***Official Heart of Midlothian v Istanbul Basaksehir ( KO 17:45 ) Match Thread***

[jr ewing]

4 hours ago, Sooks said:

You thought we were lethargic at home to Zurich 😄 

Peaked then and downhill ever since. 🤣

[DETTY29]

Due to the 17 September rail strike and now a move to Ryanair  transfer flights we will be 4 capitals on the same day.

 

Riga, London, Dublin, Edinburgh.

[Sooks]

43 minutes ago, DETTY29 said:

Due to the 17 September rail strike and now a move to Ryanair  transfer flights we will be 4 capitals on the same day.

 

Riga, London, Dublin, Edinburgh.

 

Detty's Independent Traders

 

Riga London Dublin Edinburgh

[WageThief]

3 hours ago, spacerjoe said:

Yep, all comps, including CL, have early kickoffs now as there are so many games. This year its been compounded by needing to get all the games done before the World Cup.

 

I'm sure our away leg in Turkey is on at 4pm???

Mental I’d assumed it was moved for TV or something. Game in Florence is also 17:45 and Istanbul is 15:30!

[Perth to Paisley]

3 hours ago, Wee Mikey said:

 

Aye.

You sure... I tried to access Wheatfielf via 'main' v  Zurich and I was declined

 

[Thought Police]

1 hour ago, jambopilms said:

I imagine you can train as a trailist before being signed. Hopefully.

He's not a trialist though. The move is pending visa approval, so he's technically still their player.

[sprinbox98]

Are there any Turkish fans coming to the game? 
 

not sure if they are selling them to fans?

[Tom Hardy’s Dug]

2 hours ago, jambopilms said:

I imagine you can train as a trailist before being signed. Hopefully.

We played Rowles as a trialist before visa so of course he can train 

[Tom Hardy’s Dug]

34 minutes ago, Thought Police said:

He's not a trialist though. The move is pending visa approval, so he's technically still their player.

it’s only 6 weeks or so since Rowles did exactly the same.

 

for fans so opinionated and critical and knee jerk, I don’t understand why they don’t keep on top of the facts.

 

Edited September 7, 2022 by Tom Hardy’s Dug

[JAYEL]

23 minutes ago, Tom Hardy’s Dug said:

it’s only 6 weeks or so since Rowles did exactly the same.

 

for fans so opinionated and critical and knee jerk, I don’t understand why they don’t keep on top of the facts.

 

Which reminds me - Our man from Hamilton appears to have gone awol 

[spacerjoe]

3 hours ago, Francis Albert said:

Maybe they could learn from the many fans on here who have had no difficulty in bouncing back from the last two games. Mentally, after a defeat whether "unlucky"or due to poor performance, surely professional players should be conditioned to be desperate to bounce back and prove themselves.

The certainly can't be feeling hard done by after the last two games unless they have bought into Robbie's mental fatigue nonsense.

I think to get that level of conditioning, you have to go through it over and over again.

 

The phrase 'European hangover' has been around for some time for good reason. And it's something that only seems to affect teams that are new to European football.

 

 

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

2 hours ago, Sooks said:

 

Detty's Independent Traders

 

Riga London Dublin Edinburgh

Poor effort IMHO, what are DITS?

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

54 minutes ago, JAYEL said:

Which reminds me - Our man from Hamilton appears to have gone awol 

Perhaps he is on Tour?

[jr ewing]

7 hours ago, Tommy Walker said:

Been out of touch so pls excuse obvious question

 

...early kick off cos of (revised) tv scheduling ?

 

...seems unusual for UK home legs in Europe ???

 

Onup

 

TW

 

 

Imagine if it had been Arsenal. 

[JAYEL]

9 minutes ago, Lord Beni of Gorgie said:

Perhaps he is on Tour?

 

😵😵😵. gotcha

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

Honestly cant believe how many tickets left, kick off time obviously not the best, but first group game in nearly 20 years against quality opposition, thought there would be a queue of folk, decent seats as well. 

