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Hard to see us winning this one with the form we are in currently but Hearts have also struggled at home against poorer opposition than us. Id happily take a point. Not so sure we will get it though, unless the officials decide to throw us an unlikely bone!

Longelo for me too. Was the only real out ball in the first half and made a lot of good runs going forward. Nicholson, Priestman and McGhee were all decent when they came on, but werent on the pitch long enough to influence MOTM.

Falkirk (and McGlynn) did a number on us again today. Their press was very clever. They waited time and again for the ball to go to our full backs (mostly SOD) which triggered them to go mob handed to close the full back and the midfielders that side blocking off all the available outballs other than back the way or over the top. They were more than happy for Ward or the CBs to have the ball. We struggled with it all afternoon and it caused a fair amount of disruption to our usual passing / possession game. That said, the goals we lost were all very poor. The first is a free header with Fadinger being the culprit for losing his man (he hasnt been at all himself wearing that mask. I do wonder if it obstructs his vision). The second comes from the aforementioned press, but should have been cleared by McGinn and/or Watt who plays a totally blind pass putting Ward in trouble. The third just isnt a penalty, or there would be 20 penalties a game. Overall we had 14 shots to their 12 with 5 on target to their 4. So even though we were off it in terms of performance and Falkirk deserved to win, the stats for us werent horrific. The fine margins are going against us at the moment, so we are going to have to dig deep and find a performance from somewhere. Slightly concerned that there was no Eyrhor today as it left the bench looking very weak. Although I did think Priestman, Nicholson and McGhee all looked decent when they came on. Maybe we need to freshen the starting 11 up next week?

Hibs got 6.5M for Bowie who was on 8 League goals and is the same age as Maswanhise. I think we need to cash in but only at 4.5-5M territory. He's on 17 league goals and that figure to clubs in Europe's T5 leagues and even the Championship is not even a dent in their budget.

Longelo was one of very few to reach his levels today.

Hi ya texan Am back 🙈👍

I'm no sure he's blaming the officials for our defeat, but let's be honest, it was a stonewall penalty and a red card for the Falkirk player early on. We saw how that can change a game the other week. And their 3rd goal was never a penalty. We're struggling a bit just now, but carrying absolutely no luck and been on the wrong end of some horrendous decisions recently.

JBA a legend but a bit annoyed he seems to be deflecting blame onto officials . Yip referee was shocking but not reason we lost. Should focus more on our own players

🤣🤣, nah just honest pal

Me too.

Are you MJC?

The gaffer

True pal but his first touch is awful. Need Thor fit and play Maswanhise off him

Out of our poor display today I am most encouraged to see that that wee fanny Kettle got pumped. 🤣 Every negative has a positive

I only saw bits of the game but from what I seen JT looked very isolated amd in general it didn’t look like we played as a team today.

I wouldn't be too hard on him today. Due to injuries, he was being played out of position against 2 big centre backs and had no support. His supply was poor as well. Not a game on which to judge him.

Haven't summoned up the courage yet to watch Sportscene so thanks for that: will take a look now. You know, I'm beginning to think some in the authorities don't like us for some reason 🤣. But then again, "Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness", as someone famous once said.

Just my opinion but teams now sussing us out and too many players off form at same time. The Ward-watt double act was accident waiting to happen as plenty warnings before that calamtitous 2nd goal. Watt looks like guy believing his own hype and needs to go back to what he was good at. Also if we get 3 million for Maswanhise you take it. However.........we were always going to have a bad run and tbh Falkirk fully deserved it despite the terrible theatrics. Also at full time not a lot of booing which was good. Ps. To cheer ye up.....Ross Co 0 Airdrie 4 🤣🤣🤣

Hearts win, sorry folks

Thats been a feature of Falkirk's season.

I was just about to make a similar comment. I like Priestman for his energy and passing and I thought we missed him today. Losing Thor (through injury, I presume, in training, since we haven't played for a fortnight) left Maswhanise unsupported and in any case he seems off the boil I thought the referee was typically poor and, as you said, he had his chance to penalise Falkirk and set the tone for the game but Just gets clugged every week and receives no protection from referees. Some of the ref's decisions were simply baffling. Falkirk played exactly how I expected from the previous gome game against them: they simply pressed us hard and waited for the inevitable mistake. They had lots of energy and looked well-drilled and, to be frank, could have score five or more with a bit of luck. We lacked physically and speed of movement and thought. The penalty was a mystery to me given the level of pushing, shoving and jersey-pulling in the box this season, which has largely gone unpunished (but not for us at Celtic Park). If J-B can get us back on the rails for Tynecastle and the split, he will have deserved all the praise he has received up to the end of February, since generally the team looks threadbare and jaded at the moment. This will be a big test of his managerial skills but I remain hopeful.

I look forward to WC tying himself in knots trying to defend those two decisions.

VAR chose not to see the foul on Maswanhise. Unless they can explain why tripping an attacker in the box is not considered a penalty.

Just watched the highlights on Sportscene they agreed with JBA, the Falkirk defender caught Maswhanise and brought him down, a stonewall penalty, feck knows how VAR never saw it, plus there was no attempt to play the ball so it was a dogso and should have been a red card. As for the Falkirk pen, never, Said was holding the player and the falkirk player just fell down, no shirt pull etc, again those useless cnuts at VAR saw nothing. The referees and VAR in paticular seem to have it in for us, Gollums explanation on the VAR review will no doubt be interesting.

I didn’t expect us to win today, I thought we would struggle v Hibs but I feel we’ll go and win at tynecastle next week.