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1 minute ago, velo army said:
Why would you reckon that Souttar won't be trying against Rangers? I don't know the player that well but what indication has he given that he would down tools against his future employers?
I don't really think that, and based on his limited game time since signing the pre-contract I've no issues with him playing in this. I just wanted to make a wee joke about Taylor Moore being a bit dodgy tbh.
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Rangers were 6 points clear a few weeks ago and now there's a good chance they'll be 4 points behind by kick-off in this match. The pressure on them currently is bigger than they've probably experienced for at least a couple of years. Maybe they'll rise to the occasion (they're more than capable of turning us over regardless) but that's something we have to try and take advantage of. But yeah, we'll probably be passive from kick-off and not start playing until we're behind.
I didn't think for a second we'd be playing Souttar in this match a couple of weeks back but I'm beginning to think a non-trying Souttar is still better than Taylor Moore.
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2 hours ago, Leith Green said:
I appreciate that lots of you lads are being trawled into the big net by @Hoose Rice - top trolling, but there is a rather decent point in among all the drivel.
You jambos seem to be very satisfied with your current league performance? And rightly I would say, you have the 3rd largest budget, and for a change the squad reflects that - which is positive.
However...............
In matches against what you might call "big" teams (Celtic, Rangers, Hibs, Aberdeen) the caveman has a record of winning 1 out of 10 this season.
Allied to his lack of anything better than a point (ever) at Easter Road, the disquiet among the away fans at the end last night was understandable.
It rivals Jack Ross in the "cannae win big games" stakes.
Hearts are doing basically what we did in the league last season - beat all the shite and do nothing against good teams.
It will in all probability get you 3rd spot, but I can almost hear the starting motor on that plane.....................
Did you consider that he might just be bad at posting?
Anyway, "Neilson is a shitebag who can't win big games" is already a well-trodden discussion point.
This season we've had 1 win and 3 defeats v Celtic and 1 draw and 1 defeat v Rangers. That is completely unremarkable for Hearts, if not slightly better than usual. We've been competitive in maybe all but one of those games and I don't think anyone else in the league has taken more points off them than us. They're just better teams by a margin.
3 draws and 1 defeat v Hibs and Aberdeen is fairly poor but could easily look quite different by the end of the season. We've beaten Motherwell twice and they're ahead of both.
Everyone knows he has limitations and our fortunes in the cup will decide a lot of the feeling towards him, but it'd be mental to be questioning his position just now. Consistently "beating the shite" isn't something to be taken for granted, as Hibs are finding out this season.
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1 minute ago, Hoose Rice said:
We aren't proclaiming to be the better side by miles though. Hearts haven't won a derby at the pink tip in 4 years either.
You were the one that brought up derby records at Easter Road though weren't you?
Heading into this season with broadly the same squad that just achieved your highest league finish for 16 years and facing a newly-promoted Hearts team that were beaten by Brora the year before, is this how you thought it would turn out? Spinning a shite 0-0 draw at home as moral victory?
I'm pretty happy with how things are going to be honest.
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5 minutes ago, Hoose Rice said:
Why would there be seethe? We expected to lose and never.
One day Mr Money spinner may manage a team to win at Easter Road. You never know.
Maybe not a great attack line when Hibs haven't won a derby at Easter Road for 4 years tbf.
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2 minutes ago, TheScarf said:
Hearts were shite last night. I'm puzzled as to why folk are suggesting otherwise.
Who do you think is suggesting otherwise? The last two people who responded to Joe Terrapin's post both said as much last night.
Suggesting Hibs "played the better football" is more than debatable, though.
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22 minutes ago, Joe Terrapin said:
Got to be embarrassed not beating a team with Andy Halliday in the starting line up. Felt we played the better footballl and should have won. Hearts were poor and far from the world beaters they have been made out to be. Hopeful balls and no real intent. Did the Billy Boy's renditions come over clear on the tele as it did at the ground? Well done to all the Hibs supporters trying to drown out that abomination with boos. They really are 'Diets' in every sense of the word.
You didn't have a shot on target until the 82nd minute and your goalkeeper was awarded man of the match.
Most have been pretty fair but there have been some incredible takes on this game.
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2 hours ago, VincentGuerin said:
It's been a great week. We've come out very nicely from a wee run where Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell all played each other and we had Celtic.
