Hearts transfers (Cochrane goes on loan to Montrose)

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, steve123 said:

Not that I heard, he said it was width and pace were after but never mentioned names 

Ok mate. How long into the show was the RN chat? Don’t want to listen to the whole show if I don’t have to.

[Cruyff]

51 minutes ago, Whatever said:

Correct.

 

Having a semi competent goalkeeper behind him will help.

 

Biggest and most important relationship on the park is that between a centre half and a keeper.

 

Halkett will be fine next season and as you say will pop up with 8/10 goals.

 

Thankfully the clowns wanting rid will be disappointed.

he's absolutely turd. Need to get your eyes tested mate. 👍 

 

[steve123]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Ok mate. How long into the show was the RN chat? Don’t want to listen to the whole show if I don’t have to.

He was on it all but alot was not about him, majority of it was last 30 minutes or so

[gov]

I got the tail end where he said he had "some lined up" but never elaborated after it

[Ethan Hunt]

10 minutes ago, steve123 said:

He was on it all but alot was not about him, majority of it was last 30 minutes or so

Good man. Thanks 👍

[Cruyff]

10 minutes ago, gov said:

I got the tail end where he said he had "some lined up" but never elaborated after it

He did say we needed pace. That's about it. Said the squad needed a bit of surgery, some in, some out. 

[Stendelnator]

It’s odd that we had a bid accepted when we never bid for him, and that he “wanted a clause to go to celtic” when we never spoke to him 

[Whatever]

29 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

he's absolutely turd. Need to get your eyes tested mate. 👍 

 

Given your previous for chatting shite, I’m perfectly comfortable being at odds with you on this subject. 

[Cruyff]

4 minutes ago, Whatever said:

Given your previous for chatting shite, I’m perfectly comfortable being at odds with you on this subject. 

I'm pretty confident in my opinion on this having watched Halkett for a long time. He's one of the main reasons why we ended up in 12th.

 

It's quite troubling that folk can't see how many mistakes and points he has cost us. It's all there in the highlights for all to see. It's not based on nothing. 👍 

[ramrod]

23 minutes ago, Stendelnator said:

It’s odd that we had a bid accepted when we never bid for him, and that he “wanted a clause to go to celtic” when we never spoke to him 

Sounds like more shite from our much vaunted ITKer 

[Guest ToqueJambo]

9 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

I'm pretty confident in my opinion on this having watched Halkett for a long time. He's one of the main reasons why we ended up in 12th.

 

It's quite troubling that folk can't see how many mistakes and points he has cost us. It's all there in the highlights for all to see. It's not based on nothing. 👍 

 

I think based on that he was decent at Livvy that he could be coachable. I see some similarities between him and Ozturk tbh - his build, switching off in defence at times, goalscoring... I think Neilson will think he could be. rough diamond and can develop him and, like he initially did with Ozturk, maybe try him out at DM.

 

Stendel needs to take more of the blame for 12th. He should have been able to identify players we had like Halkett weren't suitable for his system yet still tried to force them to play it. The mistakes he made under Stendel were part his fault and part the system IMO.

Edited July 11, 2020 by ToqueJambo

[HMFC01]

Perhaps Robbie is after Aidan Nesbitt and not Kevin Nesbit.  Confusion perhaps.  https://www.transfermarkt.us/aidan-nesbitt/profil/spieler/244263  Signed him at DU from MK dons I think, which he signed from Celtic youth,  while at MK.  He's at Morton the now, might be furloughed, not released yet.

 

https://www.mkdons.com/news/2017/august/highly-rated-winger-arrives-at-stadium-mk/

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46765125

Edited July 11, 2020 by HMFC01

[Whatever]

4 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

I'm pretty confident in my opinion on this having watched Halkett for a long time. He's one of the main reasons why we ended up in 12th.

 

It's quite troubling that folk can't see how many mistakes and points he has cost us. It's all there in the highlights for all to see. It's not based on nothing. 👍 

Unlucky for you he’s going nowhere and RN will play him as long as he’s fit. Most likely as 1st choice centre halve.

 

Suck it up. Or e-mail Robbie or whatever.

[Whatever]

5 minutes ago, ramrod said:

Sounds like more shite from our much vaunted ITKer 

 

 

[Ethan Hunt]

15 minutes ago, ramrod said:

Sounds like more shite from our much vaunted ITKer 

He seems to have managed to conjure up a whole lot of contract discussions between Hearts and Nisbet that never actually took place. Unless Robbie Neilson is lying of course 😉

Edited July 11, 2020 by Ethan Hunt

[Last Laff]

14 minutes ago, ToqueJambo said:

 

I think based on that he was decent at Livvy that he could be coachable. I see some similarities between him and Ozturk tbh - his build, switching off in defence at times, goalscoring... I think Neilson will think he could be. rough diamond and can develop him and, like he initially did with Ozturk, maybe try him out at DM.

