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Couple of half chances but our players are so static in the box, they seem surprised anytime the ball breaks loose

Awful, getting done by two set pieces. Three Accies players near the ball we had one. Unless Hammill does something we don't have anything. No creativity from anyone else.

Seems a good move, the central midfield was so sluggish and haven't offered any support the few times we have had attacks

Erhahon somehow got out the way of the ball on the line.

Managed to watch the game online using Saints TV for the first time. Well I was wrong, Hearts didn't get anywhere near as physical as they did at Tynecastle and it somehow played into our hands. Make no mistake this wasn't a brilliant or a dominant performance, it was workmanlike and for the majority of the game it looked like we lacked the creative spark to create any chances that weren't from a second ball after going long or the ball breaking behind their defence. Fortunately Hammill looked up and gave us something to fight for. Despite keeping a clean sheet we left a lot of open spaces and gave away too many easy chances. Which would have been punished on another day. But that was so much better than the dross we've had to suffer for the entire season. That level of work rate is a minimum now, we just need to add in some quality.

Need to settle down at the back. Dropped really deep and offering Hearts chances

What a strike. Some similarities with Careys against Hearts but this on the half volley from a central position

Magennis hits the bar. Tried to kill the ball when a bit more finesse would have probably been better

First half chance but Magennis took an poor touch instead of hitting it first time

Hearts should have been 1-0 there. McLean all by himself at the back post and somehow missed the target

That team gives me the fear, it's incredibly lightweight. The game at Tynecastle Hearts bullied us all over the park, I don't see anything other than a repeat today.

Unbelievably soft penalty, but we'll take it

Will be following updates on here and twitter from offshore Trinidad, no chance of streaming the game with how bad the Internet is. Massive game, and we need to make sure we pick up three points. Both teams form suggests it'll be who makes the least mistakes will win. 0-0 all over it, which is pretty useless

Which is slightly bizarre, because of our midfield strength last season. Our style of football from last season was never going to translate to the top flight. Despite us winning the league, in a strange way Livi were better suited to the transition, their main strengths were without the ball, then attempt to strong arm teams out of games. I feel Stubbs sort of had the right idea, with the players that were suggested he was looking to replace, but he completely failed to do so. 4 midfield ball players is fine when you are generally going to control possession and set the game on your terms, but actually we needed a whole lot of dig in this team. I don't see that with our current team.

Fitness has always been an issue with us. Even last season the majority of players were struggling by the 70 minute mark, even against part time teams. I'd never describe our style as particularly high tempo either. Either our fitness training isn't good enough, or more likely the players don't understand or don't commit to what is required. Fitness can hide some technical deficiency, and even a slight increase can be a massive improvement on performance.

Utter cringe worthy behaviour from both sides. Someone in the club should have a word with Eckersley to stop responding. It's a club matter and a social media policy should ensure that he isn't adding anything to it. It's negative publicity, if he was that upset with what's been said it should have been one statement not an ongoing argument. Sutton is doing his job, and it's reaping the rewards, probably the most St Mirren related twitter traffic he'll get and it's not even to do with something that happened on the pitch. There's two sides to the story and I'm pretty sure the truth is right in the middle, both sides should have known and acted better, but it's done, let it go.

No strikers on the pitch for us now?

Gus was pretty good with youth. You saw guys like Lappin, Van Zanten, Barron, Sutton, Adam, Broadfoot and Stephen McGinn all play regularly and clearly develop their game while with us. All while getting us promoted and keeping us in the league. I thought Gus was brilliant, his football was effective for what the expectations were. Was he able to take us to the 'next level' and play a different style of football, of course not. He played to his teams strengths and didn't force a style that the players were unable to play. He played a major part in overhauling our infrastructure, from the days of training in the park to having a training facility of our own. If Kearney likes him and they build a good working relationship, I think it's a really positive step by the club.

One thing I will say about this whole farce is the club had a massive culture problem with how much information from within the club is leaked. Any sign of trouble you have 8 different people coming out from sources in the know.

It's laughable to purely blame Stubbs, purely because the errors the players have made. They literally turn off any time the ball breaks down. The midfield is non existent the defence have been ragdolled by a better team

It's laughable to purely blame Stubbs, purely because the errors the players have made. They literally turn off any time the ball breaks down. The midfield is non existent the defence have been ragdolled by a better team

Looked like a foul for climbing, but not reacting to the break of the ball is criminal. 4th goal McGinn turns off for another second ball, easy for Naismith to slide it across. Hearts look really good. But we've lacked basic concentration for pretty much all the goals

Looked like a foul for climbing, but not reacting to the break of the ball is criminal. Hearts look really good

It wasn't a set piece, and holding a player is asking for a foul to be given against you. You can be physical against players without having to put your hands on a player. Doing so in the box alone is asking for trouble. Shit play from someone who should know better

Putting our hands on the back of any striker is naive as f**k. Baird isn't a young boy, he needs to be better than this