[Pasquale for King]

4 hours ago, RDSK said:

Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere.

 

I take it Orestis hasn’t trained with the team yet due to the issue with his visa? Haven’t seen him in any of the training session social media content since he signed. Have always struggled as a fan to think of football as work but of course it is. Can’t work = can’t train I suppose. 

Snodgrass trained today and we don’t have his international clearance yet, not sure if that’s different from a visa though. 

[GBJambo]

5 minutes ago, Lord Beni of Gorgie said:

Honestly cant believe how many tickets left, kick off time obviously not the best, but first group game in nearly 20 years against quality opposition, thought there would be a queue of folk, decent seats as well. 

I really think it’s due to the kick of time plus cost of tickets.  People are probably skint which is understandable with the way things are now  
 

 

[DC_92]

4 minutes ago, Pasquale for King said:

Snodgrass trained today and we don’t have his international clearance yet, not sure if that’s different from a visa though. 

 

I think international clearance is just to do with registering him to play with the SFA and only affects his eligibility to play matches. Kio can't legally work for us until he has his permit.

[Sooks]

30 minutes ago, Lord Beni of Gorgie said:

Poor effort IMHO, what are DITS?

Just above the dummy and we’ll above the dwat 

[Thomaso]

Any idea how the ticket sales are going?

[ecky92]

Any away fans coming ? 

[Pasquale for King]

38 minutes ago, DC_92 said:

 

I think international clearance is just to do with registering him to play with the SFA and only affects his eligibility to play matches. Kio can't legally work for us until he has his permit.

Yeah I think it has to come from the last FA he played under so shouldn’t take long you would think. Considering how clubs in England have received or been denied visas you have to wonder what the hold up is. 

[DC_92]

Halkett out. Disaster.

 

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/hearts-reach-decision-on-more-new-signings-plus-craig-halkett-news-for-istanbul-basaksehir-tie-3834862

[We_are_the_Hearts]

1 minute ago, DC_92 said:

Halkett out. Disaster.

 

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/hearts-reach-decision-on-more-new-signings-plus-craig-halkett-news-for-istanbul-basaksehir-tie-3834862

How much shite does Neilson talk, done with the clown. 

[SUTOL]

Just now, We_are_the_Hearts said:

How much shite does Neilson talk, done with the clown. 

 

Halkett said himself he expected to be ready to play tomorrow. 

 

Not sure how that means Neilson is talking shite?

[graygo]

1 minute ago, SUTOL said:

 

Halkett said himself he expected to be ready to play tomorrow. 

 

Not sure how that means Neilson is talking shite?

 

It doesn't, just another hater grasping at any excuse whether justified or not 

[jambopilms]

No Halkett= defeat

Ignoring the fact they are a much better team. 

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

42 minutes ago, Sooks said:

Just above the dummy and we’ll above the dwat 

Dhank you

[Pasquale for King]

We have big problems in defence, has to go with a five in there I think to make up for it. It will be interesting to see how we set up and how we go about this game, looking forward to it. 

[theshed]

8 minutes ago, SUTOL said:

 

Halkett said himself he expected to be ready to play tomorrow. 

 

Not sure how that means Neilson is talking shite?

Probably was talking about Neilson saying he’d take the defeats to Killie and Livingston every now and again as that’s a stupid thing to say 

[OmiyaHearts]

“We've lost two games in four days so if that's a slump I'll take that every now and again"

 

WTF is this about? He should be saying it's unacceptable for Hearts to lose two games in 4 days v those kind of clubs, without a notable effort on target.

 

Certainly seems to have lowered the expectations, despite spending around a million quid.

[GinRummy]

1 hour ago, GBJambo said:

I really think it’s due to the kick of time plus cost of tickets.  People are probably skint which is understandable with the way things are now  
 

 

Wonder how much of a difference it would make if we’d won our last two games. 

[GinRummy]

23 minutes ago, We_are_the_Hearts said:

How much shite does Neilson talk, done with the clown. 

There’s little point in reading his pre match interviews because he just lies about who’s available and who isn’t. 

