Scottish Cup

They fecked up there, drawing Sevco and Celtic together for one of the semi finals, or maybe they were scared one of them wouldn't have made the final and thought it better to get them playing against one another in the semi.

Utd v Hibs/ICT is a good draw though, the relegated team to win the cup, or maybe even do what we did last season and avoid relegation and a cup win.

Did anyone see Hughes bashing his player on the ears when they equalised with Hibs, what a boorish twat he is. He did the same at Livi, used to batter our young players on the head and back, he's just an arse.

Local interest for Broxburn going to Paisley playing St Mirren, 1,600 tickets been sold to Broxburn fans.Would've had a better chance playing at home right enough, think St Mirren will be too good for them playing at home.

1600 fans is impressive, would love it if they could win.

Watched the highlights of the Hibs v Hearts cup game, what a pair of cheating bassas they are, both diving for penalties, Hibs deservedly missing theirs. Hearts boy dived too but enjoyed seeing them score from thers, after what the Hibs boy did in our 2-2 draw at Easter Rd diving to get their pen for the first goal in their comeback from 2-0 down.

Doesn't say much for the ref though, getting 2 penalty decisions wrong in a SC semi final game.

And getting no help from the assistants behind the goal line... but yes I enjoyed seeing Hibs get dumped out too.

And it’s now down to Hearts to try & prevent the quadruple treble... now THAT would be hilarious

Interesting watching the MoTD EPL highights, seeing how VAR has actually made refereeing decisions worse.

Spurs game was ridiculous, Harry Kane quite obv backed into a BHA player, you even saw him having a wee look back to make sure he knew where the boy was to back into him as he was in the air, so he came down on top of Kane. If anything it was a foul against Kane and a booking for dangerous play, with intent to injure the guy as he wouldn't have been able to land on his feet.

Thought i was going mad when both commentators didn't even mention it as such, ignoring what Kane had done, thankfully it was picked up in the studio by the ex player pundits. Anyway, the ref and VAR got it wrong, awarding Spurs a penalty. Fecking hell!!!

He later evened it up with another balls up of a decision, when a Spurs player was clearly fouled, letting play continue for VAR to check it, and BHA scored. VAR check and the goal stood as they concluded it wasn't a foul, it's quite legal to follow through onto the Spurs players ankle, apparently. The ref even went to VAR screen for a check, and still got it wrong!!!

Seems VAR has changed the rules, they're more interested in if contact was made on the ball or the player first, and forgot about dangerous play where being out of control you follow through and injure a player, it's still a foul even when you get a wee nick on the ball. And when someone backs into a player who is up in the air, you look at the whole picture, to include the events leading up to contact, and not just the point of contact/impact.

Kane actually had 2 looks checking where the BHA player was, firstly seeing he had jumped up to head the ball, then a wee glance back as he was reversing into him, to make sure he got into the right position, inexcusable to miss that when you have VAR checking, but they obv don't look for things like that, and just concentrate on the point of contact.

The time they take for VAR to get offside decisions is bad enough, getting it down to minute fractions, where an oxter or arse is minesculely offside, if we ever get it up here then i hope to feck they have figured out how to use it to enhance the game and help officials with difficult to spot decisions, and not nit pick over every fecking little thing and ruin the game as an entertaining spectacle for fans.

VAR is a joke. The best thing they can do is use it only for overturning clear & obvious errors. Then there would be no need to get the minuscule line measurements. If you can’t see that they got it wrong with the naked eye, then don’t change the decision. But as you have highlighted they can’t even identify the clear & obvious errors.

Currently Celtic 2-2 Hearts.

Both teams are pretty poor, Sellick 2-0 up at HT and cruising, then keystone cop defending and goalkeeping from Sellick in the 2nd half seeing the game turned on its head. Heading for ET here, unless the jammy aunts in green and white grab an injury time winner.

Gutted our game against them was postponed for this, we'd have surely humped them sill just now, hope to feck Lennon isn't sacked before the rearranged fixture.

Dykes would've had an absolute ball ragdolling this Celtic defence if he was still here, but would still fancy our chances against them.

Thought they were going to do it when Gordon saved Christie’s pen but Kingsley’s pen was woeful, really needed that to go in to emphasise the miss & put pressure on the next taker, instead the poor pen changed the momentum.

Ach well it'll maybe help keep Lennon in his job till we play them.

Brora Rangers 2-1 Hearts 2021 Scottish cup.

That was the shock of the round by far, certainly the biggest cup shock since Berwick beat Rangers, arguably a bigger shock than that although I would say Berwick v Rangers edges it.

Formartine United knocked Annan out too, not the same scale obviously but still a non league side putting out a league side.

Fantastic performance by Brora, could easily have felt they'd had it when Hearts equalised, but just kept going and scored again to win it.

FAF though, with folk tipping Hearts to be a top 6 team next season, and a formidable force in the Premiership.

Hibs in the final, so we're still in with a chance of European football next season.

Just need to get ourselves back into 5th place now.

Would be so sweet if Hibs beat St Johnstone in the final (after being knocked out in the semi of the Betfred cup by them)/St Mirren beat St Johnstone in the semi final (after being pipped to the top 6 in GD by them), and us taking 5th place off them in the final league game (after being beaten in the cup final by them). Revenge for all of us on St Johnstone.

Hate to break it to you (I know you know this but the way you’ve posted it’s like you don’t) but we can’t ALL get revenge. Either Hibs or StM could & we might (we won’t). A maximum of two teams could get revenge but the way StJ are going, I foresee 5th and a cup double.

We'll all bask in St Johnstone's failures, the 3rd team can take revenge vicariously through whoever dumps them out of the cup.

Good save... still won’t happen

Up to us and Hibs now, knew we couldn't count on the Midden for anything, useless plicks.

Got to take my hat off to St Johnstone. Double cup winners,5th place and Europe. Theve deserved all due mainly in a sense of others bottling it when it mattered.They didn't and I hope they have great night.Seems so long since we had ours.But well done to them .

Phenomenal season for them, shite that the fans couldn't be there for both cup wins, and outside of the erse cheeks it'll never be beaten, hope the fans enjoy themselves.

Farcical the sports writers already gave Gerrard MoTY, Hands down Davidson is MoTY, isn't even debatable.

Agreed, he’s won twice as many trophies as Gerrard in a fraction of the time with a fraction of the budget & a team of journeymen that he clearly knows how to get the best out of; Callum Davidson is without doubt the manager of the season.

Real supporters know who the MOTY is.Pathetic journos and officianados made their collective minds up weeks ago. Sums up the mindset of Scottish football on the whole. Shambolic and embarrassing. Well done Saints. We know better.