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Hearts vs Hibs - a Boxing Day Derby


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Pretty easy win for Hibs there. Way to early to be calling relegation or that Stendel will go though. He will be given funds in January and it’s all about who he signs with it. Unlike the other teams around the bottom Hearts have the budget to spend their  way out of trouble, still plenty of time left.

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A budget largely used on players who'd seen them relegated from the Premiership and Championship. Taking these things in isolation is mental. Yes Ross had a bigger budget, but Hearts have a bigger budget than all bar 2-3 clubs in Scotland this season, it doesn't make them good.

And yet the Hearts one finished ahead of the Hibs one last season with a much smaller budget.
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Hearts are such a strange club these days, a weird structure where the sacked manager still has a job (but only works in the afternoons) and has signed 7 or 8 players every transfer window for the last few years but still complain about not having enough depth. 

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22 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

A budget largely used on players who'd seen them relegated from the Premiership and Championship. Taking these things in isolation is mental. Yes Ross had a bigger budget, but Hearts have a bigger budget than all bar 2-3 clubs in Scotland this season, it doesn't make them good.

But it does mean that they have the resources to get out of trouble unlike a few others who will be just juggling the pack. Stendel’s record at Barnsley was pretty good, he needs to be given time as he surely will. You don’t bring in a manager and then say we won’t give you the funds to change things around.

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I thought Hibs played well for the first 45 minutes, played Stendel at his own game and closed us down at every opportunity. We probably edged the second half but I reckon part of that, similar to the Celtic game, is because Hibs realised we are never going to score so the game was over.

This is probably the worst it's been seeing Hearts in my lifetime, so many players that don't care about wearing maroon, the whole feeling at the club seems worringly similar to the Terry Butcher days at Hibs.

The only positive is that this was the best chance for Hibs to put 5 or 6 past us and they didn't bother turning up in the second half.

Interesting to see any Hearts fans defending the board after this.

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55 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

A budget largely used on players who'd seen them relegated from the Premiership and Championship. Taking these things in isolation is mental. Yes Ross had a bigger budget, but Hearts have a bigger budget than all bar 2-3 clubs in Scotland this season, it doesn't make them good.

Just like Stendel doing badly with that sack of shite doesn't make him a worse manager than Ross.

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