Hearts will deserve all the flak they get if they lose to Petrocub and here's why next 3 games are MUST win - Ryan Stevenson

The Hearts players owe the fans big time – and if they don’t beat Petrocub in the Europa Conference League then they deserve everything that comes their way.

The bottom line is the final group clash at home to the Moldovans is now the biggest game of the season. They need to win to qualify. And they should be beating a team who are third in the Moldovan league. They should be able to sweep Petrocub aside and I really think they will because again, the stadium will be sold out and the fans will get behind them just like they always do.

You just hope maybe, with Lawrence Shankland coming back, having scored a couple against Dundee, he goes on a prolific run. It would be amazing and they can try to take that positive into the league.

But the flip side of that coin is if they don’t win, they absolutely deserve pelters, and I mean everyone from the top to bottom of the club. You’d surely think with the quality Hearts have, the players they’ve got, they wouldn’t be sitting bottom of the league a week before Christmas. But here we are.

From Andrew [McKinlay] all the way down to all the players, they deserve everything that’s coming to them right now and if they don’t get through tomorrow night. There is never ever just blame on one person, but as I said, it would be from top to bottom.

It’s amazing that Andrew is slinking away from the responsibility. He needs to take responsibility first and foremost for his actions, his decisions, which have been poor.

And it filters all the way down to Naisy [Steven Naismith] losing his job, it wasn’t good enough then, to the players’ performances. I’d never criticise the new manager Neil Critchley because I actually think he’s been decent since he came.

Until you get a couple of transfer