11/09/99 Hearts 4 Dundee 0
By Dundeefc.net
April 24 2002
SAT 11TH SEPTEMBER
HEARTS 4 (Adam 6, Jackson 74, Cameron 75, Severin 81) DUNDEE 0
Attendance 13,378
Subs: Bayne (for Annand 70), Robertson (for McSkimming 80),Van Eijs , Wilkie , Langfield
Hearts swept Dundee aside at Tynecastle, but despite trailing to an early Adam strike, until the last quarter of an hour the Dee had a good chance of getting something from this match. That changed dramatically when, with most of his team mates around the home box, Shaun McSkimming lost possession to McSwegan - thirty seconds later the striker had crossed for Jackson to fire home and worse was to follow as Tweed gave away the ball on the edge of the box less than a minute after the restart and this led to the ridiculous situation of three Hearts players in behind a static defence tackling each other for the chance to put the game miles out of reach of the Dark Blues. Cameron won the battle to make the score 3-0.
Dundee had been reasonably disciplined up to this point, but were in disarray for much of the remaining time and it came as little surprise when Severin headed home Jackson's free kick (completely unmarked at the back post of course) in 81 minutes to complete the scoring.
Hearts played very well with Adam, Cameron and Jackson (who was getting pelters from the home fans just before his goal) showing that they won't be fighting relegation this term, but what of Dundee?
Can we take anything positive from this game which from early on looked like a loss but turned into a right gubbing. Gavin Rae tried to cover for the lack of composure and work rate amongst his midfield colleagues - he rarely put a foot wrong, and in the couple of wee spells when Boyack got involved he looked dangerous. Barry Smith got his foot in the way of so many through balls and it was him I felt sorry for when the roof caved in along with Rab' Douglas who must have wondered what was going on ahead of him. When the keeper stops shouting at his defence you know you're in trouble.
On the debit side although there were problems all over the park it was down the left side of Dundee's midfield and defence where the gaping holes were, with Hearts first two goals coming from quick breaks down that side. Make no mistake it could have been worse with the Jambos getting into good positions on their right side throughout this fixture.
Jocky's going to have to do something about that before St Johnstone come calling next Sunday.