That was his fourth mention. He had already talked at length about it in the "Why is Thelin so much better than you" debate.
The time on the training ground thing. The European games only really kick in now. They've played two European games so far, the last of which was weeks ago. They had a whole pre-season, a schedule where they lost every game. They have played two fewer competitive games than we have.
The new manager you have sympathy for because he IS walking into a hectic schedule with little time on the training ground. Naismith doesn't get to use that excuse though.
Not necessarily. When you look at the chances Shankland was missing, they often were in positions when you're asking a lot of him, the team weren't creating good opportunities for him. Now he will have missed very scoreable chances like every striker does, but Hearts whole creative play under Naismith was poor.
Their actual game plan was, as you say, "give it to the guy who scores goals" hoping the other team wouldn't mark him.
I said last season, even when Hearts were getting results they never really looked all that convincing, and Hearts fans could see that too. Was a matter of time before they were found out.