SanguinePar

Highlights now up: Looks like an excellent performance, really, really good. Probably should have had a couple more, with McCann and Comrie both having excellent chances. Big shout to the Pars fans too, what a noise, all the way through the game. Brilliant stuff!

The goals:

Superb and vital result today, well done all concerned. Results elsewhere not bad for us either.

The SPFL certainly did/do something like that. One time it got confused between the ball and a baldy linesman! 🙂

Hughes has only won 2 games, versus Ayr and Hamilton. The win at ICT was before he took charge. Also, technically Grant won 3 (Partick, Dumbarton and Stenhousemuir in the league cup) No league games though.

Going ok with 5 minutes to go. Rovers leading 2-1 having gone 1 down... ...and as I type that, it's 2-2. FFS.

Good call.

I'd agree with that... ...but that's nonsense. No Pars fan wants him to fail. Plenty, myself included, are still pretty skeptical about him, based on his past record at some clubs, his patter-merchant style (which, if he's getting results, fine, but when we're not, just grates), several performances in his tenure so far, especially Morton, and some of the decisions about the squad (Wighton and McDonald being my particular complaints). He deserves a chance to prove himself and deliver his own take on the squad, of course, and he'll get that chance. And I hope he succeeds, and that the Pars stay up this year and thrive the next.

Looks good from that video (even scored the same goal twice...) Nice movement to create space for himself on a couple of them. As @DA-go Par Adonis says though, he'll need the service. Hopefully that's where Lawless and Thomas (soon) will be able to provide. It also makes me wonder (again) about the release on loan of McDonald, as his crossing was excellent when ever I saw him play.

I don't agree that he was in charge of a mess. He took over just after we fell 5 points behind the leaders, Forfar. Now, that's obviously not ideal, but we were still doing ok and with plenty time to pull it back over the season. We had led or been in among the leaders for the whole season up to that point. We were also only a single point behind Morton who went on to win the league that season. P15 W8 D3 L4 As soon as JP was in charge, results took a sharp downward turn compared to Jefferies - I'm not having a go at Potter here, he's a nice guy, but he did demonstrably worse than Jefferies with the same players. P21 W5 D6 L10 I still think the board were ridiculously premature in sacking Jefferies, both for on the pitch reasons and because of the leadership and support for fans he had shown through the Masterton crisis years (years which, despite our early push for promotion that season we were still recovering from as a club).

I never know what people mean by this. I mean, how can you separate the two? Unless it just means that VAR isn't the problem because the cameras themselves work and so on. Otherwise, VAR and the people who operate the tools are interchangeable. VAR absolutely is the problem because the presence of the ability to look at every tiny detail means that things that, with common sense, would not have been picked up now are (see for example armpit offsides, tiny amounts of contact leading to penalties, etc). However due to arbitrarily applied limits in its use we now also have a system which sometimes CAN see something wrong but can't act on it unless it's the right sort of thing. It has also resulted in buggering about with the laws of the game - look at the utter mess of handball now - in order to accommodate a technology that isn't even at most grounds, far less ubiquitous. Its a dreadful idea, a dreadful system and a dreadful implementation.

VAR makes the decision to alert the ref. And it's VERY rare for a ref to go look at the monitor and then stick to the original decision. Effectively, if VAR tells the ref to have a look, it means there's going to be a change of decision 99% of the time.

Maybe it's the very early season form in the league cup clouding my memory, but I feel like Dom was doing pretty well in the middle in terms of creating chances at least. I do agree though that he's not the player for a midfield battle - at the head of a central midfield 3 though, I could definitely see him working. Prefer him on the wing though and hopefully we'll see him there again soon!

The R in VAR is "referee" though. So it absolutely IS the fault of the VAR. People always seem surprised when VAR makes terrible decisions, but it's still just the same people as before. It's solved nothing, but it has made games worse due to interruptions and uncertainties over celebrating a goal, AND it's made incidents like this even more annoying than if the ref had just got it wrong in real time.

At the start of the season McDonald looked a serious danger down the right wing. He's barely had a game since Comrie came back. EDIT - he did play 90 in our win at ICT and 75 in the 3-0 over Ayr.

Hope so. I'd be very disappointed if this was him on his way out permanently. He's the young player I have highest hopes for in our squad.

FFS. Really? I can't believe we would let him go, even if it is just on loan.

I don't think it should have been given as a penalty, but one thing to consider is this - just before it happens, Jota tries (and fails) to flick the ball to his right using his right toe, and had he done so, then him moving to his right like that would have made sense (like he was flicking it past the keeper to then leave himself an empty net). So I don't think he was necessarily intending to run into the keeper, although that's what it looks like for sure. On the other hand, even the attempt to flick it may just have been a precursor to running into the keeper for the pen - and if he had managed the flick then I think a pen might have been a more reasonable decision. As it is though, not a pen, and harsh on Palace. At least it wasn't the winning goal I suppose, although clearly it meant the game was over.

Said the same on the way out. I would start next week with the team that finished today (unless we make a good signing, obviously). That was pretty dire for the most part, but we definitely improved with the 3 changes. I had been pondering for a lot of the game whether Hughes has really improved us all that much compared with Grant, but at least when he made changes they were effective. Still not great, but a nice feeling to have gone 2 unbeaten. Massive next week. Got to get that right.

Was saying the same to a mate - one on the left, one on the right, flying in like Mane and Salah. All we need now is a Jota/Firmino type at CF... 🙂

Please use the correct terminology: "Based on the volume of deals that take place before the transfer window SLAMS shut!"

No.

No. No. No. No. No.

Ah ok, thanks, I hadn't realised that.