Hearts (A)

[spikeontheright]

Just watched game on Alba. After seeing earlier comments I was waiting on a horror show & didnt really see it. Thought there was not much in it for first 30 mns & goal came out of the blue. A rare slip this season from the keeper.We had a decent chance to make it 4-3 & I didnt really see a shambles. Thought Hearts played high up with intent & on the front foot. They looked decent. We were not helped losing Mulgrew either. Never great to ship a few goals but overall I didnt think we were as bad as some are making out.

All in all, I'm not too despondent after today. We're still composed, organised and positive. Remember that we don't have anything like the budget as the teams around us, meaning we don't have the same quality of player, so results like today's will happen. Tam is making the team greater than the sum of their part and it's been a good while since we've had a manager doing that.

Glass well over half full.

[Arabknight]

Last 2 games TC has attempted to change things. I don’t have an issue with that, but they haven’t worked and for me it’s back to basics. I think he made the comment after last week that the depth of squad wasn’t what he thought. That said the only concern I had today was that he didn’t change things quick enough. He has done well so far with the squad we have, and we have to remember he is a young manger cutting his teeth at the highest level in the SPL. I’m sure he will analysis the mistakes made over the past 2 weeks by both him and players and get us back on track. We didn’t play badly today. We just made to many individual errors.

[shedka]

Was already mentioned at the time but what a cracking goal our second was, beautiful, we've had a few beauts like that now, Hibs at home in the cup, Hibs away the 3rd one, Livi away

The defending at the 4th was very poor and killed the game really, from 3-2 and pushing for an equaliser to it being beyond us, we still kept plugging away after

Them having the lead and us always chasing saw them create a lot on the counter too

I'm not disheartened, simply setbacks thar will occur and the fact is despite losing the last two, we are still 4th outright,which shows how well b we have been doing overall

[Dreamsof83]

In a reflective mood this evening. We have just taken a 5-2 hammering and yet there are no toys being thrown, no arguments and no meltdowns.

People correctly pointing out flaws in recent games but equally pointing out positives despite defeats. What a great sign of just where the club has got to, how the club relate to the fans and just how truly United we are. Bring on the sheep.

Absolutely love it, P2BAA

[TerryTheTerror]

Need to say, as brilliant as he's been for most of the season, Fuchs had a bit of a nightmare. He wasn't great either last week so perhaps it's time to bring Butcher back in?

[JUSTaway]

having watched the goals back, first one is bigger mistake by keeper than I realised at the time, thought at the game it would have been easier to use his feet to block that, third goal i think is a bit of fluke, fourth the marking looks even worse, not sure if he is even picked up, and fifth was clear to see at the time. We did look a bit bedraggled at back today and lacking in composure after first goal went in, some credit must go to Hearts for pressing and hunting in packs.

[bannon_ftd_83]

Too much of an off day from too many of our top players. The full backs struggled and fuchs and Benji stand out as having off games, i thought mulgrew seemed slower, wasn't surprised to see him go off. Credit to hearts though they have a great system and have bought players to compliment this system. Similar to what we are trying to do but i feel Mellons year at Tannadice held us back in our process. Id say the aberdeen and livi results are the only results where we can say anything bad about the manager. The players will be desperate to get things right again and it will come, we've got too much quality for it not to.

I have noticed our passing becoming a bit slower again though. Levitt playing and playing well seems to up everyone's game in this sense. Our passing yesterday seemed to be very flat and predictable with very little being played through the lines. It resulted in quite a few long balls and Clark just got eaten up or he fouled their CBs. We do still need a big striker. A big target man could have sat on Souttar yesterday, alot got played his way but nobody to challenge him and he's shocking in the air for a decent size guy. We just need more up the final 3rd of the pitch.

[GUNBOAT]

Ach well we have more points than i'd ever thought we'd have at this point so all is well.

[GUNBOAT]

1 point from the last 3 games,missed a big opportunity v 10 at Livingston and would have beaten ST Johnstone if Tam never tinkered.If he felt changes were a must he should have left it until Hearts away.The defeat by ST Johnstone was totally avoidable and annoys me the most out the blip.

[bannon_ftd_83]

1 point from the last 3 games,missed a big opportunity v 10 at Livingston and would have beaten ST Johnstone if Tam never tinkered.If he felt changes were a must he should have left it until Hearts away.The defeat by ST Johnstone was totally avoidable and annoys me the most out the blip.

That's the game i meant GB. Not the Livvy one.