4marsbars Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Who is Andrew Smith? This is how his match report opens:- A LACK of illumination wasn't restricted to the out-of-commission floodlight at Tynecastle last night. There wasn't much that was enlightening on the field ? with one blazing exception. The match-winning goal from Andrew Driver..... I'm afraid to say I fairly enjoyed myself last night, some good football, missed chances, only one booking (not like you'd get at a Hibs match). But apparently it was a really rubbish match, according to our local "paper". And on their website's front page, the link to last nigh'ts match comes below the links to the Burley story, and an interview with Walter Smith. The Scotsman really don't want Edinburgh people to buy their paper. And its working. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/sport/Hearts-1--0-Kilmarnock.5649925.jp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bilel Mohsni Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Who is Andrew Smith? This is how his match report opens:- A LACK of illumination wasn't restricted to the out-of-commission floodlight at Tynecastle last night. There wasn't much that was enlightening on the field ? with one blazing exception. The match-winning goal from Andrew Driver..... I'm afraid to say I fairly enjoyed myself last night, some good football, missed chances, only one booking (not like you'd get at a Hibs match). But apparently it was a really rubbish match, according to our local "paper". And on their website's front page, the link to last nigh'ts match comes below the links to the Burley story, and an interview with Walter Smith. The Scotsman really don't want Edinburgh people to buy their paper. And its working. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/sport/Hearts-1--0-Kilmarnock.5649925.jp As I have imposed a ban on myself reading that toilet rag of a comic could you do me a favour and post the article and your thoughts on it in the "Jambo ex-readers of Johnston press" Facebook group? it is up to 100 members but it would benefit from some constructive comments from members regarding their opinions of the paper and it's hearts reporting. Thanks, Mothy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighalders Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I was going to put a thread up with the same topic. OK Hearts were not exactly Barcelona, and were bearable at best in the first half. However we created about a dozen chances in the second half and some of the play was very good indeed. A very harsh review by Mr. Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balders Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Who is Andrew Smith? This is how his match report opens:- A LACK of illumination wasn't restricted to the out-of-commission floodlight at Tynecastle last night. There wasn't much that was enlightening on the field ? with one blazing exception. The match-winning goal from Andrew Driver..... I'm afraid to say I fairly enjoyed myself last night, some good football, missed chances, only one booking (not like you'd get at a Hibs match). But apparently it was a really rubbish match, according to our local "paper". And on their website's front page, the link to last nigh'ts match comes below the links to the Burley story, and an interview with Walter Smith. The Scotsman really don't want Edinburgh people to buy their paper. And its working. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/sport/Hearts-1--0-Kilmarnock.5649925.jp Totally agree, an outrageously inaccurate report on the game by a petty Hearts loathing journalist. The second half in particular was very open with plenty of chances at either end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Someday Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 The Daily Ranger described the game as a "great advert". The hibsman is so riddled with hobos that there is just no point in giving it any more than a passing glance on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bilel Mohsni Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I cannot read it due to my self imposed ban on the paper... Can someone, anyone on this thread please post it on the Facebook group for me? (Leave your opinions too, while there). "Jambo ex-readers of Johnston Press (Mr English P45 Group)" Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 it was a pretty good game of football. lots of chances, quite a bit of decent football, played in a really good spirit as well which is quite refreshing. WTF is johnson press's agenda? tick tock, tick tock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Sexington Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 What a poisonous little hobo rag. Oh how I'll chuckle when it goes bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_vlad Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Hearts 1 - 0 Kilmarnock: Driver shines as Hearts see off Kilmarnock Andrew Driver scores the winning goal. Picture: SNS ? Previous ? PreviousNext ? Next ?View GalleryADVERTISEMENTPublished Date: 16 September 2009 By ANDREW SMITH A LACK of illumination wasn't restricted to the out-of-commission floodlight at Tynecastle last night. There wasn't much that was enlightening on the field ? with one blazing exception. The match-winning goal from Andrew Driver wasn't just enough to earn Hearts a first SPL victory of the season. The strike would have lit up the Gorgie ground even if the contest had been played in brilliant sunshine. Driver has been troubled by heel and hamstring problems this season and how much these ailments have hampered the efforts of Csaba Laszlo's side was blinding illustrated when the English Under-21 internationalist smeared an 18-yard drive into the top corner of the net after half an hour. All other efforts from