 

Stendel needs to take more of the blame for 12th. He should have been able to identify players we had like Halkett weren't suitable for his system yet still tried to force them to play it. The mistakes he made under Stendel were part his fault and part the system IMO.

Stendel took the blame losing his job.  He walked into a complete shit show left by Levein and had very little time to turn things around.  Not sure how you can blame him for Haulket being not good enough when he was similarly not good enough before he came to the club and that type of signing rightly got Levein sacked. 

[Cruyff]

12 minutes ago, Whatever said:

Unlucky for you he’s going nowhere and RN will play him as long as he’s fit. Most likely as 1st choice centre halve.

 

Suck it up. Or e-mail Robbie or whatever.

We'll see. If he plays like he did last season he'll be nowhere near first XI. He needs to improve a fair bit. 

[jamboiain13]

1 hour ago, Sir Gio said:

No Djoum or Haring to get back in and win it back 

Arnaud Djoum was a big miss for us.  Always showing for the ball, great in the tackle and could score a few too.  I know he seemed to not be trying at times but I said it when he left that we'd miss him and we did...not as much as Big Peter right enough

 

[Whatever]

8 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

We'll see. If he plays like he did last season he'll be nowhere near first XI. He needs to improve a fair bit. 

Be quiet.

 

He’s got nothing to prove. Robbie has already identified the weakest link in the defence and sorted it. He’ll no doubt go about sorting the next biggest hinderance to a centre half. 

 

As I suggested earlier, it’s pretty clear talking shit is your specialist subject. 
 

 

[Cruyff]

29 minutes ago, ToqueJambo said:

 

I think based on that he was decent at Livvy that he could be coachable. I see some similarities between him and Ozturk tbh - his build, switching off in defence at times, goalscoring... I think Neilson will think he could be. rough diamond and can develop him and, like he initially did with Ozturk, maybe try him out at DM.

 

Stendel needs to take more of the blame for 12th. He should have been able to identify players we had like Halkett weren't suitable for his system yet still tried to force them to play it. The mistakes he made under Stendel were part his fault and part the system IMO.

Halkett was making mistakes from the minute he pulled on a Hearts shirt. 

 

Watch the highlights of our home games under Levein, v Ross County, Hamilton, Motherwell, Aberdeen in the cup (which he scored two) Rangers away, Motherwell away. Under Stendel he made mistakes that cost us goals v Motherwell at home, Hamilton away, St Mirren away. 

 

Even in his best 3 games in a Hearts top v Aberdeen, Rangers and Hibs he made quite a few mistakes. He lost Goldson twice at two corners v Rangers which he should have scored from. 

 

He was making mistakes that led to goals, should have led to goals or, goal scoring chances in almost every game he played for Hearts. He was shocking last season, absolutely terrible. I've never seen a Hearts Centerhalf so out of his depth. 

 

Maybe Robbie can sort him out. I hope he can but if he plays like he did last season, he won't last. We can't afford to have defenders that gift the opposition chances every game. 

[luckydug]

15 minutes ago, Last Laff said:

Stendel took the blame losing his job.  He walked into a complete shit show left by Levein and had very little time to turn things around.  Not sure how you can blame him for Haulket being not good enough when he was similarly not good enough before he came to the club and that type of signing rightly got Levein sacked. 

 

A lot of people on here rated Halkett when he played against us for Livingston. 

People were mostly delighted when we signed him. 

Something has clearly gone wrong since he got his injury but at the time he was a decent signing. 

It's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight. 

[Cruyff]

7 minutes ago, Whatever said:

Be quiet.

 

He’s got nothing to prove. Robbie has already identified the weakest link in the defence and sorted it. He’ll no doubt go about sorting the next biggest hinderance to a centre half. 

 

As I suggested earlier, it’s pretty clear talking shit is your specialist subject. 
 

 

Whatever. You're clearly beyond clueless. 

[Last Laff]

11 minutes ago, luckydug said:

A lot of people on here rated Halkett when he played against us for Livingston. 

People were mostly delighted when we signed him. 

Something has clearly gone wrong since he got his injury but at the time he was a decent signing. 

It's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight. 

I would be in the camp of thinking he was very decent at Livi’ I thought we got the better signing when we got him ahead of McManus too.  He simply isn’t good enough at centre half for us though. 

[Pasquale for King]

3 hours ago, rory78 said:

Lot of 💩 Grealish will be at least £50m he's decent but so is McGinn but not as good

We can only hope McGinn stays 😃

[Pasquale for King]

3 hours ago, Whatsthefuture said:

very good SPFL type signing. 

Probably where we’ve went wrong as other teams have made these types of signings. 

