MJC

The sad thing is that’s probably the best case scenario we can hope for. Celtic are obviously a top side and when they’re on their game no side in Scotland can live with them, we’re not unique in that sense. My worry is that a serious hammering may well sap our already fragile confidence.

An absolute drubbing on the cards. 0-7

The transfers windows of January and summer ‘23 will be where we’ll see if the board are prepared to help SH out as they will definitely have to however they can. And yes I know that we aren’t blessed with a big budget but we will have to make some moves and they will have to be able to be players who can come in and make an impact straight away, so it’s a big job for Hammell too.

It’s just so infuriatingly predictable I’m afraid. It might be boring to read but the pattern is there for all to see. We lose the first goal = we lose the game. That has been the case in every single match we have played this season where we have conceded first. We make sloppy passes, we miss chances, we give away cheap goals, we look less hungry than the opposition. All of that has been evident from us this season. I said during the game when it was 2-1 and we were in the middle of our best spell of the game that I thought Hearts would run up the park and make it 3-1 and kill it off. I was wrong about that, but there was still the predictability over them winning it 3-2 once we’d managed to get it back to 2-2. Once the team starts looking as though they are learning from their mistakes and shows that they are capable of not losing a game where we lose the first goal then I’ll stop boring you and everyone else on this forum and the admins/mods can quote me on that.

I agree and far too many of our regular starters just aren’t good enough for this level, with Shields and Spittal being the main culprits. When you add in an inexperienced manager in his first appointment then it’s a recipe for disaster.

We’ve been like that for a while but it’s a growing trend this season. As I said earlier on we have not even managed to draw a game this season where we have conceded the opening goal. We have scored five equalisers this season and only went on to win once, that was against Aberdeen in August when we went 2-1 down and got it back to 2-2. There is clearly a mentality issue as well as a coaching issue in this team. All in all it’s just not good enough.

I knew we would still lose even when we got it back to 2-2, absolutely knew it.

No complaints about losing that. If you can’t defend, can’t even do the basics like keep possession or track runs against a side with ten men then you don’t deserve anything. We look a very poorly coached side, which is alarming.

I make it three, St.J at home in August, Aberdeen the other week and now today.

We do it all the time. Get ourselves back level from a losing position then we have no idea what to do next. We haven’t been good enough yet again today, don’t let coming from 2-0 down to level it kid you on.

Penalty Hearts.

Better spell for us but you just know that Hearts will get the next goal and kill it off soon. We just don’t have goals in us and that is a killer for us. I make that our 7th penalty this season which is incredible and thank god for that as we would be even worse off without them.

Absolutely. It would have been a big ask for anyone taking the job on but for a rookie then it was almost impossible. 2-1 now Moult with a penalty. Surely Gordon should have seen a second yellow for the challenge I would have thought.

Now we’ll see if a crocked Moult can offer us any more than a fully fit Shields.

Man for man I would say we have the worst squad in the league. Obviously Dundee Utd are having a dreadful season and are a poor side themselves but they have at least four players that would improve our team.

2-0 far, far too easy.

Poor stuff yet again from us in that first half. Poor passing when we do manage to get possession, slack defending and missing chances when they come. If we’re being honest we really should be at least 3-0 down by now given some of the chances Hearts have missed, but when you are 0-0 against a side down to 10 men and you concede right on half time then it’s a psychological blow and one I don’t see us recovering from.

Yes it is. We have not taken a single point in any game that we have conceded the first goal in this season and that won’t change today. We need to yet again look at the Slattery, KVV chances that we didn’t take and then poor defending is our undoing up the other end. Same old story I’m afraid.

Right on half time and we concede. Game over.

VAR upholds the decision.

Red card Hearts.

Can’t be missing chances like that in games like this.

O’Donnell nearly selling the jerseys for us again. For the folk who keep asking why he’s out of favour, perhaps brain farts like that are a big part of the reason.

Penney is having a nightmare here.

Not in it atall, only a matter of time before Hearts score.