Critchley and big games !

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20-04-2025, 11:43 AM
SickBoy32

Cathro mk 2, could tell that from his very first interview.

Never, ever a leader of men.

Long live the Critch 👍😂
20-04-2025, 12:22 PM
renato

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Originally Posted by matty_f

That’s it in a nutshell. Any team can just dig in and hope they get to penalties, most often it doesn’t work though. You need to have some ambition to win the match - he was hoping to get it to penalties where it’s a lottery, don’t be gaslit into thinking getting to penalties equals “Hearts would have won”.

It’s just as likely that Aberdeen would have won on penalties.

Packing the defence and trying to defend is a routine training drill that every team does - nothing Hearts did yesterday was particularly tactically smart or revolutionary, they forced Aberdeen wide and defended their box, and were grateful Aberdeen were slow and wasteful with their play.

They did it well, but if you’re not bothered about having a go yourself then it’s not really worth it. Their fans should be looking back on that game furious that they’ve not really had a go at Aberdeen at 10 v 11. That’s not an insurmountable disadvantage that necessitated giving up any attacking threat they had.

Critchley 100% shat the bed when he opted to play for penalties, there was no faith in his team that they could compete with Aberdeen in open play.

100%.

Contrast this to the Maloney semi against them, Newall sent off yet we totally dominated the game against 11 men and I’m sure most of a maroon persuasion would agree how fortunate they were to win that game.

That’s how a team with 10 men can be brave and still offer a threat, in a big game.
20-04-2025, 12:30 PM
Since452

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Originally Posted by Not In The Know

100%.

he basically shat the bed. All this “brave performance” guff from the usual Hearts sycophants on the radio is nonsense. They were playing a guff Aberdeen team and didn’t manage another shot on target when they went down to 10 men.

This. They were playing Aberdeen for goodness sake. Not Celtic or even Rangers. Cowardly tactics got what it deserved. Nothing. Hearts are the new St Johnsone. Would get football stopped.
20-04-2025, 12:36 PM
McD

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Originally Posted by matty_f

That’s it in a nutshell. Any team can just dig in and hope they get to penalties, most often it doesn’t work though. You need to have some ambition to win the match - he was hoping to get it to penalties where it’s a lottery, don’t be gaslit into thinking getting to penalties equals “Hearts would have won”.

It’s just as likely that Aberdeen would have won on penalties.

Packing the defence and trying to defend is a routine training drill that every team does - nothing Hearts did yesterday was particularly tactically smart or revolutionary, they forced Aberdeen wide and defended their box, and were grateful Aberdeen were slow and wasteful with their play.

They did it well, but if you’re not bothered about having a go yourself then it’s not really worth it. Their fans should be looking back on that game furious that they’ve not really had a go at Aberdeen at 10 v 11. That’s not an insurmountable disadvantage that necessitated giving up any attacking threat they had.

Critchley 100% shat the bed when he opted to play for penalties, there was no faith in his team that they could compete with Aberdeen in open play.

Hearts gave lip service to any kind of attacking play after the sending off. They made maybe 3 or 4 forays past the halfway line, won a corner once, in the whole second half. They put 5 players on their 18 yard line, and 3 sitting midfielders in front of them. Critchley had no intention of looking for a winner.

And they defended fairly well against a toothless Aberdeen side, but at the end of the day, the defending team have to get everything right over and over and over, the attacking team only need to get it right once to score.
20-04-2025, 12:39 PM
McD

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Originally Posted by Since452

This. They were playing Aberdeen for goodness sake. Not Celtic or even Rangers. Cowardly tactics got what it deserved. Nothing. Hearts are the new St Johnsone. Would get football stopped.

This rangers team are very poor, and we’re playing half a reserve side against Aberdeen last week, and managed to come back from 2 goals down after a sending off. Any sensible manager would have looked at that and saw how to get at Aberdeen with 11 or 10 men. Critchley went into an ultra defensive shape and played for penalties for nearly 70 minutes, so negative.
20-04-2025, 01:05 PM
Kato

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Originally Posted by Since452

This. They were playing Aberdeen for goodness sake. Not Celtic or even Rangers. Cowardly tactics got what it deserved. Nothing. Hearts are the new St Johnsone. Would get football stopped.

Hard luck Jambos, brave, courageous, but in the end, cowardly, stupid, loser tactics.

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20-04-2025, 01:17 PM
Aldo

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Originally Posted by McD

This rangers team are very poor, and we’re playing half a reserve side against Aberdeen last week, and managed to come back from 2 goals down after a sending off. Any sensible manager would have looked at that and saw how to get at Aberdeen with 11 or 10 men. Critchley went into an ultra defensive shape and played for penalties for nearly 70 minutes, so negative.

Down to ten and you keep the most immobile player in your squad on the pitch. Says it all.

Critch’d it said they were still a threat. Where.

I also hope they kept Gordon as their No1 next season. He set up the winner superbly well and is nowhere near as good as he was.
20-04-2025, 02:08 PM
He's here!

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Originally Posted by Aldo

Down to ten and you keep the most immobile player in your squad on the pitch. Says it all.

