Goldie03

I wanted Partick to win and come up, cannot be arsed with Ross County and Maryhill for thrills as they say 

Have to be next season now 

15 hours ago, BigAl said:

Awright missus.

Have been to over forty countries but incredibly Italy isn't one of them.

Sounds good and enjoy.

Fergie taking you out for a pizza when in Bologna 

Oh my goodness Italy is fabulous, get it on your list Al

Well apparently the lasagne is the best ever there so we'll see ha 

14 hours ago, Jute said:

Euro Disney with the wife and bairn in October is all got planned at the moment. Week of fun for them and boredom for me. 

 

 

I've already told your better half I'll come to Disneyland Paris and you can go to the European game 

I preferred the format in the 80s when you just came out a hat 

You might be put out your misery tonight Rico but I doubt it!! 

Enjoy Al being stuck in a bar isn't too bad 

I'm going to Florence in June after my youngest daughter's graduation, taking in Pisa & Bologna too 

Jute I really hope you did not stay to the end 

Well that was disappointing and thank fuck the season is over!!

3rd is absolutely awesome when you think of our form from the end of the World Cup to the horrible game at ER!!

5 hours ago, BigAl said:

Sounds like your perfect day 

Absolutely 

Fabulous it is sold out, bit gutted I won't be there!!

Did we not beat Hibs the Saturday after Gothenburg at Pittodrie?? 5-0 if I remember!! 

Hopefully a brilliant atmosphere and plenty goals! 

OOT

Run, walk, bodybalance class

Lunch & wine bar 

Eurovison & lots of fizz 

4 hours ago, wee toon red said:

You're a lucky, lucky man to be old enough to have memories of those years.

I totally agree, sometimes being older has it's perks 

I thought the team spirit was absolutely tremendous today, what a result, and even tho 8 mins injury time with that defence defo did not have the same feeling as last game that we were ever gonna concede!!

That was a fantastic response to Hearts scoring for too many goals yesterday!!  

6 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Also, his post match interview was class. He either gets it or talks like he gets it. Very refreshing.

I've just listened to it and was so impressed with him!!

2 hours ago, wee toon red said:

 

This went way over my head until I read about it elsewhere, but if you google the lyrics to the song Let's Get Down to Business from the movie Mulan...

One of my daughters' favourite films 

Fucking hell  

Quite a few of my Hearts mates saying they hope Naismith does a Barry - I'm like no chance 

Out of the Oscar films this year what did folk think of Everythng Everywhere all at Once?

Not really for me tbh, I saw Tar, The Fablemans, Aftersun, Women Talking, Close and still to watch The Whale and All Quiet on the Western Front 

Working from home and the Filmhouse closing has curtailed my cinema going a little 

I've never seen Pulp Fiction!! 

Up to the players to absolutely show him they can play for a manager!! 

Fucking hell that was some afternoon, dons & Scotland winning yasssss 

13 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

This in every way. Anyone who's ever played football knows what happened. If you're running at full pace and an arm comes towards you from your periphery, you raise your arm instinctively to block or defend yourself. In McRorie's case, he even tries to get it over/round the player too, as you say. There is no malice, no arm where it shouldn't be or any of the other bollocks that people who watch the EPL or pundits will tell you, it was all entirely natural. He wasn't "a bit silly", a "forearm smash", or any of the other cliché'd pish, it was an entirely involuntary action, caused by the defender. An unfortunate collision in a contact sport, in a tenth of a second. Most importantly, it wasn't "out of control", or a well documented situation like jumping for a header with your arms out, McRorie was the player being tackled. It was, without question, a defensive block rather than offensive. That is what the referee, and everyone in the stadium, saw at the time of the incident and why the referee chose to act the way he did. He didn't miss anything, he wasn't confused by what happened, he saw exactly what occurred with his eyes and interpreted it as above like everyone else.

Then VAR intervenes. That's the point where all context is lost. We're now being asked to analyse something completely different. We're now being asked: "does this player make contact with Dunne's face?". The focus is changed, the picture slows, and you're left with a red card. It warps the thought process entirely. All it takes is for the referee to go to VAR without a clear picture of what he saw and how he interpreted it in his mind, and he'll change it. That's why Collum didn't change his mind in that Hun game, because despite what we may think of him, he has the courage of his convictions and he went over to the monitor with the attitude "I gave a yellow card because this is what happened when I watched the incident". Irvine was a weak referee, throughout the game, who would never have had the decency to say to VAR: "well that's not the way it happened in real time". Because the images might be the same, but the context most certainly isn't, and that's the most important thing. It's the equivalent of me making a homophobic comment about the referee quietly to my mate who would understand the satire involved, but having it secretly recorded and played back over Twitter to screams of "ban him for life!" (that didn't happen by the way!). When you remove context from a situation you can make it seem like anything has occurred, it's extremist behaviour, and football is just mirroring society as it scrapes the barrel of surveillance looking for offence.

Excellent post Rico 

"It's a VAR red" was a comment I saw online and that's true - we now look at incidents in an entirely different way - so almost a new set of rules - which if the players understood and were applied consistently in every game might have worked but as it stands lots of eejits behind the cameras!! 

Like the St Mirren 3rd goal, with my naked eye I thought it was over the line and the assistant referee had made a mistake not giving it but then everyone went on and on saying var did not have a camera angle that proved conclusively it was a goal wtf  

Var is sucking the life out of watching football, it is absolute torture and I keep paying to watch Aberdeen ppv wtf!! 

I think we did ok, it was a very hard watch, impossible to play for so long a man down. 

Thought we looked tired then got the penalty and we really should have put fresh legs on then and tried to shore up!

How's everyone feeling today?

I woke up during the night and remembered I had been in the stadium to witness that complete humiliation and stayed to the end wtf!! 

Feel really uncertain as to what happens next, Gunn needs to go and Cormack needs to appoint someone who actually knows how the fuck to run a football club. 

A few really tough games coming up so really important to get the players into the right frame of mind for that. 

Only 2 weeks ago we were still in both cups and 3rd in the league that is unbelievable  

I'm in for this, due to Jute's much better half persuading me it was a good idea on the train back from Hampden 

No beers in the flat tho as still dry January

Have no fucking idea what the score will be, was with Hibs mates at a Burns Supper last night and understandably they were delighted when statement came through 

What a week!!!! 

Oot

Bus home from the office

Cozy on the sofa, nice & warm, great view of the tv 

Start new book

11 nil to the dons, everyone and their granny scoring 

Omg that was torture I don't think I can bear to watch anymore, surely can't be any dons fans left in the ground 

Defending is abysmal!! 

I was at Tynecastle almost a year ago and we have not improved one iota from that game 

Oh wow Shinnie that is fucking magic