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Wait for the VAR audio.
The leading comment will be 'Makes contact with the attacker' and the entire follow up will be justifying giving it, looking for contact.
Other box, it'd be 'Hasn't made enough contact' and the next few minutes would be about justifying no penalty.
We're significantly better than last seaaon, but the end result is similar. Too many draws.
Then, it was throwing points down the drain via overloaded defenders and Gks making awful errors, this year, it's just a sheer lack of ruthless firepower holding us back.
Mark Ellis retweeted
🚨🗣️ Zidane Iqbal, on Dundee United: “It’s such a beautiful club and the fans have been amazing to me. Even with the way they have embraced the Iraqi fans.
At my old club, the fans at Utrecht were always fighting with the Iraqi fans online!”@alanftemple/@thecouriersport
Little thing, but you can see the confidence his team mates have in him, just by how unconcerned the CBs are by 2 Celtic players pressing.
Defcon 1 has just been hit at SFA HQ. Refereeing equivalent of an air strike has just been called at Parkhead 😂🧡
Once again, initial comments on VAR frame the entire incident 'Runs into the defender, small contact' etc. Before it's quickly batted away.
At the other end, it's framed with words like 'Defender has caught the attacker late' and 5 minutes get spent on VAR to justify the award.
🆕 A first look at the VAR check from Ibrox where St Mirren were not awarded a penalty for this challenge by Rangers’ Emmanuel Fernandez. Watch the latest Scottish Football VAR Review on @SkyFootball at 6pm!
The sub plot in the Scotland game, is working out how many ways the pundits can pronounce 'Pocognoli'
My favourite so far 'Pokey-jig-no-lay'
Listened to an interview with Mulholland the other day.
Came away with the conclusion that It's frightening these people run our game.
All about '4 Old Firm games a season' No matter what, even if it means butchering unrelated data to back up the point.
EXCLUSIVE! 🚨 SFA to meet with major clubs as Ian Maxwell and Craig Mulholland ramp up 'Made in Scotland?' push | @ScottBurns75new ✍️
dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/foot…
Interesting that it's United who get singled out and panned for not playing/producing Scots, yet we're currently mid table in actually doing that, and 3 of the Scots with the most minutes elsewhere, came through Uniteds academy. 🤔
It's all 'Clubs like Dundee United', Though.
SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP
"Age 23 & Under" minutes 2026/27 so far
*Scottish National Team eligibility
Please note these are "league" minutes only
By Club
⚫️St Mirren 1732 mins ***** 👏
🔵Dundee 801 mins **
🔵Falkirk 574 mins
🟢Hibs 482 mins ****
🟠Dundee United 386 mins ***
🟡Motherwell 366 mins
🔵Rangers 343 mins
🟢Celtic 319 mins
🔵St Johnstone 318 mins
🟣Hearts 149 mins
🔵Kilmarnock 112 mins
🔴Aberdeen 91 mins *
includes dual nationality
* Andrew Fasanya 🇳🇬 🏴
** Bobby Wales 🇮🇪 🏴
*** Daniel Bennie 🇦🇺 🇭🇰🏴
**** Azeem Abdulai 🇸🇱 🏴
***** Henry Fieldson & Ryan Carr 🏴🏴
& Eseosa Sule 🇳🇬 🏴
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ℹ️ Scotland has been indicated as the 1st nationality for all players other than Bennie (Australia) however, on the 15th March BBC Sport had an article stating his desire via "The Times" to represent Scotland.
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Top 20 players by league minutes so far
1 Josh Mulligan 23 (Hibs) 435
2 Ryan Carr 21 (St Mirren) 429
3 Joe Bevan 22 (Dundee) 402
4=Lewis Neilson 23 (Falkirk) 360
4=Henry Fieldson 21 (St Mirren) 360
6=Findlay Curtis 20 (Rangers) 343
6=Chris Mochrie 23 (St Mirren) 343
8 Daniel Bennie 20 (Dundee Utd) 317
9 Colby Donovan 20 (Celtic) 316
10 Alex Lowry 23 (Motherwell) 291
11 Calvin Ramsay 23 (St Mirren) 241
12 Finlay Robertson 23 (Dundee) 230
13 Eseosa Sule 20 (St Mirren) 194
14 Bobby Wales 21 (Dundee) 169
15 Fraser Taylor 23 (St Mirren) 165
16 James Wilson 19 (Hearts) 149
17 Taylor Steven 21 (St Johnstone) 147
18 Finn Yeats 22 (Falkirk) 135
19 Kai Fotheringham 23 (St Johnstone) 124
20 Bailey Rice 19 (Kilmarnock) 85
Note: I'm not suggesting all these players are international quality, it's just looking at the player pool, I've used U'23 to give a better reflection rather than U'21 where the data would make even worse reading!
"IMO" hopefully, Tony Docherty finds room for Henry Fieldson, Daniel Bennie, Eseosa Sule, Bobby Wales & Bailey Rice in his next squad if space.
I envisage maybe 4 promotions from the last U'21 squad with Robbie Ure, Luke Graham, Colby Donovan & James Wilson stepping up.
As always comments open, feel free to share/interact or argue :)
#Scotland #ScottishPremiership #ScotlandUnder21s
This is an outrageous get, if we can get him anything like his best.
Not a direct Agyei type, But, Has a bit of dig about him, great range of passing, a level above in terms of composure on the ball, use of his body to make space, etc.
Cool kids call it 'press resistance'. 😅
🆕 Dundee United are in talks over a deadline day move for Iraq World Cup midfielder Zidane Iqbal, who is out of the picture at Utrecht
Understand #DUFC are looking for a permanent deal for the ex-Manchester United man
thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/fo…
They will suggest anything except
Increasing the size of the Premiership.
Increase the size of Championship and League 1, removing league 2.
Restoring the reserve league.
Adding a homegrown rule requiring teams to feature a set amount of domestic players on a matchday.
🔴 Scrap Championship, League 1, League 2
🔴 Create two 16 team regional divisions
🔴 Introduce B teams
🔴 Increase competition/game time for kids
Ex SFA CEO submits league reconstruction blueprint to SPFL ahead of club summit.
In @heraldscotland 🔗👇
heraldscotland.com/sport/265…
The midfield today sums up exactly what i've been talking about RE roles and composition.
Agyei in there suddenly frees up guys like Yoro, Camara etc, whereas in the derby, it was always 1 moment from falling apart with Pan not being the lynchpin that setup needs to function.
