Ewan Murray

Well, it's their best chance to this point, but I dispute the notion it will be their best chance because I just think Bloom's track record of success, the fact that you can bring players from...

alternative markets who will work in Scotland a lot easier than they would work in the Premier League for example or work in Italy or work elsewhere I think that helps and I'm still unconvinced by various elements of Celtic and Rangers I think it's far from certain that they will improve dramatically to just knock hearts out of the picture

next season including if they don't have champions league money so i think it's definitely fair to say this is the best opportunity hearts have had um for decades but i would stop short of saying it's the best chance they'll ever have because i think they're actually the start of what promises to be quite an exciting journey and it's the interesting thing and i haven't read enough about it about this analytics thing is that they don't it's sort of a secret it's a secret analytics thing like no one no one really knows what's in the medicine what what is it what's the secret sauce

That's right.

Well, if everyone knew, I suppose it could be replicated and everyone would do it.

I mean, what's amazing is the range of environments Hearts have brought players from.

So, you know, he's injured just now, but one of their best players this season came from the Scottish Championship.

The best player in Scotland this season who won the PFA award last Saturday is Claudio Braga, Portuguese forward.

He was in the Norwegian second division.

You've bought them for half a million quid and they're not paying them a lot of money.

But sourcing guys like that, and they say, no, no, these players will work in Scotland.

Now, everyone won't work and everyone hasn't worked.

But it's the range of data, the range of leagues, and the pretty near certainty that these players, if deployed correctly, will work in the Scottish league.

Ocean McEntee, he was a free transfer from Walsall.

He's been one of the stars of Hart's campaign.

The variety of players they've picked up is what makes it really, really striking.

And as I say,

If Bloom and Jamestown didn't have a track record of this working elsewhere, I think people would have been sceptical.

But as soon as he got involved and people dug around and said, oh, hang on, look at what has happened in other leagues, there was immediate excitement and that has been proven to be correct.

Niki, I mean, Como is a good example, right?