The Master

Statement blaming Dundee’s pitch incoming?

Aye, it was your classic “staggered celebration as the news filtered through”.

Oh my

Oh my

McDiarmid is apparently plan B if Dens fails a Tuesday pitch inspection. What if it passes the Tuesday inspection but it rains on Wednesday?

Credit is due that they started with Motherwell v Hibs, then segued straight into Aberdeen v Dundee before any manager interviews or analysis. If things had been a bit more topsy-turvy during the afternoon, I wonder if they would have done a good old fashioned intercut.

I suppose there's something of an irony in the Aberdeen "End VAR" banner perfectly illustrating how different angles can tell a different story in terms of relative positioning of objects.

Nope, that season didn’t happen…

When did we last go a season unbeaten against Aberdeen?

So alls well that ends well, then.

Where’s your fixture chaos and delayed split now, Tom? GIRFUY

Holy shit. We dominated the second half and probably deserved to win, but it doesn’t matter now. Hibs Hibsing it. Although it would have been the Dundee way to concede as soon as Motherwell scored. Glad the script went in the bin in the end

Willie Miller also thinks the rules should stipulate a minimum amount clubs should have to spend on their pitch

If we do the job today (big if), I’d like someone to go back and ask Tom English where this so-called chaos is. I’m also not sure why nobody has pointed out that it’s never been a requirement for all MD33 games to kick off at the same time, despite Hibs’ complaints.

I never said that manual offside was “bargain basement”. My point was that other leagues are now adopting the semi-automated offside technology, in the same week we had our VAR officials needing to eyeball a decision because we only had one suitable camera angle, but its calibration failed. That wouldn’t have happened if we had a better VAR setup with more cameras.

No they won’t.

Worth mentioning that the A92 is closed between Charlestown and Bridge of Dee, so good chance of tailbacks. AWPR from Stonehaven to Kingsford and cutting across might be an alternative option?

Yeah, here it is. 15th May 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/3712299.stm That was the first time I visited Pittodrie - and it was our last win there as well, I believe.

If there’s no public money, would they go to the effort and expense of converting Hampden again? I can see them doing most events in Glasgow, but send the athletics to London (depending on West Ham’s needs) or Birmingham.

Wasn’t the 2004 game the final day of the season, rather than the final pre-split round? We were both bottom 6 that season, but I think our win allowed us to finish 7th.

In the same week the SFA admit to guessing an offside call without lines, England announces it will be introducing the semi-automated technology. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68791135 Obviously we shouldn’t constantly compare ourselves to England. But it does illustrate the “bargain basement” point quite well.

Except today isn’t an available date, in the same way that Monday 1st wasn’t an available date.