rebelliousfeminist974 said:

Martin Boyle starts for Hibernian as captain in their Scottish Premiership championship group opening game against Hearts. Jack Iredale on the bench for Hibernian. Cam Devlin not in the matchday squad altogether for Hearts.

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And Boyle with a goal!

Re Devlin, from the BBC: "Hearts head coach Derek McInnes tells BBC Scotland: "Cammy (Devlin) has picked up a wee strain. We're obviously disappointed but hopefully he's available for next week." Doesn't sound like anything to worry about.

Goal Boyle. He must read these forums to shut us up.

Alex M said:

If that's all it took to send Triantis away (I don't believe it is) then he has a heart the size of a pea and would never become a decent International Player for us. The facts are he was picked in one squad and didn't get game time, got picked in the next squad and refused to come then skipped to Greece. Good luck to him in his career but if we had cap tied him when he obviously doesn't want to play for us then he wouldn't be much use to us. We are better off with players who want to play for us.

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Mate, the very simple point I am trying to make re Triantis is that if Popovic had played him for a minute in those qualifiers, he would have been cap-tied to us and we wouldn't have lost one of our most promising young players.

Whether or not his obviously quite transactional approach to international football would have made him a worse/less effective player for Australia is pure speculation on your part, but I'd just observe that it sits uncomfortably with the fact Triantis was happy to play for (and indeed captain) our youth teams for years and acquitted himself well while doing so. The same can be said for Segecic, but Popovic never had as obvious an opportunity to cap-tie him in the same way as he did with Triantis.

That Tete headbutt is disappearing offline fast. Not only are there copyright questions but Saudi football probably rushing to get it taken down as much as possible and the West Asian Confederation too.