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Looked like he was expecting contact and dived - theatrical fall, and after the game against them wouldn’t surprise me.

Especially when you can see with Clement he’s experienced, clever, knows his stuff and clearly knows the game. Would be madness to sack him regardless of results to the end - think he needs at least till spring 2025 to be judged. personally think he’ll come good and gain legendary status if he can get enough turnover in the squad this window. Big fan.

Honestly not sure I’ll survive a final game total decider it’s been so long since I’ve put my body through that.

Dire today but: 1) they’ll drop points, if we can find some form and get a result agains them we can still do it (though think that’s unlikely) 2) incredible clement got within touching distance - takes some blame for today but he’s little to work with between squad quality and injuries - with a few windows I think he’ll assemble a proper football team

This - appears one of those situations where it’s so ridiculous whoever was instructed to draft the regs and people instructing (possibly reasonably!) didn’t envisage this ludicrous scenario being a possibility.

Wild take

basically Dundee are in breach of obligations to ensure a playable surface but it looks like SPFL have pretty much full discretion to decide relevant sanctions or requirements. They really need to do something, unacceptable there’s been what, 5 postponed games this season? *Edit, unsure how current the rules are but some bits of doc reference at least up to 2022.

Can’t remember a player for us in recent times with that same physicality plus pace and drive tbh - some parts of his game need a bit of refinement but can’t imagine him making it in PL yet and think we should try to pay the fee, reckon he’d go for a fair whack a year or two down the line especially if we can get another euro run

His goal and assist record disagrees. He looked slow today but so did half the team out there - fair enough not a great performance but the guy delivers and has done all season.

Nah think people suggesting this don’t get the set up with RBs and LBs that are attacking.

100% a clear penalty - he even moved his arm slightly towards trajectory of the ball. The rule is wild but it was definitely in line with the handball rules.

Same sort of comment Liverpool fans make about Alexander Arnold - much of it is just nature of attacking full backs

Wondered if Cantwell bit off the pace and wouldn’t finish the 90 mins. Great option to bring on when tired legs, thought his forward play bit poor but so much tracking back, closing down and interrupting them towards the end

Agree actually though his positioning was a bit odd for their third but it did go low through legs so maybe unfair. still made that great save for the header that was sure was a goal.

Think that’s my main point these daft VAR reviews - ruin the game, slow it down and take away the joy of it. Let the ref make the call and move on, drama was always part of the football.