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Don't forget their second goal at Ibrox Sunshine - that crucial winning goal, was an offside goal scored by Kenny Miller!! A well taken goal but clearly offside all the same and conveniently missed by both the referee Murray and his assistant ref. Re the cynical time-wasting by Gers players throughout this return match, I counted approx 8 mins on my moby stop watch from Bell's continuous delaying tactics to kicking the ball away at every opportunity. Talk about desperate tactics to stop a better side from playing!! That was the game I observed today and football lost out today (no thanks to the irritatingly poor control/observations of an iffy referee!) as well as Hibs! I wish we had a real sniffer of a fully fit striker up front because if we had, we would have murdered Rangers by at least 2 or 3 goals after 180 mins of football. And you're right - this inconsistently poor ref Beaton discarded the fundamental rule that persistent fouling is actually a bookable offence and an eventual second yellow if the offence persists - how did Zaluskas remain on the pitch in the full 90 mins of play???? And Wallace was not much better by the way!! I gave up counting the number of his fouls!! Beaton had some bizarre reason to avoid giving out yellow cards until the latter stage of this match - totally baffling! IMO the better team lost this play-off and I think Motherwell, with their two poaching centre forwards + Lee Irwin, will be delighted that Gers are the final play-off team!! I never thought we would beat M'well anyway and I certainly don't think Gers will do it although I'd like to see them do it just to remove them from next season's Championship. IMO that would give us a better chance to win it! However I fear that will not happen.