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For some reason I'm still watching.
I'm also beginning to suspect that Austin MacPhee was not entirely blameless in us being shite for the three years since he arrived at the club.
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Don't get too excited. I'm pretty sure this has all come from a wind-up on Kickback.
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3 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
Which is less than ideal IMO but whether Hearts need to rush the process along Probably comes down to whether you think Austin McPhee has sufficiently competence to be left as caretaker for long enough to do the process properly.
Given that debate on McPhee tends to polarise between “he failed to beat Rangers in Glasgow and looks weird” on one hand and “we stuck five past St Mirren and he’s got rock star cool going on” on the other that’s liable to be a long and unproductive debate.
For the record I think we can afford to take our time, but I have been wrong in the past
I'm not particularly bothered about the timescale of the appointment, I'm bothered that the options discussed so far suggest we are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Mind you, I think the fact we went through this two years ago, drew up a similarly awful shortlist of Pressley, Hartley, Daly and Billy Davies, then fucked about for a while before deciding none of them were actually good enough, casts some doubt on the assumption that taking a long time = "doing the process properly".
Hopefully the reports suggesting that McCann, McCall and Cotterill are the best out-of-work managers we can come up with are wrong. Unfortunately they have the ring of truth based on recent experience.
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24 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:
getting the business people as far away as possible from the football decisions is literally the point of a director of footballWe appear to be "literally" hiring a manager without having a Director of Football in place.
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At least RandomGuy is all over the Hearts and Hibs threads to deliver his expert opinions.
On 28/06/2019 at 18:23, RandomGuy. said:Itll be interesting to see how you're EFL seaside league select side get on this year.
It's usually a complete disaster as they come up expecting an easier ride than they get, but Heckingbottom seems far too good a manager to have that happen.
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You know when a managerial vacancy appears and the worst of P&B converge on the relevant thread to post a picture of the worst manager they can think of? That's basically Ann Budge's recruitment strategy.
When fan ownership comes in, we really need to get her as far away as possible from making football decisions. She doesn't have a fucking clue.
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The Sunday Mail is suggesting we're going to go ahead with pursuing Stephen Robinson as number 1 target.
If this is true, it's (further) confirmation that our board are clueless fucking idiots with zero imagination or ambition. Ignoring all other potential candidates to appoint a guy because he managed to finished 7th and 8th with Motherwell and is currently on a good run of results is just the height of diddiness.
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1 hour ago, Eric said:
This was funny back in 2017. Up there with the Cathro laptop chat
Still fresh compared to posting pictures of bad football managers in response to every single vacancy that pops up.
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1) The Hartley thing is from 2017.
2) Being "the bookies favourite" an hour after the previous manager has been sacked is totally meaningless.
Budge making the decision is a worry, though. Thank f**k Pressley isn't available.
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Craig Levein:
- Has 16 points from the last 60 available;
- Complains that people calling for a manager's head in August is "ridiculous".
Also Craig Levein:
- Sacked a manager in August after he got 18 points from 60.
Some laugh.
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Not excited about Meshino because, despite being a Man City player and looking very talented in his video:
1) Loanees we sign from big English clubs are never good (Stewart, Ngoo, Randall, Smith-Brown, Mitchell in his second spell). Even Choulay (remember him?) was at Barcelona.
2) I've no idea of the relative standards of the J1 League and the Scottish Premiership, but I'd imagine the difference in the style of football might be quite a big adjustment for a 5'7" attacker (see also: Koki Mizuno).
3) I am inherently suspicious of anyone with a big reputation but no actual track record to speak of (see also: Cathro, Gauld). He made his second ever start for Gamba's first team on the 1st of June and was in and out of the starting line-up after that. Man City can afford to take punts like this for pocket change.
4) The only other player I can remember us (successfully) applying for a work permit for was Juwon Oshaniwa.
I think we've had a good window so far, but a striker who can score goals would be nice.
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3 hours ago, wastecoatwilly said:
I just don't get it,did McCormack even get a game last season?
Naismith has done well and Bryson at Aberdeen hasn't started yet for me these type of players have experience but are injured more than they play.As has been pointed out, Whelan hasn't had any notable injuries in his career and played 38 games last season for Aston Villa.
He's a completely different character to McCormack, who is an unfit waster now.
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1 minute ago, Darren said:
Exactly why we won't be signing him either IMO.
