Hearts plan to have a go

20 Feb 1995

ALAN McLaren, free from suspension, returns to Tynecastle on cup business this evening, but Hearts are planning a traumatic night for him.

His former team-mates are under instruction to reach out and take advantage of a home tie in the quarter-finals.

The Tennents Scottish Cup holders, Dundee United, were drawn away to the winners of Hearts' tie against Rangers, whose manager Walter Smith is contemplating at least a couple of changes.

One, of course, will be the re-introduction of McLaren, but John Brown and Trevor Steven are fit again and Smith is sure to accommodate one of them, probably the Englishman, if he does not suffer any adverse reaction from training yesterday.

"Trevor was looking as though he was getting a bit of real form back," Smith said yesterday.

Hearts manager Tommy McLean has to wait for checks on Dave McPherson, John Millar, and Neil Berry, but hopes to have two of them available, with Berry the most doubtful.

McLean said: "It will be important that we start the game in the right frame of mind.

In other words, we intend having a go." Quarter-final draw:

Celtic v Kilmarnock, Rangers or Hearts v Dundee United, Raith Rovers v Airdrie, Stenhousemuir v Hibernian.

Taken from the Herald