The Ol' Tynecastle Shed

Although not being old enough to have stood in the Shed of old, (I sat wi' me dad just behind the dugout in the main stand), it seemed right to start things off talking about the great team that used to inhabit the shed above. (Pic borrowed from the Fantastic London Hearts site)

The mighty Heart of Midlothian FC.

My first memory of the JT's is proudly standing in my full hearts kit, standing in line ready to go to PE, with my number 9 on the back, John Robertson, the hero of the times.

Now its all changed,there's 3 new stands (soon to be another if reports are to be believed), a new manager, a new chief executive, 7 new players so far (more still to come), a renewed optimism and about 3,000 new season ticket holders.

Things are most definitely on the up at Tynecastle, and following the poor second half we had to last season,I'm really excited about things down Gorgie way.

We took 3,500 or so fans down to Killie on the opening day, thrashed them 4-2, even had a chuckle as Celtic went down 4-3 (only to sneak it back to 4-4) against Motherwell. The new players looked the part, Hartley seemed to have put all the transfer talk behind him and Miko was back to his pre-Davisgate best. The Fans were in great voice and it felt great to be a Jambo.

Then game 2 of the season and the Hibees come calling. Fireworks heralded the teams and you could feel the heat from the pitch. Come the end of 90 minutes, I was a very happy Jambo having just spanked the weeteam 4-0. Shame for my brother though, he had a £1 on 3-0 at 20-1, so Miko if you ever read this, you owe him 20 squid :p

So this weekend its gonnae be away up to another Shed at Tannadice to see us hopefully spank Dundee United, show Lee Miller what he's missing, stay top of the league and hopefully continue the 4 goal a game average.

Oh happy days to be a Jambo indeed.....