Welcome to Episode Nine of the Talkin' Tynie Podcast.

In this episode, Alastair and Euan start by briefly discussing the most recent Hearts game, a 5-3 victory at home to Ayr United. 

They then move on to talk about the main topic, last Sunday's Scottish Cup final where Heart of Midlothian agonisingly lost to Glasgow Celtic on penalties after coming back from 2-0 down and then 3-2 down. 

They move through the game in a somewhat chronological order, branching out a different moments to discuss players in more detail such as Jamie Walker, Christophe Berra, Josh Ginnelly to name a few. 

After discussing the 90 minutes, extra time and penalties they move on to create a new feature of the podcast which is known as 'Release or Renew'. This feature will likely occur in three stages of the season; right at the start, approaching January and then in April / May.

Currently, there are 9 first team players (excluding loanees) who's contracts are up on May 31st 2021. Alastair and Euan discussing all players individually, with the aim of determining whether they believe their contract should be renewed, or instead they should be released. As previously mentioned, we will do this segment all over again later on in the season, to see if our opinions have changed.

We hope you enjoy and from all of us here at Talkin Tynie, we hope you have a good New Year.

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