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What !! No communication about our new Communications man 😁 Maybe taking time to translate it from Gaelic.

VAR is going no-where unless one day it was the financial cost of it that couldn't be supported.

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. Edit Might have years mixed up but points stand. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/referee-admits-blunder-in-ruling-out-aberdeen-goal-813899.html 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.

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

If CFC go to the SFA (as per press headline) without a handball to stand on......can we get to see the correspondence 😁

Oh no it is not......😄

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.

It hit his fcuking hand, get over it but apparently the IFAB rules are in our favour 😁

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.

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.

My contention is that it did hit his hand.

Doctored: might well be but where did you hear that? Enlarged 😁

What is the rule ?

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

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.

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.

The way things transpired with the Hampden farewell sub appearance gave an insight to how our squad management is being conducted.

There are stills going around that show it did hit his hand. The irony is that we were up in arms re. Willie Collum in August (he was on VAR Monday)and now it is tuther side of city that are chasing him. He has gone from being Brother Wilfred (blindness) to a Grandmaster at LOL 1872 in only 4 months. It is a predictable and fairly pathetic circus.

Yes, it did hit his hands and had it happened at the other end, we'd be screaming for a penalty (at least I would). The issue around defensive handballs in the penalty box is that I don't think anyone knows the rules anymore and that officials (onfield & VAR) are inconsistent in their decisions.

If that were the case, our bench was more like a queue to get seen in the treatment room rather than decent options to call upon.

Very much so. Devine should get a run of games at RB and Tav should be told to sort his body out. Lowry is our player, Tillman would take a significant chunk of any transfer budget. Give AL a chance. Sands is just an obvious NO.

In the recent AGM, Ross Wilson said the club only received one bid for Morelos. French or Chinese ?

Sounds about right !! 🤣

There are many contributing factors wrt to size of 'warchest'. Bottomline We haven't spent the budget we have had wisely. Any team can have a bad window. However, when you have several successive failures, you need to heed the signal and look for the causes. One thing I have banged on about is poor squad mgmt. Including the attempt to squeeze value out of our spend by bringing in too many injury prone players.

Morelos had his best spell (all round) at Rangers after the January International break of last year. He returned from Columbia (after zero minutes) like a man inspired and looked the mature, strong and sharp player we had hoped to see develop. Unfortunately, it didn't last for long as he picked up an injury. Gio had him play through it until he broke. At that point of approaching the final year of his contract, he more or less mentally checked out from Ibrox. The faster he is gone, the better.