James Tavernier
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Yeah, as you said there, it's a season that keeps on giving.
I actually forgot that he was even playing yesterday because all eyes were on, obviously, the Celtic game and what Hearts could do at home to Falkirk.
We both know what happened within those games.
And listen, as you said, it's been a fantastic season that all ends at Celtic Park on Saturday and may the best team win.
Not you, Gordon.
No, listen, you know, when I took over the job, as I said, I was told that we had next season.
Obviously, the position that we were in, we were told that obviously the team were really, really struggling in terms of getting relegated.
It was a high probability and we'd have next season to bring the club back up.
You know, we then got to the Monday after the Aberdeen game and we were told that
ultimately we needed to reapply for our jobs or apply for apply for the jobs now you know when we were first put in I turned it down the first time it was then offered to somebody else there's five or six of us in the room they said that they definitely weren't doing it in stronger words and that's when it came back to me and it said listen I understand the situation we are in it's a big struggle at the moment nobody's going to do it this season without having a promise of next season so
When that promise was broken after the Aberdeen game, myself and Neil Hastings, we felt that we had done well enough over the 11 games and that should have been kept too.
And when promises start to be broken as big as that, we decided to go because morally for us, sorry, it was wrong.
Yeah, because ultimately, Gordon, you start to think to yourself, us two being blamed for the relegation.
You know, if everyone had to reapply for their jobs, their current roles, etc., then it's very, very different.
But when it falls just on two people, as I said, you know,
The previous 11 games, too, I said the side had lost eight and drawn three.
And then we had, I think, drawn six and won a game as well, played against some really big teams.
But as you said, we weren't going to do that.
You know, as I said, the goalposts were moved and dramatically moved as well.
And as I said, you know, morally for us, it was wrong.