boot to goal as where CG's hand is.
It hit his hand, admit it.
Doesn't make any difference to what has gone.
Can't complain when they invent things, if we do the same. But I guess that is football for you. Will never change
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8 minutes ago, Devil's advocaat said:
Stills are completely unreliable in such situations, has been proven before.
In this case, if they show the ball in contact with a hand, ie. touching. Then they are relevant to the conversation.
However, the conversation is academic because there was no penalty and however much they scream, it won't change.
IMO, a penalty being awarded at that point in the game would have actually favoured us. It would have given us more time to go for the win and make the appropriate subs.
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26 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:
Its probably not coincidence McGregor renewed a day after Sam Johnston who we were heavily linked with signed for Palace on a free.
If the potential connection you are pointing towards is true, then it suggests a financial restraint.
ie. We couldn't find an alternative that was on a free and good enough.
Given finances and UEFA rules, what @ascendersays about using McCrorie to find out if he is up to it sounds a good idea.
If squad mgmt is joined up then his contract extension was a prelude to a probable opportunity.
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The Winter 2022/23 Rangers Transfer Window Rumours and Deals - Thread
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I tend to agree.
However, there is an element of backing your manager's judgement.
Cost wise, the agents of TD and NC have a good negotiating base (initial pressure on club to give new manager what he has gone public about) and the salaries would likely be relatively high.