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7 hours ago, Hiro said:

Meekings is not injured. 

 

7 hours ago, Huisdean said:

Oh yes he is

Oh no he's not.       Sorry it's Panto season 

Fair play to you boys today, thought you got the ball down and tried to play on a really heavy pitch. Would have been easier to lump it up the park. A draw probably a fair result although another couple of minutes and we'd have got a winner! On a final note, Collum made some baffling decisions against both sides, can't believe he's a referee!

 

I thought we played really well yesterday against a good aberdeen side who were (in the second half at least) determined to go all out for the win. In the first half, we played them like a fiddle. Despite the pre-match doom spattered statements, the shape worked really well. Aberdeen's midfield had absolutely no chance of getting past Draper and Wedderburn and by the time they had tried and shipped the ball to Hayes etc., they were mugged time and again by Tremarco and Raven . The only real surprise was that we weren't three up by half time. Don't listen to those who tell you that Aberdeen "bottled it" or didn't play well - they didn't, they were just bettered in the first half. Second half, they were better when they went two  and the workload we had put in showed. By the time Storey was subbed, he was out on his feet. So, pretty natural that we get pushed deeper and there is only one outcome from that. A Gary Warren slip and it's 2-1 and the Collum show starts. He was dreadful to both sides in equal measure yesterday, but the worst of it was that when the crowd got on his back he reacted to it. I can't see any other reason for the penalty in the last minute. Not so much inconsistent as incoherent.

David Raven looked fresh and determined to reclaim his place but Liam Polworth was astonishingly good. I had concerns that he might not make the breakthrough this season that he needed to but was I wrong. He's blossomed under the Hughes passing regime and added passion and dig to that yesterday.

Don't be downhearted, this was a great point.

18 hours ago, RiG said:

Fon Williams required treatment for an injury in the second half which accounted for a lot of that time.

Collum apologist!

It wasn't Collum that decided on 6 mins added time , that's the fourth officials job .

1 hour ago, DALNEIGHCALEY said:

It wasn't Collum that decided on 6 mins added time , that's the fourth officials job .

I'm pretty sure the ref tells the 4th official what to put up. It's the ref that keeps time. 

Some say that a draw, on the balance of play, seems a fair result. 

However this negates the fact that there was a foul by Mcginn just before he scores and their penalty wasn't a penalty. It clearly strikes his midriff. 

If they score 2 fair goals then it's a fair result but that was robbery. And Willie Collum yet again proving how rubbish a ref he is. I don't think there's a fan in the country who thinks him any good. He's a skinny balder Willie young. 

I propose in referee screening processes they bar anyone called Willie from top flight football because they often tend to live up to their name.    

No-one at the game was surprised by the added time as as well as the usual stoppages and time wasting, Fon Williams was down for ages.  Seeing the penalty appeals back, none were penalties, including ours.  Would have been nice to see it out but defending as deeply as we did for half an hour and attempting to run down the clock was always going to be risky.  We invited Aberdeen onto us and were punished.  All in all, pleased with a point though.

Edited December 27, 201510 yr by Renegade

Re the penalties, the one we got was very soft.  Even watching the highlights two or three times, I could not tell if Devine handled for their penalty. Doubt if Collum could really have seen it in real time. Smacks of him 'evening things up' after giving us a soft one.

Difficult to tell on the replays if Draper was fouled or not. There was contact on his legs and he went down. Seen them given against us so meh. Warren gave the first goal away trying dribble out of his own penalty box. Williams header was poor at the Devine penalty. Both goals avoidable, and both costing us more points, however a better point for us than Aberdeen.

I agree with Rene, none looked like pens to me 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Imagine playing in these conditions? Disgraceful ! No wonder Miles was beat when he was subbed. How can any team play at their best and entertain the crowds  in such conditions? By the end the players looked more like rugby participants than SPL figures.

Summer football is a must --for the players and the fans. Attendances would go up also IMHO. Why do the Scottish Football authorities hang on to such outdated  and primitive rites, such as Winter football? Nobody benefits without a major cost, so why?

Their penalty was unmerited. The Caley player could never have avoided  being hit by a very hard shot and the player says he was hit on the shoulder which was what I thought as well when I saw the highlights before I read what he said. Mind you, our penalty was a really soft one also and how it could be construed that our boy was in a scoring position facing away from the goalmouth and almost on the outer edge of the box is mind-blowing.

Strange how you rarely if ever see the ref running to the linesman to seek his opinion? Since they are both wearing headsets then can we assume that a fair assessment has been made on the incident. Mr. Collum kept his whistle in his pants during the cup final and it was a good performance from him but , once again, he still seems to be controversial with the bread-and-butter stuff and this business of levelling up, either to appease the crowd or just because  he feels he may have made a prior mistake, is not a great, or fair,  way to go about his business. He is not the guy to decide the outcome of a match;  that's up to the players  and how they perform and/or react to incidents. If he makes a mistake he should stop there and move on and simply try to do better the next time.

Maybe our next sponsor should be Persil washing powder!

Under the laws of the game there is no such thing as a soft penalty. Quinn bundled into Draper. 

Towards the end of the game Collum gave Aberdeen successive corners. Neither seemed to touch ICT players before going out. Despite two free corners, Aberdeen supporters then chanted 'you don't know what you are doing' which summed up Collum's performance for a lot of the second half. Scotland did not qualify for Euro 2016 but they will have Willie Collum representing the country..............wonder what Jacqueline from Celtic would say to that!!

However, a great performance from the team. Roberts will be like a new signing when he gets back up to speed. Last year 'nil' points from the Dons - this year 4 from 6.

Hamilton away tomorrow is actually a massive game for us. We must not underestimate them. 

 

 

 

 

42 minutes ago, CaleyMax said:

Maybe our next sponsor should be Persil washing powder!

In my day if you ended a match with so much of the shirt colour still visible you would have been criticised for not getting stuck in enough

On 27 December 2015 at 5:17 PM, DALNEIGHCALEY said:

It wasn't Collum that decided on 6 mins added time , that's the fourth officials job .

That's incorrect. It's the referee that decides... the 4th official merely indicates to everyone the referee's decision - http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/refereeing/law_7_the_duration_of_the_match_en_47401.pdf 

2 hours ago, CaleyMax said:

Maybe our next sponsor should be Persil washing powder!

Definitely wrong choice of strip on Sat !!!

That guy needed RINSO,  not Persil.   Ha! Ha!