Heart of Midlothian Fans

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Well, I saw today match. It was quit difficult in Moscow. But now I've an opportunity to see it in inet (thanks livetv.ru), but with Chinese or Japanese comment.

Gordon was amusing. And I was really happy to see Kingston, who played in Lokomotiv =)

So what did everyone think of our new/fringe players today then?

Thought Pinilla and Mole looked good up front, Wallace was good at left back again. Not sure about Karipidis, he looked good for most of the game but had a couple of iffy moments (although not as many as Elvis did today... hopefully he was just tired after midweek). Zaliukas... well, probably the less said the better - did he actually manage to pass the ball to any hearts player except for Craig Gordon in the 2nd half?

Wee Driver was great when he came on though - I'd really quite like to see him and Wallace get a shot down the left hand side together, they looked like they link up really well from today. Although McCann seems to have remembered how to cross at some point through the week, he still gives the ball away needlessly far too often.

All in all, winning 4-1 with a virtually unrecognisable squad... can't be bad, can it?

Wonder how much they're paying the ref

AEK Athens then. It's as good draw as we could've got IMO - whilst as the seeded team they're naturally favourites, I don't see why we can't upset them. A score ending in AEK nil at Murrayfield is vital though, the last thing we need is to be going over there chasing the game.

Still undecided whether to go over for the 2nd leg, their stadium ( http://www.stadiumguide.com/nikosgoumas.htm ) isn't the biggest and as UEFA rules mean they don't have to give us anything over 5% of capacity, tickets are gonna be hard to come by. I sure as hell ain't going in the home end in that nuthouse! Shall see what the pennies are like after Siroki Brijeg.

We'll win 3-1 tomorrow, Ibby Tall to get one step closer to that golden boot.

According to the Evening News headline today

"Hibees boss says he wants two new faces"

So would I if I looked like him.

A week on Friday we're in our first ever Champions League draw. We'll most likely get one of the following as they're the seeded teams in Round 1:

Mlada Boleslav - Czech Republic
Ruzemburok - Slovenia
Red Bull Salzburg - Austria
MyPa 47 - Finland
Apollon Limassol - Cyprus
Siroki Brijeg - Bosnia Herzegovina
Hafnarfjardar FH - Iceland
Metalurgs Liepaja - Latvia
Sherif Tiraspol - Moldova
Sioni Bolnisi - Georgia
Ekranas Kaunas - Lithuania
Birkirkara - Malta
Rabotnicki Skopje - Macedonia

This lot can also make it through if they beat the above seeded teams in Round 1:

Shakhtior Saligorsk - Belarus
Cork City - Republic of Ireland
KS Elbasni - Albania
Pyunik Yerevan - Armenia
TUMK Tallinn - Estonia
Linfield - Northern Ireland
Llansantffraid - Wales
Baku FK - Azerbaijan
Dudelange F91 - Luxembourg
B36 - Faroe Islands
FK Aktobe - Kazakhstan

So who do we fancy?

Cork, Linfield, Kaunas (not Vlad's team though) or Llansantffraid would be excellent away trips, although if we can avoid the top 4 unseeded teams in Round 2 then we should have no problems. I'd rather not go to Kazakhstan if I can avoid it...

Bring on Arsenal.

Anyone else get one of these today?

Afternoon everyone :)

A bit stressful yesterday, wasn't it?

Anyway... i've posted some pics from tynecastle today up on photobucket - not great quality, as my proper camera battery ran out of juice and I was reduced to using my camera on my phone...

( Clickable Thumbs behind the cut... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI18Eijg6dw&search=hearts%20champions%20league

It's been some season alright. That Killie game at the start of the season seems like a world away.

Another seaon over eh. No bad was it? So what's everyone up to this Saturday then? ;-) In the words of Mr. Takis Fysass......

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! NA NA NA NA! CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! NA NA NA NA!

Steven Whittaker is a Jambo. He lives 3 streets from me and has a Hearts badge tattoo on his arm. I found this out during the semi final when talking to one of my mates who knows him (he cruises around in his BMW like an enlarged penis!)

Still doesn't stop him from being a cunt though. I hate Hibs :(

Choose life, choose Leith, choose not winning the cup for over 100 years,
choose Gareth Evans, choose a disabled fan's carer running on to the park for
a sly kick at Stuart Dougal, choose hookers down Coburg Street, choose
Jimmy Boco, choose the smell wafting from the Seafield sewage works over
the Links each morning, choose losing to a bunch of Lithuanian waiters in the
Inter Tattie cup, choose entering the Inter tattie cup in the first place, choose
Jocky Scott, choose dirty needles, choose having the worst derby record in
the entire world, choose Alan Sneddon, choose making a big deal about
being "the first to wear the green" like it actually matters, choose being one
day away from being closed down by your biggest rivals, choose being
'classy' when half of your support is made up of chavs, choose singing songs
about refugees, choose a tenner bag, choose David Fellinger, choose David
Duff and Jim Gray, choose trying to kid people into believing that you've
always played good football when the truth is that you've been absolutely
shyte for 30 years, choose going on and on and on about a game that
occurred before most of you were even born, choose the Loch Inn, choose
Edward Hurtado, choose getting humped 5-1 by some Ukranian team whose
name nobody can pronounce, choose hiring an open-top bus for a cup final
against a diddy team and then proceeding to lose the match, choose losing
30,000 'fans' on the way home from said cup final, choose Benny Brazil,
choose your derby rivals having won more derby matches at your ground
than you have, choose to go on and on and on about once beating Real
Madrid in a friendly match, choose Steve Cowan, choose running on the park
for a sly kick at Andy Goram, choose Salamander Street, choose John
Burridge, choose going 22 games in a row without beating your biggest rivals,
choose making a big deal about a scoreboard that worked for a month,
choose Alex Miller, choose incessantly going on about how some shady
Russian is going to sell Tynecastle and shut Hearts down only to look on in
horror as he invests heavily in the team, writes millions of pounds of debt off
and builds a new main stand, choose Joe Tortolano, choose Burberry caps,
skiddy pants and shell-suits, choose flairdoo's instead of hairdoo's, choose
thinking that 'Sunshine on Leith' is not dreadful, choose running on the park
for a sly kick at John Robertson, choose John Robertson scoring 27 goals
against you, choose Wayne Foster actually scoring a goal against you and
putting you out of the cup into the bargain, choose Bobby Williamson, choose
hiring a manager with a monkey head, choose worshipping and buying a
decanter for a manager who only won one match, choose defending your
club captain for urinating in a charity shop doorway after a team night out
watching strippers, choose thinking that the term 'yam' is even slightly
amusing in any way shape or form, choose Mickey Weir, choose Pirniefield in
the morning, choose being the most ungracious losers this side of
Christendom, choose the cow-shed, choose going out of business when
Celtic nicked all your players, choose running on to the pitch to celebrate your
first derby win in 10 years only to be chased off again by the visiting support,
choose living in the shadows of your neighbours for 131 years and forever
knowing that you will always be the wee team, choose the Proclaimers,
choose John Leslie, choose Hibs.

