Ben Dover Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Same old Tynecastle Malaise I'm afraid - a different team / manager / owner ........yet we still pluck defeat ( almost ) from the jaws of victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 We're not that good but we are a lot better than last season imo. We need to continue that improvement into next season. BH we don't put our wage bill out on the park every saturday, just our players......sadly. I know, but R@ng*rs and C*lt!c's wage bill does not take the park every Saturday either, it does however allow them to buy better players than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WASTREL Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 OK Clerry. Fair dos: you're entitled to your opinion, and unlike me, watch the team every week. But a question - if you take out the exceptional 1997/8 and 2005/6 seasons, how often have we been exciting to watch in the last, say, 15 years? How often have you enjoyed your fitba during that time? I mean, a fair amount of Jambos think the Levein era was like watching paint dry, in which case...? Have to agree with you there. Apart from the years you mention and some of Leveins time when Valois was on song this is some of the best pesh I have seen for years. Call me a suicide job put I get some pleasure in coming away from a match when I know we can play much much better and have not lost the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leginten Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Not sure about Husref does but I do. Better than average keeper, still have a pretty good defence even without Berra - nobody beat us in league by more than 2 goals, not bad. Our midfield has the potential to be just as good as anyones, if Kingston got the finger out we'd be laughing. Up front we are obviously struggling but it's not like anyone including the OF is scoring hunners. When you look at the rest, they don't have that much in their locker. United did. We've done well to emerge from a miserable season last year with some fight and organisation. Until we lost to Hamilton and drew with St Mirren, we'd been excellent at picking up points against the poorer/smaller clubs. We're not great to watch, but looking good is a luxury we clearly can't afford at the moment. In a way I keep expecting us to fold and not win (m)any more matches, but every time we look to be in trouble Csaba gets us going on a profitable run again. If he can carry on repeating that trick until the end of the season, he'll have done brilliantly. This is really the business end of things now, though. A tough run-in to the end of the third round of fixtures followed (presumably) by five more tough fixtures. What we have in our favour is that United, while incredibly difficult to beat against top six teams, have chucked away points against lesser opposition. Aberdeen are doing much the same as we are but are behind us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo27_22 Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 United did. We've done well to emerge from a miserable season last year with some fight and organisation. Until we lost to Hamilton and drew with St Mirren, we'd been excellent at picking up points against the poorer/smaller clubs. We're not great to watch, but looking good is a luxury we clearly can't afford at the moment. In a way I keep expecting us to fold and not win (m)any more matches, but every time we look to be in trouble Csaba gets us going on a profitable run again. If he can carry on repeating that trick until the end of the season, he'll have done brilliantly. This is really the business end of things now, though. A tough run-in to the end of the third round of fixtures followed (presumably) by five more tough fixtures. What we have in our favour is that United, while incredibly difficult to beat against top six teams, have chucked away points against lesser opposition. Aberdeen are doing much the same as we are but are behind us. Forgot about that one - still, one game in 20+ aint too bad at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun.lawson Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Have to agree with you there. Apart from the years you mention and some of Leveins time when Valois was on song this is some of the best pesh I have seen for years. Call me a suicide job put I get some pleasure in coming away from a match when I know we can play much much better and have not lost the game. Sounds perfectly realistic to me! Your viewpoint's particularly interesting, as you worked for the club: meaning you'll maybe have a better sense than many of us of what our capabilities in most (but certainly not all) seasons often amount to. I mean, we all think we should be capable of playing reasonably attractively and beating everyone outside the OF, especially at Tynecastle: it just doesn't work out like that as often as we'd like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Albert Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 To be fair, at least under Levein and the master of dull football Jordan was that we were a good side that specialised in winning, or on other less regular occasions, not losing. On both occasions, Tynecastle was a place to be feared, a place where the opposition very rarely left with anything. Now Tynecastle is voted the best away ground in the league. Surely voted as best away ground for atmosphere, not because it is an easy place to win. By the time of our next home game we will have gone over four months unbeaten in the league at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Surely voted as best away ground for atmosphere, not because it is an easy place to win. By the time of our next home game we will have gone over four months unbeaten in the league at home. Is it really that long? Jesus, I actually didn't know that. As for atmosphere, "difficult" places to go don't normally get these awards IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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