We go into these games as fans knowing the other teams will try their absolute hardest and - apart from last season - pretty much every season since Gerrard came in, we’ve been going away from these grounds often thinking that the other team tried harder.
The problems are twofold.
1 - Apart from that one season, everyone but the players seem to know that they’re in for a game every single time we go to certain grounds. Why aren’t we matching it every single time? Not asking for perfect football, but I’m asking for 100% effort.
2 - If it’s widely accepted that we ‘can’t’ be as physical as the other teams, then why the %^*& are we sitting in silence getting continually shafted? Why aren’t the players on the park making it obvious that they’re giving the ref a hard time, why isn’t the manager being clever about it pre and post game and why isn’t the club making noises about speaking to the SFA and league for clarity/assurances on certain referees based on simple facts that we can all find online showing an obvious bias?