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I wouldn't. I'd be embarrassed if that's what we resorted to to win a game of football.

Scott Fox - cheat or professional............ He is both. He is a professional cheat.

Just said on Sky after checking the rule book the goal should have stood, as after the ball has been touched it does not have to leave the corner quadrent to be in play. You can also see beforehand Draper saying to the linesman he had already touched it, and then saying to Doran that he had already taken it. If the Linesman thought it was wrong he should have flagged at Doran's second touch. Ref and Linesman don't know the rules they are enforcing, crap in it.

Can I just thank all those who contributed to this thread.

In lieu of Scott Fox's antics during the game today, was he just being "professional" in using the keepers protection to his advantage, or was he just pure dead cheating, as that to me appeared to be as bad as Ashley Young's simulation. Reminded me of Steven Presley and his play acting the day we got relegated. How many times did he go down holding his head, so the ref had to stop the game for a head knock. Fox fouled our player 4 times by pulling them over and acting like it was him who was fouled, should have been fouls the other way, and to my mind three penalties, but a better ref would have stopped it first time by awarding a penalty. Will the SFA pull him up for simulation? Will Euan Norris be put down the leagues to ref next week ? I doubt either will happen, but if we were Celtic, there would be such a song and dance about this

Frankly, I have never seen a goalkeeper acting so badly throughout a match in over forty years of watching football. That the referee let it go was surprising, that the player is so lacking in professional self respect is astonishing.

As others have said, I can take a defeat. Last week, you could say nothing other than we were rotten, deserved nothing out of the game and that's exactly what we got. Today was a different story. It was an open game from the off between two sides that played the ball on the deck whenever they could, and with luck, we could have been two goals up in 15 minutes. That's not indicative of a poor performance.However, we weren't up but whichever way you want to look at it Partick never looked threatening until they took a well worked goal. That was it from them in an attacking sense until Dean Brill gave them an unintentional hand. Gary Warren's equaliser should have cued an onslaught and that's exactly what would have happened if Foran's goal had stood, as Partick would have had to come out and chase the game. We would have picked them off as we did Hibs. That brings us to the officials. I've watched some pretty awful displays in my time but very few when you can actually say that refereeing incompetence actually won someone a game. That was one of them. Doran's goal was a lack of knowledge from the officials and at this level that's unacceptable. I don't know what the linesman was thinking; I've heard at least three pseudo explanations and not one makes sense. Ross Draper told him what he was doing and he acknowledged him (a conversation clearly picked up by Sky) and nothing contrary to the rules took place thereafter. It was therefore a perfectly good goal. As if that's not bad enough, Issac Osbourne should have been sent off in the second half, and the referee was going for his card after a lunge at Draper but changed his mind. Why? The decision to disallow Foran's goal was mystifying. Scott Fox, who had behaved "professionally" all afternoon, actually hauled Billy Mckay into the net. If it wasn't a goal, it was penalty. The tin hat for me was Mr. Norris pulling Polwarth back at the end when he was through on goal for a clear scoring chance, to award a free kick for a previous tackle. There are those who will say that the officials can and do have an off day, and that's true. In any other profession if you clearly misapplied the rules, ignored others and didn't even know an important one you'd be fairly lucky to be in a job after it, never mind protected by your employers as Mr. Norris will be despite the fact that his team of officials are the reason we lost that game.

http://caleythistleonline.com/page/index.html/_/reports-2013-14/inverness-ct-v-partick-thistle-report-r1082 Report added to News Page "Inverness were denied at least a share of the points by unheralded incompetency from the match officials, and in full view of a watching TV audience.

