Barney Rubble

Hatate should be sanctioned for that piece of nonsense, without question. But come back and speak to us once Jacques Cousteau's team locate the depths that Fabio Silva plummeted to last Sunday. You really are a hun in thin disguise Logan Roy.

Clear cut penalties for Rangers - or anyone else - aren't worthy of scrutiny though. Because by definition they are clearly penalties. How many of the Rangers 14 this season have genuinely fallen into the clear cut category? Genuine question? Today's was laughable - there is no way that even gets a VAR check outside of Glasgow.

Except it isn't. No-one bats an eyelid at that challenge in the middle of the park in any game anywhere in the world this weekend. The worst thing Beaton did was issue a yellow card for the perceived dive. Had he pointed for a goal-kick without the card, then this discussion wouldn't be happening. For the record, Beaton was the ref at Firhill last weekend @ Jags v Fake Jags, which I attended. He booked ICT's Kerr for a perceived dive which was rescinded on appeal following a later second yellow that saw him red-carded. I'll let you draw your own conclusion.

You're having a laugh?? Everyone of us on here has played 5-a-sides. 7-a-sides, amateur football to a decent standard, and maybe even some at a higher level than that. If every physical contact in a game was judged to the standard of that penalty award, then every physical contact in the game would be a free-kick. That would never have constituted a foul in the middle of the park, and it certainly wasn't a foul or anything close to the legal description at the Copland Road end either. Beaton shat it after being called to the monitor, that much is clear.

Apologies for the selective quoting, however the bolded part is exactly why friendlies should not be part of any match packages. From the membership's perspective, their inclusion is not only sharp practice by the SFA, it is morally indefensible as a means of artificially boosting sales for fixtures that would otherwise be unattractive for many to attend purely for distance reasons alone, especially on midweek evenings. Match packages should consist of competitive fixtures only. Anything else is taking advantage of members' loyalty.

Is the current version of Nathan Patterson - as witnessed last night - worth persisting with? Barring catastrophic injuries to Coleman and Godfrey, he won't be seeing Everton's first team again this season. His inclusion in the Euro 24 squad is therefore tenuous at best. In the absence of first team action to improve his sharpness, how can his inclusion even be considered?

One annoying inconvenience - at the North Stand entrances at least - is that a phone has to be removed from a protective wallet in order to place it inside the scanner reading mechanism. Granted, that's hardly the end of the world, but it is a bit tinpot.

Indeed. We really feel for all the staunch who travelled all the way from Belfast for a St Patrick's weekend celebration in Stonehaven and Dens Road................................

This in spades. Not looking forward to the inevitable technological....ehm...hiccups at Hampden on the 26th.

Chose standard postage - pleased to confirm it was delivered in Glasgow an hour ago. No idea why the SFA have chosen to cut it so fine with the whole ticket sale and distribution process for this game.

Fairbairn, I respect you as one of the most balanced posters on this site. However, what would your view of that incident had been if that got given against your own team, or against your son in an amateur game? That's the metric I use when I judge these things. Frankly, I preferred it in the 70s when I was growing up playing the game. You had to assassinate somebody in the box before a ref would give a penalty in those days. That award today was pathetic, but it is indicative of how refereeing standards have been straitjacketed by inflexible rules and procedures that leave no room for interpretation. See last week's series of nonsense decisions at Tynecastle for further evidence.

Sevcopen is so standard procedure nowadays, accepting it'll happen before the game starts makes it easier to process when it eventually comes to pass.

A correction communication issued re the date of the game v Netherlands. I rest my case re communication standards.

There have been way too many 'technical balls ups' this century alone with the SSC for it to be anything other that a lack of robust testing of procedures and systems before launching them to the SSC membership.

The people responsible for administering the SSC are no longer fit for purpose. 38,000 members x £45 = £1.7million Their communications are so full of holes and errors. Even when they do deign to communicate, it is shockingly inept. The SSC membership must demand better that this substandard level of service. The SSC administration promote a service that they manifestly fail to provide.