Bill

5 minutes ago, CammyF said:

And right behind Gonzo is Bill, I'd never have guessed....... the worst double act since Cannon & Ball 😀

Sorry but what does this have to do with you? I made no reference to you or anything you posted.

It will come as a shock but not everything has to be about you. 

Seriously, your rudeness and aggression are getting out of control.

How about winding your neck in for a spell. Go for a walk, try to calm down.

12 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Like a dug wi' a bone.

🙄

The purpose of continual repetition is to reassure a dubious proposition.

7 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

I didn't watch the Hertz triumph, but saw a few passages of play, in passing, and  'highlights' on line. 

It is clear that the referee, Don Robertson, is a sellik-minded piece of filth. When play gives him a decision to make he makes it in their favour.

 

The 'penalty' he awarded, which, fortunately one of their goons missed, was a ridiculous decision. It was not a spot kick. Assuming fair brokerage, it was inexplicable. 

I don't think that it even qualifies as an 'honest mistake', frankly. 

 

He saw an other sellik goon kick a Hertz man on the head, a reckless, and dangerous piece of play, and penalised it with a yellow card. He is asked by VAR to review the offence, and is embarrassed into giving a red. 

 

He ignored a penalty to Hertz, and had to be asked to review the foul, and  hand ball, by VAR. Only then did he award the spot kick. 

 

3 decisions in 40 minutes, all wrong, and all to the yahoos advantage. 

 

If these were mistakes, he should not be refereeing at SPL level. If they were attempts to influence the game in his team's favour, he should not be refereeing at all. 

In a Venn diagram of Scottish referees Don Robertson would appear in the section labelled Conscious Cheats.

Tinkering suggests making changes unnecessarily and just for the sake of it. I don't see any of that and it's rather unfair on the manager to suggest he's guilty of such a luxury.

We've had a constant stream of injuries that have forced changes and a similar stream of players returning from injury whose game time needs to be carefully managed. We've also had new players join the squad. All of these things have dictated the need for the changes we see.

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

I certainly took some stick for my defence of Lammers... 👀 

Yes but rightly so. It was weird. 😉 

2 hours ago, compo said:

Until he got injured and McCausland looked as if he was up for it .

The rest were poor 

That's a fair observation @compo. I remember thinking McCausland had finally turned up again and was having a fine game when he was struck down.

2 minutes ago, weebluedevil said:

And we thank you, it didn't go unnoticed. 

Or un-smelled

For some reason the world seemed a little more flat and grey this morning. It got worse finding @CammyF was still giving it the full demented "everyone else is an idiot" pitch. Can't we just give him the King Of Everything gold medal and have done with it?

Out of a relatively a poor choice I've gone for Yilmaz again.

Disappointing. Come on Hearts. 

29 minutes ago, Malangsob said:

No...no I'm not..

 

If you look at his career...he is hot or cold. 

 

And every fanbase said it before he got to Glasgow. 

 

The Dutch, the Iti's. I watched those interviews too. 

 

Those cats said the same thing..."be patient...it takes time...he is hot and cold"

 

But don't worry Bill...I got your back homie...I will remind you when he starts petering out  

I hope you'll do the same for every player who hits a trough for a spell. Or do only some players get the special label?

4 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Let’s hope MacAusland has a better game today. Otherwise we’re going to be playing with 10 men

Let's hope he has a better game today because, if he does, we'll be a better team for it.

1 minute ago, Malangsob said:

What I'm sayin is that they do not look at the entire picture, because they run on FANatical emotion and not logic.

In Dessers case, a team cannot consistently rely on his type of player as he is, and has always been a streak player.

Streak players are an addendum not a stalwart.

My advice, pray for the streak to continue and sell in off season.

Cause guess what's gonna probably happen startin campaign '24-'25? 

You're just doing what you accuse 'lesser' fans of doing - reacting to what you think you see and forming a dialogue around it to justify what is in the end just a personal opinion. God save us mere mortals from the grand superiority of big picture types.

That's a comforting line up but most importantly, if Dujon Sterling starts then all will be well. If he plays on the left he'll tick another positional box. Is there anything he can't do?

7 minutes ago, Malangsob said:

Fanatic myopia.

 

FANaticS rarely see the big pictures.

 

They are grasshoppers. Dessers is a streak guy, on a streak. Always has been, always will be. 

 

When he is not on one, they will not remember when he was. 

 

Such is life. 

 

If you're saying that fans react to what they see then perhaps they're the only ones with good eyesight.

The alternative, surely, is to react to what you don't see and that's usually called fantasy. Y'know, where smartarses live.

It's ridiculous how Cyriel Dessers has turned around his fortunes in a Rangers shirt. He hardly knew what to do with a football when he arrived and was rightly criticised as a poor acquisition. Six months later and most fans are disgruntled if he isn't in the starting line up. That's a story to be proud of and you can see it in his whole demeanour at the moment, the relief at being accepted and a part of the story this season. Nice one Cyriel.

4 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

McCausland is a young winger.  Young players tend to be a bit enigmatic, as do wingers, so I think we should give him a bit of a break. 

Two weeks?

Who's currently unavailable? Cantwell, Sima, Cortes, Dowell, Matondo, Danilo ...... who have I missed?

2 hours ago, CammyF said:

A fine description of the current refeeing situation in Scotland. 

 

I do wonder if anyone else had called you yahooesque that your response would have been so affectionate 😉

 

If Gonzo was to call someone yahooesque whilst sitting amongst Bears at Ibrox, or an away ground for slating a refs decision or performance, I'd bet he'd get a more robust response 😀

Sometimes you just exceed expectations.

3 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

You've already explained that yourself above.  The suffix means it resembles something, not that it is that thing.  

When someone is statuesque, it means they're like a statue. It doesn't mean they're an actual statue.

I'm unsure what's confusing you about it.  

I stand by it.  The constant whining about referees is yahooesque.  

I find what you said perfectly acceptable. It's a reasonable viewpoint and one you've justified effectively and at length. 

For myself, I'm sure somewhere is a record of me complaining about referees but in general I seldom do so now in individual games. No doubt Rousseau will be burrowing into the archive to find it. I have merely arrived at a settled opinion that officials cheat, insomuch as they take decisions they know to be incorrect. Some of them clearly (imo) know their crime as they commit it while others would know on reviewing their performance that they took decisions that cannot possibly be justified or put down to simply incompetence. Either way, officials are taking decisions in relation to Rangers that are grossly and knowingly incorrect and which, whether deliberate or subliminal, are too frequent and too consistent to be mere chance errors.

We  know this to be true. The frustration is that the system is set up to provide deniability so that both cheating and incompetence are protected in equal measure. It's a cheaters paradise and no one can either prove or disprove anything. Ergo, it's a shambles.

If it was merely incompetence it would have been rectified years ago. It's clearly cheating and no one will convince me otherwise - it continues because the footballing officialdom in Scotland is organised to allow it to be deniable. 

8 minutes ago, Fa1833 said:

Yes , I 100% agree with that I think they  lost their sense of identity when Mcinnes left. 

The job McInnes did at Aberdeen looks better with every week that passes.

36 minutes ago, Fa1833 said:

How do use think Warnock is getting on ? All things considered not been really watching Aberdeen play just been noticing the losses 🤣

He's been handed a sow's ear and asked to make a silk purse. Probably wouldn't matter who got the job, the players clearly don't want to listen.