Heart of Midlothian Football Club

So anybody could play in it, but they couldn't make a cent.

basically the criteria was there was no limit to the B team that played in the London League but they could only play so many first team games and they'd be eligible until the next transfer window but what Hearts done is Hearts were using it like basically 19-20 at a push was when they were playing them on playing them to and then they were getting sent out to other places that's now folded so what we're doing instead is we're sending these players that would maybe be B team would go out on the development loans and we've got developments to Edinburgh City Bonnery Groves Stenhouse Muir and there's another one that I can't remember off the top of my head so it's basically one through the divisions and then basically

so the only am I right in saying then mate the only players then that could even potentially potentially be considered right to even fill in a slot on the bench are guys that are on these development loans and then obviously Hart said need to go to the club they're with and then go through the kind of the paperwork and everything right just to bring them back so so so so so Hearts as a team these days and as a club, right, you literally can't kind of just dip into like a reserve pool of players, right, that are at the Aureum and maybe say, listen, lads, we might need you.

I find that incredible.

Sorry if I'm sounding really naive here, right? I don't really, I'll just, I'll hold my hands up, mate.

So anyway, somebody wanted to talk about the start of the game because I missed it because I was too busy trying to get a hot dog.

So if anybody wants to take me through the first five minutes... yeah and also like i mean in terms of how hearts actually uh started um i think that started you know reasonably okay apart from i think it was um alton i gave rouse an absolute hospital of a back pass like um pinged it into him right about 100 mile an hour you could tell Roush never wanted it at all he's pinged it in he's done quite well to control it right and he's kicked it out and then Roush has put his hand up straight away and been like what are you actually doing but it was a bit scrappy because of the conditions but I thought Motherwell then became the better team as the first half went on.

And I think they seemed to settle a bit better than Hearts.

are terrible we've got all these options to play we were only playing at home during the week and we still get skelped but it's just the European thing Celtic have been beaten in the past routinely in Europe but you could always go do you know what this is a new team we're like Ange in that first season we're learning something here or we'll take this into the next season but that's not the case with this Celtic team because it's just right let's get through this season in October and Europe maybe we're not good enough for that it's October and we've still got more than half the games to

go here I mean I even feel ridiculous coming on a week I mean a week after we absolutely smashed hearts 7-1 and you're on the pot and we were like oh that was great and then you beat Hibs away and we're like

oh But that's the issue, again, for me, is we could sit here last week and go, oh, we beat Hearts and then it's, aye, but we'll beat you on the week, then we'll beat Hibs.

You can predict what's going to happen now with this team and this club because it's so poor and the week...

Not a bad week for me, but as a Celtic fan, the Celta Vigo game at the game, I just sat there while I was watching it in the second half going, what am I doing? What am I doing with my life? What am I doing sitting here paying money for this when...

Then he comes back and it's kind of more of the same.

It's kind of like, I've not really seen any improvement.

And yeah, we beat Hearts.

How did it finish up? Celtic still four points clear after that 2-1 win at Easter Road.

And Rangers, well, what week is it going to be for them after winning... 4-0 against St Johnson Hearts midweek in the league and then Aberdeen at Hampden on Saturday a new first Barry what a week for Rangers but 4-0 comfortable enough funnily enough 1-0 at half time the fans beginning to look for a bit more but they didn't play as well in the second but ended up 4-0 winners

Yeah, they were very dominant.

Some really good passages they played in the first half.

Delighted.

perseverance of the side as much as anything else didn't play really well at all in the game but doesn't matter we've won the game and that shows a bit of character

Rangers fans Celtic fans what are you thinking you've got Dundee United midweek and then Falkirk away at the weekend Rangers have got the cup semi-final and then Hearts are returned for Derek McInnes to his old stomping ground where he came within minutes of winning the title.

So what about the game at the weekend, a big win for Rangers?

Right away, start of the season, Coman at 5-1 at Rugby Park.

And just last weekend, 7-1 at Home to Hearts.

Those were clearly better wins.

But does it really

And we're top of the table.

We're still four points clear of Rangers.

We're eight ahead of Hearts.

And we have 27 points.

And that's what you saw with Hu against Motherwell.

You saw him do it with Nigren against Hearts as well.

He does need a break.

he still needs to be playing, I would say.

But, no, I mean, we're Celtic now.

I'll just be, I think, another grind job.

Yeah, I mean, I don't get any faith in the team suddenly clicking into gear like we did against Hearts.

And I have to say, I mean, I think someone I did owe to Hearts' sheer ridiculousness.

People say it's not, right? Doesn't matter if it was a fluke or not, or Bayern Munich just weren't the great that day, or Celtic were fantastic.

How about the Celtic game against Hearts? Were Celtic good or were Hearts terrible? Who knows? It's up to you how you see football and how you see in that game.

Obviously, where we are right now after three games, you could potentially qualify, but you're not going to be run now, Daniel.

But we were maybe four, three to five to add, obviously, if you didn't sell Nicolas Kuhn, didn't sell certain guys.

This is how we're gonna get there.

Boom, let's go." And every- Yeah, he started off ropey, but you, yous two comment on this as well.

Every game that we played when we l- especially the Hearts game, we went, "We didn't win, but we can see what he's trying to do.

We can see the direction he's trying to move in." We don't see that now.

You know, I mean, I've seen Aberdeen fans talking about it this season.

You see kind of, you know, obviously we've seen Hearts have their... their sort of time in the championship in the last sort of decade or so, we've seen it.

We've obviously seen it from Hibs as well.

We've seen it from Dundee United, Kilmarnock, St. Johnston, you know, teams who, so to say, all teams who've beaten Hibs in the last few weeks.

on a number of topics.

Seen some stuff about Marko Ovejic as well.

And obviously that game against Hearts coming up on Sunday.

Two things I'm sure we'll discuss at some point during the week.

We need to go to Tinecastle and win during the week.

Hearts are a good side, but defensively, they are absolutely...

Honking, they're not a good defensive team.

Midfield's not as good as it was last year.

It's that simple.

Tyne Castle is one of the tougher arenas to go.

We know how difficult and how noisy the Hearts fans can be in their own stadium.

And it's a cracking stadium, Tyne Castle.