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I have gone right off this forum recently. The negative comments aimed at many of our players and the management have been way over the top. I have supported the Well for over sixty years and will always give the club and whoever is in charge my backing. Today was one of the best performances in years. It gave me as much pleasure as the two recent semi final wins. Every player was up for it and there wasn't one failure. Disappointingly I am writing this on page five. The Rangers defeat got 13 pages. That says a lot about this forum.

Had a long think tonight before deciding how to respond to what was an incredibly satisfying performance and result. Without going over the top, I thought the first half was more "effective football" than top class entertainment. We smothered Hearts and prevented them from playing with our intensity and workrate, without being particularly easy on the eye. We limited them to very few real chances and defended very well whenever it looked like they were going to open us up. We deserved to go in at half time in the lead purely down to our endeavour and the goal itself was probably the best bit of football we played all half. 2nd half we played a lot more football through the midfield and it was really enjoyable to see. Getting the 2nd goal and having the extra man allowed everyone to relax and it was really nice to see that we can actually play a bit when we choose to. A really good day at the office. If Alexander and the players can continue to get the mix right between playing effective winning football and entertaimment, then there wont be many complaints on here or down Fir Park way.

Willie Collum had a poor game yesterday. Totally inconsistent from start to finish. Quite how he never carded Baninghime for hauling down rugby style one of our guys who was breaking forward I'll never know. Cameron Devlin? Its been many many years since I've seen a player commit so many without being booked. He should have been sent off. I counted 9 offences given against him. One bad tackle deserved a yellow in its own right. Persistent fouling Willie - have you heard of it? He should also have been carded when he venomously lashed the ball against a prostrate Goss well after play was stopped right under Collum's nose. Hearts were fortunate to finish with 10 men. Perhaps Gordon and Neilson were protesting at the finish that Devlin should've gone for an early bath? Probably not.

Let’s just do both!

It's actually strangely heartening to see that Tony Watt hasn't registered a single vote this week, despite playing his heart out and engaging in some weapons grade shit-housing when required. How good must everyone else have been?

Overall an excellent performance by the whole team, our energy and application was superb and Hearts couldnt cope with it, Our players gelled today, and we deservedly won, and but for a super double save by Gordon would have won quite deservedly by more, more of that application and intensity please! Great game guys, keep it up!

I've been bemoaning the 4-3-3 but wow did I enjoy yesterday. The difference was hunger and the high press. Not dissimilar to the Hibs match. Playing the pressing game in the opponents half rather than defend our box bravely is night and day to watch. As fans I think we all like to see the high energy, 100% effort , push the other team hard. Appreciate it won't work every week but it was a joy and so damn good to beat Hearts. (a team I've despised for decades)

To be fair, and I think a lot of people have been well off it with criticism of Alexander, there is just more to discuss after a defeat. That's the way it is, especially when it's a heavy defeat to a team we haven't beaten in the league for 20 years. Loads of folk have been going on about how 4-3-3 doesn't work and how 'stubborn' the manager is for persisting with it. I don't agree with that and I'll argue the case but at the same time I don't expect those other people to come on and say how wrong they got it off one, two results. With football it's an ever evolving situation and as soon as we lose again you'll hear the same thing again. Some people see it one way, others a different way. That's just the way people are. Personally I don't get the scale of the animosity against Alexander when only Rangers and Celtic have won more games this season than us. We are also fourth top goal scorers and we've scored in 12 out of 14 league matches this season but whatever. I get the standard of football played hasn't been great but again I don't think the standard has been good for quite a while going back at least a few managers, with maybe the Turnbull period as an exception. Still, I think the purpose of the forum is to give people a chance to express an opinion, not to agree with me personally. It worries me, here and in society in general, that people would rather pull up the drawbridge than actually engage with a range of opinions. We all need to be a bit more robust and less sensitive to different view points.

Best performance for a long time. Lamie and Mugabi were superb throughout. The high press really worked today. Hearts worked through it very well on a few occasions, but the back line were always there to snuff out any danger. I feel that a big difference today was that the strict three lines of 433 were broken by having Maguire drop between the midfield and back line at times. He was able to break things up as well as provide a link from the back line into midfield when we inevitably won the ball back. An all round very good performance led by the pressing by the front line, industry throughout the team and a masterclass at the back from Lamie. More of the same please!

Was not having a go at you just commentting on how much we dominated the game

I think maguire playing holding midfield with slattery and goss higher gives us a fair better balance than we’ve had this season. Good performance keep building on that and we’ll have a good season

I was in hospitality for the game and had a great day. Met Bevis Mugabi after the game and what a lovely person he is. Very down to earth and a pleasure to talk to. A gentleman.