It all went a bit better than consolidation this season, finishing as we did above both Rangers and Celtic.
Then again, so did East Stirlingshire and Ayr United.
Third place it was, a creditable effort, and this was iced on the cake of good fortune by the Uefa Cup Final appearance against Lazio - who gave us a right royal reaming!
1st Division Motherwell had put paid to our domestic cup inte...well...
apathy, to be honest, having put us out of the League Cup and the Scottish Cup early on.
We signed a couple of youngsters on loan for the season, one a DL who performed so well that we bought him for £450k at the end of the period. An ageing Icelandic guy came on board, as did an old Scottish DC and a young SC from Dunfermline.
We kinda had to sign the Dunfermline SC as he seemed to make it his role in life to score against us.
At the beginning of the season there were 10 current Hearts players in the squad. 4 have retired and one was released (one of the retirées the Canadian D/SC), two are in the reserves and three are occasional starters for the first team.
Item of amusement. The Icelandic guy took me aside at training to tell me he'd been successful in taking his coaches ticket, so I offered him a new contract as a player/coach.
He informed me Bill Gates couldn't afford to pay him what it'd take for him to sign a new contract at Hearts
Strange fella....
We've promoted a player to a coaching position (not the iceman) and signed a young FL/C on loan. We've bought a goalie and signed three guys on frees, one of whom looks a find.
...AND that's a young FC just signed, last signing of this window, apparently I had him at East Stirlingshire as a 14y/o.
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