People thinking we'd struggle this season

[Zizou]

See the state of that Motherwell team tonight? Barely any better than Cowdenbeath.  

Should be pishing second.

[Prancer]

Motherwell were fucking horrifically bad. They'll get some doings this season.

[Sterling Archer]

I think we'll win every game in August and lose every one in September.

[Walter Sobchak]

I think we'll win every game in August and lose every one in September.

This is a seriously good side in the making.

[Sterling Archer]

This is a seriously good side in the making.

Inverness Away, Aberdeen and Celtic and Parkhead are not Tim worthy

[Walter Sobchak]

Get on board the Jammy wearer express FFS.

[Crocodile Busan]

Inverness are pish. They lost to Motherwell FFS

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Fair to say I'm a paid up, card carrying, jammie rustling member of the 'Heart of Midlothian, 2015/16 league champions' brigade

[CritchSmile]

I'm thinking we should just play our under 19s and lose to Celtic 4 times, give the first team a rest and just win all the other games like we did last year and take home the flag at a canter.

Celtic canny even beat a Gary Locke team.

[Acey]

4 points from 9 in September would be pretty good as a minimum target tbf. Inverness still haven't won a game.

[Prancer]

If we beat Ross County this weekend then it should be feasible to go August unbeaten. I'm confident about the game but wouldn't be gutted at a draw.

ICT have been poor so far an we should be aiming for at least a draw if not more

Aberdeen will be the biggest test yet - a victory would really rack up the expectation for 2nd/some sort of title challenge.

Celtic away I can't imagine will go well

20 points from 27 by the end of September is my guess and would still be a very good effort considering Celtic can only get a maximum of 25.

[Mastermind]

Thing is, Aberdeen are genuinely quite overrated. The media has portrayed them as this plucky underdog who came so close to challenging Celtic for the title. I watched almost all of their home games last season, and they never actually impressed me that much. I mean, yes, obviously they just breeze past the shitty Prem teams like Motherwell, Kilmarnock and Hamilton etc, but as soon as they come up against a well-organised half-decent team, the fans start to get on their backs and the team plays very anxiously.

The way to beat Aberdeen is to stop their wide players bombing on, Shinnie, Hayes, Logan and Pawlett all like it when going forward, but the only time they're ever tested defensively is against Celtic, and that panned out very well for them last season.

We'll beat them at Tynecastle.

[shaun.lawson]

Thing is, Aberdeen are genuinely quite overrated. The media has portrayed them as this plucky underdog who came so close to challenging Celtic for the title. I watched almost all of their home games last season, and they never actually impressed me that much. I mean, yes, obviously they just breeze past the shitty Prem teams like Motherwell, Kilmarnock and Hamilton etc, but as soon as they come up against a well-organised half-decent team, the fans start to get on their backs and the team plays very anxiously.

The way to beat Aberdeen is to stop their wide players bombing on, Shinnie, Hayes, Logan and Pawlett all like it when going forward, but the only time they're ever tested defensively is against Celtic, and that panned out very well for them last season.

We'll beat them at Tynecastle.

As someone who, two years ago, highlighted to predictable derision that the vacuum left by Rangers and Hearts' problems would, of course, be filled by Aberdeen - who'd thereby inevitably achieve a succession of high finishes, and their most successful spell in at least two decades - I completely agree with this.

Aberdeen are a decent side. Are they that much kop? No. They've just profited from a Rangers and Hearts-less top division; Dundee United retrenching; and Motherwell disappearing from view completely. Right now, for us, they're the benchmark - but who'll be the only club they'll be worried about in terms of 2nd? Us, that's who.

I've read plenty of threads on this forum since I re-registered, and glanced over at the other place from time to time (if only to note its sad decline). What I find curious is how few seem prepared to acknowledge quite what's happening at HMFC right now. And what's happening is extraordinary.

Who's the most upwardly mobile football club in the whole of the UK? Heart of Midlothian. Who have gone from maybe the worst run to the best run football club in the whole of the UK in next to no time? Heart of Midlothian. Who are responsible for that? Ann Budge... and the fans. The finest fans anywhere.

Hearts fans have always known what the potential of this club is. How, if we could someday get everything right, only we could hunt down and beat the Old Firm, if only in a dream, one-off season. Running away with the Championship, finishing 21 points ahead of 2nd, 24 ahead of Rangers, was a far, far greater accomplishment than I think most Hearts fans even acknowledged... and the momentum this built up is continuing, bandwagon-like. On and on we roll: not even playing to our best yet, but three out of three and cruising it.

