Hearts play with one central striker. That's Shankland. Therefore the team is set up to create chances for him, primarily.
Unlike under Neilson, who thought it was a good idea to play him as a number 10 after he'd scored around 20 goals in the first half of the season as a 9.
It's a hymn, I sneaked it into my wedding service.
"Blessed Assurance, that's an interesting choice," the minister said.
Got a few laughs on the big day.
The old cliché about winning when not playing well being the sign of champions could also apply to whoever finishes "best of the rest". Just we're a lot worse and whoever finishes third will probably have more poor performances among their victories.
Midfield is definitely the issue, we started last night with three who are essentially different shades of the same colour. I can see the logic behind it – crap weather meaning it was likely to be a battle. But it seems Lembikisa was the only real creative option in the first half (I wasn't there).
Hopefully we never lower ourselves to signing a player on loan from either of them again.
Good riddance to Holliday as well, we've had a nice cleansing of Rangers diehards recently.
Nice idea.
This is about as balanced a Hearts XI as I can cobble together:
Gordon
McPherson Webster Berra
Stevenson Walker Stewart Bannon Skacel
Robertson Colquhoun
More influential the second time round, his performance in the 5-2 win over St Mirren was glorious. I didn't think it would be possible for him to even come close to his first spell. What a guy.
Macintyre has a habit of asking leading questions about his favourites, today it was: "Rangers absolutely cruising now, Derek?" He was told: "No, I wouldn't say that." He did the same thing when they won 1-0 at Tynecastle recently. It's just odd.