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27 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:
One man jambo band. IMO.
Thank you.
I'm sure if he took the night off and we gave you a two-goal head start you'd have no issues then.
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3 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
From a Hearts point of view to do that, and have our run in general, while missing Boyce, McKay, Atkinson, Haring, Rowles, Kingsley, Devlin and Halkett not fully fit yet shows how strong a squad we've assembled.
Yeah, I was worried about that defence today (rightly, as it turned out), but it didn't matter in the end. Hopefully when we have Rowles and Kingsley back we'll be able to rediscover the solid defending and combine it with our recent goalscoring form.
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I want to hear more about Hibs' brilliant transfer window.
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A draw would've been fair there but that is a brilliant 3 points. One hand on the diddyship now.
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Lewis Miller selling the jerseys in the Asian Cup to get our Aussies back early.
He replaced Atkinson, who set up Australia's goal.
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8 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
Boyce out for 2 months, needs an operation.
That puts a slightly negative spin on the window, we must've known that, why didn't we get a forward in?
I didn't know this before, but this was my worry and it's not a surprise. He's an able deputy, but can't be relied upon to stay fit these days. We should have been after a striker anyway.
I assume this information was kept under wraps until today because they were trying to bring someone in and didn't want to get gouged on price. Maybe Van Veen's fitness was a concern but he'd have been an obvious way to go.
Lys Mousset it is.
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4 minutes ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said:
Choulay the Morrocan Magician is available on a free
Apparently he played 12 times for us. A remarkable revelation.
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Being sensible is all well and good, but it feels like it's been ages since we've had any excitement on deadline day. I'm still chasing that Abiola Dauda high.
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Business complete by the looks of it. Pleased with the Lembikisa signing on initial evidence and happy that Shankland's staying (although I didn't expect him to leave anyway). We'll see how Fraser is but he won't have to do much to be an upgrade on Lowry.
A striker was the second priority after a RB for me and not signing one is a disappointment. The Spartans game was a grim glimpse into what a Shanklandless Hearts looks like just now. If he stays fit we'll be fine. If he doesn't, and Boyce continues to struggle with injuries, then I don't even see how we make the ball stick up front, let alone score goals.
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39 minutes ago, Dundee-FC92 said:
You've got the third highest budget in the league to ease Bonehead into the position, having qualified for Europe last season with him all but managing the club.
Some of the Daily Record headlines about Shankland made more sense than this.
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6 minutes ago, kingjoey said:
Just saying it as I saw it. Dundee were excellent for the bulk of the match on Tuesday, whereas Hearts let us dominate the first half and didn't look that impressive overall. Also the game being at Dens I can only see a home win. I understand that you will totally disagree.
I also watched the game on Tuesday and both teams were pretty rotten in the first half, though Dundee were pretty impressive after the break. Aberdeen played with a lot more intensity initially against us but ran out of steam and were ultimately well beaten.
I would expect a hard game, particularly if we start as sluggishly as we have been recently.
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Hearts aren't in for him according to Barry Anderson.
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18 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
This is debatable.
Given the protracted nature of this move, I'm not sure it's even this anymore.
I think we can all agree that it is. What it is remains to be seen.
An unexpectedly philosophical turn for a discussion on a loan signing from the 18th-best team in League One.
It seems reasonable enough on paper to me. I'd prefer we sign a striker, but that doesn't look likely.
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13 minutes ago, kingjoey said:
Look out Hearts, it's last season all over again. Be afraid.
I'd prefer it to be the season before all over again tbh.
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16 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
Scott Fraser has signed on loan for the rest of the season
I understand that this is good news
I think we can all agree that this is definitely news.
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30 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
It's an interesting one. The fact that Robson got it last time (like Naismith at Hearts), hints at the probability that nobody of any note wanted the job. Hearts strongly hinted at this when defending Naismith, and said they'd basically had f**k all good candidates and had spoken to Aberdeen who had said the same.
Not sure what's changed for Aberdeen (or Hearts) to hope to attract better now.
I'd say there was no-one in the Alex Neil sweet spot (Scottish, available, decent track record, not as attractive as he was to Championship clubs) when we appointed a manager. If he's interested then that would seem the most sensible move.
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8 minutes ago, Stylish Kid said:
We need a strong Aberdeen to take points off our rivals for third place.
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12 minutes ago, Molotov said:
Apologies. IIRC it was your chief executive or another senior management position.
