Ian Cathro insists Hearts will stick to his philosophy
Sunday 18 December 2016 20:22, UK
New Hearts boss Ian Cathro concedes the team are going to have to earn the right to play his style of football.
The former Newcastle, Valencia and Rio Ave assistant is seeking his first win with Hearts after his recent appointment.
While the players are adapting to Cathro's methods, some Hearts fans are showing signs of impatience, with the team being booed off the pitch after the 1-1 draw with Partick at Tynecastle on Saturday.
However, Cathro is determined to press ahead with his plans and implement a style that will take the fight away from Hearts' rivals in the battle for second place in the Scottish Premiership.
Asked if he was going to have to adapt to the combative side of the Scottish game, Cathro said: "There is always that aspect of the nature of the game here, the culture of the game.
"But there is always one team who is leading the game. If you're leading the game then you get to determine the flow and the rhythm and the position of the players and so on.
"We were able to do that in small parts on Saturday, but we were able to do it and that's a positive.
"And if we had managed to do that for longer the game would have been the way we wanted it to be. We start to become the dictator.
"Of course it is more easy to do if the other team tries to do the same thing against you, because it stays in an organised way.
"Maybe here that is less likely to be the case every week.
"But we still have to do the things we believe are right to have more likelihood of winning. And that's what we'll do.
"Will we ever play a broken game? I don't think that will ever be the case, I'll never believe football to be that way."
