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The ref had 1 decision to make when hippolyte came across murdoch. And that was wether it was dangerous play or not. He then pulls a penalty out of thin air, utter diabolical.

Little point in discussing the rest of the game. That utter f**k up defined the match

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10 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

As to the game itself. First half we were pretty good and Falkirk were pretty poor. We were playing the better football and had a couple of half chances and one good chance where Clark, as he seems to do often, headed it straight at the keeper. The goal was very well struck and we deserved our lead I'd say.

The second half was actually fairly even despite the ref, the heads gone from us, the numerical disadvantage and the good 15-20 minute spell Falkirk had when they scored. Their second goal was a decent one and quite ironic - when Miller was on they didn't put many good crosses in for him but they did when Austin replaced him. We had a few good chances on the counter and from set plays and I don't think any neutrals watching would have begrudged us a point. 

The main talking point of course had to be the ref. Where to start? He lost it early on, when he could have sent off Kerr for a nasty looking challenge on Geggan. We weren't angels either though, and I think Talbot was very fortunate he won the ball when tackling (I think) Miller and it looked like he went in with both feet off the ground. We then had a linesman who didn't know you can't be offside from a bye kick. The penalty looked iffy on first viewing but the reactions suggest (and a passing Falkirk fan on the way back to the car seemed to confirm) that it wasn't a foul. The red card is one of those which is probably fair enough although how clear a goalscoring opportunity it was (and whether Ashcroft was close enough to cover) is open to debate. To then give handball by Higginbotham when he was barged in the back, book Hopkirk for diving when he was caught (albeit the theatrics didn't help) yet give a few soft free kicks to Falkirk when there seemed little or no contact just summed it up. I don't think I've ever seen such a long, strenuous and large-numbered complaint at the end of a game before which paints a picture.

Still, we're safe and on that showing Falkirk will be with us next season too. Just need St Mirren to go down now for quite an interesting and open league next season.

Not that your bitter.

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Embarrassing from Hippolyte but big win for us and will take it all day long.

We've had plenty go against us.

The Pars will secretly love this too as it allows them to play the blame game for failing to beat us again.

Better luck next season.

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Just now, Black and White Tragic said:

Karma will get you when "these things even themselves out you know".

Aye we'll get our revenge for the fluke point you managed to take from us across 4 games. ;)

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