After over a decade away, the Masters is about to return to our screens this summer season.
That’s the blue pitch soccer model moderately than the inexperienced jacket golf main.
Celtic and Rangers are the one Scottish representatives collaborating this 12 months, however Hearts featured when the match was a Sky Sports activities staple again within the early 2000s.
The pool of potential gamers eligible for the Jambos since then has grown, and because of Vladimir Romanov’s - nearly disastrous - monetary largesse, there are some massive class acts who might in idea, pull on the maroon for the previous six-a-sides.
Some may not be capable to, nor need to, however Report Sport is discounting that so as to provide you with the last word Hearts Masters crew.
Gamers should be 35 or older within the 12 months of the match and have turned out for the Tynecastle crew.
Antti Niemi
There’s nothing within the guidelines concerning the want for gamers to have really retired.
Craig Gordon technically qualifies, however given he’s nonetheless Hearts’ captain and scooping particular person awards whereas being his nation’s primary, he can pull the gloves again on after he hangs them up professionally.
So the flying Finn is the following neatest thing. Till Gordon arrived (then got here again), Niemi was arguably the membership’s biggest ever goalkeeper alongside Jim Cruickshank.
The £400,000 Jim Jefferies spent to signal him from Rangers stays among the finest bits of switch enterprise completed by any Hearts boss.
Neimi did not play behind the identical degree of defence that Gordon has, and his breathtaking agility was typically displayed, now and again saving the Jambos from the odd hammering.
Andy Webster
You all the time want no less than one out-and-out defender in your Grasp groups, however Webster’s skill to walk by video games and play from the again makes superb.
A great reader of the sport, he was the extra refined half of a miserly central defensive partnership alongside Steven Pressley.
Finally he took over the captaincy, so the organisational and management abilities to maintain everybody in place are there too.
Takis Fyssas
The Greek was a European Championship winner by the point he arrived at Tynecastle in 2005.
An important left foot, good positional sense and revered by the complete squad, he’s an apparent option to play alongside Webster on the again with licence to get ahead and take part down the left-hand facet.
Steve Fulton
Talking of left pegs, Fulton’s was a wand.
It earned him the ‘Baggio’ moniker while breaking by at Celtic, and was an enormous a part of the Jambos 1998 Scottish Cup triumph.
Health was a difficulty even throughout his taking part in days so 20 years on, don’t count on him to be masking each blade of grass.
However give him the ball and let others run, and he’d absolutely make issues occur.
Colin Cameron
Can do Fulton’s operating having performed into his 40s, but additionally offers targets.
Arriving late within the field was such a signature that Hearts followers nonetheless use the "Colin Cameron position" as benchmark for almost all of attacking midfielders who've come afterwards.
Rudi Skacel
We’re going massive on lefties on this crew, and we’ve saved the very best for final.
Nonetheless hailed as a aim machine by adoring followers, Skacel might nearly do no flawed in maroon.
A rocket of a shot, Skacel was a risk at any time when he received into vary and on the smaller Masters pitch, that makes him lethal.
Wasn’t all the time within the thick of the motion, however would explode into life when the ball discovered him and most of the time, hit the goal.
Edgaras Jankauskas
Wasn’t the most well-liked after a disappointing second season, however the massive Lithuanian’s class confirmed throughout his first.
Sturdy, clever and with a more durable edge to him, he arrange nearly as many targets as he scored.
Had actual pedigree after profitable the Champions League with Jose Mourinho’s Porto, and can be an ideal foil for his apparent strike companion…
John Robertson
Who else might it's?
The wee man may not be the right bodily specimen, however no-one is aware of extra about sticking the ball within the pokey for the JTs.
Grasp guidelines dictate that one participant should be within the opposition half always, which is ideal for Robbo.
With Cameron operating from deeper and Jankauskas doing the maintain up work, simply get the ball near the aim and let the Hammer of the Hibs do the remainder.