craigkillie

That's called parallax.

It is in fact Dundee's fault for having a rubbish pitch.

Journalism's brightest mind there.

So that you don't have 5 postponements in a season.

Did they ever think of maybe doing more than the bare minimum?

Can people not just be normal in this thread?

Dundee would still spend it on their squad as they have done this season.

Tannadice has hosted football games before and they could make it work. It would have required Dundee to do a tiny bit of advance planning, but this should have been a very straightforward solution. If there are paper tickets, then there is no difference, and since Tannadice is a bigger stadium there would be no issue with space. If Dundee have to pay some extra people to do this, then so be it. If there are digital tickets, then one of the advantages of such a system should be that it is easy enough to assign a new QR code or barcode to each attendee which would work in the system at Tannadice. Transporting food and drinks would be fine given the distance. The police would have to waddle a few hundred metres down the street, I'm sure they'd cope. If hospitality was such an enormous issue they could literally host it at Dens and then just walk down the street for the game. Dundee United would obviously be paid for hiring out their ground, but these sort of arrangements are hardly unique. If Dundee fans "made a mess" of their ground then Dundee would be paying to fix it.

The calibration of the system is absolutely fine when it works, that is the least of the problems we have with VAR.

The Premiership has three fan-owned clubs (Hearts, Motherwell and St Mirren) and at least one more with a supporters trust representative on the board (Killie), so yes I would imagine that these clubs are going to take the opinions of their fans seriously. Not every club is owned by corporate types who are purely using them to make a quick buck.

I can definitely accept that point of view, my issue is more the ongoing suggestion that games are *always* scheduled for the earliest possible date which is not the case at all. Clubs are always going to have a bit of input on the date of a rescheduled match too, and I would assume both were happier to take the risk here.

Dundee are very likely to lose to Rangers, and I'd imagine all three teams will be playing Saturday's game under that expectation.

You could say that for any game though. The fault here lies predominantly with Dundee for having an unsuitable pitch, and also for their seemingly deluded belief that their pitch would go on to be fine and that there was no need to make contingency plans. I'd say the main criticism I'd have is that the SPFL should have possibly taken it out of their hands and built in a contingency at a different stadium tonight. There's always a risk that any game on matchday 33 could be called off anyway, and that's why the split is built around the Scottish Cup semi-final weekend. The post-split fixtures are usually out not out until Tuesday/Wednesday anyway, so as long as the SPFL are somewhat proactive I don't think there will be a delay of anything more than a day or so with that.

So there's approximately a 92% chance of 5th getting Europe?

He's probably away looking for another non-league side to latch himself on to for another wee ego boost.

This happens with a game being moved to Sunday (or Saturday lunchtime) for TV too.

It's a bit like the men's team, if they can stop being rubbish the crowds will come along.

Fixtures are rarely scheduled for the first available date. Look at Edinburgh City v Montrose which was abandoned on Saturday, the replayed match is next midweek rather than last night or tonight.

The order of interest should always be title, relegation, Europe , split.

Qualifying with two games to spare is about the most obvious definition of "comfortable" I've ever heard.

On that "handball", it's entirely at the referee's discretion to determine whether the ball is in play or not. I think it's similar to a guy chucking the ball to a teammate to take a throw-in, or kicking the ball to someone else to take a free-kick, you wouldn't decide it was a foul throw or that the free-kick had been taken. If the Bayern players were pressing them into the box there would be a clearer argument of Gabriel being at it, but instead it seems to me like he's just expecting to take the goal kick himself.

The top 6 are on a Saturday and the bottom 6 are on a Sunday - that has been the case for the last few seasons and I think has already been confirmed for this season too.

Those angles can still be very deceptive.

We will likely win this game, and indeed this group, but I don't think it really says much about us going forward.

If he was allowing VAR to make the decision for him he wouldn't have immediately blown and booked Silva (correctly).