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1 minute ago, Bobby_F said:
Your language is ‘Billy Big Baws’.
If Hearts had outplayed us over both of those games then ‘sneaking’ may be justified.
Words matter.
Except I was talking about the season as a whole. Clearly Hearts are a better side than St Mirren over the course of the season but I wouldn't suggest for a second we've been better over the last week! I guess you just like having a chip on your shoulder which is kind of how your team play so fair enough
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1 minute ago, Bobby_F said:
No. No your weren’t.
How on earth is saying that from what I've seen from the rest of the league ST Mirren have every chance of sneaking into 5th/6th ahead of the likes of Livvy, Hibs, St Johnstone. I thought St Mirren were very competitive throughout tonight and pretty unlucky not to take a point. You put up a hell of a lot better fight than the pish from Easter Road that's for sure. But you do you bud!
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1 minute ago, Bobby_F said:
Normally not a fan of abusing people online, but just f**k off p***k.
Huh? Weird response. I was complementing your side!
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3 minutes ago, StellarHibee said:
You do. Hearts are an absolute eye bleed to watch most of the time.
Where as Hibs are so great to watch you've still got 7000 seats to sell for next weeks derby defeat.
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We were fortunate to win but it's a huge 3 points because of that! St Mirren are a tough, well drilled, competitive and niggly side and they deserve a lot of credit for how they kept going. Certainly from what I've seen of the rest they have a very decent shout of sneaking into the top 6.
We were pedestrian, at best, for far too much of that but of course had the quality on several occasions, including a great goal. to carve the Saints open. But much work to do on the formation and in integrating several players.
Smith, Ginnelly and Halliday were all dreadful and need benched for Wednesday. Hopefully Kingsley is back, Grant should also get the chance beside Snodgrass and Kuol should make his first start in replace of the great hide and seek champion of Tynecastle, Josh Ginnelly. Hill had a superb debut, Clarke is going to be very close to Scotland No1 (he's now had as many clean sheets as Craig Gordon this season!) and it was a superb goal for McKay.
We move on to Wednesday and the opportunity to go 9 clear in 3rd. Will need to play better than that though!
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Our home form in general has been good and we've scored plenty goals, 22 in the 9 league matches.
4 v D.Utd
3 v Hibernian, Motherwell, Kilmarnock, St Johnstone and Celtic
2 v Ross County, 1 v Livingston and the only blank in a dismal loss to Rangers.
19pts out of 27 with the only losses to the Old Firm.
St Mirren are having a very solid season and shouldn't be taken lightly but for me everything points towards Hearts being too good tomorrow night. We will have a very strong bench and Neilson has more decisions to make than at any point in months, in terms of options with the selection. If we play with a tempo and start well and we tend to do that a lot better at Tynecastle than we do on the road, I think this could be a 3 or 4-1 type game.
Looking forward to it, going to be a cracking Friday night atmosphere!
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Hearts have sold over 3700 tickets for this now and still shifting. Pretty decent for a Wednesday night between Christmas and New Year. Wonder if the team will actually turn up, I have my doubts!
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Check Klopps coupon, he knows this kid is fearless and going to be very very special.
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11 hours ago, Leith Green said:
Obviously that was a good win for Hearts, but some of the posts on this thread make it well worthwhile of a bookmark for later in the season.
Bookmark it all you want. If Hibs manage 5th you'll have done well. Absolutely no chance, nada, nil, zip, zilch that you are above Hearts come May and very doubtful by Christmas Day!
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35 minutes ago, ropy said:
On Grant, and on similar tackles, I look at where they land. In this case a yard beyond the player. I.e. he didn’t tackle him and contact his foot at the end of the move, he went through the player. I have seen nothing awarded, yellows awarded, and also reds. I suspect there was no intent but it was dangerous.
I thought he deserved to go for sheer stupidity alone especially given he's already been involved in a very costly (in respect to that individual game) high profile incident already this season. It was needlessly reckless given we were dominating and someone needs to be having a word because he is getting a rep as a liability. Ironically he had one of his best half hours in maroon before then. For me it's one of those if it's your team it looks soft if you are the other team you are screaming for it. I always thought that VAR would become a big thing at Tynecastle, more so than many grounds as the tightness of the pitch to the stands and regularity of fairly hectic matches, pressure on the ref etc. was always going to lead to loads of incidents. Since VAR arrived we've had an action packed 3-4 v Celtic and now a cracking 3-2 win today. I suspect that theme will continue.
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Think you've got a decent side there given your budget and resources. Several very decent players at our level and really should be competing for 5th/6th this season. Will definitely have some good results throughout the season. Play pretty open so defensively more difficult to get positive outcomes against the better teams but no reason why you can't be showing consistency against most of the league.
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Huge result. Made things ridiculously difficult for ourselves after dominating the first half hour but to score 3 while down to 10 men and have so many big incidents in the game go against us it's a massive 3 points. Cochrane and Halliday were absolutely immense and we've got huge unity in the squad which has seen the support really get behind the players in recent weeks. The catalyst for that was Florence which is strange given we got pumped but it's created a brilliant atmosphere around the club again.
Aberdeen are our only true threats for 3rd and they've not built up the sort of lead they needed to whilst we were in Europe. Out with the big 2 we've by far the strongest squad, if it is ever close to fit, which will hopefully be the case post World Cup. Still no Halkett, Kingsley, Rowles (only 5 mins), Haring, Beningame, Boyce, GMS, Humphrys today and I fully expect us to bring in at least 2 additions in January.
