Referee

[Craig_in_Prague]

Would have been injustice to St J if they lost today, BUT, Referee........you wear wearing Red, but you'd be as well haven a Blue top on, you trumpet.

How bad are we becoming though............. a Side that were 3rd, late stages in the season..........christ we should be showing more than this..... can see us finishing 5th or 6th now.

[KerPlunk]

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Would have been injustice to St J if they lost today, BUT, Referee........you wear wearing Red, but you'd be as well haven a Blue top on, you trumpet.

How bad are we becoming though............. a Side that were 3rd, late stages in the season..........christ we should be showing more than this..... can see us finishing 5th or 6th now.

Getting a wee bit worried about Yogi's tactical nous - could he be the 21stC. version of Lex Miller ?

[givescotlandfreedom]

The referee was disgraceful. An absolutely abysmal performance from an absolutely shocking referee

[erskine-hibby]

Couldn't give a flying ****** about how bad the ref was...we were worse and have been for weeks.

[Cropley10]

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Couldn't give a flying ****** about how bad the ref was...we were worse and have been for weeks.

We were a complete and utter disgrace today. And that was the worst ref at ER this season.

But the honeymoon is over - we look slow and predictable again

[Craig_in_Prague]

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We were a complete and utter disgrace today. And that was the worst ref at ER this season.

But the honeymoon is over - we look slow and predictable again

Especially Nish and Deek.

For fit 'professionals' they are terribly slow.

[danger1875]

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We were a complete and utter disgrace today. And that was the worst ref at ER this season.

But the honeymoon is over - we look slow and predictable again

not sure they all did but sums deek up perfectly

[Westie1875]

Ref was garbage but so were we, must wins the next 2 games or we can kiss goodbye to 3rd IMO.

[goosano]

Our penalty was a stick on red card and he bottled it

[Hermit Crab]

Ref wasnt the best but we were silent night the day!

[Gus Fring]

It seems to be a consistent stream of p!sh referees, not just for us, but most teams. IMO the referees seem to be more concerned with putting on a performance with their over animated gestures, slowly raising a yellow card as if to say "look at me i'm booking him, watch me book him everybody". And today when he needed to speak to the linesman and he was on the other end of the park, he turns round half way and starts running backwards?

No referee seems content with just rasing the card, writing in the book, and getting on with play. And whats the point in them wearing those bloody earpiece things if they dont talk to each other through them?

[Judas Iscariot]

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Couldn't give a flying ****** about how bad the ref was...we were worse and have been for weeks.

Is that what the radio said!?

[MussyHibby]

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Couldn't give a flying ****** about how bad the ref was...we were worse and have been for weeks.

Says the radio!

[erskine-hibby]

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Is that what the radio said!?

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Says the radio!

I'm sure you are getting at the fact i wasn't there today.
Well, as I said the last couple of weeks (not just today) we have been cr@p, the results have been cr@p and there seems to be little sign of improvement, but if you see it differently then so be it.
I don't always see things through green tinted specs.

[jabis]

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Would have been injustice to St J if they lost today, BUT, Referee........you wear wearing Red, but you'd be as well haven a Blue top on, you trumpet.

How bad are we becoming though............. a Side that were 3rd, late stages in the season..........christ we should be showing more than this..... can see us finishing 5th or 6th now.

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Especially Nish and Deek.

For fit 'professionals' they are terribly slow.

Were you at the game today ?

[Hibs Class]

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Would have been injustice to St J if they lost today, BUT, Referee........you wear wearing Red, but you'd be as well haven a Blue top on, you trumpet.

How bad are we becoming though............. a Side that were 3rd, late stages in the season..........christ we should be showing more than this..... can see us finishing 5th or 6th now.

I don't see that it would have been an injustice if St J had lost. They relied excessively on Deuchar's illegal approach to the game and ability to con the referee repeatedly. Hibs finishing was woeful, and decision making poor, but what creativity there was came from Hibs. St J didn't deserve anything, and can consider themselves fortunate.

[TornadoHibby]

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Were you at the game today ?

Maybe he wasn't but I was and we didn't lose two points because of the ref, although he was shocking and the Saints keeper should have been sent off at the pen for denying a goalscoring opportunity!

We were shocking today and if that is us "bouncing back" from our bad run of three straight defeats then we have some tough times ahead and we'll be waiting another year for the Holy Grail IMO!

[woody47]

Every b;00dy week
Same thing - referees in this country are a disgrace. this clown today should have worn a blue top as they St J got away with murder form th e2nd minute when their keeper should have walked to that lanky git of a doctor up front who was allowed to lead with his elbows every time.
It surely must be time for these ass holes in charge to be held to account instead of rewarding their incompetency with jaunts to spain and free p-ups for Scotland games.

[snooky]

Thought we were garbage today and didn't deserve to win.
The ref was absolutely abysmal (for both sides). The same goes for the humfybackit, greyheided plonker running the line in front of the west stand.
Together they spoiled a bad game.

