Dean Smith has taken over at Leicester. John Terry there too. Interesting training footage and you just wonder where Souttar stands now. Vest colours can give some indication of rank and perhaps they're looking at a back 3 with Souttar, Armartey and Faes all wearing yellow in training whereas the regular reserves had orange.

Still, you never know if they might take a punt on Jonny Evans with all the experience but this a dire situation as it stands. 

https://youtu.be/3XjmqbRBo6k

20min Jackson Irvine feature at St Pauli. 

They seem to love him there 

Ryan starting in Conference league. Good atmosphere in Brussels. 

How did Ryan go? It looks like he conceded every games?

2:0 Anderlecht. Cut back and 3 AZ players can't scramble and the ball is played like a rocket curving away from Ryan. Way too far to reach. Sucks to see it. AZ with some chances too. 

Fans were madder at the defence for the first one. It drops swiftly next to Ryan and it would've needed a good reflex to get there. Second one was a perfectly placed shot. 

Genreau starting. No McGree. I assume he's resting after the bug and travel. Just not top fit yet. 

Huge that genreau has broken into the starting 11. Big achievement! Hope he nails down his spot

big win for boro over Norwich 5-1 after 50 mins. Disappointing Riley could of had a goal or two but not in squad.

Automatic promotion looks impossible now sadly

Deng starting for Alberex Niigata 

Good news!

Edinburgh Derby tonight

Atkinson on after four minutes

one aussie (kuol) on the bench

Hearts are pretty wasteful up front i gotta say from what ive seen this season

pretty evenly matched game. 

So Devlin and Rowles starting for Hearts with Atkinson subbed on at 5'. Kuol on the bench.

Jeggo starting for Hibs with Miller on the bench. 

Atkinson has been pretty awful.

Strain starting for at Mirren v rangers. Baccus' injured I think. 

Birighitti and behich starting for Dundee. 

Luongo and burgess starting for Ipswich who are 2-0 up after 20' against Charlton. Maynard Brewer in goals. 

Leicester are playing city in the morning as well. Hopefully Souttar gets a start but big test if he does. 

Rowles copping it lately from Hearts fans.

To be honest I think the Rowles honeymoon is over. He's just an average centre back.

Souttar starting vs Man  city

It's a back 3 now for Leicester which might end up being a permanent fixture but also its against City today so they'll need the cover. 

Two flaws to his game. The rate of missing the ball when rushing out is increasing. When it works it looks great. He's been high up and wide which has led to teams smashing through the lines. 

One thing I notice a lot is he  ducks down when the opponent is definitely going to win the head. No use of his body to try and limit the jump. He'll just submit. 

In saying that he's still a fairly cool head and has proven himself at that highest level we've been as a national team so he's going to be fine I think.

I guess it's currently a lower base but he was so much better than Deng last window. Deng has his days no doubt. 

Another Dundee United win. 

2:0 City after 12. Write off! 

Hamburg lose to Kaiserslautern. St Pauli with a tricky game against Braunschweig tomorrow. Win that they'll then be 3 points behind Hamburg and they face them in the derby next Friday. 

Southampton are surely gone. Leicester are in deep trouble. Win next weekend and it's back on. Can hope that Southampton's relegation could see Watts rejoin and get involved next campaign. 

Rotten day for AMB against Luongo and Burgess. A 6:0 win for Ipswich. AMB could've made himself bigger for a couple of the goals but was otherwise helpless. Ipswich very hot to go up automatically. 

Atkinson and rowles probably hearts best players today imo.

Looking at fotmob, the ratings agree. Looking at the hearts forum a few fans complaining they (and devlin) aren't physically strong enough and need to get in the gym, others saying atkinson was the best, rowles getting more heat for being physically weak (about 30 comments saying the same thing)

makes me think scotland is a terrible place to send our players if that is how they evaluate players. The refs protect players less than in international football so being weak is a problem in that league

yazbek scored a good goal last night, daggers with 2 assists

karacic with an assist too

interesting all 3 heartroos have declined in their second season. If it was one you would dismiss it, 3 suggests this is a bad place for development