Aberdeen return with home games v Celtic and Rangers whilst we play Killie and St Mirren at Tynecastle so any lead could be wiped out quickly by Christmas. Hibs are lucky to even have the 20 points they do, won most of their points against 10 men and we only had ourselves to blame or not being 3 or 4 up Easter Road - we'll empty them at Tynie at New Year. Actually think that Motherwell team are better than them and they'll be touch and go for top 6 by April. In short to be 3rd you'll definitely need to finish above us.
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The group could have been kinder but I'm not sure the fixtures could have. Really think they've worked out very well. Great opportunity to get off to a flyer at home to Cyprus and then the free hit against Spain where we are certainly capable of taking something if at our best. Spain play at home to Norway before traveling to Glasgow and Norway then go to Georgia so they have a very tough start.
Match day 3 sees us in Norway and I really like the fact that our away matches in Norway and Spain are the first match in the breaks, in fact that is the case for all our away games. The visits to Cyprus and Spain are actually stand alone games too so we can prepare fully for those. And of course we have the benefit of Norway at home last game. When we visit Georgia 2nd to last they are in Spain so that could also be pivotal, possibly seeing Spain clinch.
Another thing of note is that Georgia, like us, have a guaranteed play off spot so they may take their eye of the ball a bit.
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5 hours ago, The Other Foot said:
Agreed. Coolio was a national treasure.
Best Coolio tribute so far
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1 hour ago, Ewan8472 said:
Scotland 1 - Italy 0 , 1965
Scotland 1 - W. Germany 1 , 1968 or 8
Scotland 3 - Czecklosovakia (sp) 2 , 1961 ? ?
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Goosebumps.......
Maybe make a thread of great memories, matches, goals etc.
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Last night was his 73rd cap and in gaining it passed Tommy Boyd (72) and became the 6th most capped Scotsman in history. Ahead of him:
King Kenny 102
Jim Leighton 91
Darren Fletcher 80
Alex McLeish 77
Paul McStay 76
If he stays fit I fully expect that Euro 2024 will be his swansong. I think he will announce that next season (2023-24) will be his last which means he has 3 more opportunities to win something with Hearts and he will bow out after Germany, where he will realise a career dream of playing for Scotland at a major Championship. Should that all transpire and he remains fit throughout he could get anywhere from 10-20 more caps depending on the Euro draw, play offs, availability and success!
8/10 (dependent on group size) Euro 2024 qualifiers
2 potential play off games for Euro 2024
1 Friendly in November 2022
2 Friendlies prior to Euro 2024
3 games minimum at Euro 2024
He's a certainty now to pass McLeish and McStay and barring injury Fletcher. Ironically despite the success last night of getting into Nations League A he will likely have to continue to play into the 2024-25 season to ever play a match in it, due to the football calendar.
You really wonder if not for injury how many caps he would have, certainly already surpassed Dalgleish if it hadn't been for injury. During his 'era' Marshall and McGregor won 89 caps!
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Remarkably Caroline Weir has now scored 4 of Real Madrid's 5 Chamions League goals this season.
The first must have been a huge personal moment coming against her ex team, Man City and she's now got 3 of their 4 goals (actually 5 now as they just scored again) v Rosenburg including another cracker....some player!
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3 hours ago, Gordopolis said:
Isn't there some pish coming in where South American sides will compete in the next Nations' League?
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4 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
Happy to see no triple headers. I think it's just a bit excessive. a camp needs to allow the team to train and work on ideas. Triple Headers don't leave much room for that.
If you draw a 5 team group (and there will be 7 of them and only 3 of 6 countries) there are only 8 match days required as well.
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2 hours ago, Christophe said:
Is the NL draw seeded. i.e one from the top 4, one from 5-8 etc. Or can we get Israel again?
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Something to note with the next Nations League campaign is that we won't be playing any of these fixtures for at least 18 months! So a Germany who looked fucking gash against England last night could have an entirely new side or a Belgium who will have lost even more of their 'golden' generation could be going through a transitional period. Plenty will change plus our young players will be even better!!!
The reason for this is that due to this years World Cup the calendar is all over the place and 2023 will see Euro 2024 qualifiers in March, June, September, October and November. So Nations League won't start until March 2024. How they fit those around the actual Euro Championships in the summer of 2024 and then World Cup 2026 qualifying, is anyones guess!
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On 14/09/2022 at 22:05, Craigieboy86 said:
we will have a squad of 25/26 with Scotland to a header for friendly on November possible set face Turkey before world cup 2022
What are you all wishing/hoping for?
If Gordon and McLaughlin retire international football national who replace them
Craig Gordon won't be retiring from international football until i) Scotland fail to qualify for Euro 2024 or ii) he represents us in Germany and we get knocked out iii) he gets an injury that stops him playing any football. He is desperate to play for us at a major championship. We will need a new keeper for the World Cup 2026 qualifying campaign.
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2023 Euro stage game March squad and line up
in Tartan Army Ramblings
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Big blow for Norway who have a tough start to qualifying, Spain away on Saturday and Georgia away on Tuesday. Be great for us if they could start with a couple of defeats or even a defeat and a draw.
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