[JimBHibees]

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Our penalty was a stick on red card and he bottled it

Yep stick on red card which we would have won from IMO. 2 weeks on the bounce the ref has contributed hugely with wrong decisions which have directly related to us losing points.

[Sir David Gray]

The referee was shocking today but Hibs were pretty bad as well. He wasn't to blame for us not picking up three points.

[Jonnyboy]

We were poor and no mistake but St Johnstone weren't much better IMO. Yes they enjoyed a fair bit of possession but that means nowt as goals win games not possession.

As to the ref, he made a poor game 100 times worse

[JimBHibees]

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The referee was shocking today but Hibs were pretty bad as well. He wasn't to blame for us not picking up three points.

Dont see how you can say that as it would have been completely different if the goalie had received the red he should have got.

[shamo9]

Earlier in the season we would have taken our glaring chances in the second half - of which there were at least three - and won two or three nil.

We've lost a little edge, a little ruthlessness and now guys like Murray and Riordan are beginning to feel sorry for themselves. We have to take it on the chin and next week keep pressing till we kill them rather than panicking late on.

[thebakerboy]

What is it about Colin Nish and referees? He got booked for persistant foul play today after I think ref pointed out 4 fouls. I think if you watched the full game again both Duberry and the no 10 (Craig I think) gave away at least as many fouls in the game and there may have been 1 or 2 other players on both sides who also gave away 4 fouls but were not booked.Also Hogg got booked for reacting to foul against him when he was elbowed in face yet again by the good doctor. When have any of us seen Hogg rant and rave at a ref , NEVER , just shows how poor ref was when Hogg gets upset at him.

[HFC 0-7]

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Earlier in the season we would have taken our glaring chances in the second half - of which there were at least three - and won two or three nil.

We've lost a little edge, a little ruthlessness and now guys like Murray and Riordan are beginning to feel sorry for themselves. We have to take it on the chin and next week keep pressing till we kill them rather than panicking late on.

Totally agree with the finishing part. Hibs were clinical at times early season. One of the biggest problems now is that we are not dictating play, we are not playing the way we want and resort to the way the opposition want us to play, which today, ended in us pumping high long balls forward for stokes against the likes of duberry!

[shamo9]

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Totally agree with the finishing part. Hibs were clinical at times early season. One of the biggest problems now is that we are not dictating play, we are not playing the way we want and resort to the way the opposition want us to play, which today, ended in us pumping high long balls forward for stokes against the likes of duberry!

We weren't really dictating play earlier in the season either, don't you remember all the threads muttering about how lucky we were and how we weren't fulfilling our potential?

I can count on one hand the number of times we've dominated for an extended period this season. The only difference from then is that we're letting in cheap goals and not hitting the net often enough.

Actually I take back what I said earlier. It's the leaking of goals at the moment that's really killing us. How often did we grind out 1-0 and 2-0 victories before? Frequently is the concise answer.

We've never really got over the Rangers game on boxing day other than that brief flurry of 3 wins in a week.

[SloopJB]

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Couldn't give a flying ****** about how bad the ref was...we were worse and have been for weeks.

There is merit in your observation, tactfully put by the way.
We should be able to put ourselves into a position where decisions by the officials don't matter, otherwise we'll get more situations like Liam pushing the St J player after a foul. get on with the game.

St Johnstone could have had a penalty for a push in the first half so he did us a favour there.

Already posted are examples where our players made mistakes during the game, as did the referee.
I appreciate a ref making a mistake can change the direction of a game but in open & fair play, should we fall behind, the challenge is to get back on even terms and build again.
Having a sense of injustice sometimes makes that task more difficult.

Wasn't a bad game against good opposition on a poor surface.

Roll on the next game.

[matty_f]

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What is it about Colin Nish and referees? He got booked for persistant foul play today after I think ref pointed out 4 fouls. I think if you watched the full game again both Duberry and the no 10 (Craig I think) gave away at least as many fouls in the game and there may have been 1 or 2 other players on both sides who also gave away 4 fouls but were not booked.Also Hogg got booked for reacting to foul against him when he was elbowed in face yet again by the good doctor. When have any of us seen Hogg rant and rave at a ref , NEVER , just shows how poor ref was when Hogg gets upset at him.

Nish gets ****** all from refs, it's a joke. His booking was a joke, and 'joke' is about as good a word I can think of to describe the referee's performance today, and the standard of refereeing this season in general.

[Hibbie_Cameron]

At the game we were speaking about how refs give soft fouls for climbing etc in the centre circle yet dont give penalties if the same things happens in the box.

This happened today, when one of our attackers was being clearly fouled in the box. 20 seconds later Hogg was penalised for the same thing and was cautioned for his protests, no doubt for raising the same point as myself. A foul is a foul regardless, surely?