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I'm puzzled as to what is puzzling Hibs fans about ten-man Hearts celebrating a draw against their arch-rivals, a result that consigned Hibs to praying for scraps from Celtic's table.

What, a proper club with a grass pitch for example?

Shortly after 'The Famous Aberdeen' thread becomes 'The Darvelous Dons' thread.

They'll need to hold a seance.

I totally agree. But mine is still bigger than yours.

I'm not taking sides pal, I'm just trying to illustrate that fans are partisan and only see what suits them about their club while ignoring what's inconvenient.

Can't see the flaw in that argument whatsoever. That's about the most sensible conclusion ever posted on Kickback.

To summarise the above: When calculating how superior Aberdeen are over Hearts, ignore last season when the dons were abysmal and finished a lowly and embarrassing 10th. The early part of this season, when the dons were regularly on the receiving end of five and six goal humpings, along with the marvel of Darvel must also be airbrushed out of the picture as irrelevant, otherwise it will distort Aberdeen's supremacy. When calculating Hearts superiority over the dons, only take account of the first few games of the season, before European football and injuries decimated the squad. Am I doing this right?

Those same fans probably celebrated the arrival of Duff and Phelps thinking they were a pair of quality English full backs.

The sheep seem to have forgotten Darvel a bit quicker than is merited.

Was Jota booked for his blatant dive in the box today? Thought not. Not even deemed worthy of mention on the Sportscene highlights ffs!

The captain has requested you switch your phone onto flight mode immediately!

Defunct is the correct answer. Close the thread.

So, when Barry Robson was all over the media with claims about the unfairness of Shinnie's red card and Goldson's non-penalty against Duk, he was merely trying to get into the referee and VAR's head for the following matches, was he?

You're seriously going to defend the indefensible? Using one feeble example against 100+ years of officiating blatantly benefiting the gruesome twosome? Good luck with your endeavours.

No, the best take on this is that Celtic were second best for the majority of the first half, but were handed a game-changing lifeline by officiating that at best was contentious. It's just one more example of something Old Firm fans seem unwilling or incapable of grasping; it isn't simply that Cochrane's sending off was harsh, but the absolute certainty that had it happened at the other end, there is no way VAR's Willie Collum would've intervened. It's the fact that match officials constantly give advantages to the two clubs that deserve it least thanks to their colossal financial advantage over the diddy teams. Check the Dons' game at Ibrox for further evidence.

So, Celtic fans are easily offended at the mere sight of one solitary flag, but somehow can't grasp why fans of other Scottish clubs should feel offended when faced with dozens/hundreds/thousands of ROI tricolours? What am I missing here, or is it just blatant hypocrisy?

"The world's most successful football club." Even if you ignore the tiny matter of liquidation, it takes some brass neck to claim that winning domestic titles in a two horse race makes you more successful than Real Madrid, 14 times European Cup/Champions League winners.

Like everyone else, I'm sick to the back teeth of the woeful coverage of Scottish football. However, the fact that Celtic and Rangers* games are given such prominence is down to simple economics. Top priority for Sky, BT, Viaplay and other commercial broadcasters is the dividend payable to their shareholders, and that's dependent on the advertising revenue generated on matchdays. However unpalatable it may be, that's always going to be higher when one or both of the gruesome twosome are involved, compared to Ross County versus Kilmarnock for example, due to the significant gulf in the size of their support and potential viewership. None of these broadcasters are required to provide what's best for Scottish football as a whole, so none of them will. They don't know the meaning of benevolence, only viewing figures. Even the advert-free, publicly-funded BBC has to have one eye on its viewing figures, hence its massively skewed coverage of all things Old Firm. Unfortunately, a near-forty year duopoly shows no signs of ending any time soon. Even when one half of the duopoly died, its corpse was propped up on a mortuary slab wearing a blue 'born-in-1872' t-shirt and we were invited to believe a fairy-tale that would've been too cringe-worthy for Hans Christian Andersen or Roald Dahl. Roll on another forty years of the same old.

While you have to congratulate Aberdeen, and Barry Robson in particular, for their dramatic turnaround in recent weeks, it shouldn't be forgotten that it was exactly the same shitebag players who lost embarrassingly to Darvel only a few short weeks ago along with a string of annihilations dished up by Hibs and Hearts amongst others. I don't wish Robson and the Dons any ill will but it wouldn't be the first time that a new manager bounce only lasted until just after he'd been put in charge on a permanent basis. On a similar note, is it likely that Hearts underperforming players have finally turned a corner or was Saturday just a one-off in view of Ross County's woeful performance?

The original Rangers will be spinning in its grave after that performance.

I haven't seen the match highlights yet, but it seems from reading this thread that plucky wee Celtic somehow managed to pull off a heroic shock draw against a bullying Motherwell side whose game management could see them face SFA charges of desecrating the beautiful game. The massive financial disadvantage poor wee Celtic faced played a part as their world-renowned Angeball was well and truly punctured by Kettsball, leaving an inconsolable Celtic support to whinge like a bitch about their first pair of dropped points since 1965.

Is it not just a reference to the suspension as a result of his sending off?

Have you not been paying attention over the past eleven years? Only a meaningless expendable operating company goes into administration and liquidation, while the newly debt-free club attaches itself to another off-the-shelf company and carries on virtually unscathed, ready to run up more debt. Rinse and repeat. What's that I hear you say? That arrangement only applied to one club with mystical powers?

Is there anybody on the planet gullible enough to believe the word of such a glib and shameless liar, without the provision of documentary evidence? If he told me today was Wednesday, I'd have to check my calendar, just after I'd checked that my wallet was still in my pocket. As for his and the Herald's references to shareholdings in the club and undervaluing the club, the shares are in Rangers International Football Club plc, which as we all know is merely the holding company of TRFC and is therefore far removed from the current 'metaphysical football club with no legal personality' that plays out of Ibrox.