[Whatever]

13 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

Whatever. You're clearly beyond clueless. 

Gary Holt, Craig Levein, Daniel Stendel and Robbie Neilson think similarly with regards Craig Halkett obviously.

 

CLEARLY you, some melt on kickback, knows better. 

 

[Pasquale for King]

17 minutes ago, luckydug said:

A lot of people on here rated Halkett when he played against us for Livingston. 

People were mostly delighted when we signed him. 

Something has clearly gone wrong since he got his injury but at the time he was a decent signing. 

It's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight. 

I think with Livi where they sat on their own 18 yard line with 5 at the back and the midfield protecting them most CHs look good, one of the others went to Motherwell and is now a Scotland international (Declan Gallagher I think). Hardly anyone looked good last season and he was our top goal scorer shockingly enough. 

[Cruyff]

2 minutes ago, Whatever said:

Gary Holt, Craig Levein, Daniel Stendel and Robbie Neilson think similarly with regards Craig Halkett obviously.

 

CLEARLY you, some melt on kickback, knows better. 

 

Clearly you never watched Hearts very much last season. 😀 

[Clerry Jambo]

1 hour ago, Cruyff said:

I'm pretty confident in my opinion on this having watched Halkett for a long time. He's one of the main reasons why we ended up in 12th.

 

It's quite troubling that folk can't see how many mistakes and points he has cost us. It's all there in the highlights for all to see. It's not based on nothing. 👍 

Sorry bud pure pish 

[buzzbomb]

2 hours ago, Jambo92 said:

 

Major part of the problem was the terrible midfield in front of them, with Haring out of the team we didnt have anyone in there providing any protection.

I keep hearing that chat. Except the number of goals we lost from a long through ball over the heads of our midfield, from week 1 vs Aberdeen away to the long through ball in the last game vs st mirren, not to mention the number the keeper threw in, doesn’t quite compute for me. Basic poor defending from keeper and defence. Damour culpable for a few individually though.

[Cruyff]

Just now, Clerry Jambo said:

Sorry bud pure pish 

We were 4 points off St Mirren. Halkett cost us a lot more than 4 points last season. 

[Gordon Ramsay]

4 hours ago, Leveins Battalion said:

Who to believe. 

 

Robbie 

 

Or the ITK on here and the media.🤣🤣

 

More ITK pish. 

 

No one on here has a clue what is going on behind the scenes, don't know why people feel the need to make things up. Strange behaviour. 

[WoolfordsHearts]

3 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

We were 4 points off St Mirren. Halkett cost us a lot more than 4 points last season. 

Looking at your posts,in general,you've never played football at any decent level apart from on your computer. 

 

Imo.

[Cruyff]

Just now, WoolfordsHearts said:

Looking at your posts,in general,you've never played football at any decent level apart from on your computer. 

 

Imo.

Aye sure. Cheers for your zero input. Another clueless poster. 

[Unknown user]

2 minutes ago, Gordon Ramsay said:

 

More ITK pish. 

 

No one on here has a clue what is going on behind the scenes, don't know why people feel the need to make things up. Strange behaviour. 

That would make us the only club on the planet that doesn't employ a fan or a gossip then.

[Gulf Jambo]

1 minute ago, Cruyff said:

Aye sure. Cheers for your zero input. Another clueless poster. 

 

Your also not being objective though.

 

You seem to have an adverse dislike for Halkett. 

He did not have a good season at all, but before Levein was even gone his confidence was clearly shot.

He was almost guilty of trying too hard as he clearly had no faith in Perreria behind him.

 

In the season before at Livi he was on a different level to most of this season so I'll still give him time under a new boss to regain that

[Cruyff]

8 minutes ago, Gulf Jambo said:

 

Your also not being objective though.

 

You seem to have an adverse dislike for Halkett. 

He did not have a good season at all, but before Levein was even gone his confidence was clearly shot.

He was almost guilty of trying too hard as he clearly had no faith in Perreria behind him.

 

In the season before at Livi he was on a different level to most of this season so I'll still give him time under a new boss to regain that

Pretty objective tbf.

You're blaming the keeper. Aye the keeper was hopeless we know he cost us. As did Halkett. 

He's made dozens of mistakes this season costing us points and goals.

That is an absolute stonewall fact. Whether you like it or not. 

The highlights are all on YouTube, you can watch it for yourself. 

Edited July 11, 2020 by Cruyff

[Whatever]

34 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

Clearly you never watched Hearts very much last season. 😀 

I’d bet a lot of money I seen more of Hearts last season than most, let alone you.

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

With Halkett, I prefer to judge him on what I’ve seen, not on some hypothetical promise of improvement.

 

He might well be good enough for the Championship but, like Berra, that statement alone sums up the level of signings we’ve sunk to.

