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Looks like (hopefully) that's a late winner for Hibs which prevents us from losing another Saturday match at Cappielow. I was starting to get slightly concerned.
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I took the "who are shouting the same abuse back" line as putting that section of Partick fans in the same boat. I don't know the full details of the incident, the only versions I've seen didn't have the boy as part of any group looking for trouble. On here is was put across more as a bunch of cowards looking for an easy target. As I said earlier, there's a mix of kids in these groups. Some are just genuinely trying to support their team, others are there for other reasons. I don't think kids going along just to try to support their club should come with a risk of being assaulted.
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Having read the article, I don't find much to disagree with. Particularly this: "I witnessed Thistle, Hamilton, Airdrie, Falkirk fans behaving in a terrible way. It seems to be a social media thing, they all want to look hard." Seems fairly balanced - he doesn't leave Patrick out of the criticism. I don't think he was saying it was akin to the 80s, just that it was an element of something which should have been consigned to history. There's a part of what these kids are doing which is really welcome, and that's coming along to sort their local club. But you'd be kidding yourself if you thought that's what this is about for kids or them. For them, it's a pretext to play the hooligan - and I do think we should be united in our condemnation of that.
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Having watched the highlights, my view on the goal hasn't changed - by the time Broadfoot can even adjust to try to pull him back he's already in the box. He was just too slow even for that. Broadfoot being Broadfoot surely would've gladly made that challenge if he could've adjusted to it in time (we've certainly seen that he's no stranger to the "dark arts"). I also think this is an example of what Broadfoot has faced throughout his time at Morton. Criticisms might be correct, but he gets more focus that any other player. Ballantyne had one job to do in that attack, and that was to stop Chalmers from having an unmarked tap in. He glances over his shoulder and sees the threat, but for whatever reason doesn't cover that threat at the back post. That was every bit as bad.
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Aye, before he knew it he was past him and in the box. And he wasn't the only player outpaced today - it was part of the reason we brought on an extra player at the back.
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With Reynolds fully returning to the squad, I certainly think that's stronger than losing Samuels. King is a different one. He didn't play much, so we're not losing much, but I thought he was good in the limited time he got. I certainly don't think the squad is immediately any weaker. Garrity would've been a loss. We can't afford to lose any goal threats right now. That being said, I'm not against accepting any sort of decent money for a player who has started less than half of our league games this season. Glad he's staying, though - they can return with a better bid in May if they want.
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Great movement by Reynolds for his goal. It's looks so simple, but we'd really lacked that kind of movement in the box up till that point. Perfect ball in from Blues as well after the strong work from Ballantyne.
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Last time we saw King at Cappielow, he had a belter of a sub appearance against Ayr. You could clearly see the talent there (more than we've seen from Lyall). But for whatever reason, Imrie hasn't been able to mould that talent into a player he can rely on. Sometimes that's just on the player himself, sometimes the manager has to take some responsibility.
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Delighted for Blues. Completely deserved.
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Patrick loaning out Diack might be purely financial from their point of view - and a Championship club could be their best bet of covering his wages. We're probably lacking an option like him right now and they've maybe got more pressing issues they want to address in their squad. A move to Airdrie is probably the one that makes the most sense all round though.
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I did have the feeling that this was the case, but my point was about clubs disagreeing with officials - not whether they are right or not. The financial pressure of wanting the match to go ahead is going to cloud judgement on whether it should. I'm pretty sure I can remember Imrie voicing his unhappiness at a postponement in his time with us as well.
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Aye, they didn't used to have an official one, right? I've been confused by that one a few times. I generally don't use twitter - things like this and team lineups is pretty much all I use it for. Hamilton are still in the cup, with a very winnable tie. So if expect a midweek game.
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Airdrie used exactly the same language yesterday. I took it as code for "we think it's fine but the officials might not." There have been a few clubs recently that have been unhappy with call offs from officials. Was it not Dundee or someone who played a full training match on the pitch after a game was called off?
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Did they not literally announced it within the same minute on twitter? I was refreshing both pages and saw it on the Morton page first. Unless they announced it somewhere else a minute or so before.
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Home and away fans being in the same stand only really works for the 100 or so fans either side of the divide. Otherwise there's often no real awareness that the away fans are even there. I've never felt that's it's had any real benefit for the general atmosphere in the ground, either in the 90s or when they revived the idea.