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Only folk bothered by this are on here it seems. Didn't even get mentioned by the pundits on sportscene! For goodness sake move on.

You don't raise your hands. Every player knows this. It's that simple. You don't give a ref an easy excuse to send you off. And hitting someone in the face is the daftest thing to do. His own fault. Our player perhaps didn't cover himself in glory. He's probably not thought about it. Other than I've been hit, I should go down. He's young and I'm sure Yogi will remind him it's not really appreciated in Scotland. It's nothing to really worry about or discuss. We're missing the real Storey of the night in that we were Miles better than we've been of late and won the game well. Looking forward to the next game now and I think the players will be too. Great!

Some people need to get over themselves. It's over, justice was done and we won the game. The way some people are going on, you'd think it was Sho-Silva that through the punch. Time to stop this foaming at the mouth and get over it. I'm cringing reading some of the comments here!

responses from survey 1 Aviemore 3 C J T 4 Always travel with CJT if there is a bus 6 Perth bus station 9 I am happy with way buses are run at the moment. The only thing I would change would be not to get to ground two hours early. one hour is fine.

Might even be worth contacting some friendlier faces OTB to see how they run their buses, prices, stops etc. See if anything could be learnt from their approach.

Hold on a minute, I think we won the game.

'No Sho-Silva without punch'

Well actually.....

Alexander's reaction was interesting and shines a light on the Sho-Silva incident. He clearly saw the incident at very close hand and publicly b@ll@cked his own player, at the same time trying to pick Sho-Silva up. Alexander obviously felt Oshinawa was the villain of the piece. It was a clear red card IMO (but only after seeing the slow-mo) but Sho-Silva should not have gone to ground, irrespective of whether the red card would not have been waved if he had stayed on his feet. It was simply wrong and hopefully that is explained to him by our best professionals and it doesn't happen again - he's a young lad and will be fine with the right guidance.

Hahaha. Great game last night and its resorted to a debate on a player getting punched in the face which was so blatant even Cifti wouldn't have got off with it. I seem to recal Considine pushing over Foran in the box in a League cup final. If Foran was more dramatic at going down and the penalty won the cup, is he a hero or bizzarely enough some kind of vilan in some peoples eyes ( for making the ref more aware of the foul) Barry Wilson was a penalty winning expert with minimal contact but contact all the same. Quite dramatic with arms flailing and an arched back. Dougie Imrie can even trip himself up next to a player. Where were the complaints then. Our new guy seems like a bit of a character and I look forward to seeing him play next (applauding a hearts player for making a boob). It would be funny if he kept collapsing in warm up if a player came near. Give the guy a break and enjoy the win against Hearts.

i have no issue with the lad going down, Hearts player got what was deserved for raising his hands. simples

Can't agree. Yes there was contact and if the ref sees it it's a red card but there was never anything like enough contact to send him down. That was pure gamesmanship. I realise it's part of the modern game but I'd rather not see our players indulge in it. Neither would I but, as seen in the Hamilton game, if other teams do this and con the referee, we need to get much more streetwise.

Thank goodness someone noticed !!!!!!! Has anyone actually spoken to the lad about why he went down? he was quite shocked when it happened and could well have thought to #himself hang on I need a moment, so flopped down to get ready for the incoming corner..........just as plausible as some of the comments........... hung without jury again in some instances. Great win and very well done the new boys.

There's no doubt that the Hearts player deserved to be sent off. It's simply a red card if you aim a punch or even raise your hands aggressively towards another player's face - regardless of how 'successful' said punch was! Even a 'missed punch' is treated the same as a full-blown haymaker, as the intent was there. So, in my mind the ref got it spot on. However, the reaction of Sho-Silva was poor. He exaggerated AND feigned injury. A disgraceful example for kids watching. I'm not going to join the hypocrites who see any opposition players 'going-to-ground' easily to influence the referee as cheats, when ours doing the same are simply being 'streetwise'. In a few months time, there may be an incident in our box, at a corner. where Josh is jostling with a player and for a moment possibly gets hold of his jersey. The striker goes down and gets a penalty, when he clearly could have stayed on his feet, but has dropped as he's aware 'the tug' has gone un-noticed - but needed to get the referee's 'attention'. Cries of 'cheats' on here. There's a bigger picture though than an incident in a bog standard, Friday night Scottish League fixture. The integrity of the game and where it's now going. This 'going down holding the face' culture is ruining football, as is diving - so, instead of condoning him because he happens to temporarily be in an ICT top, grow-a-pair, and criticise this behaviour as unacceptable - it's a cancer on the game. The English FA are trying to clamp down on this crap. Down there, retrospective bans can be now issued to players who've tried to con the ref with simulation or exaggeration. The first 'culprit' is a player from obscure, non-league outfit, Welling United. Ironically, where Sho-Silva's been 'learning' his trade! Don't want to be too harsh on the boy as he's young, but he needs to learn his lesson - I suppose that's part of the reason he's up here - but, Yogi should drop him for the next game, out of principle.

If someone mistimes a punch (assuming they don't miss completely) or a tackle in the box you go down even if you can stay on your feet, that's always been the case for as long as I can remember. It's their problem and the refs not yours.