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Just for absolutely clarity re my last paragraph, I mean “on the day”. Shankland was a difference maker on the day. We have no one that can do what he does on such a regular basis. That’s not to say Hearts are generally “better” than us. Shankland played and barely got a sniff when we beat them 1-0 at our place. But yesterday, in my humble opinion, Hearts were comfortably better than us and fully deserved to win the game. And re the “chances” we had, we can create as many chances as we like (we didn’t though), but without the type of composure shown by the likes of Shankland, we won’t score many goals. By the way, (and I’m honestly not being facetious), can you remind me what those two best chances were? I’m thinking the sclaffed shot by Small that was blocked by an defender and the speculative looping header by Gogic which Clark saved comfortably? I could name at least 4 great chances Hearts had in that second half (mainly due to defensive calamities) which would have more than cancelled out any half chances we had.

I normally agree with your fairly balanced post match assessments, but not this week. I thought we were terrible, particularly in the second half. For me, the stats belie the ease with which Hearts won the game. I held out very little hope of us getting back into the game at 1-0 and zero hope once it went to 2. the quality of our passing and particularly crossing was absolutely woeful. Someone said we lost due to a mistake and a moment of sheer quality. Are those not generally the types of things that separate two teams and mean that one is better than the other, with that team usually winning the game?

@elvis may be on negative repeat most weeks, but I’m afraid this post is bollocks. It suggests that in order to have an opinion, Elvis needs to be a football manager?? He is a paying customer and as such is entitled to a view. If you paid to go to a fancy restaurant and your food was shite, would you refuse to complain because you’re not a chef?

He’s a top player, especially by Scottish Premiership standards. He’s a c**t, but he’s a top player c**t. 🤣

Terrible second half. Really really poor. Thats 2 weeks running now that Mandron has come on as a sub and I have genuinely no recollection of him touching the ball. Some of the “football” in that second half was atrocious. We couldn’t even do the basics right. We are most definitely on the slide. We better get some points from Killie, because we’ll be getting none in the following 3 games.

I’d say with the exceptions of Small, O’Hara and Greive, everyone is playing reasonably well, but by f**k our crossing is truly woeful.

More O’Hara sloppiness costs us.

I’d sub Gogic now. Certain red card coming.

Disappointed that Nahmani has been dropped already. One really good performance followed by one not so good (when everyone else was shite too) and out he goes. Not really fair when you consider the chances other strikers have had.

Hmmm. I’m not sure he’d solve any problems for us. I see him as a Curtis Main type workhorse and tireless runner, but not going to get us goals. Could be wrong. If he’s a straight swap for someone who’s going then fair enough, but I don’t see him as a particularly positive “addition” to the squad.

Is that really true though pod? Prior to his injury we had only won 1 of the previous 7 games and that was a game Strain didn’t play in (4-0 v St. Johnstone). Neither Strain nor the team have really been very good since the home win v Hearts.

Ahhhh but did we?? Or did we all expect to lose it at some point? In other words, did we all really expect to lose our unexpectedly good early season form and resume with a more expected shite form? I expect so.

Sadly I believe this to be true. In fact, if we're only talking league games then I'd extend it to our next 5 games. Of course we can get 3 points at home Killie, but if we play as we have in all matches recently bar the RossCo home game, then I fear a point is more likely. Can't see us getting anything away at Hearts/Aberdeen, or at home to Celtic/Rangers. Unless of course we can unexpectedly return to our early season form.

A 4 point return from County (A), St. Johnstone (A), County (H) and Motherwell (H) is simply not good enough. If we don’t buck our ideas up, I reckon we could get a bit of a shooing off Hearts next week.

That about sums it up. I though Jonah was decent too with Tanser and Kiltie getting pass marks. Pretty awful stuff all round though. Some of that can be put down to the conditions but not all of it. Did Mandron even touch the ball after he came on??

Another absolute shocker from O’Hara today. What on earth has happened to him?

Very poor stuff this. Hard to say how much of that is down to the wind.

Hell no!! The next club down was Livi!!

Yes that’s right. I think it was the 99/00 season that we won the league. They were spared a playoff because Falkirk’s ground didn’t meet the criteria.

Aberdeen have never been relegated.

And if it was, I’d agree with you. Glad that’s all cleared up that you were talking bollocks. 😄👍

Tea leaf!!

Did ye aye? When I moved to Jersey, I must’ve missed the sign at customs that said “leave your social conscience here”.

Ha ha. Brilliant. You’re a wee bit out of date mate. Jersey hasn’t been a “tax haven” for a very long time.

I am truly disgusted with myself for all those times as a kid when I perpetrated grand larceny on the club by getting a lift over. Or when I turned up for the last 20 minutes of the game when they opened the doors because I couldn’t afford the admission fee that week. Absolute shameless hoovering of 20 minutes that on a pro rata basis should’ve cost me at least 20p. I’m away for a good greet, fire on my hair shirt and flagellate myself Opus Dei style.