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I think that there’s only one club in the entire SPFL who have any right to complain about VAR, and it’s Greenock Morton. The rest voted for this utter shambles and everything that comes with it.

Presumably the justification is that the Premiership clubs all had to pay for it themselves, so why wouldn’t we.

Last years run would’ve been an oddity as well in that (IIRC) we had to extend the entire squads contracts a wee bit to cover the playoff final so had an extra weeks wages to pay for, whereas that wouldn’t be the case this season. Would we have to pay to install the VAR stuff again this season (if we make it that far) or would we already have most of it in place due to last season? @Ad Lib can you shed any light on this?

Yes, pretty sure the County player was sent off after VAR review.

Europa Conference League - Quarter Final - April 2122

Airdrieonians 0 - 3 Dundee United Arbroath 1 - 1 Queen’s Park Dunfermline Athletic 0 - 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle Greenock Morton 2 - 1 Raith Rovers Partick Thistle 3 - 0 Ayr United

Aye, I vaguely recall their chairman was trying to get the playoffs scrapped again the season they actually went down too.

I don’t think we’re likely to get anything bigger than 12 team leagues, but would prefer that all four national divisions were 12 teams with a split. Bottom 2 down and top 2 up across the board, with a further playoff containing third bottom and 3rd-5th. Bottom division would have 2 down automatically, with both HL and LL champions up, and a playoff between the two runners up to face third bottom.

I think him and Cairney who we signed around the same time had been in the second division with QP for a season before we brought them in, so not quite as big a jump there. It’s a shame that Paton turned out to be such an absolute p***k, because he was a good player for us.

Only one automatically down from a 16 team league would be absolutely shite.

We have a fucking good laugh and pray that someone else goes into administration.

Only other one (well, it’s a different pyramid) I can think of is Christie Elliott who was playing at some dogshit level in England when we signed him and did at least a serviceable job for a long time. I’m with you that we have a decent enough record with these sorts of signings, although obviously there’s ones that haven’t worked (I’m looking at you Blair Lyons) it’s worth a shot given it’ll be relatively cheap.

I have genuinely no idea who Rhys Armstrong is, but Luke McBeth made a far bigger step up and looks great so f**k it.

Was it not Montrose who were basically always in the bottom tier until fairly recently?

I would be tempted to give Muirhead a rest and get O’Reilly a bit more match sharpness for the playoffs. It’s going to be a gruelling schedule, and we need as many players up to speed as possible. He also looked pretty good when he came on yesterday. Only other question mark is the extent of Stanway’s knock that forced him off yesterday. If he’s out for this, then the question is either Bannigan in a straight swap or move McInroy back and put MacKenzie in.