That was the worst

Well i don't see why i should spend any time, trying to cobble together some kind of match report, if the bloody team can't be arsed to even turn up.
I can honestly say that that was the worst, i have been listening to football commentaries on radio Scotland for about as long as i can remember and that was the worst game i have ever had the misfortune to sit through.
It is true that a radio commentary gives a weird skewed view of a game. At times it polarises, makes a relatively possitive passage of play seem like an extract from - Brazil versus Italy in the 1970 world cup final. At other times the game can sound as though it has lost any connection to a football match, more like mud wrestling or federation hoofbaw!
So todays game, Motherwell versus Hearts at Fir Park was the worst, entrenched in the latter. Truly, truly awful stuff. And to make matters worse, the first half commentary from the Hibs versus Rangers game was very much entrenched in the former, with Hibs apparently playing like the samba kings.

So i am not going to bother.

That was until Hearts scored ofcourse !
The second half was marginally better than the first, but it was Motherwell that made it so.
Both teams were under there own personal montain range of pressure on the run up to this game -
Hearts because of their woefull euro perfomances and general rubbish play of late and Vlad's continuing outbursts and not buying quality players like they said they would -
My own personal opinion - Hearts are not an attractive enough option for anyone of any real quality to come to, therefore we failed to deliver any new players in the transfer window. This is the same reason why Valdas is still ( became in the first place ) our manager. No one that we would want to replace him with would come within a mile of the possition. This has to be the boards fault for making the job such an unsavoury and precarious gig.
Motherwell for being bottom of the league and just plain crap.

Hearts made six changes from the Sparta game and once again the back 4 was different from the previous back 4, i wonder if this is the root of our troubles or merely a symptom.
We had
Wallace, Zaliukas, Pressley, Tall
Neilson on the bench


Both teams started the game as if the ball was the preverbial hot potato, Hearts perhaps having the better of the early posession, but really both mobs were awful.
If i heard the statement "oh but now 'Motherwell/Hearts' have lost posession and oh but" once in that first half, i heard it a thousand times.
Motherwell had a player injured in the first few minutes and then Chesnouskis got injured for Hearts and that folks really was the tow first half highlights.
By mid way through the first half, Motherwell, for all their abject crapness this year and obvious lack of confidence, realised that the team they were facing were - toothless and impotent and easily beatable, so in the latter part of the half they came out of their shell a bit and had the better of things.
This continued in the second half with Hearts pushed further back and limited to hitting Well on the break.
It is a funny old game indeed, it is something like 4 years since Hearts have won at Fir Park and many a better Hearts team has gone there and failed to return the points and this nonsense turn up and steal all 3.
Being in control and limiting Hearts to 'on the break attacks' was Motherwell's ultimate undoing as hit them on the break is exactly what we did.
A good break it was, McCann playing a lovely ball into the path of Mole to round the keeper and strike home. Glad for Mole since after a promising start he has seemed well out of his depth in the last few games ( how can he be viewed above Callum Elliott ?? )
A couple of other breaks as Motherwell chased the game could have made the scoreline a travesty but for some poor finishing and dodgy decision making by Miko.
Craig Gordon came to our rescue once again with another stunning save with just a few minutes left.
And that was it a huge relief for the Jambos, and with Hibs beating Rangers at Easter Road, this under performing Hearts team are 2nd in the league 3 points behind the leaders.

In the last few blogs i have given Ivanauskas some stick for dodgy substitutions, so credit where it is due. Mid way through the second half he brought on Robbie Neilson, moved Tall into centre half and Zaliukas into mid field and it seemed to work, certainly for Tall who was immense when in the centre half slot.

Aberdeen away next Sunday, they will fancy their chances, wish i could say we will fair better against a better team in a bigger game.