[jambopilms]

Never known a mangers comments analysed so much. All managers just give sound bites to get through the interviews, it's literally the least important part of the job and doesn't effect the team whatsoever 

[Pasquale for King]

19 minutes ago, jambopilms said:

Never known a mangers comments analysed so much. All managers just give sound bites to get through the interviews, it's literally the least important part of the job and doesn't effect the team whatsoever 

Sorry but that’s absolute nonsense, managers who criticise their players in public don’t last long in their jobs. Players have to trust managers. 

[jambopilms]

1 minute ago, Pasquale for King said:

Sorry but that’s absolute nonsense, managers who criticise their players in public don’t last long in their jobs. Players have to trust managers. 

He didn't do that though ?

[Australis]

40 minutes ago, OmiyaHearts said:

“We've lost two games in four days so if that's a slump I'll take that every now and again"

 

WTF is this about? He should be saying it's unacceptable for Hearts to lose two games in 4 days v those kind of clubs, without a notable effort on target.

 

Certainly seems to have lowered the expectations, despite spending around a million quid.

Hope he is not preparing us for more of the same.

 

Just as we envy the old firm cash and signings, Killie and Livi would love the money he has to attract players.

 

 

 

 

[PapaShango]

Halkett out is a massive blow to be fair, we will really struggle without him, hopefully he's back for Sunday. Rather miss tomorrow and be fit in the next week than do long term damage and miss months of the season. 

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

I've no issue sitting in here for first half, Celtic bombed out after 60 minutes last night, nothing to give once one down. 2nd half if anything we want to blitz them.

[Heartsofgold]

2 hours ago, Lord Beni of Gorgie said:

Perhaps he is on Tour?

He's away on his yacht.

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

1 minute ago, Heartsofgold said:

He's away on his yacht.

Didnt call her Dignity, no chance

[Taffin]

Really disappointing new about Halkett. I reckon that's moved our chances from slim, to bordering on none.

 

I'll feel more positive once the games comes round though I'm sure.

[John Kimble]

                     Gordon

         Sibbick Haring  Kingsley. 
 

Smith                                           Cochrane 

               Devlin      Halliday    
                      McKay

Ginnelly           Shankland     Forrest

 

Dont shoot me, it’s the best I could come up with 😭😂

[jr ewing]

3 minutes ago, John Kimble said:

                     Gordon

         Sibbick Haring  Kingsley. 
 

Smith                                           Cochrane 

               Devlin      Halliday    
                      McKay

Ginnelly           Shankland     Forrest

 

Dont shoot me, it’s the best I could come up with 😭😂

Ouch 

[karipidis]

27 minutes ago, John Kimble said:

                     Gordon

         Sibbick Haring  Kingsley. 
 

Smith                                           Cochrane 

               Devlin      Halliday    
                      McKay

Ginnelly           Shankland     Forrest

 

Dont shoot me, it’s the best I could come up with 😭😂

We will likely get chucked out the competition if we play that team…

[karipidis]

Gordon

 

Smith

Neilson/Sibbick

Kingsley

Cochrane

 

Haring

Devlin

Halliday

 

Forrest

Shankland

McKay

[John Kimble]

 

7 minutes ago, karipidis said:

Gordon

 

Smith

Neilson/Sibbick

Kingsley

Cochrane

 

Haring

Devlin

Halliday

 

Forrest

Shankland

McKay

We’re not worlds apart to be fair 

Edited September 7, 2022 by John Kimble

[highlandjambo3]

Not thread related I know but, Is the other big screen up yet?

[andythejambo]

34 minutes ago, John Kimble said:

                     Gordon

         Sibbick Haring  Kingsley. 
 

Smith                                           Cochrane 

               Devlin      Halliday    
                      McKay

Ginnelly           Shankland     Forrest

 

Dont shoot me, it’s the best I could come up with 😭😂

Think if we start with 12, UEFA may throw the book at us !! 🤣🇱🇻⚽️🇱🇻