Spiderpig

We've had a big upheaval over the summer, new manager, great players moved on etc so a positive start to the season would be great, and give the team a confidence boost for the Helsinki game so id be very happy with a draw. No doubt if we get a poor result the usual subjects will be all over the forum tonight telling us how its bottom of the league, bottom 6, a relegation fight etc just before the Johannsen out thread gets started. Its a long season, especially if we progress in Europe, but as ive said before its where you are in May that counts, and in the scheme if things a defeat today means feck all , as we are still in contention for four competitions, so lets get behind AJ and the team.

If we are bringing in more players we really need one of them to be a striker as the current options we have are brutal, AP, and Hendry, specifically.

Aye it must be great fun being a Hearts fan just now.

Having to rely on Wilson for the season gives me the fear Dave, hes too slow and i dont think he is comfortable with our playing out from the back style.

Lets be honest about that HB had a couple of half chances over the two games that Paulsen had to deal with but our defence was never really in any trouble. It was two clean sheets but in the context of the team we were playing were hopeless. Two clean sheets in the first two league games will be more praiseworthy.

Learning when to launch it long when there is no obvious pass to beat a high press is a good thing, if Ward had done it at parkhead last season we would have had another 3 points, and if Connelly had done it at Aberdeen, we would not have been dumped out of the Scottish cup.

At this stage last season we never knew how good we would be either, so its not a fair comparison, but that said having lost the engine room of the team, in Slattery, Watt and especially Just we are weaker. Hibs will be a big test, and if we avoid defeat i will be happy.

Is the game on any TV tonight, if so has anyone got a decent stream they can reccomend?

No chance of getting a "good guy" when assessing that line up.

Hopefully a centre half.

Flights to tallin in Estonia are better priced then jump on the ferry, its only 2hrs 30 mins direct to Helsinki.

I agree, but im cutting him some slack due to his limited game time, if we are starting to get more cross balls into the area as we saw last Thursday, then he might be the player we need, time will tell

Thats hideous, but the basic concept is good, no open corners, fans close to the pitch etc

100% this, hes brutal, we have enough dross alleged strikers on the books already with Hendry and Stamatelopoulos, we dont need any more.

Thats exactly what should have been done, the simplest, quickest an cheapest option to get the seats compliant. But as i said there does not seem to have been much thought put into the whole process, the club knew since probably March that a european place was likely