06 Feb 2020 13:41:52
I think all this paranoia re refs is OTT. They are just horrific at their "job". One game they can be in our favour the next they are against us. If we do our business as we can then the refs won't matter!


1.) 06 Feb 2020
06 Feb 2020 14:05:08
Kri55 I used to think the same as you mate but its not evening itself out this year.


2.) 06 Feb 2020
06 Feb 2020 14:17:51
Id love to think the same however they have gotten into the minds of the referees. Since the abuse of John Beaton referees around scotland have become terrfied to give us anything. Its much easier for them to give any 50/ 50 decisions against us then subsequently apologise after the game than it is for them to risk ridicule and a media onslaught. That on top of the fact that a select few are truely incompetent.


3.) 06 Feb 2020
06 Feb 2020 15:18:32
Totally agree been saying this for months dunloy that the referees are terrified to give 50/ 50 decision in our favour as every decision that is given in our favour is scrutinised from every single camera angle. It used tobe every few games you would get a horrendous decision give for or against your team. This season it just seems to be nearly every game that there is at least a couple
of horrendous decisions are going against our club. We have been lucky that on most occasions these decisions haven't impacted us and we have went on to win these individual games, which imo have let the refs off of the hook. However as in the cup final these horrendous decisions can cause us silverware and if something isn't said or done they could cost us the league.

It just seems tobe, that there is no consequences for Referees clancys last performance in the recent old firm game was one of the worst refereeing performances I've have every witness, yet the following week he was refereeing another top flight game. We won that game and with the dims media influence, they managed to turn the focus onto Alfie's and Kenticals celebrations and sending off, thus letting the ref off of the hook again.

It's about time that our club drafted up the same letter that the dims used in seeking clarification and highlighting certain decisions and what the consequences are for these referees making these decisions.

I want to be clear with this post that I certainly don't want to go down the para route and certainly don't think that these referees performances, are as a result of them being pro Celtic or that they are bias. However the pressure that has been influenced on these individual referees from a certain Glasgow club both as a club and its fans imo is having an influence in their decision making.


4.) 06 Feb 2020
06 Feb 2020 15:48:49
Apparently the BBC stats have Madden giving more free kicks to hibs than us last night, a lot of the hibs fouls were assaults, that last one by Stevenson on Alfie was outrageous, and would have been a foul on a rugby pitch, but what does madden do - nothing, and the linesman less than 10yards away didn't even raise his flag?!


5.) 06 Feb 2020
06 Feb 2020 18:21:58
For what it's worth I have read Morton fans online saying he wasn't much better in his match before.


6.) 07 Feb 2020
07 Feb 2020 07:48:53
linesman did raise his flag.