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How frustrating was that. After so much endeavour the game pretty much petered out. Couldn’t string two passes together in the last ten minutes. Great chance at the end was the exception from a fantastic Middleton pass and it should have been a goal. Missed opportunity tonight!

Well there’s one thing all our European opponents have had in common, bunch of blimmin divers!

Spot on. Such a strong performance in general but my word that final ball is so frustrating every time. Our intensity is rattling them like it has all our European opponents at Ibrox.

I think it’s largely a style thing, I think he wants a winger who comes inside. Kent basically has a free role half the time.

I sent it to Frankie and Rousseau. On holiday just now hence why I wrote it a few days ago and hence why I forgot to send till now!

Argh, wrote my Hamilton one days ago and didn’t send it in time. Will send it to someone now anyway

Bristol City were basically fined 500k by Liverpool for not playing Ryan Kent. Liverpool had a clause in the contract.

It's actually very common for the loaning club to insert game time clauses these days. Gerrard also didn't say that Worrall was a cover player. He say Katic was a baby and strongly suggested he'd be a rotation player when he first signed him. I think he's earned a starting place but I think Worrall is a coup and we should rotate them.

I can take Hamilton as it looks open?

I think Ejaria will be far too expensive for us but I don’t think Kent will be.

I thought we were very good at one side of the game and not good at another but a bit of magic from Ejaria was the difference. It's frustrating to be rebuked for mentioning any negatives, told to cheer up and reminded yet again of the League 2 days when you've only made some pretty balanced comments about how you saw the game. Some of us come on here to analyse the game a little bit afterwards and I think others come on primarily to celebrate and that's what causes a bit of friction.

I was wondering about that! I thought he was pretty fair and very quick to point out that Rapid’s goal shouldn’t have stood.

Exactly. Keeper was pretty much untested until the penalty. And Rapid were without their two best centre backs. So I think there’s a lot of exaggeration there but hopefully it’s deliberate and aimed at boosting morale.

I’m the same actually. However I think there’s normally an unwritten agreement that newspaper match reports needn’t focus overly on the negatives and dampen the mood when the game ended so well.

I’m definitely outnumbered on here on Kent. He flatters to deceive. Skins 5 players and dinks it straight into the keepers hands, that sums him up. Until I see consistent end product from him he is raw as far as I’m concerned. A lot of potential but our most overrated player in my opinion.

Whilst Arfield was guilty of giving the ball away too often, he showed some real quality with some of his flicks which very nearly created some openings.

Agree with that, neither put a foot wrong and were very impressive. When we’re desperate for a goal I’d personally prefer at least one left footed on the left to get down the line and get crosses in, but hey ho we got the 3 points and as you say some important players are fresh for Hearts.

I thought we were very good at one side of the game and poor at another side. We did dominate the play, were good at winning the ball back and generally being in control. Some top performances across the back line and a few others. But we really toiled in the final third, we couldn’t turn possession into chances. A moment of brilliance from Ejaria ultimately was the difference and he was doing it all night in other areas. At the end of the day it’s a fantastic result and another morale boost with some really good performances throughout the team.

Yep, every bit as good as his reputation suggested.

Love Candeias as well. That third goal was all Candeias, fitness and work rate are outstanding. Credit to Morelos for keeping his cool and slotting it in too, important to remember he’s been criticised for not scoring these often enough.

Have to say I love Ejaria. He has that quality in the final third that a few of our players don’t have.

Middleton warming up. Far too late, for all his endeavour Kent just consistently lacks quality end product.

Far too slow to make subs this is ridiculous. We’re not even creating chances!!

We need Lafferty and Middleton on to provide some end product.

Haha, just after a couple of bad moments he comes up with a brilliant run down the line and wins a free kick. Hot and cold as usual. A shocking delivery from Tavernier again from a great position though. We waste so many set plays it’s unreal.