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Water slide

I would agree with that but a couple of dubious bookings relatively early raised a little concern for me and i'm not implying Beaton was doing anything suspect. I don't go for any of the refereeing conspiracy or even persistent bias against one team or another. They're just idiots and at worst perhaps on some level are possibly playing to an audience. Somebody who couldn't make it to be a famous professional footballer and from time to time maybe especially so in high profile games feel an irresistible urge to milk a moment of fame/infamy. But anyway. Following the booking of Ojo on 12 minutes then even more so Katic just 5 minutes later I had real concerns which is what I meant by he didn't do us any favours. And I say even more so regarding Katic since he's a tough nut and a defender who we might expect to get involved in some rough and tumble both at the back and front during corners etc. After that booking there was a spell lasting way into the second half I just couldn't get it out of my mind that we had 2 players on a yellow early and the worst would happen again. We would be the ones to get a red card as has happened so many times before in key games just last season alone. Though I could clearly see we were massively superior to them in every way I was on edge from the 17th minute booking of Katic till the 77th minute when Morelos made it 4-1. At 4-1 I knew it was over even if we did get a red card. In fact even if it had happened at that stage I would still have been expecting them to score more goals. That superior. Having had a look around some opposition forums like hibs and the yahoos the hibs view and the yahoo one for that matter are contradictory. The hibs view is that Beaton screwed them over, as usual, and favoured Rangers big time. As he always does of course. . On top of Beaton screwing them over Heckingbottom is useless and all he had to do was 'have a go' which is apparently exactly what Heckingbottom did even according to Steven Gerrard who commended him for it but their fans didn't notice the 'having a go' Don't you just love that 'have a go' strategy? That's the sheep cry about McInnes too. Barcelona? So what just need to have a go to horse them. But presumably if their team spends a lot of time pinned back while 14 corners are conceded and 34 shots rain in on their goal I suppose they actually might not notice that they are having a go if they can but for much of the time it just wasn't possible. They concede Rangers are better than last season but then contradict themselves by stating but they're still shite and they should still be beating them at Ibrox. A team that finished last season 24 points ahead of them with a GD of +55 to their +12. And the multi million pound upgrade to the team? Gerrard is a donkey, he buys donkeys. Having a go is the answer. Wish we had known that before we spent those multi millions.

S form in Scotland at least when I was growing up meant the signing of a schoolboy say 14 or 15 years old.

Defoe is a top notch multi million pound striker who would have been far out of our range in normal circumstances. His first goal was a perfect example of it. He's just waiting there as the ball comes in to be saved by the goalie and while the defenders are watching it bounce out he's already made the move to put it away with one touch. Second goal, again hanging in the box before the ball arrives one touch and again it's in the net. He's a goal machine.

I might feel differently if the current circumstances were not as they are. Those circumstanced being them going for a 9iar. Even at this early stage it's shaping up to be a close run thing that could by the end even come down to just a point or 2. A point or 2 VAR could give us. Or without it lose us. Leicester just saved a point with such a VAR decision. For us a decision like that could be a title winner far less a match winner.

Some might say it merely reduced them to 11. Beaton unsurprisingly wasn't doing us any favours. I don't consider 2 obvious yellow cards to be doing us a favour.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49223796 I'm pretty sure that's a common opinion from managers who just had a decision go against them which cost them points. Despite the fact all VAR does is highlight whether or not a goal was legitimate. In this case it wasn't. Presumably he would prefer the old days of allowing dodgy/illegitimate goals to stand until that is such a decision results in an illegitimate goal against him that cost him the match. You can't have it both ways and in the case of Rangers I think it would favour us overall. Potentially even the difference between winning or losing the league. It would have favoured us today which could have made the difference on another day when the goals were't flying in so freely.

What's that got to do with Killie 1 Rangers 2?

Have to be in with a shout, any of at least 6 could be top 4. Straight from the outset it looks as if just like Scotland there are only 2 who can occupy the top 2 spots. The next two spots likely to be occupied by any two from Chelsea, Totenham, Arsenal, Utd.

Quite, but you get the gist.

So maybe 30 of the 34 shots at goal came after they went down to 10? Until then their goalie wasn't the difference between them and 5-0 at halftime? I said when he went off this is what they would focus on and here it comes.

And yet for long periods it looked like they were and may as well have been, pinned back into pretty much the same position a park the bus side would be. I lost count of how many times the goalie saved them with not just good but great saves. The goalie was their man of the match.

I think today was an example of how VAR would be beneficial to us despite the fact at the end of the day we didn't need it. But with it we could have been looking at an even more humiliating rout. Anything that can be beneficial to us more often than not has to be good and I believe it would be beneficial more often than not. It could be the difference between dropping points or not.

Sheep discovering what playing Thursday/Sunday does to you if you don't have the squad to cover it. The hibs contingent on their forums thought the fact we played on Thursday gave them an edge. That only applies if the opposition players aren't a number of levels above yours.

Is it further evidence we have turned a corner when it comes to breaking down these park the bus strategies? The options available are just so numerous and that's aside from the Defoe and Morelos options.

We needed this for more reasons than one. We needed the points to maintain full points before they come to Ibrox. On a psychological level we needed an impressive display to match theirs. And just as importantly at least to me we needed to give this lot a humiliating hammering that's been long overdue.

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And hibs are nominally about as good as it gets in the SPL outside the top two. Sheep losing at St Mirren with 6 minutes of the 90 remaining.

Morelos will be worried that Defoe is going to take his top scorer title. That's good, anything to drive him.

All I can say to that is. LOL They're getting the hiding they richly deserve.

What a player. Possibly smallest man on the park and gets in a header.