Hearts agm

Hearts chief executive Andrew McKinlay speaks after the club's annual general meeting.

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00:00Of course it's concerning. I think the way the fixtures have fallen hasn't maybe been

00:07the kindest. You know, he came in and we went straight into a really intense run of fixtures.

00:13I think the style of football that Neil was bringing to the team, and this is just my

00:19personal view, you know, I don't have the stats to back this up or the science to back

00:23this up, but you looked at those first two games with a really high tense, really big

00:28full on, and then we went to Easter Road and we dug out a draw in the end and you could

00:34see that it was starting to impact on the players a little bit and I thought that's

00:40probably why we lost against Kilmarnock the mid-week after that. We then, I thought, dug

00:45out a good win at St Johnstone and I thought that was really important because I knew the

00:49fixtures that were coming up. Personally I thought we were unlucky and when I say unlucky

00:57it goes back to one thing, we need to take our chances, we all know that. So against

01:00Heidenheim, against Rakers, I thought both of those games we could easily have come away

01:05with draws or wins. And then Celtic are Celtic, but again, first half against Celtic, if we'd

01:15taken some chances we could have really got on top of them and it would have been interesting

01:18to see how they would have reacted to that. Belgium, same story. I think as we all know

01:27that to have a penalty in the 82nd minute to equalise and win 4-0 didn't happen for

01:33us. But we need to stop, we can't have soft stories, you're right, we are still bottom

01:41and we need to kick on. I thought Sunday was good in the sense that you go one down against

01:46Aberdeen, you've been in Europe, I thought in the second half towards the end you could

01:53have made an argument that we were the team that looked like we had more left in the tank

01:58and we kept going and in the end maybe could have stolen it. But we now go into seven fixtures,

02:04four at home, three away, which takes us up to the end of the second round of fixtures

02:10and we need to do well in those fixtures but I think we know what that means.