Yeah, by the end of the weekend we'll be a minimum of 7 points clear, having played all of our pre-split games against Celtic and Rangers (Motherwell will still have Rangers away, Hibs and Aberdeen will still have both). We'll also only have two games left against the current top 6, both at home.
This run of games was probably the best chance for Hibs/Motherwell/Aberdeen to start closing the gap but it hasn't materialised. If we can pick up another 4 or 5 wins before the split then we should be home and dry by then.
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13 minutes ago, Kyle Reese said:
I'm 42 chief, I've been on a great many 'European adventures" (
). It's cool, I know what to expect. It's all about the Scottish Cup now. If we win that, or one of the OF do, we are in the group stages of the European Conference League. Will that be better than our games v Bayern, Bayer Leverkausen, Mallorca, Liverpool or Spurs? Probably not. That's just a reflection of where Scottish teams now are in European terms. It would however be comparable to when we made the group stages of the UEFA Cup in the mid 00s, and bring in a decent wee wedge to try and improve the squad for next season.
Worth saying that, if it does happen, we'd have a Europa League play-off first, potentially playing a big club. Lose and we'd be in the ECL group stage which did include some big names this season (including Spurs).
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18 minutes ago, Leith Green said:
Thought we did pretty well to be honest.
Hearts? A better bench than us is about all I would say.
Porteous absolutely pissed that match and big keV should be in on Saturday.
We were poor, but still the better team with the most chances. I've obviously underestimated how bad Hibs have been recently if that was doing well.
The stuff about us going there and delivering a scudding was always way overhyped. There's a bit of a gap between the teams but not a massive one.
It would be good if we could stop starting games really shitely. The first 25 was hideous and Hibs were well on top. Once things settled down we started playing in their half and creating chances but the sloppiness never fully left us. Frustrating result, but Hibs could have snatched it at the end and everyone else drew so it's not the worst.
Impressed by Simms who was a constant threat after a poor first half hour where he couldn't trap a bag of cement. Atkinson had some dodgy moments and took a while to get going but looks promising and clearly offers something different to Smith, could have had a very good assist in the first half if Boyce hadn't been sleeping. Sibbick was very good. Other than that, meh.
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20 minutes ago, Mr. X said:
Hopefully Moore settles quickly tonight. This new defence worries me a bit.
I've mentioned the lack of a no-nonsense defender in there but, more importantly, we really can't afford nervousness in there tonight and that's the vibe I get from Moore. Hopefully I've got him wrong and he can step up tonight.
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I feel like no Halkett and no Souttar is a bigger worry than people realise. Moore was very dodgy under pressure on Saturday and Doidge ought to win every header against that back three.
I'd have had Haring in for Devlin, not least because he gives some extra height, but I can't complain about the selection otherwise.
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I'll be annoyed if we don't win (obviously), but we won't be scudding anyone. No-one really believes that, it's just expectation management.
We've been consistent results-wise this season but we don't really do scuddings and we've only taken 1 point from 12 in our away games against other top six teams. We also don't have a clue what our defence is going to look like with the Souttar situation still unresolved and Halkett out with no proper alternatives at the moment.
I love that Maloney seems like he could be a Cathroesque ineffectual dweeb but it's a derby so I'd expect the Hibs players to be up for it regardless.
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2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
I'm fairly sure a Hearts side that's obsessed with data scouting, the English market, and getting value for money, will shell out for a 31yo CB who can't get a game for Aberdeen.
I agree, but with Halkett out for a while we could really do with a big b*****d who just stands in the middle of the box and heads it away.
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17 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
That's a huge loss, he's been tremendous this season. And him being the aggressive defender out the 3 at the back has been key for us.
Yeah, I'd actually like to see us bring in an experienced defender regardless of what happens with Souttar. Can't afford to risk chucking 3rd at this stage.
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Halkett out for several weeks according to Neilson. Not unexpected, but a bit of a nightmare.
I find it hard to see Souttar leaving now unless we've got another defender lined up.
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1 hour ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
I've checked transfermarkt and you're right. Halkett has started every other game apart from Fir Park
but in the last 3 games he has went off after 50 minutes against Ross County, 71 minutes against St Johnstone and 81 against Celtic.Yep and we looked a bit ropey after he went off against Ross County too.
