[Trusevich]

I think the problems with the penalty decisions and Houstons statements  that things even out, are the importance of the games involved. I think we were lucky to get a penalty at their place. However if it hadn't been given the likely outcome would have been yet another draw. The consequence of that would be they would have had 2 points more and us 2 less. We would still have finished third and the Bairns second.....no change there. However the decision last night which in my mind was a lot more obvious as a penalty has probably cost us a chance of promotion.......a much greater consequence .

All teams get poor decisions and none more so than here in Scotland where the refs are fairly poor at best. I am a believer that decisions do even themselves out over a season of league football but in one off games it is harder to tolerate.

Fair points, but we can't pick and choose when a poor decision is made. Nor can the refs (unless you subscribe fully to the paranoid brigade). We have to accept that mistakes will be made, and more importantly we have to accept that a referee's interpretation of an incident might not necessarily coincide with ours.

For instance, I thought last night's handball should have been a penalty, yet I can see why the ref might not have given it - it didn't look deliberate.

As for the 'these things even out' scenario - I don't think there's any evidence they do. Shit just happens.