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Re: Caledonia you're calling me
« Reply #15 on: Mon 22 Apr 2019 12:32 »
The Kilmarnock v Aberdeen game will be getting talked about for weeks.  Steven McLean, who I generally rate, did not have his finest day.  The first red card was incredibly harsh, the Kilmarnock player had to challenge the 'keeper, it was a 40/60 and it was neither excessive in force or overly high.  A yellow card would have been an OK decision but I think a foul would have been suffice.  The two yellows for Findlay wasn't great either, I think the second one was a good tackle and i don't think it came through the man or was overly hard to merit a yellow or a foul being conceded despite the ball being played first.  And the final one was a little petulant kick out but based on what has been deemed as violent throughout the season in Scotland, it was clearly in the yellow category.  To be fair to Steven McLean, he wasn't looking at this one and acted on advice from a colleague, whether it was assistant or fourth official it remains unclear.

In amongst all this both Sam Cosgrove of Aberdeen and Kris Boyd were fortunate not to receive a second yellow and Aberdeen's Devlin was fortunate to receive a yellow for a late tackle that was on the cusp of DOGSO, however on balance whilst I think red could be argued, yellow was not wrong but on another day he could have walked too. 

As my good friends previously alluded, Kilmarnock is a bit of a toilet in itself though has a couple of excellent boozers between station and ground in Fanny by Gaslight and The Horse and Granite.  Many a pint been had in there whilst heading to Rugby Park over the years.  Rugby Park is one of a few grounds in Scotland that was built in the early to mid 1990s which is far too big for the club who is in there meaning it remains more than 60% empty at most games but if they could fill it would be a damn fine ground and it offers a great view down on the pitch in the away end.  Certainly in the top half of favoured away grounds in the current top flight for this travelling 'Well fan.

Due to other commitments I've not commented on here so much lately but Don Robertson was superb in our game on Saturday.