Robbie: Time to reflect
Robbie Neilson insists Hearts must start taking individual responsbility after defeat on the road at Kilmarnock.
The Jambos boss believes a run of just one win in six games boils down to his players looking in the mirror and asking what more they can do for the club.
Aberdeen narrowed the gap to only one point and Neilson is adamant the cure for recent ills must come from within.
He said: “We can talk about tactics, we’ll do this and that, but it’s player against player. If we look at the game today, if everyone looks individually and says ‘did we play better, out-muscle or out-fight the player we were playing against’ they would probably say no.
“That shouldn’t happen at Hearts and that’s where we need to be ready for it next week because next week it will be the same, It will be a very difficult game against St Mirren, the same style of football,
LOOK WITHIN two big strikers, aggressive, and we will have to deal with that.
“We don’t go forward quickly, we choose more of a negative pass than a positive pass, you have these periods.
“Look, you can talk the talk and say ‘we are going to do this and we’re going to talk about that, analyse all this stuff’ but it’s all nonsense. It’s about turning up and winning football matches. We didn’t do enough to do that.
“I could sit here and talk about ‘we’re going to do this, this and this’ but at the end of the day it is a lot of nonsense. It’s about making sure we are ready for next week’s game and that for me comes from everyone individually.”
Neilson also admitted the failure for keeper Zander Clark to emerge after the interval on the back of two goalkeeping errors was down to injury.
He said: “It’s his hamstring but to be honest it’s too early to say. The hope is it’s just a nerve. We won’t know until a couple of days’ time.”