Hopefully it's something we'll be looking at if Souttar leaves. We could do with an experienced back-up.
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7 minutes ago, Allroy for Prez said:
The game at Tynecastle this season was defined and decided by 2 early and uncharacteristic errors from Kelly, after that there was nothing in it.
The next game at Fir Park was probably our best performance of the season and won at a canter.
Even with that in mind I still can’t see past a fairly routine Hearts win here. We’re sitting in a very respectable league position but I feel we have issues all over the pitch.
I thought we dominated that game until the missed penalty swung the momentum. Devlin and Baningime ran the midfield that day.
We did indeed get pumped in the Fir Park game which (I think) is the only time we've not had Halkett in the starting line-up this season. Unfortunately it looks like he'll be missing again tomorrow and I really don't think we have an adequate replacement for what he does. Neilson tried shifting Souttar over and slotting Moore in at RCB last time and it looked ropey as f**k, so it'll be interesting to see if he tries something different here.
Really hope McKay is fit. He's our most creative player by miles.
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Pleasantly surprised by that signing, especially with it being permanent.
Hard to judge him based on his last spell but he looked promising then and he was a regular for Barnsley in their play-off run last season. Seems he suffered from the managerial change in the summer and a lot of their fans aren't happy about this.
He played RCB for Barnsley so I'd guess that's near enough confirmation that Souttar is off this month.
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51 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said:1 hour ago, DC92 said:I know we get a bad rap on here but no-one can compete with Old Firm fans when it comes to bad posts.
That would have had some merit if it wasn't appearing underneath one by @Gorgiegreatness who is unquestionably the thickest poster in the history of P&B. Sorry.
You make a magnanimous and whimsical point.
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21 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
It wasn’t too bad till that thunderb*****d of an opening goal but we fell to bits for a while after that.
It wasn’t till they announced two minutes added on in the first half that hearts regained any composure
If the first half demonstrated why we’re not going to be in the top two the second showed why we’re not going to be in the bottom nine.
And even though we didn’t get a result the atmosphere was so much better with less Celtic fansWe just couldn't play through the midfield at all. We would probably have benefited from Baningime's composure and ability to play out of tight spaces earlier as opposed to Devlin's harum-scarum style but maybe he wasn't ready to play more than half an hour.
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40 minutes ago, Greenlantern said:
Hearts second half flurry felt as whimsical as a comb through Robbie’s hair.
Thank god for the offside goal.6 minutes ago, Greenlantern said:Celtic should increase the allocation for these bawbags & laugh when they can’t fulfil it.
I know we get a bad rap on here but no-one can compete with Old Firm fans when it comes to bad posts.
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Rotten performance, really. The 4-4-2 didn't work at all and too many players were off it. When Celtic did their now standard disappearing act in the last half-hour we put them under pressure but didn't create enough.
None of our rivals gained more than a point on us so I'm not too despondent, but we desperately need Halkett not to be injured. Somehow he's probably now our most important player.
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1 hour ago, Kyle Reese said:
I think Boyce would probably welcome having someone to take the pressure of him a little. Might even play alongside each other in some games. If Boyce gets injured, we only have converted wingers/number tens, and Euan Henderson as back up. It's an interesting point though. I think Boyce realises that like every other first choice player, we are only looking to bring in players who will actively compete with them for the shirt. We will be looking to find better than Boyce already, but it's up to him to show that he can see off the challenge.
I think Atkinson coming in gives us more width from full-back, meaning we're less reliant on the front three for that. That might mean we see two up front more often.
Boyce and Simms up front with McKay playing off them could be handy if Simms lives up to the billing.
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I think Kyle Reese is talking about his low, hard cross across the face of goal in the first half, similar to his one for Cochrane v Auchinleck. Admittedly I haven't seen it since the time but don't think that was a sclaff.
Opinion seemed to be pretty split on whether he was great or had a stinker on Tuesday but I can see both sides on that. He's a bit lightweight, makes the wrong decision at times and seemed to get caught by the pace of the game initially, but he broadly did well enough defensively (including one great tackle), he can go past people and he's capable of a good cross even if it's 1 out of every 4/5. If he's going to make it here then I suspect we won't see the best of him until next season.