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You'll have to wait until tomorrow to get a response from Charles - Braveheart is on at 9pm!

Warren was alright, Brill had little to do and Mckay had no service. The rest though were very poor. Doran, Williams, Shinnie and Ross weren't at their best, while Polworth was rubbish and put in a performance almost as bad as the one in the 4-0 defeat at Perth. It was really a case of one team being fairly poor, and another being even worse - we were the team who was even worse. The players don't look as up for it, certainly nowhere near as much as they did last week and we lacked creativity and fluidity throughout. We seemed too keen to sit back as well, hardly ever looking to intercept the ball when it's live, nor pressing the man in possession. Things need changing if we want to win next week and getting a result, is nowhere near as likely as some people would like to believe.

I would have expected at least 2, probably 3, maybe even 4, of the subs to have started. Disappointing team selection from Hughes.

Good to see Hearts have Adams seething again. Will he want that game on Tuesday now???

It's a shared belief among all political parties that the press is out ot get them. The Tories blame the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation and the Guardianistas for the liberal bias against them. Labour blame Rupert Murdoch controlled press for poisoning the masses against them. The Liberal Democrats complain that everyone ignores them, except when they get caught up in a sex scandal, which is pretty much all the time these days. The SNP and nationalists complain that the wool is being pulled over the people's eyes by the devious 'MSM'. The truth of it is that the mass of people aren't stupid, they don't believe everything that they read and they are capable of making their own choices. Political activists find it difficult to cope with the idea that the beliefs that they hold so dear aren't shared by the general population and find ways to 'explain' this to themselves. What it really demonstrates is the contempt shown towards the general population by the polical classes - stupid people, believing everything that the Sun/DailyMail/BBC feeds them. In the real world, people read newspapers for many reasons and are savvy enough not to chomp down everything that they read / hear / watch. Add to that the huge reduction in importance of the print and broadcast media in the last few years If you think that it's the media to blame for the polls showing the No campaign in the lead then I think you arebarking up the wrong tree. Support for independence has stayed pretty constant for years, suggesting that the reporting of the referendum hasn't had a big impact. The SNP won power in Holyrood in 2007 when the vast majority of the press in Scotland wsa actively hostile to them and then romped the 2011 elections without the 'support' of much of the press. Focussing on the media suggsts that one side is getting it's excuses in early, lacking in confidence. The real danger is the implicit support for censorship that's contained in this focus. The press skew elections so we need to control the press is an obvious narrative - obvious but flawed. The SNP governments 'McLeveson' proposals actually exceeded the measures proposed in Westminster and don't suggest an administration for whom freedom of the press is central, a trait shared with the Westminster parties.

Wouldn't it be ironic if their game vs County was postponed today after all this rain. They'd end up with a game midweek and RS would still miss the semi-final!!!

I wish the people debating this referendum (or not actually debating but ridiculing for no good reason) would separate the subject from party politics. This is not a vote for Salmond or any other politicain. its a vote for our future. A future that, under the current set-up, will not see an end to child poverty, food banks and payday loan companies running roughshod over the needy. I would urge everyone to read Jim Sillars booklet setting out his reasoning and vision for the future of this country. Its less than a hundred pages. I'd also remind everyone that the best UK labour leader that Scotland never had a proper chance to experience professed similar visions.

I believe Charles bannermans tediously boring and repetitive posts have helped the yes cause more than any other argument here. So constantly negative and derogatory towards Scotland

There would be no need for a rematch if they had floodlights that worked properly. It's all gone quiet with Roy M's investigation to find out what went wrong with lights. The reason being, rather than the floodlight failure due to some external force, it was actually due to a transformer fault which they previously knew about but did not spend the money to replace it at the time.

Adams Unhappy is not exactly a Man bites Dog headline is it?

Adams was certainly wound up by the ICT crowd in the recent derby. Hearts might put them in their place tomorrow.

Treats players as disposable commodities..........................

It doesn't bother me whether Stevenson plays or whether Hearts manage to manipulate the system and get new players in, the fact is we are a much better side than them and as long as we focus on playing to our strengths we will win. Hearts have the poorest record in the league even with Stevenson in the side. And if they did get an influx of new players in they would be struggling to be organised enough to be able to stop us doing what we do so well. Many of the players in our side will have experienced the disappointment of last season and will want revenge. The determination they have will be transferred to those new to the team and as long as we are disciplined we should win reasonably comfortably. What happens at Tynecastle in the next few days is irrelevant and I am sure Yogi won't let the team get sidetracked by that. All that matters is that we are properly prepared on the day and play to our potential.