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Why? Our home record has been excellent recently and we have been regularly scoring 2+ goals.

Like it a lot. C'mon Scotland!

For play. Must be a hell of a lot of hospitality in Hampden and a lot unused for Saturday's fixture therefore as there have been at least a couple of thousand sold form South Upper (and some in South Lower) over the last week or so.

100% correct. It's shite when people buy seats and then a few days later better seats are released. It's because of the debentures, unused hospitality, sponsors, tickets returned from club sides etc etc but it's still really annoying. Everything has been getting sold though and it's going to be packed to the rafters for both games. And just as I posted this they released another hundred in a couple of rows in the South Stand Lower!

Only 170 left for Cyprus now and they've added little pockets and rows of seats constantly, even a little section M1 right above the dug outs in the South Upper has gone on sale. Packed house.

I have no problem with that Hopefully he runs himself into the ground over the next couple of months, they go to the FA Cup Final (highly likely) and further in the Champs League and come June 17th he's either gone physically or out altogether!

Still some tickets left for Saturday but been selling well over the last few days. https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scotland/supporters-tickets/scotland-tickets/ Spain returned a lot of tickets and these have sold out very quickly.

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. .

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

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!

Huh? Weird response. I was complementing your side!

Where as Hibs are so great to watch you've still got 7000 seats to sell for next weeks derby defeat.

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!

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!

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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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!

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.

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.

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.

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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