Why do we persist in using the term "professional" foul. These fouls are unprofessional fouls. Many of us who work in the health service, teaching, police etc know what being professional is. Part of being professional is behaving with integrity and not circumventing rules or laws for your own self interest. Having cheating behaviour branded as "professional" is really quite offensive. But aside from that, I fail to understand why football's ruling bodies tolerate this. It seems that any remotely 50:50 incident is always given in favour of the defender. Week in week out we see defenders with their arms round forwards, blatant pushes in the back and pulling shirts and the referees simply ignore it. When the forwards do this or it is a bit of a 50:50 incident the foul is always given to the benefit of the defending side. People come to football to see goals. If the officials only applied the laws of the game there would be less cheating, more goals and more people would watch.

As in ice hockey in North America, there surely should be a video judge to rule on controversial incidents. The crowd rarely shows resentment against the decisions of the judges who sit up in their booth to view these incidents which are controversial or debateable. It's a fair and unbiased way of resolving hotly contested goals since there are two or three cameras focused directly on the goal lines etc,

Total cheat. I hope Partick are proud of their cheating goalie. So obvious to the fans but an oblivious referee. Norris is a useless ref - always was, always will be - yellow cards for lots of minor infringements and no red to a major cheat. I hope Fox sleeps easy tonight and smiles - what comes around goes around - Fox's day will come and he wont be smiling then. Booooooo again boooooo

Disgraceful show from him today and how the referee never booked him is beyond me.

cheat, he went down 5 or 6 corners in a row. how he never got booked was beyond me. One time he went down it wasn't even our player that was beside him, it was a partick defender!!

In the real world (not the one inhabited by the officials) it was ICT 3-2. Not just did the linesman appear to not know the rules, it now seems he told three contradictory stories about what happened. In any case if there was a problem he had to flag then, he didn't, nor did he when the goal was scored, nor when the Ref awarded the goal - he put his flag up in response to a comment from a Partick Thistle player, huh what?! Then the one in the second half which was either a goal or a penalty.... Then there was the advantage that was called back the moment there was a clear advantage! :(

we played well i thought and should have had 3 goals but we were robbed by some poor officiating again Euan Norris had a stinker. The winner was just poor but with Brill having had such an excellent season we cant be to harsh he probs was looking to find a way to get forward and took his eye off the ball. The corner incident was apparently draper touched it twice which he didnt on sky but the up shot it was a goal and the second was also a goal if not it is a penalty billy does not make any movement towards the keeper. So gutted it was 3 points for the taking but i thought we played well against a side that reminds me of us from last season and most other seasons very good away from home. People who think this was a given were deluded but I think Watkins deserves to get a game he is very pacey and could be a good weapon. Derby next week we can move on we will lose games but we played well so lets not be to critical

Another game where the opposition were sharper and seemed hungrier for the win. Not a disaster. YET.

Good goal disallowed! Bring back the ref from Luxembourg

Nobody mentioned Stratford. It was a trial watching him.

It's a village in Lancashire, for those who might be a bit concerned by that last post.

Having looked at the teams who have qualified and those who may yet - it's very likely there will be a few players from the SPFL at the World Cup in Brazil. In the 23 man squads. May have missed some but I've 11 names who could be there. Coincidentally, there's a 'keeper, a right back, a left back, a centre forward etc making it possible to create a hypothetically, plausible team: 1. Fraser Forster (England & Celtic) 2. Mikael Lustig (Sweden & Celtic) 3. Emilio Izaguirre (Honduras & Celtic) 4. Arnold Peralta (Honduras & Rangers) 5. Efe Ambrose (Nigeria & Celtic) 6. Rabiu Ibrahim (Nigeria & Kilmarnock) 7. Reuben Gabriel (Nigeria & Kilmarnock) 8. Tom Rogic (Australia & Celtic) 9. Georgios Samaras (Greece & Celtic) 10. Jackson Irvine (Australia & Celtic/Kilmarnock) 11. Rory Fallon (New Zealand & St Johnstone) Two obvious questions arise when looking at those 11 players... (a) Have I too much time on my hands? (b) Why haven't I got a girlfriend?

I'm coming up from South London and have a 100% win record watching Caley live!