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Hamilton Academical v Heart of Midlothian, Scottish Cup Fifth Round, 10 February 2023 - 7:45pm


Elixir

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Textbook game where you dominate but don't kill the game early. Big drop in performance from Grant going off onwards.

Cammy Devlin scoring the most Cammy Devlin goal imaginable was cool though.

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1 minute ago, Elixir said:

Hopefully we can avoid playing the Old Firm like St Johnstone.

We just played rangers in the SC last month.  Last season we played Celtic in the league Cup semi-final at Hampden.

The season before, you know the one where we did the Cup Double, we knocked rangers out at ibrox in the quarter final.

Would you like to try that again?

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First half was a complete tactical outclassing by an excellent Hearts side, albeit facilitated by Rankin's weird sort of 5-1-4/5-Diamond-1 press. 

We were much improved in the second, but it was all about roughing Hearts up without having much quality to actually create chances. Tbh the entire game followed the same pattern as so many of our top flight clashes against Celtic and Rangers. 

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40 minutes ago, Theaccman said:

Is there a more dislikeable set of fans in Scottish football outwith the Old firm than Hearts.Maybe Dundee or Falkirk 

Why does a suburb of Motherwell even have a separate club? Burning your daft Poundland pitch was the highlight of the game for us.

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27 minutes ago, PauloPerth said:

We just played rangers in the SC last month.  Last season we played Celtic in the league Cup semi-final at Hampden.

The season before, you know the one where we did the Cup Double, we knocked rangers out at ibrox in the quarter final.

Would you like to try that again?

You won at Ibrox with no fans - congratulations! The celebrations at Hampden and the open top bus parade after for the 'cup double' must have been something.

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16 minutes ago, Elixir said:

Surely it will be the Sainsbury's just behind the ground.

 

19 minutes ago, SEETHING said:

Hamilton groundsman will be straight off to the nearest Tesco.

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Classy lads.

Well played. Complete embaressment boasting about this.

 

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Thought we were decent first half. Moved it quickly, didn't let Hamilton disrupt us, but while we were deservedly ahead I thought we should've worked the goalie more.

Second half wasn't really good enough. Subs were a bit odd, Forrest into central midfield and taking Humphrys off were both strange. 

Ultimately though we are through, and without any kind of scare, so job done. 

Thought Oda looked sharp when he came on and a bit more willing to get stuck in tham he did against Livi. 

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Well if I was from Hamilton I’d be fine with that showing

essentially they did at home to hearts what we’d all have been ok with Hearts doing to Fiorentina at Tynecastle 

they defended well, rode their luck and didn’t collapse when they went behind 

They were always going to need the “magic of the cup” to get them to the quarter finals and while it’s true that lightning didn’t strike tonight at least Hamilton were flying a kite

 

 

 

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