For all the whinging the Hibby's did, for all the moaning Mowbray did, for all the madness of having to go to Hampden in the first place, for us supposedly having the home advantage at Murrayfield, for Hibs and they're huge following (and all those empty seats), for Hibs being so unbelievably amazing with they're fast, free flowing "attack" minded football, for them being able to exploit Hampden's huge open spaces (the pitch at Murrayfield is actually bigger), for Ivan Sprouple and his pace and how are defenders won't get near him, for the stupid lunch time kick off - for which Hearts supposedly can't play with and Hibs are brilliant at lunch time kick offs cos they beat some shitey Rangers team 3-0 when it was a lunch time kick off.... all I have to say to all you Hibbys is..... FUCK YOU AND GET IT RIGHT FUCKIN UP YE'S!

COS IT'S 105 YEARS IN A ROW!!!!!!

So where are you all sitting for the semi final and what bus are you getting? More importantly, have you all got your inflatable bananas?

Sho-aah. Rix is gone. So is Duffy. Thoughts?

Just thought I'd say Hi.
I've been a Hearts supporter all my life, though I used to work in the Caley Thistle shop. :S Live in Perth now, but have played in Tynecastle. (Won a coca-cola competition to do so.)

Suppose I'd better put some content into my first post:




Age: 16
Nationallity: Bulgarian
International Caps (U-17): 10
International Goals (U-17): 7
Club Appearances: 65
Club Goals: 76
Current Club: Lask

Should be a good find for us.

Taken from the Scotsman:

Hearts ready to complete swoop for Bulgarian kid

HEARTS will complete the signing of Bulgarian teenager Branimir Kostadinov inside the next ten days after the player secured a student visa for his move to Scotland.

The 16-year-old has been training with the Jambos since January, when the club began fighting through stringent red tape to sign a player whose country is not a member of the European Union.

However, Kostadinov secured a two-year student visa this week and will now enrol in a plush Edinburgh school to facilitate his move to Tynecastle, which should be finalised next week when his registration is lodged with the SFA.

"It's 99.9 per cent done and dusted," said John Murray, Hearts' youth academy director. "Now Branimir has his student visa, we have to meet with the SFA to get him registered with that.

"We met with the SFA a while ago to apply for international clearance for him, which hasn't arrived yet, so now we will go back to them with all the relevant documentation that will allow him to sign as an amateur and play for our youth side.

"I will make an appointment to see the SFA and they will give us a date, probably next week some time, and we can go through and talk to them with a view to getting things tied up as soon as possible.

"The whole process should be completed in the next week to ten days, which will be great news for us."

Another Hearts teenager, Daniel Galbraith, remains on his way out of Tynecastle in a £50,000 deal to Manchester United, although the move will not go through until the summer.

Bruno Aguiar will keep either Julien Brellier or Paul Hartley out of the team in the long term.

Thought Petras and Cesnauskis were good too. Skacel needs a boot up the tradesman's entrance and dropped for a couple of games the moment McCann gets fit. Hackett did rather well when he came on as well.

Good win, not a fantastic performance but hey, that's us 3 points closer to the Champions League!

So it's time to grace you all with my views. Now I am not one to complain, I have no right to. I'm a Hearts fan so I shouldn't have that high expectations! Having said that, what the hell is wrong with Hearts and the 2nd half?! Why do we take our foot off the the gas?! We had the Hibees absolutely shittin themselves last weekend. 3-0 down at HT and down to 10 men, they were pissin themselves! Evene fat boy O'Connor was in the paper quoted as saying in the dressing room at half time "just don't let them get 7-0" That's the reason so many of their fans left is cos they knew they were in for a pumelling! They didn't wanna witness it! Hibs were really there for the taking last weekend and to be 4-0 up with 40 minutes to go and only (I say only. How cheeky?!) win 4-1 is so infuriating. Anyway, my point is, why do we take our foot off the gas? Why do we start the whole show boating routine when we're only 2-0 up or something daft like that? Celtic, Hibs and Aberdeen at Tynie in the last 3 home games. 8 first half goals and only 1 second half goal. Not on. Look at the big teams, they don't do it, the don't fanny around. Prime example: Just look at Arsenal the other week. 4-0 at half time against Middlesbrough and they go on to score another 3 in the second half, with another 2 goals chopped off and hittin both the post and bar! Anyways, I shouldn't really complain cos we won, but it's just so annoying when we just don't absolutely destroy teams like we really should.

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