David Templeton (Hearts)

[Scottish Steve]

Forget Adam Johnson, Temps is the real deal. A genuinely tricky winger with a great shot on him. Would cost a fraction of Johnson's outlay and save us from the ignominy of a fourth wasted outlay on left sided Boro related spazwits (Zeige, Zenden, Downing, Johnson...). Keep an eye on the wee man on Thursday...

[Joe Le Taxi]

He plays in Scotland. Downing would be a world beater there.

[Tony Moanero]

The SPL is fucking shite.

[dickie mint]

He plays in Scotland. Downing would be a world beater there.

 

 

No-Not even in Scotland.

[Paisley Red]

Templeton is very inconsistent and nowhere near good enough yet for LFC. Gary Mackay-Steven at Dundee Utd might be in a couple of years - suffered a lot of injuries when he was with us as a youngster but now looks a class act, some if his tricks are amazing. Ryan Fraser at Aberdeen is another young winger who looks like he could go far but he's only 18 so we'll see how he gets on over the next couple of years... all three are more skilful with a ball at their feet than Downing, no doubt about that but it's not all about trickery.

[John McClane]

Templeton is very inconsistent and nowhere near good enough yet for LFC. Gary Mackay-Steven at Dundee Utd might be in a couple of years - suffered a lot of injuries when he was with us as a youngster but now looks a class act, some if his tricks are amazing. Ryan Fraser at Aberdeen is another young winger who looks like he could go far but he's only 18 so we'll see how he gets on over the next couple of years... all three are more skilful with a ball at their feet than Downing, no doubt about that but it's not all about trickery.

 

The great thing with these lads are that they get game time and perhaps European football from next year, the talk is Celtic will take first, all other spots for the taking?

 

Downing a world beater in the SPL. We shall see tonight, hope you are right.

[Scottish Steve]

The great thing with these lads are that they get game time and perhaps European football from next year, the talk is Celtic will take first, all other spots for the taking?

 

Downing a world beater in the SPL. We shall see tonight, hope you are right.

 

The thing is you can't underestimate the absence of Rangers from the SPL. In previous years the Old Firm would work in tandem, a team might nick a win or even a draw at Celtic but invariably Rangers would see them off or vice versa. At least now a best of the rest side only has to worry about one Glasgow giant. Ideally we get to a league of 16, 15 home and 15 away, so you'd only have to go through there once. Twice when the Huns get back.

 

People talk about how one sided the SPL is but can you imagine if teams in England had to visit Old Trafford etc twice in a season. There'd definitely be a bigger gap then. Scottish football has been horribly skewed in favour of the OF for years what with division of TV money and voting rights. Funniest of all was when they used to nick all their opponents best players for peanuts, stick them on the bench and then complain that the lack of decent opposition was affected their performances in Europe.

 

Btw Downing just reminds me of Steve Guppy. And he was shite up here too.

[JagSquared]

 

Templeton? He's nothing but a bullshitter.

[Tony Moanero]

Me and my mates would call Hearts "Farts of Midlothian" when swapping our Panini stickers.

[A.V.B.]

Wasn't half bad tonight, put in a real shift but I didn't see anything all that special about him to make the step up.

[MAC5]

That lad at Celtic called Forrest looks to be a pretty good prospect and one to keep an eye on, plays on both wings aswell I think!

[dickie mint]

Played well last night this lad.