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Me too. They've played like they cared. And they've played with real flair.

Are we going to get a make up offside goal as well?

I'd love to know what the TV commentators made of that. I hope they've called those refereeing decisions for what they were.

Utterly shameful refereeing. Words fail me.

This is the best I've seen us play in months.

And they will be tired. They won't want lively kids running at them.

Where I come from a faggot is a large meatball made of offal and usually served in a rich gravy.

Agreed, if this is the 16/17 Wilkinson then could be excellent. We're definitely light on central defenders. And if Jakobsen is fit for Saturday I'm almost optimistic...

So I gather. The plot thickens...

So either Jakobsen is seriously crocked, or this isn't an injury replacement but a short term signing?

Let's hope we are. On the rest of the pitch we can make do and mend, but we're stuffed in defence. It's the one place on the park we could really use an extra body. With Chapman gone surely we could think about a contract until the end of the season?

I'd just like a club which under promises and over delivers, and goes about its business with more respect for its fans and its history. And reminds its players that we work to a higher standard, on and off the pitch, than our noisy neighbours.

And we've not got enough cover...

Perversely, because there really is nothing to lose, I feel more positive about this than I might with fewer suspensions. We'll have a go, we'll probably lose, but I sense I'll walk away thinking we genuinely tried. Feels like going to a cup tie against a team two divisions higher. Bugger me JW. I hadn't even read your comment when I wrote mine above. Great minds...

Tend to agree. We looked better but still coughed at the death. Then the whole thing gets hijacked by disciplinary events in the last five. Dumb indiscipline and lack of focus which hardly helps our plight.

Fair point. I'm wondering why I didn't call out the use of the word on this forum. So for the record, and re a comment above, spastic ceased to be a socially acceptable insult about thirty years ago.

I did wonder how much life there would be in his new contract after this. Indeed, and a few of our fans, and of other clubs, need to take note of this. Adam Goodes is exactly the right comparison. But Berisha needing consoling? Cry me a river, he's always in everyone else's face...

Was advocating some sort of protest before last night. Surely needs something now after last night's disgrace (and I'm not just on about the result).

They'll change their mind when they look at our list of available players.

Unfortunately right now he's the best we've got, and he'll be playing behind a decimated defence. We're going to get several more floggings before this is over, regardless of how good or bad he is. Sad for the bloke to end his career in such shambolic ignominy.

I've always been uncomfortable with gypsy being used as a term of abuse. It is, as others have said, using a racial term to abuse and is hence racial vilification. Apart from anything else it's against the law. I grew up in the UK where gypsies, travellers, Roma are still subject to gross racism, and where such racism is still apparently socially acceptable. It was only fifteen years ago I was working in one part of the country where there was a big gypsy community and public officials including police officers still referred to them openly as pikeys, a derogatory term. I can understand ignorance of these issues in Australia, though not from anyone with any recent family history anywhere in Europe, but ignorance is no excuse, just an opportunity to learn. The club statement is taking the right line, but Bouzanis is in trouble, and rightly so. This will follow him for whatever remains of his career.

The difference is that Heart often exceeded (admittedly lower) expectations. City set high expectations and then underperform woefully. Failed at the sharp end last season, have failed ever since the cup win this season. Either way it's crap, but on balance I'd rather see sixth as an achievement for a small club than an abject capitulation from one that's all mouth and trousers.

Creek of shit. No paddle.

Franjic has just said exactly the same. What I said at the time, interfering with play... And the mugging of Brandan in the first half which was a penalty all ends up. We got nothing tonight.

If the chants are loud enough and long enough at the Brisbane match even the commentators will notice and comment.