Hearts must ditch Celtic delusions of grandeur and cannot keep up one dimensional displays - Ryan Stevenson

Robbie Neilson is trying to implement a style at Hearts and that's admirable. But you cannot have delusions of grandeur and you cannot be one-dimensional.

Right now, that’s how it’s coming across and it needs to change. Hearts are in the midst of a very tough spell and I understand it is difficult. All the travelling for Europe, games every three or four days, a long injury list. But, to be honest, I don’t think I saw it being this difficult and, while some of the issues are outwith their control, other problems on the park are worryingly self-inflicted.

Listen, I’ve been so positive about Hearts, but I’ve also been so disappointed with recent games. I was at Kilmarnock a week past Sunday and Hearts were all over the place. The rain was battering all ways on an artificial surface, but there was this grandeur of: We can play out from the back, we are better than that, we have this new style. Sometimes you just have to play the situation. It’s Rugby Park on a Sunday, it’s p****g with rain, just get go and win the game.

Kilmarnock’s defence was not so mobile and you are just thinking: Get down the sides. The time they did that they scored. Playing out from their own bye-kicks, playing around the back. Playing crazy balls. They did it continually.

Fiorentina was the same. It was just incredible. Any time they went in behind Fiorentina, Hearts were a threat, but they were 4-0 down before they started to do it.

Aberdeen last Sunday, same thing again. Lessons are not being learned and the perfect way to assess the Celtic game is to look back just recently to when Rangers went to Tynecastle for a lunchtime Saturday kick-off.

Same again. Same way of playing, bang, bang, 2-0 down almost immediately and game gone. See you