I know what you're saying Judge, and I guess it's pretty difficult for a lot of Old Firm fans to comprehend the finances of the smaller clubs. For instance, you cite De Vries and Maybury as high earners at the club. What does this mean? £5,000 a week maybe? Not a lot by our (inflated) standards. I just find it incredible that the so-called 3rd force of Scottish football cannot hold on to these players for a few months in order to attain the still realistic goal of European football. It's gotten to the stage where Stevie Crawford has opted for Dundee United over Hearts, although that decision may not have had footballing reasons at the core.
As for questioning player commitment, you're probably correct. But i'm sure just as many players have been just as committed in their last few months as not. Maybury is definately not the type of guy who would lessen his (ahem) commitment. I would put a question mark over De Vries, perhaps unfairly in light of him playing through injury for the club before.
I'd be interested in the views of Heartsfan, who seems to only post on Lithuanian threads. By the way, i'm not just criticising teams for the sake of it and i'm well aware of the problems of my own club. I just get a bit fed up of talking up the same old stuff all the time

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