both sides, Kilmarnock having too many for Hearts liking, lacked the finesse of Driver's drive, but at least the fixture is now out of the way. It has seemed bedevilled since it became a late postponement on Saturday after the Kilmarnock team bus struggled to negotiate the M8 following an accident. Following that, concerns were then expressed over the midweek re-arrangement because only three Tynecastle floodlights were operational following a fire. The encounter at least came at a good time for the two keepers deployed. Injury to Alan Combe allowed recent loan signing Mark Brown to make his debut for Kilmarnock. At the other end of the pitch Marian Kello was the beneficiary of an illness that deprived the home side of Janos Balogh. Brown was the one of the pair who had to pace and prowl his area in preparation of activity. That came in just about the first meaningful forward push from either side when Brown confidently grasped a Gary Glen cross from the left. Hearts, predictably, did most of the probing in the early stages. But this didn't amount to much more than the backline of Jim Jefferies' side being kept on alert by the movement and trickery of Suso Santana, David Obua and Driver. And it was Kilmarnock who threatened first. A burrowing run from Craig Bryson on 21 minutes supplied Conor Sammon with the confrontation's first real shooting opportunity. The Irishman got enough on his hit from 14 yards out to give Kello kittens, but the Slovakian avoided mishap by beating the ball away as if pawing at a buzzing fly. In that instant, it was impossible not to wonder if the outcome would have been different were Kevin Kyle the striker putting his foot through the ball. The Ayrshire club's renaissance man was listed among the substitutes despite suggestions he could be missing for a month after sustaining the knee injury that robbed him of a return to the Scotland set-up. But even with Kilmarnock's only three points of a three-game season being those secured by Kyle's opening day hat-trick, the night-trippers were still better placed than their winless hosts. Until, that is, Driver struck, the excellence of the execution enhanced by nifty footwork that allowed him to nick the ball away from Jamie Hamill before letting fly. Kilmarnock's response was to produce an emphatic one. They should have ended the first period on level terms and only David Fernandez will know why they didn't. It seemed harder for the forward to do anything else but nod the ball past Kello after a Sammon flick-on from a Tim Clancy throw-in had provided him with a glorious opening seconds before the interval. But he eschewed the easy by heading over. Jefferies' men didn't let that miss go to their minds and hardly let Hearts out of their own half for the quarter of an hour that followed the restart. In that spell ? by the end of which Kyle had replaced Fernandez ? Bryson deserved better than to see a clever backheel bump the post. Gradually, though, Laszlo's men began to find space in their opponents' final third. Suso should have made more of the acres of it that had him stooping to pick his spot with a header yet only succeeding to put it close enough to Brown to block. Michael Stewart then hoofed over wildly before Hearts, inevitably, survived a couple of scrapes they were fortunate was all that resulted from their desperately scrappy play. Hearts: Kello, C Thomson, Bouzid, Goncalves, Wallace, Suso, Obua, M Stewart, Palazuelos, Driver (Kucharski 90), Glen (Nade 75). Subs not used: MacDonald, Black, Jason Thomson, Novikovas, J Stewart. Kilmarnock: M Brown, Clancy, Wright, Ford, Hay (Owens 85), Bryson, Hamill, Taouil, Skelton (Invincibile 62), Fernandez (Kyle 56), Sammon. Subs not used: Bell, O'Leary, Flannigan, Kelly. Booked: Clancy. Match-winner surprised by right-foot wonder goal HEARTS winger Andrew Driver savoured his match-winning strike against Kilmarnock last night as the perfect way to make a mark on his return after injury. The Englishman started his first game of the season following a series of niggles and agreed he had "got off to a flier" in helping his team to their first league win with a superb hit. "It is what you miss about football; moments like that," Driver said of his 30th-minute strike. Notable, he accepted, for being scored with his lesser-used right foot. "I don't know where that came from," he said of the limb that did the damage. "It was one of those ones, you didn't have time to think about it. It just dropped, I hit it, and hoped for the best." His manager Csba Laszlo was equally shocked about the nature of goal that brought a three-point haul that pushes Hearts up the SPL table they were previously languishing in following one draw and two defeats. "With his head, he is okay," the Hearts manager said of his winger. "But I thought his right leg was only for walking on. Now he can score more with it." Laszlo said that his team should have scored more on an evening in which chances were squandered by both sides. In not doing so, he drew a parallel with their performances of last season. "It is okay to win 1-0 and if you do that you are successful". His team proved that with last season's third place but last night the Hungarian opted for boldness by fielding four attackers. "We have had a problem with strikers but we played with a different shape and haven't ever played with so many attackers before," he said. "It worked okay and the defence was okay, we didn't lose a goal." Laszlo is hopeful he can have more players in his "young team" available before the visit to Celtic Park on Sunday and sent out mixed messages in projecting about what the season can bring beyond that. "Maybe it is my destiny to work and build a new team every year," he said. "We lost 12 players and you can't replace all of them immediately." Kilmarnock counterpart Jim Jefferies was hacked off with no returns from a game in which his team had almost as many decent opportunities as their opponents. "I have never come to Tynecastle and created as many chances, and we should have come away with something," said Jefferies. He derived comfort from a 35-minute run-out from Kevin Kyle that puts the striker in line to start against Rangers on Saturday but cursed the ball-striking prowess of Driver. "He is not renowned for 20-yard strikes with his right foot but hit it sweet as a nut and we found ourselves 1-0 down without them causing us any problems." