Cathro can see why fans booed Hearts
It sounded like he was tempted to join in with the jeers but instead gave a cool, calculated analysis of what went wrong.
His first home match certainly didn’t go to plan as Hearts escaped with a point against Partick.
Cathro said: “We managed to control bits of the play in the first half, which was what we were looking to do.
“We were forced to change some things, we had to play differently and that resulted in the game being very broken.
“There was mayhem. A little bit of Scottish chaos.
“We had some anxiety, some nervousness, some mistakes as well.
“At that point it becomes a really difficult cycle to be able to break. That is what the second half was.”
Prince Bauben had to be substituted at half-time because of a calf injury.
His replacement, Conor Sammon, struggled to make an impact.
Of the fans’ booing, Cathro said: “I think we all feel the same reaction.
“I can’t boo because I have to try to find the solution.
“Players, staff, fans, our reaction is the same. We feel the same thing.
“That is an understandable thing. We just have to stay together on that, which we will, there’s no doubt.
“If we reach a point down the line where everyone is fine with us drawing games at home I’d be more upset.
“I don’t want us ever to be fine with that – and we’re not fine with this.
“But what do we do? We finish this, we go back through the game and we work and work.
“And that’s the responsibility.”
Cathro appeared to argue that Partick turned the game into a battle, although the Glasgow side actually produced some fine passing moves.
The 30-year-old said: “If you’re leading the game then you get to determine the flow and the rhythm, the position of the players and so on.
“And if we had managed to do that the game would have been the way we wanted it to be. We start to become the dictator.
“Of course, it is more easy to do if the other team tries to do the same thing against you because it stays in an organised way. Maybe here that is less likely to be the case every week.
“But we still have to do the things we believe are right to have more likelihood of winning.
“And that’s what we’ll do.
“I don’t think I’ll ever play a broken game. I’ll never believe football to be that way.”