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rudebhoy

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Difficult enough to win at Parkhead or Ibrox without the sort of incompetent bias displayed by Collum and Co at Ibrox on Saturday.

Handball against Brown as he tried to keep balance, ball flicked onto him by a Rangers player from a yard? Yup - def penalty.

Clark‘s knee on knee clash with Jack…yup 100% straight Red Card for Clark, and let’s not even bother checking VAR monitor though looks like VAR gave it.

Jack sliding out of control lunge taking out Montgomery…Red Card?…Don’t be daft. We’re at Ibrox. Ho hum.

Clark has won his appeal against the red card. So Collum and VAR were wrong, eh? Never mind. It's not as if Rangers playing against 10 men for an hour would have had any effect on the result ...
 

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That shouldn’t have been overturned in my opinion.
Why? VAR Process should hold or the coming together was worthy of StJ player being sent off?

Maybe StJ should appeal that the Jack booking should be reviewed and changed to a sending off…because his recklessness and aggression 100% merited it. Too late now though. The incompetence and pressure on the ref and his assistants and VAR at the time sees the result stand.
 

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Why? VAR Process should hold or the coming together was worthy of StJ player being sent off?

Maybe StJ should appeal that the Jack booking should be reviewed and changed to a sending off…because his recklessness and aggression 100% merited it. Too late now though. The incompetence and pressure on the ref and his assistants and VAR at the time sees the result stand.

I felt it was a red card at the time, Jack’s could off been as well though.
 

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I felt it was a red card at the time, Jack’s could off been as well though.
Ref and VAR review review of Clark and Jack coming together makes clear it was at best/worst a booking and not a sending off..and real time as well as VAR review of Jack’s should have made it 100% clear that Jack should have been sent off. And that seems to be the opinion of most. But at Ibrox it seems the officials are always looking for a way to keep the lid on things inside the ground, keep the customers satisfied. It is a cynical view but it is one borne out of the experience of ‘diddy‘ clubs at Ibrox. And as far as the penalty…at Ibrox it was always going to be one never mind that in general they are a toss up.

But there you go…same as it ever was. We might moan but we know nothing will change,
 

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2nd vs 3rd tonight at a sold-out Tynecastle. Sky can't be bothered to show it. Says it all about their attitude to Scottish football.

Understandable to be fair, they will more than likely be covering the Motherwell game as the 30 thousand St Johnstone away fans that boycott Ibrox and Celtic Park descend on Fir Park...
 
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2nd vs 3rd tonight at a sold-out Tynecastle. Sky can't be bothered to show it. Says it all about their attitude to Scottish football.

Don’t they have some level of media rights that mean they only broadcast a certain amount of games for the £150mil Scottish football get ?‍♂️ and I guess with there being domestic cup semi final on its a tough choice on what to broadcast
 

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Don’t they have some level of media rights that mean they only broadcast a certain amount of games for the £150mil Scottish football get ?‍♂️ and I guess with there being domestic cup semi final on its a tough choice on what to broadcast

Sky are allowed to show 48 SPFL games a season. Last season they showed 41, and they are on track for a similar number this season. They could easily show Hearts-Rangers and Man U-Forest on different channels, they are choosing not to.
 

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Hearts will be delighted as plenty rangers fans will cough up £12.99 to watch it. £3 more than Rangers charge BTW.

Would be interested to know how the revenue from a PPV game compares with what they would get from Sky.

But regardless of that, still pretty poor for Rangers or Hearts fans with a Sky Sports subscription, they would have had a legitimate expectation the game would be shown by Sky.
 
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