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshallschunkychicken Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 The Scotsman really is hell-bent on digging it's own grave, isn't it. What a pile of s***e. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Sexington Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I can only imagine that the "journalists" who are writing this pish are egging each other on to see who can wind the Hearts support up the most. No doubt the writer of that report and his vermin mates are crowded round a monitor in the Hibsman offices, stroking each other to a delirious climax, as they read this. Tick Tock, boys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMA MAROON Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 'desperately scrappy play' That was the funniest bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdewar42 Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Is Andrew Smith in any way related to Aidan Smith who wrote the book "Heartfelt"? Anyone know? The "Hibsman" policy of self destruction, (in the sports dept., at least), is sad to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Bill Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 It was one the most open games you'll ever see. In fact, it was just like the famous 5-3 game from 1997 - bar the goals! Credit to both teams for getting on with a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Sifter Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Who the **** is the Scotsman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBjambo Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Who is Andrew Smith? This is how his match report opens:- A LACK of illumination wasn't restricted to the out-of-commission floodlight at Tynecastle last night. There wasn't much that was enlightening on the field ? with one blazing exception. The match-winning goal from Andrew Driver..... I'm afraid to say I fairly enjoyed myself last night, some good football, missed chances, only one booking (not like you'd get at a Hibs match). But apparently it was a really rubbish match, according to our local "paper". And on their website's front page, the link to last nigh'ts match comes below the links to the Burley story, and an interview with Walter Smith. The Scotsman really don't want Edinburgh people to buy their paper. And its working. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/sport/Hearts-1--0-Kilmarnock.5649925.jp Andrew Smith knows feck all about football... not even good enough to be a red top hack... the scotsman is a pish newspaper and the sooner it goes under the better! For the record... I thought the match was pretty good... lots of chances in the 2nd half and on another night we could have had a barrowload o goals! The media should really invest some time in promoting the beleaguered spl it is to their own advantage after all?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots civil war Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 i sincerely hope those lochend loving *******s go down with their paper tick ****ing tock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Is Andrew Smith in any way related to Aidan Smith who wrote the book "Heartfelt"? Anyone know? The "Hibsman" policy of self destruction, (in the sports dept., at least), is sad to see. He is Celtic minded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldstone Wonder Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 He is Celtic minded. former editor of the Celtic View, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Albert Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 So Kyle scored a hat trick in Killie's opening game? Sums up the standard of sports "journalism" on display here. Takes about 15 seconds to check that sort of thing, but like the rest of the report, just write whatever's in your head, however remote from reality. I mean that "not very illuminating" line - who thinks that Andrew only made that ever so clever link AFTER the match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interista Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 former editor of the Celtic View, I think. Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.J Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Bitter hibs pish. It'll be gone soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Thor Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Scotland's National Newspaper? Aye right. Parochial rag and the bastion of shoddy journalism. It's more like the Lochend Gazette. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Root Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 That article was predictably sh*te and I do hope that the Scotsman inevitably goes bust. A 1-0 scoreline allows them to write this crap about us, start banging them in Hearts. 