Hearts can still be Celtic treble busters and Hibs fans should calm down after coming out the woodwork - Ryan Stevenson

It won’t have been much fun for the Hearts squad having a fortnight to stew on their Fir Park shocker. When you are on the end of a bad one you are usually choking to get back out there and put it right.

But I think this extra week without a game might be just what the doctor ordered for Robbie Neilson and Hearts going into a massive part of the season. My old club face St Johnstone this weekend and then it’s Celtic in the league and Scottish Cup – and these are the games that really get the juices going as a player.

Get back to it against St Johnstone and get a decent result or performance at Celtic Park and it’ll all be set up nicely for a cracking cup tie at Tynecastle. The place will be bouncing. The flip side? There’s no point even thinking about it. This is a time to stay positive.

It will have been a tough few days or so on the training ground last week. There’s nothing worse than producing a stinker and then not having a game straight away to shake it off.

And it was a bad one at Motherwell. In fairness, Stuart Kettlewell got a reaction out of his side that day but even he could not have believed his luck as Hearts produced their worst performance of the season.

Everything that could go wrong, did. They couldn’t even get the Alex Cochrane substitution right and that about summed it up.

As soon as Lawrence Shankland hit the post I knew it was one of those days. But that’s all it was. By the end of last week it will have been out of their system and they will have realised it was just a poor day. There’s not been too many of late, and some of the reaction – or overreaction – on social media was a bit ridiculous.

One bad performance against Well doesn’t make Hearts a rank rotten outfit overnight. The result does