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Not simply and solely because of preventing bad decisions costing us. Given financial disparities, we should be comfortably winning against provincial Scottish sides, period. We seem to have went head long into Victimhood after Saturday, when our main problems are very much in house. Collum made ONE glaring mistake (Lundstram red card) I think we could have went on and won with 10, but we'll never know. When it went to 9, we were holed beneath the water line and it WASN'T Collum's fault.

It'll be more interesting to see what the ref says when we appeal it.

I think you refer to John Beaton, not Clancy.

You said you have never seen him referee a game not involving Rangers so I would imagine it difficult for you to make such comparisons. Scottish referees regularly get things wrong. It is not just Scottish footballers who have went downhill over the past decades. If you want to say he is a cheat, get off the fence and just come out with it. The only referee who gives me bad vibes is Clancy.

I said, he has a particular style and it isn't aimed at any particular team. The first real controversy I can remember involving Collum and a Rangers match was when the darkside went apoplectic with rage and he was accused of awarding us a penalty (foul on Broadfoot) without seeing it (ie. he was looking other way). It was amusing. I am sure every side in the top flight will have their own list.

You, along with many over-egg the pudding, IMO. There is ONE glaring mistake/inconsistency, the Lundstram red. There are other tight calls that are up for debate.

Collum has a particular style but it isn't exclusive to any particular team.

I don't disagree with much in your post (except on Morelos sending off). My point had been simply that Collum wasn't cheating per se.

Very difficult to source the best version of Morelos, even when he is here. He won't command a really big fee whenever he goes.

Depends on who you replace him with. This idea that we are going to get a huge fee for Morelos is fanciful.

Call me a drama queen but if there is a big contract offer on the table for Morelos, I'd remove it and try and shift him before the end of the month.

To expand on problems. - Lack of intensity - Lack of physicality - Lack of chance creation - Lack of imagination - Lack of penetration - Lack of defensive coordination

He gave us the benefit of the doubt on penalty decisions at both ends in the first half. Strange that, if he has it in for us. Naw, Collum is a particular type of ref, but he isn't a cheat. Our problems lie closer to home and domestically, I can see something similar to last season, only worse.

Gio has more important stuff to sort out. We need to be winning against provincial teams in a way that makes officials incidental.

Morelos peaked at Ibrox after coming back from an international break in January this year...for about a month before he had to start playing through an injury. He was playing with a level of touch that was real class and a maturity/responsibility. He looked like the player we all hoped he'd develop into. Had he continued in that vein, I think we win the Europa League. It would have been a fitting way for him to go all the way in a competition he has done so well in for several years. The injury was one of those unfortunate things that football can throw in your face. Now, he seems to have forgotten about the maturity/responsibility and has reset back to the beginning.

Good place to stop criticism in its tracks would be to go through on Wednesday. Can't say I'm confident but we've being doing the Jeykll and Hyde with Europe/Domestic for years now, so you never know.

You can't slap opposition players on the head. It is a fairly basic rule.

Said a few weeks ago that this squad isn't going to do as much as we are going to need this season.

Lundstram wasn't a red, but the Morelos slap to the heid is. A stupid, absolutely unnecessary gesture that was compounded (re.annoyance levels) by his reaction.

And there begins again, the ability to snatch a draw from a winning position. Morelos back to old habits cost us more than anything IMO

Rest for Tillman. Interesting to see both Kent and Matondo start. Have to start showing we can defend a cross ball or it will be a long season.

My point stands, regardless. Two injury prone centre halves in a squad is not a good idea. As for idea of replacing Goldson before he has gone. How many games did they envisage a Souttar/Helander central defence play ?

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On its own, the Souttar signing looks fine. Add it to the now worse situation of Helander and IMO, it is too much of a risk. We can't depend on the indestructibility of Goldson. Up front, we signed Roofe knowing of his injury history but got a good player for a relatively small fee. Always a risk but we had Morelos, who like Goldson, never got injured, until he did. At this point you have to ask the injury prone player (Roofe) for more minutes. What happens next is predictable, injury for Roofe and no decent forward option for business end of season.

Trying to squeeze value out of signings is all very well but recruiting an injury prone Souttar when we already had an injury prone Helander was always liable to lead to this type of situation. That isn't recactionary, I said it when Souttar signed. Then to just make sure we made it doubly difficult for ourselves, we change to a zonal marking system as CL qualifiers come around.