 

As a fanbase, we are guilty of tolerating under performance to an astonishing degree.

[Uncle Buck]

Halkett had one or two good performances last season. The rest of it he was absolute shite. So bad. Never seen a professional footballer so unfit/overweight.

 

There’s clearly potential there though. With a decent keeper in Gordon behind him I hope he can kick on.

Edited July 11, 2020 by Uncle Buck

[Cruyff]

Just now, Whatever said:

I’d bet a lot of money I seen more of Hearts last season than most, let alone you.

Aye right. I'll not take your word for it Mr clueless. 

[Gulf Jambo]

12 minutes ago, Cruyff said:

Pretty objective tbf.

You're blaming the keeper. Aye the keeper was hopeless we know he cost us. As did Halkett. 

He's made dozens of mistakes this season costing us points and goals.

That is an absolute stonewall fact. Whether you like it or not. 

The highlights are all on YouTube, you can watch it for yourself. 

 

I'm not only blaming the keeper.

They all were at fault, I'm only saying that before this season he was a decent player. That doesn't disappear overnight so its not just wishful thinking he could be better. Its possible, even plausible that in the right circumstances he will get better.

Even Berra put in the right environment at Dundee improved in the same season.

 

Robbie will be the ultimate judge, he will see them day in day out so can have the most imformed opinion.

 

Whatever happens I would like to see us blood young Chris Hamilton at least a bit next year as he seems to have real promise

 

[Whatever]

Just now, Cruyff said:

Aye right. I'll not take your word for it Mr clueless. 

Let’s stop boring everyone else and take it to PM....?

 

From Tolka park, Dublin in July, to that shitehole in Paisley before lockdown.
 

I’ll prove to you how much I’ve watched Hearts during the last 12 months

 

 

[jambopilms]

Halket played most of the season drifting too far up the right side. Leaving Berra or Souter to do all of the defending.

[Cruyff]

Just now, Whatever said:

Let’s stop boring everyone else and take it to PM....?

 

From Tolka park, Dublin in July, to that shitehole in Paisley before lockdown.
 

I’ll prove to you how much I’ve watched Hearts during the last 12 months

 

 

I don't give a shit mate. 👍 

[Whatever]

Just now, Cruyff said:

I don't give a shit mate. 👍 

As I thought.

 

Bye.

[Russ1977]

1 hour ago, Cruyff said:

I'm pretty confident in my opinion on this having watched Halkett for a long time. He's one of the main reasons why we ended up in 12th.

 

It's quite troubling that folk can't see how many mistakes and points he has cost us. It's all there in the highlights for all to see. It's not based on nothing. 👍 

Agreed. I think the fact he scored a few goals early on in the season blinded some folk to him being a poor defender. He’s all over the place positionally and lacks any physicality at all. Not sure how professional he is either as he’s very clearly overweight. 

[Clerry Jambo]

12 minutes ago, Dusk_Till_Dawn said:

With Halkett, I prefer to judge him on what I’ve seen, not on some hypothetical promise of improvement.

 

He might well be good enough for the Championship but, like Berra, that statement alone sums up the level of signings we’ve sunk to.

 

As a fanbase, we are guilty of tolerating under performance to an astonishing degree.

What are you on about. Berra has been a tremendous signing and servant to our club until he got his severe and worst injury of his career ffs. I agree his

performances were not at his level latterly but there are reasons why. 

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

6 minutes ago, Clerry Jambo said:

What are you on about. Berra has been a tremendous signing and servant to our club until he got his severe and worst injury of his career ffs. I agree his

performances were not at his level latterly but there are reasons why. 

Would this not be a good time to move on from him though? We got rid to Dundee because he was hopeless and now people want him to come back. Why don’t we try and be progressive?

[Guest ToqueJambo]

1 hour ago, Cruyff said:

Halkett was making mistakes from the minute he pulled on a Hearts shirt. 

 

Watch the highlights of our home games under Levein, v Ross County, Hamilton, Motherwell, Aberdeen in the cup (which he scored two) Rangers away, Motherwell away. Under Stendel he made mistakes that cost us goals v Motherwell at home, Hamilton away, St Mirren away. 

 

Even in his best 3 games in a Hearts top v Aberdeen, Rangers and Hibs he made quite a few mistakes. He lost Goldson twice at two corners v Rangers which he should have scored from. 

 

He was making mistakes that led to goals, should have led to goals or, goal scoring chances in almost every game he played for Hearts. He was shocking last season, absolutely terrible. I've never seen a Hearts Centerhalf so out of his depth. 

 

Maybe Robbie can sort him out. I hope he can but if he plays like he did last season, he won't last. We can't afford to have defenders that gift the opposition chances every game. 

 

He was brilliant against Rangers protected by Sibbick in front of him. I think with the system and better players around him he can hopefully come good.