'A lot of people are waiting for Hearts to trip up'
After six weeks out with a calf injury, Stuart Findlay is set to return to the Hearts squad to face Motherwell this Saturday. The Steelmen remain the only team the Scottish Premiership leaders are yet to beat in the league this season, but Findlay says his side are embracing the pressure, despite "people waiting for them to trip up" in the title race. "A lot of people out there are waiting for perhaps a trip up.
I mean, it's impossible to say we're drowning out the outside noise," he said. "We understand that, that's just the nature of where we are in the league, but we've got such a good changing room, such a good group, such a good inner circle where we are, that we all have faith in each other. "We all have one goal, we're all singing from the same hymn sheet.
The cliche we've stuck to for the first 32 games is each game as it comes. "We're getting to the point where there's not much more of them to come, but we just have to keep doing what we've been doing and hopefully end a special season for us. " The SPFL announced on Tuesday that Hearts' post-split fixtures will conclude with a potential title decider at Celtic Park.
However, the returning centre-back downplayed the significance of the schedule, insisting no fanbase will ever be satisfied with the order of games. "All six teams need to play each other. In the order that they do, nobody's ever going to be fully happy," he added.
"It is what it is. We've got six fixtures, we'll take them as they come. "There are pros and cons that you could say.