Islay jag
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Gave huge credit to us and how good a team we are.
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Sea of black and white I'm afraid, poor crowd from us and very nervous!
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Anyone who thinks Higginbotham should have been the first player to be substituted on Saturday is mad.
Yes, he was having a poor game. Yes, he made a couple of poor decisions. But he is singlehandedly capable of changing games and was performing no more poorly than most of the rest of the team. It wasn't a lack of attacking width that was our problem. Anyone actually watching the game could see the problem was the poor game Fraser (who has had some excellent games this season) was having and the general poor performance of the centre-backs and those sitting just in front of them. Almost all of Hearts' threats came from individual errors among the "back six" and had little if anything to do with the performance of either of the first two players Archie took off.
If Archie was of the view that the midfield was underpowered, the logical thing to do would have been either to substitute Taylor, who had an absolute bloody stinker all day (pushing Doolan up and bringing on either Buaben or Moncur) or take off Doolan, who was being dragged back to support the defence at times in the first half the midfield was doing so poorly. The safe option, given the weakness of the midfield was mostly Fraser's fault on Saturday (though Bannigan was also having a sub-par game) would have been to take off Fraser and put on Buaben or Moncur.
It was utterly senseless to take off our two main supporting attack threats. It might have made sense had we been looking to change the system properly to a rigid 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1, but that's clearly not what we ended up doing. The Craigen substitution was more bewildering still: let's bring on someone even less well equipped than Fraser to try to change the midfield dynamic. Bewildering.
If you want a scapegoat for Saturday's performance, Higginbotham unequivocally is not your man. We lost because Taylor had a stinker, Fraser and Bannigan were about 3 seconds off the pace, Taylor-Sinclair seemed to develop club-foot and Mair and Piccolo were the definition of lethargy, and as a team collectively they showed no fight whatsoever on going 2-1 and 3-1 down.
Defo not looking to make Higginbotham a scapegoat, he's been a great signing and every player in the world is entitled to an off day, I was trying to make the point that there seemed to be a big reaction at the game and on here about him being hooked. To be honest any one of them could've gone, we were rotten all over the park!
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Got what he deserved yesterday Subbed! He and Taylor were rotten from the first minute so why should he have been kept on? Some of the crap on this forum about Archibald being tactically naive is laughable frankly, by far the smallest budget means fewer options unfortunately. Whilst I'm on my rant, what happened to our wonderful support, to be honest we were rotten too, strangely subdued atmosphere that was matched by the team. Playoffs here we come!
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Thought it was a stonewaller at the game but just saw it again on Sky Sports News, ball sticks behind Gros and bat fastard falls over, Ref was shite all day!
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A lot of hysteria about nothing, scared of a few soap dodgers in our end FFS!! I take it a lot of you lads weren't around before the bing appeared and there would be mobs of Motherwell, Morton and Airdrie to name a few giving us a " wee surprise " from the stairs at the back of the terrace.
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If there is an obvious dodger of the soap near you, deal with them accordingly.......
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Can you not face watching the game elsewhere for 1 match? It's not as though its even half full, you can't expect a board of directors to allow the stadium to be half empty just to allow a minority of fans to have their cosy wee seats, lets be realistic about it.
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Thought the demontration was a bit of a joke, jumping on the OF bandwagon of protest. It makes sense to make as much money as possible, especially before January when hopefully we can strengthen the squad and stay up. We will not match their support in numbers no matter what we do, but we can match their passion if we don't sit on our hands.
As for charging the great unwashed an extra fiver, what's the problem with that? How much will we get charged when we go to the piggery?
The club is getting stronger all the time, so lets back them.
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Leigh Palin, he was fatter with us!
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Backing of their team was brilliant, couldn't have been easy for them as we Humped them 1-1
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Jimmy C was excellent tonight
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Utd and Paton have
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A Paton style player was required 2nd half. Craigen ain't a centre midfielder.
You're at the wind up, did you see him v ICT? Craigen tired towards the end but had a great game.
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Really can't believe some of the sh**e I've read on this forum after tonight's game, we played brave football and should have and would have with a bit of luck pumped them tonight. Hearts the worst team ever? Having a laugh, you've not followed thistle long enough. Get a grip and support the team the way the hearts fans supported their team.
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Cheers, Craig Thomson is a bottle merchant!
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Just back from holiday yesterday and caught highlights from Ross County game last night but can't seem to find the opening game against the enemy, any advice?
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Heard from a very reliable source he has been offered a deal with us, a week to weigh up his options. Not really seen much of him but Ian McCall forever singing his praises.
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Heard today that we were signing him. Didn't see or hear much about him but he knocked back Bolton in January and now has been freed, seems a strange one?
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That's it lads roll up roll up and give that fekin snake Thomson your cash! No chance for me, never! I'll buy some dodgy thistle training gear and allow myself a wee kip at night.
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The time has come and gone that we must stand up to Thomson and boycott our away games, not a penny out of my pocket !,,
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Let Nostalgia Show Your Age
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Airdrie having a support!
Motherwell being more bigoted than Rangers but slightly less than Airdrie!
Workie v Tommy Burns (RIP)
Doug Somner, jim Melrose, John Buckley,johnny flood..........