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Breaking Hibs transfer news, Deadline Day preview … and more rows over VAR, handball and offside

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00:01Hi, welcome back to Easter Road, just after Sunday's game where we can talk about the game.

00:06But I think first we have to talk about transfer news and David Gray confirming that there's been a bid for Eli Yuan.

00:14I think if you read your evening news you would know over a week ago, I think, that we'd reported that Legia Warsaw,

00:21Hib's UEFA Conference League opponents and conquerors were interested in the French attacker.

00:26I'd taken a phone call from someone over in Poland who was asking about it and saying, look, what would Hib's take?

00:33Realistically, we discussed, I don't know why he was asking me, he's an expert, but transfer market value,

00:39we're talking about a million euros, but I don't think Legia we're going to go that far.

00:45David Gray's very clear that if it comes to fruition, and wish Eli all the best,

00:50I think most people would agree that overall, he's done a lot for Hib's.

00:58Scenes at Tynecastle last year in particular, particularly enjoyable for Hib's fans.

01:05But it probably makes sense for him to move on, given the profile, the way the team plays at the moment,

01:10and what David Gray's looking for up front, which brings us to what he's looking for tomorrow, on Deadline Day,

01:17which is a Linden Dykes-style forward.

01:23Maybe like Linden Dykes.

01:26There's that story, isn't there, of somebody in a band in Manchester advertising for a Johnny Marr-style guitarist,

01:31and Johnny Marr turned up.

01:32So, I think that's the situation where, listen, the Dykes thing makes so much sense,

01:37and this is terrible because we're applying logic to football, you don't always want to do that,

01:41but it makes so much sense, you would think, it just has to happen.

01:46It makes sense for him to come up here and enjoy Grant Hanley,

01:50and compete with Kieran Bowie for game time, which is going to become important,

01:55as Scotland head into their international break,

01:58and heading into the World Cup, he wants to play in that.

02:03So, that could be Yuan out, Dykes in would be a good start to Deadline Day, I think.

02:09Then you may get a midfielder, you might get a wing-back, I don't know.

02:13We'll see how the day pans out.

02:15There's always the potential for that Oh My signing,

02:20which is, oh, I didn't know he was going to be available.

02:23We'll get him in.

02:25Hib's head into the international break on the back of a draw.

02:28I wish we didn't have to talk about it, but

02:30offside, handball and VAR.

02:33So, offside, when is a player interfering with play,

02:37when is he not interfering with play?

02:38The old adage, if you're not interfering with play,

02:40what are you doing on the pitch?

02:41It certainly looks as if at least two St. Mirren players might be offside,

02:47one in the keeper's eye line, one blocking a defender.

02:50Length of the AR check, couldn't decide it and just gave the goal.

02:55The late handball offence,

02:57the ball was definitely played against the St. Jadon Richardson hand.

03:01On a personal level, I would not like to see those given for handball.

03:06I just don't think they should be given as handball and penalties.

03:08But they are all the time.

03:11They are consistently given as penalty offences.

03:15And this one wasn't.

03:16So, you can see why David Gray, in a very, very respectful way,

03:19he's not shouting and screaming.

03:21He's not going to get banned or fined.

03:22He's just asking, look, I'd like to know why the goal was a goal,

03:25why that one wasn't going to be a penalty.

03:27He's not having to pick up the phone to Willie Callum

03:29because he said, Willie's always very open anyway.

03:31They explain what was going on.

03:35The SFA had been very open with explaining their decisions.

03:39So, I think it's just, it's baffling, isn't it?

03:41I mean, we've seen it down in England.

03:43We've seen it, you know, people are talking about a sterilised game.

03:46They're talking about a game where,

03:48after multiple replays, slowing things down,

03:52still getting the wrong decision in a lot of people's minds,

03:55it's never going to be infallible.

03:57But I think it's only right that we demand better of it.

04:00So, heading into the national break,

04:02I hope you'll decompress a little bit,

04:06but first we've got to get through the next 24, 28 hours,

04:09or whatever it is, until the deadline.

04:13Interesting times.

04:14Keep checking the evening news.

04:15We shall do our very best to cover everything that happens.

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