Can we win the league this season? No. Can we win it at some point in the next 3 or at most 5 years? Yes. Yes we can. If we don't, we'll go mightily, heart-breakingly close. The owner is perfect. The head coach is perfect. The Director of Football is perfect. And in the way they saved the club and launched it into an incredibly exciting new era, the fans have been EXTRAORDINARY.

The future at Hearts has never been brighter. NEVER BEEN BRIGHTER. And the dream of a precious league title, the league flag hoisted over Tynecastle, is not an impossible one. One day in the next 5 years, it might well actually happen.

[Dexter]

^ it's not Kickback mate.

 

That said however,

[Mr A]

As someone who, two years ago, highlighted to predictable derision that the vacuum left by Rangers and Hearts' problems would, of course, be filled by Aberdeen - who'd thereby inevitably achieve a succession of high finishes, and their most successful spell in at least two decades - I completely agree with this.

Aberdeen are a decent side. Are they that much kop? No. They've just profited from a Rangers and Hearts-less top division; Dundee United retrenching; and Motherwell disappearing from view completely. Right now, for us, they're the benchmark - but who'll be the only club they'll be worried about in terms of 2nd? Us, that's who.

I've read plenty of threads on this forum since I re-registered, and glanced over at the other place from time to time (if only to note its sad decline). What I find curious is how few seem prepared to acknowledge quite what's happening at HMFC right now. And what's happening is extraordinary.

Who's the most upwardly mobile football club in the whole of the UK? Heart of Midlothian. Who have gone from maybe the worst run to the best run football club in the whole of the UK in next to no time? Heart of Midlothian. Who are responsible for that? Ann Budge... and the fans. The finest fans anywhere.

Hearts fans have always known what the potential of this club is. How, if we could someday get everything right, only we could hunt down and beat the Old Firm, if only in a dream, one-off season. Running away with the Championship, finishing 21 points ahead of 2nd, 24 ahead of Rangers, was a far, far greater accomplishment than I think most Hearts fans even acknowledged... and the momentum this built up is continuing, bandwagon-like. On and on we roll: not even playing to our best yet, but three out of three and cruising it.

Can we win the league this season? No. Can we win it at some point in the next 3 or at most 5 years? Yes. Yes we can. If we don't, we'll go mightily, heart-breakingly close. The owner is perfect. The head coach is perfect. The Director of Football is perfect. And in the way they saved the club and launched it into an incredibly exciting new era, the fans have been EXTRAORDINARY.

The future at Hearts has never been brighter. NEVER BEEN BRIGHTER. And the dream of a precious league title, the league flag hoisted over Tynecastle, is not an impossible one. One day in the next 5 years, it might well actually happen.

:greatpost:

Gave me wee tingles.

[Zizou]

Something big is building. Unfortunately, it'll be incredibly hard to keep it all together to see the fruits of it. That's the reality.

[Picards Forehead]

are you going to get to many games in this EXTRAORDINARY new era Lawson?

[Ousmak Sembène]

Thing is, Aberdeen are genuinely quite overrated. The media has portrayed them as this plucky underdog who came so close to challenging Celtic for the title. I watched almost all of their home games last season, and they never actually impressed me that much. I mean, yes, obviously they just breeze past the shitty Prem teams like Motherwell, Kilmarnock and Hamilton etc, but as soon as they come up against a well-organised half-decent team, the fans start to get on their backs and the team plays very anxiously.

The way to beat Aberdeen is to stop their wide players bombing on, Shinnie, Hayes, Logan and Pawlett all like it when going forward, but the only time they're ever tested defensively is against Celtic, and that panned out very well for them last season.

We'll beat them at Tynecastle.

Swap out 'Prem teams' for 'Championship teams', take out the bit about challenging Celtic and change a few names and you basically just described Hearts.

[Steven Toast]

I enjoyed Lawson's post.

More hyperbole than 10 Superbowls but I enjoyed it.

[The Great Chilavert]

Lawsons post


Inverness are shite, and I truly believe we can take any cunt on at home. If the current buzz around the club and the all round sexy football continues then, for me, Celtic are the only real worry in September.