Jagged Edge Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 Jags fan Alex Melrose submitted a Freedom of Information request to find out who made, and when, the decision to take the penalties at the Ross County end. This is the response he received. The grammar, typos etc are embarrassing in the Police response, but a precedent has clearly been established. The home team get to choose which end the penalties get taken - it just needs the home team safety officer to say so. With Neil Doncaster in attendance, can we ever expect anything else? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partickthedog Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Jagged Edge said: Jags fan Alex Melrose submitted a Freedom of Information request to find out who made, and when, the decision to take the penalties at the Ross County end. This is the response he received. The grammar, typos etc are embarrassing in the Police response, but a precedent has clearly been established. The home team get to choose which end the penalties get taken - it just needs the home team safety officer to say so. With Neil Doncaster in attendance, can we ever expect anything else? Take your point, but unfortunately the previous pyrotechnic and ground incursion issues gave plenty of useful evidential cover for the decision taken. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Jagged Edge said: Jags fan Alex Melrose submitted a Freedom of Information request to find out who made, and when, the decision to take the penalties at the Ross County end. This is the response he received. The grammar, typos etc are embarrassing in the Police response, but a precedent has clearly been established. The home team get to choose which end the penalties get taken - it just needs the home team safety officer to say so. With Neil Doncaster in attendance, can we ever expect anything else? Is that what you take from that ? It was the pyros at the Ayr games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 I'd like to see the referee's justification for denying Thistle an absolute stonewall penalty, obvious to everybody on video, and his supervisor's response. And also why in his eagerness to award an extremely soft penalty to Ross County he neglected the fact that the Thistle player's posture was clearly influenced because he was being fouled at the time, also clearly visible on video. And again, what is the supervisor's response? Let them make that information public! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 I am not 100% convinced by the penalty on Doc. No question there was contact, but it looks to me like Doc moved his foot towards the outstretched leg thus ensuring the contact. Anyway, it wasn’t given and going over again and again won’t change that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggernaut Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 26 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said: Anyway, it wasn’t given and going over again and again won’t change that. Clearly, you're right, but it doesn't paint a good picture for the prospects of any wrongs being righted in the world, in any domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 I didn't think we got the rub of the green yon day, but I still felt we lost overall against County by not getting at least a third goal at Firhill. Also throughout the season when we were ahead, we didn't see games out well. Teams can't equalise if they haven't the ball, but we'd abandon our normal game and give up on possession. Instead we'd punt the ball up the park and defend too deeply. We rode our luck and got away with it most times but at Dingwall our good fortune run out. The way we lost is so hard to take but a 1-3 defeat away to a top tier team was far from abnormal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 As we move on to a new embarrassing conspiracy theory, does that mean we can at least bin the Covid season mewlings and that stupid flag behind? 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 38 minutes ago, Jaggernaut said: Clearly, you're right, but it doesn't paint a good picture for the prospects of any wrongs being righted in the world, in any domain. Some things you can fix and some you can’t. Pick the winnable battles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 16 minutes ago, jagfox said: As we move on to a new embarrassing conspiracy theory, does that mean we can at least bin the Covid season mewlings and that stupid flag behind? 🤔 And ditch the silly f**king flares too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End 2 Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 We lost. We bottled it. Accept it and move on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 32 minutes ago, sandy said: And ditch the silly f**king flares too I never saw us in the 70s... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End 2 Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 4 minutes ago, jagfox said: I never saw us in the 70s... The flares we wore in the 70's were more dangerous than the pyrotechnics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 11 minutes ago, Garscube Road End 2 said: The flares we wore in the 70's were more dangerous than the pyrotechnics. Could take your eye out, I imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 6 hours ago, Jaggernaut said: I'd like to see the referee's justification for denying Thistle an absolute stonewall penalty, obvious to everybody on video, and his supervisor's response. And also why in his eagerness to award an extremely soft penalty to Ross County he neglected the fact that the Thistle player's posture was clearly influenced because he was being fouled at the time, also clearly visible on video. And again, what is the supervisor's response? Let them make that information public! Sorry, this rhetoric is beyond tedious. We missed FOUR (count them) highly scoreable chances to avoid a penalty shoot out. In short, we ran out of feet to shoot ourselves in. Accept that it happened, and make peace with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlsarmy Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 8 hours ago, Jagged Edge said: Jags fan Alex Melrose submitted a Freedom of Information request to find out who made, and when, the decision to take the penalties at the Ross County end. This is the response he received. The grammar, typos etc are embarrassing in the Police response, but a precedent has clearly been established. The home team get to choose which end the penalties get taken - it just needs the home team safety officer to say so. With Neil Doncaster in attendance, can we ever expect anything else? Sets a dangerous precedent, would this have happened in an Old Firm game ? Kept Neil and Roy happy though ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted July 2, 2023 Report Share Posted July 2, 2023 1 hour ago, jlsarmy said: Sets a dangerous precedent, would this have happened in an Old Firm game ? Kept Neil and Roy happy though ! Nowadays, it won’t be a problem as away supporters aren’t getting many tickets at Ibrox and Parkhead. At Hampden the fans aren’t close to the goals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyo Posted July 3, 2023 Report Share Posted July 3, 2023 On 7/2/2023 at 3:24 PM, lady-isobel-barnett said: I didn't think we got the rub of the green yon day, but I still felt we lost overall against County by not getting at least a third goal at Firhill. Sorry. I've heard this argument so many times and I just don't get it. We didn't get a third goal at Firhill but we did get a good 2-0 win and then we did get a third goal at Dingwall. We were 3-0 up with 20 minutes to go. How anyone can say that game was lost at Firhill is totally beyond me. Regarding the shootout, I'm not up for excuses, but it's a fair question. Yeah the flares and incursions were annoying but it wasn't exactly the most combustible situation that a penalty shootout has ever been conducted in. There's no reason why normal rules shouldn't have been applied. Everything else was just the usual shite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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