Change of tactics for hearts game?

**AugustaHibs** · 01-02-2017 07:36 PM

Just watching the two brothers play on bt just now, the pitch is absolutely embarrassing! Will Lennon notice this and change the way we play?

***oneone73*** · 01-02-2017 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Cairney11

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Just watching the two brothers play on bt just now, the pitch is absolutely embarrassing! Will Lennon notice this and change the way we play?

We played there 10 days ago. He'll know.

***JimBHibees*** · 01-02-2017 07:37 PM

How is that pitch so bad it has barely benn played on.

***bingo70*** · 01-02-2017 07:38 PM

The only tactic he'll learn tonight is to target the leg back. He's dreadful.

**jabis** · 01-02-2017 07:38 PM

that pitch is brutal.

**SirDavidsNapper** · 01-02-2017 07:39 PM

They will grow the length, dig holes, flood the pitch, anything to stop us playing and drag us down to their level. It's the Hearts way.

**SlickShoes** · 01-02-2017 07:44 PM

Hearts aren't daft I'm sure they've dug up that pitch to stop rangers playing football

***joe t*** · 01-02-2017 07:46 PM

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Hearts aren't daft I'm sure they've dug up that pitch to stop rangers playing football

This.

**Canon Hannan** · 01-02-2017 09:07 PM

Pitch has always been poor. Hearts were ok but Sevco shocking. Motherwell will win on Saturday and leave us to finish them off.

**JK Rolling** · 01-02-2017 09:23 PM

If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always got.

With this in mind we need to change nothing - We play the way we do and WIN. Simple.

**truehibernian** · 01-02-2017 09:25 PM

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Just watching the two brothers play on bt just now, the pitch is absolutely embarrassing! Will Lennon notice this and change the way we play?

We certainly won't be rigidly playing 4-3-3 with players like Waghorn and MacKay doing sweet fa defending or closing down.

Hearts won by playing percentages and using the width of the pitch. The Rangers play full backs high, with very static centre halves - two goals came from quick free kicks into wide areas and crosses into the box quickly. Fortunately we also don't have a goalkeeper who is told to constantly circulate the ball quickly. Rolling a ball out to a player with back to goal ? Suicidal. Then coming for a cross ten yards off his line with centre halves in 'no man's land' ?

I'd be tempted to go 3-5-2, playing Gray on the right of McGregor, Fontaine left. I'd then have Humphrey one side, Lewy other, Fyvie, McGinn and Keatings - Holt and Cummings up top. The space on Sowah's left in particular was huge.

Really looking forward to this game - it'll be a battle.

**truehibernian** · 01-02-2017 09:28 PM

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Hearts aren't daft I'm sure they've dug up that pitch to stop rangers playing football

Cathro insists on the pitch being watered heavily immediately prior to kick off each half, often causing a wee delay to wait for them going off. They also have heat lamps on the wide areas through the week when not used. That's why Hibs should use the width of the pitch, get it quickly up and wide, and get crosses into their box.

**~~southsider~~** · 01-02-2017 09:33 PM

Quite pleased they won. Will stop all the rubbish that we will walk it. Will be a very hard game. Ref must be strong. They go down quicker than Christine Keeller.