3-0, 2-0, 4-0 and makes it more of a challenge for them to p*ss all over us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 former editor of the Celtic View, I think. How can he get a job on a national paper he cannot be anything other than prejudiced about all things not sellik minded. Faks sake that rag really will employ/do anything to appease the unwashed in the weej. I take it his brother from the hun view is also working there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungle Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Really enjoyed the game last night after a particulary slow start. Plenty of good chances at both ends and some good sporting behaviour shown by both teams. As previously mentioned very reminiscent of the 5-3 game without the barrow load of goals. As for the article in the Edinburgh rag, well..that just cement's the fact i gave up reading they rags ages ago. Thier level of journalism is nothing short of amateur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4marsbars Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 That article was predictably sh*te and I do hope that the Scotsman inevitably goes bust. A 1-0 scoreline allows them to write this crap about us, start banging them in Hearts. 3-0, 2-0, 4-0 and makes it more of a challenge for them to p*ss all over us. Not at all. Remember Csaba last year: "I like 1-0" It's all part of his approach. Bamboozle them. Last night, we actually played quite well but this is being reported as us doing nothing special. All helps the opposition to under-estimate us. If we kept on winning 4-0 people might take us seriously. You'll find most Hibs fans thought we were "poor" last year. We weren't, but let them think that if they like. Another part of the bamboozling is / are the formations he plays. Last night we played with possibly three wingers (Suso, Driver, and Obua) who were constantly changing position. And we've got used to Lee Wallace's fine wing-play; add to that Thomson coming down the right and putting crosses in. Csaba knows what he's doing. I'm looking forward to lots more one-goal victories and unflattering press coverage. In fact, I might revel in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 lovin the fact he states that Micheal Stewart 'hoofed over wildly' wonder where he got that expression from :radar:l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigO Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I hate the Sun, but is this closer to it? Didn't see the game myself - radio.... booooo. Guy sticks to facts of the game and doesn't inject his opinion which for a match report is what you want. Pity it's a fascist rag! http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/2639541/Hearts-1-Kilmarnock-0.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambof3tornado Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 I enjoyed the game last night,the floodlights,the fact that plenty of chances were created by both sides,and the fact that we got 3 points. Had we been 3 up at half time it would have been a boring 2nd half!!!! Theres the easy way then theres the Hearts way. 15th sept 2009 Andy Drivers realisation that a right leg isnt just for standing on!!! Why oh why havent you used that beautiful right peg more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzinho Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 The Daily Ranger described the game as a "great advert". The hibsman is so riddled with hobos that there is just no point in giving it any more than a passing glance on the internet. For more evidence of that check out the "hibs in debt crisis" thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartsfc_fan Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 The Daily Ranger described the game as a "great advert". The hibsman is so riddled with hobos that there is just no point in giving it any more than a passing glance on the internet. That rag is actually talking sense? I enjoyed the game last night. Lots of chances, some nice football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Spackler Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 When I watched bits of the game again last night it did seem alot better than when I was there for some reason. In retrospect I don't think the crowd actually gave it the support it deserved which could be put down to a number of factors, not least nervousness that we really needed to record a win and were not taking chances. However, if one was writing a match report simply thinking back and counting the number of chances both sides created would indicate that there's no way the game could be considered as lacking in entertainment value. You could criticise the finishing sure and I think Hearts could have played with more confidence at times but this was a match, as somebody has already said, that had only one booking. And to be fair to the Kilmarnock lad it wasn't a dirty one, he just did a cynical pull back on Wallace and probably averted a dangerous cross as a result, he knew he would be booked. The BBC Sportsound reviewers were doing their best to put a positive spin on the game and made some very valid points in their after match analysis. If the Record is making good noises too then you have to ask what the Scotsman is playing at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 As I have imposed a ban on myself reading that toilet rag of a comic could you do me a favour and post the article and your thoughts on it in the "Jambo ex-readers of Johnston press" Facebook group? it is up to 100 members but it would benefit from some constructive comments from members regarding their opinions of the paper and it's hearts reporting. If such a group exists, and I can ever be ersed to open a facebook account, you can count me as a mamber. It was as a result of something written a long time ago in the SoS, I can't even remember now what it was but it provoked sufficient ire for me to declare that I'd never buy it again. Nowadays I'll buy the EEN if I'm on holiday in Edinburgh or maybe the Scotsman if there's a particularly nice freebie with it, but in general they can whistle for my 50p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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