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I see Lee McGregor is begging Hearts to sign his mate Cummings on Twitter.
I doubt he'll fit into Levein's "character" criteria.
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4 hours ago, Pet Jeden said:
We have just committed to a 4 year contract for a player who appeared just 4 (FOUR !) times last season. What the fck scouting can we have done on him? I don’t have a scooby whether or not he’ll turn out to be a good signing. My problem is neither can Levein.
Levein tried to sign him two years ago and again in January.
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7 hours ago, the jambo-rocker said:
Hopeful that we get both Damour and Whelan rather than just the one. Haring's chocolate groin means he won't be fully fit until November knowing our luck, and if we only manage to sign one player, losing them to an injury would put us right back where we started.
Should it some how happen. having all three of Haring/Whelan/Damour fit and ready would certainly have us far better equipped to deal with a trip to Ibrox/Celtic park for a counter attacking 4-3-3 gameplan in the same way Killie have done it in the last two seasons.
It will obviously come with a cost to our younger players getting minutes, because I think Irving is worthy of a run of games, not to mention Cochrane really should be starting to make a more regular impact, but I'd imagine Clare will get the nod ahead of both.
Damour seems like more of a Djoum replacement than an out-and-out defensive midfielder, so there's still space for Whelan IMO. That said, I'll be surprised if we get him given how long it's dragged on now.
Damour seems decent going by the available footage and the opinions of Cardiff fans, but the four year deal makes me nervous. Hooked and booed off in his first game IMO.
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3 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
I was terrified that rumour was going to come to something more.
@Ludo*1 it is Wighton yes.
You've got competition from Dundee apparently.
Although I'm not sure if the Hemmings deal has changed that.
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Just to add to the hilarity/despair, I see from a reliable source that you're trying to sign a striker from Hearts.
And I'm not talking about MacLean.
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7 minutes ago, TommyDickFingers said:
Don't fret lads, after the mini **** win the league 10 games in and you lots dazzle the world with your 1 touch football master classes every week not a soul will remember pre season in Arbroath
Not sure drawing with Connah's Quay Nomads is much better tbh.
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Hopefully it's the good Jamie Walker and not the non-entity version that we had for almost all of 2017.
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6 minutes ago, Falcor Roar said:
'A strong, pacey and skillful front man, Conor has found the back of the net regularly throughout his career in the domestic game, with his goals to minutes played ratio equalling one strike every three games.'
If you take away the 54 goals he scored for St Ives Town (no me neither) who played in the (checks notes) United Counties League Premier then he's scored 1 in 5.
Why do Hearts even have to be cherry pick the stats here? Just give it to us straight like a pear cider. He's no bad at English League 1 and he might do well up here.
It might worded disingenuously but, to be fair, his goals ratio per 90 minutes at Peterborough, QPR and Sheffield United is roughly 1 in 3.
Encouraged by this signing. Not sure he'll score loads (HeartsStriker.txt) but he looks like a positive, energetic type and offers something different to Ikpeazu.
Halkett, Washington, Walker and Naismith (assuming they sign) would make it a decent window so far. When you add in the fact we've tied down Smith, Souttar, Haring and Ikpeazu on longer contracts then it actually looks like we've done some decent business in recent months. I wonder what horrible surprise awaits us around the corner.
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2 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:
Aye, Craig Brown gets a bus right enough.
Aye, he was getting the bus down to Ayr, where his car is, and then he's driving up to the game.
Then again, maybe I made up Craig Brown giving me a transfer exclusive about Josh Magennis on the bus, right enough.
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I'm on the Aberdeen to Glasgow bus sitting across from Craig Brown and he tells me Magennis is on his way to Hearts.
Oh no.
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My joy at not signing Curtis Main was short-lived then. I was a fool for forgetting we'd just sign a different 1 goal in 10 huddy instead.
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Heart of Midlothian 2014-
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Ewan Murray is bascially a mouthpiece for the club, but his recent tweets are fairly interesting. Suggests that there's more to the Stendel negotiations than has been reported but he's still likely to be the man.
He's the sort of appointment that would be really exciting if we were in May or June and he had time to build his own squad and impose his own style on them. In reality, it's December, we're joint-bottom and our squad is a slow, plodding, gutless pile of shite. He'll have to be a miracle-worker to get this lot playing an attacking, pressing style, so hopefully he's adaptable.