IIRC his comments were roundly abused on here last season. Especially so when you had a complete arse collapse.
Ps: I was just Kidding on.
No need to apologise. I don't think his comments from when we were in 5th place in December were a proclamation of 3rd, but thankfully he's mostly kept his mouth shut anyway.
If Elixir reappears on here, then I'll be worried.
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7 minutes ago, Molotov said:
This is reminiscent of last season when Hearts fans and directors were proclaiming 3rd spot early doors with a commanding lead.
Which club this season will challenge these bottlers from Edinburgh?
What "directors" were proclaiming that?
Thankfully we're in a better position than we were at any stage last season, but to answer your question, definitely not St Mirren.
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It really depends what "a few million" means. Obviously any money is welcome, but if it literally means a one-off investment of a few million, that doesn't necessarily make a huge difference unless it's spent very wisely. Hearts and Aberdeen have both benefitted from big cash bounties from Europe in the last couple of seasons and haven't really kicked on (to put it mildly in Aberdeen's case). I'm pretty sure those clubs have a bigger base income as well.
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51 minutes ago, Tony Wonder said:
Happy enough with a pre contract, wouldn't be spending a lot on him just now though, especially if still bringing Fraser in which Naismith said we were aiming to do. Bringing both would just be more blockage in the way of Tait/Pollock etc.
If Fraser is off fair enough.Hard to know what to make of the Fraser thing. Fair enough for Charlton to want the new manager to make the decision, but they're surely not going to have one by the time the window closes. I'm not sure we need to spunk significant cash on Dhanda just now regardless and I'd be surprised if Ross County are willing to let him go on the cheap.
Also looking at Penrice on a pre-contract. Have to assume Cochrane will be off by the summer, if not earlier.
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Dhanda has signed a pre-contract according to the Sun. Trying to get him this week.
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6 minutes ago, VincentGuerin said:
Aye, that's fair. Whoever finishes third other fans always say "they're NO EVEN THAT GOOD!!!!" and it's almost always true.
Last season is one that I just think we were unlucky with, to be honest. Obviously. mistakes were made, and we dug some holes for ourselves, but I think the sheer volume of injuries to key players would have had most teams in the bottom six.
Good to get a clean sheet again. We're based on not conceding (which is part of being good). I think we need about six wins to wrap this up.
If you take games against the top two out of the equation, Killie, St Mirren and Aberdeen all have a ceiling of 65 points, Dundee 67, and Hibs 63. Six wins will definitely do it. We'd probably get away with four and a couple of draws tbh, but I'd rather we just get it done and have the cigars out in March again.
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10 hours ago, VincentGuerin said:
That'll do.
Really poor first half, but, even with Hearts being shite, you never felt Aberdeen had anything really to offer. I've not seen any highlights, so no idea about the disallowed goal etc. But, I think Hearts were quite comfortably the better side overall, and the second half was quite shocking in how one-sided it was. Considering Aberdeen were the side that needed to win, I thought they offered very little.
Hearts aren't great, but I think we've now seen enough to be confident that we're significantly better than the competition. We've got a solid core, and that's the basis for the mildly competent supporting acts to Shankland to go and get the job done in games like today. It's not a Hearts team anyone will look back on with fondness in the future, but it's better than the teams it has to be better than. Seen nothing from this Aberdeen team to disabuse me of my view that it's vastly over-rated. Unbalanced, lacking a core, easy to play against. Rolled over today. Said back in the summer I wouldn't be shocked if they finished bottom six, still feel that way.
If we don't get third from here, every c**t needs sacked. You get a lot of the Aberdeen fans on here who love to call this Hearts team "bang average". I don't really disagree, but the teams we're up against are pure shite, and there's no excuse for not walking this in from here.
From my experience over the last couple of decades and more, the team that finishes 3rd/best of the rest can usually be described as "average". We've had several top 3 finishes in that time, but aside from 97/98 and 05/06, I'm not sure any of our teams escape that description. The same is true of Aberdeen aside from a season or two when McInnes was at his peak. Average is the norm.
If it wasn't for a horror run of injuries last season, we'd very likely be on course for a 3rd straight 3rd place, even allowing for Neilson losing the plot a year ago. That's at least a welcome level of relative consistency which we haven't had for ages.
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Dundee vs. Hearts - 3/2/2024
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Or maybe it would've been like the year before, when we didn't have him and still finished miles ahead in 3rd.