WatersideTrueBlues
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He’s hit the nail square on the head there. Numerous dodgy refereeing decisions against us. Not a word said.
I think mainly it's through fear especially after Beaton had to get a police escort and received death threats after refereeing the old firm game that saw our first victory against them in years. Their intimidation has certainly reaped rewards for them.Remember the old saying "these things even out over a season"? Well in Scotland they don't. It's plainly obvious the officials not only have it in for Rangers and treat us differently to the rest, but they clearly favour the scum and turn a blind eye to most indiscretions commited by them and give them every borderline decision going. Whether that's through preference as they support them or fear of the flak that will inevitably come their way if they do their job properly I don't know, but it's plain as day we are not on a level playing field. I wish we could get out of the shit hole that is Scottish football and all its corruption and/or incompetence but we're stuck with it I'm afraid.
See that there lies the problem with me ,they should be playing to same bloody rules across the board and clearly arentIt's spot on but too little too late I fear, I expect us to get a few favourable decisions in the coming weeks and the opposite for them to portray some pretend balance. As many have said the 29th against them should have been the last straw.
I think mainly it's through fear especially after Beaton had to get a police escort and received death threats after refereeing the old firm game that saw our first victory against them in years. Their intimidation has certainly reaped rewards for them.
Of course you do know what will happen. When the league is done & dusted miraculously we will get loads of contentious decisions in our favour. Then the press will say what have we got to complain about.
What’s he writes us 100% correct but the tims will just laugh and say we are paranoid
Hmm, wonder how long it'll last, he'll be on unofficial leave already!A fair and balanced article from a Scottish based Journalist . A rare thing.
I don’t think anyone will disagree with that. Terrible decisions and they weren’t the only ones.Morelos scored a perfectly good goal against Kilmarnock and another against Livingston, both these goals would've killed the opposing teams off but both were wrongly ruled out.
We scored 3 goals at the weekend.He’s spot on. Our inability to kill teams off ultimately will cost us but there is no doubt we get held to a completely different standard.
It's spot on but too little too late I fear, I expect us to get a few favourable decisions in the coming weeks and the opposite for them to portray some pretend balance. As many have said the 29th against them should have been the last straw.
He’s hit the nail square on the head there. Numerous dodgy refereeing decisions against us. Not a word said.
Because he has to balance it to stop it becoming a rant
It’s a newspaper article,not a blog or fanzine
If he done what you suggested in last paragraph he would be slaughtered
Agree 100%, stop the farting about and call it for what it is.We should be announcing that we have been cheated by refs decisions and stop pussy footing about with honest mistakes etc etc etc
It's a start, fair play to him.
Surely in this day and age, the club are keeping video records of the dug shît refereeing we've suffered this season (and more) – how hard would it be to take this to the SFA and ask for improvements.
At the very least I hope this gives Gerrard a bit more licence to talk about the decisions post-match. I understand not wanting to sound like a moaner or be like Lennon, but there's a threshold and surely at some point the damage being done to us via decisions outways the negatives of being known as a moaner.
Great article. The thing that strikes me after reading it though, is that there are so many other incidents he could have mentioned. The article could have been doubled in length!
Surely the threshold was passed some time ago though?
It certainly should have been.
For instance, last week at a Rugby Park. Morelos has a perfectly good goal ruled out. Had it stood, I think we’d have held in for the win and as a result we would still have a definite interest in the title race when factoring in our game in hand and two matches against The Beasts still to come.
As it was, the goal was disallowed and Kilmarnock went up the other end of the park and scored the winner.
Result: title race all but over.
When you think that that will mean no access to Champions League money, however remote we may believe that is, then these ‘errors’ are having a huge impact on the club’s stability, standing and financial health.
I get that we we played extremely poorly and that the manager didn’t want to use the referee as an excuse for the performance, but perhaps we need a rethink on that stance?
By complaining, and complaining every time there’s a howler from the officials, win or lose, only then might it start to give them food for thought before blowing against us.
And only then might these ‘honest mistakes’ start to even themselves out over the course of a season.
That’s the thing about VAR though.
It’s highly unlikely to give you something you haven’t won.
The threshold was passed a long time ago – the Beaton vs Hibs game. Gerrard obviously has different things to consider, different reasons for doing certain things, so his threshold is different.
I totally agree with you, it's costing us points which is costing the club financially and is also costing Gerrard's managerial career – surely we're at the point that this outweighs his concerns about being perceived as a moaner/sour-grapes merchant or giving the refs a hard time? Complaining every time is what we need to do and I do think it would have an impact, but I also fear it's too late.
I wonder how much of this is down to the Referee summit that Gerrard attended last season about the abuse they get, the difficulty of their job and the effect manager's comments have on their life. It really seemed to have an impact on Gerrard and I think that's playing a part in him keeping quiet now... but it's time to start putting himself before the Referees when they're so blatantly shafting us/him.
The apparent push that Alfredo was punished for against Kilmarnock, Griffiths push on the lead up to Celtics 1st goal against Aberdeen can someone explain the difference(apart from the obvious)I’d also like to have seen mention of Morelos’s disallowed goal at Rugby Park. Twice in a matter of days that he and we had perfectly good goals incorrectly chalked off.
We need to try and keep this issue in the public forum. Maybe then referees will pause to think before blowing their whistle against us.