Critch’d it said they were still a threat. Where.

I also hope they kept Gordon as their No1 next season. He set up the winner superbly well and is nowhere near as good as he was.

For such a tall guy he seems always to be rooted to his line for cross balls. His reputation is built on shot stopping.
20-04-2025, 02:10 PM
Aldo

Critchley and big games !

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Originally Posted by He's here!

For such a tall guy he seems always to be rooted to his line for cross balls. His reputation is built on shot stopping.

He shat the bed for Scotland v England when, in my opinion anyway, he should have used his height to come for the cross that led to a goal.

Even his shot stopping has deteriorated a bit.
20-04-2025, 02:16 PM
Not In The Know

Pretty funny to think he won’t have the opportunity to blow another big game for at least 1/3 of a year.
20-04-2025, 02:19 PM
Not In The Know

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Originally Posted by He's here!

For such a tall guy he seems always to be rooted to his line for cross balls. His reputation is built on shot stopping.

Sunderland fans used to call him Jesus. Quite apt this weekend.
20-04-2025, 02:25 PM
A Hi-Bee

Crutch, is such a nice man shame it may take him 6 or 7 years to turn this one around.
20-04-2025, 02:25 PM
Baader

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Originally Posted by Kato

Hard luck Jambos, brave, courageous, but in the end, cowardly, stupid, loser tactics.

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Interesting, very typical Jambo narrative.

Brave, courageous, valiant etc.

Fact is they had a very good chance to best a dreadful Aberdeen side on the day and make the final. Let down by indiscipline that led to two stupid red cards. They should be looking at that and how the players blew it big time. If they'd have kept 11 on the pitch they'd likely have won it in 90.
20-04-2025, 03:37 PM
hibsbollah

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Originally Posted by Baader

Interesting, very typical Jambo narrative.

Brave, courageous, valiant etc.

Fact is they had a very good chance to best a dreadful Aberdeen side on the day and make the final. Let down by indiscipline that led to two stupid red cards. They should be looking at that and how the players blew it big time. If they'd have kept 11 on the pitch they'd likely have won it in 90.

Ive just seen the nauseating Craig Gordon interview. What an embarrassment. They’re carrying on like theyre Italy been stitched up by the Ecuadorian ref in Korea 2002.
20-04-2025, 03:41 PM
Not In The Know

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Ive just seen the nauseating Craig Gordon interview. What an embarrassment. They’re carrying on like theyre Italy been stitched up by the Ecuadorian ref in Korea 2002.

Classic deflection tactics.
20-04-2025, 03:59 PM
Aldo

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Ive just seen the nauseating Craig Gordon interview. What an embarrassment. They’re carrying on like theyre Italy been stitched up by the Ecuadorian ref in Korea 2002.

Unfortunately Craigie you spilled a shot to the feet of an opposition striker who finished with aplomb.

Dry your eyes and get it right round yeah!
20-04-2025, 04:11 PM
cubehindthegoal

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Originally Posted by Aldo

Unfortunately Craigie you spilled a shot to the feet of an opposition striker who finished with aplomb.

Dry your eyes and get it right round yeah!

And for the first goal, made an erse of … no, wait, made his erse a goal scorer. You try to cover and defend the actions of a player such as devlin, you deserve what you get.

And as to the first red card, even most hearts fans know they can’t argue their case, total nonsense.
20-04-2025, 04:50 PM
Donegal Hibby

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Originally Posted by Not In The Know

100%.

he basically shat the bed. All this “brave performance” guff from the usual Hearts sycophants on the radio is nonsense. They were playing a guff Aberdeen team and didn’t manage another shot on target when they went down to 10 men.

There was basically nothing brave about what he done yesterday in his selections in taking off two of his quickest attackers and leaving the one that was slow and immobile on . He was playing for penalties even though they could still have had a go as Aberdeen weren’t great ( glad they didn’t) …

I hope he survives there but that yesterday was very negative tactics and I think there is also a pattern with him in how he wants them to play in being possession based but as we seen in the Motherwell and some other games they don’t do a lot with it in an attacking sense …

All the guff in the media about their identity, bravery etc is a complete load of nonsense.
20-04-2025, 06:55 PM
green day

Just seen the highlights and Critchley questioned the Steinwinder red card.

What a tube, it was a stick on red card and every man and their dug knows it.

Just another classless jambo
20-04-2025, 07:12 PM
JimBHibees

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Originally Posted by Aldo

He shat the bed for Scotland v England when, in my opinion anyway, he should have used his height to come for the cross that led to a goal.

Even his shot stopping has deteriorated a bit.

Couldn’t agree more absolutely blew that goal
20-04-2025, 07:29 PM
CapitalGreen

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Originally Posted by Not In The Know

Pretty funny to think he won’t have the opportunity to blow another big game for at least 1/3 of a year.

The play offs?
20-04-2025, 07:39 PM
GreenCastle

What’s happened to Zander Clark ? Signed a new deal and hardly been involved.

Craig Gordon definitely making more mistakes than ever and getting closer to retiring by the day.

Hearts without Shankland (who has struggled obviously this season) and Gordon will be definitely a different side to face.

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