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Hello everyone and welcome to Heart and Hand the Rangers podcast.

My name is David Edgar.

I am your host as always and I'm joined this week to discuss the Scottish Cups semi-final when Rangers beat hearts by two goals to nil at Hamden by Colin Macmillan.

Hello there Colin. How are you today?

Hi, David. I'm good. I'm a lot better after Sunday's match than I was the whole

rest of the week, I've got to say. So I'm glad to be talking to you after yesterday.

Had you asked me to do this prior to yesterday, I might not have agreed as quickly as I did.

But yeah, I'm okay, mate. Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm like you.

Miserable week, right?

No point pretending otherwise.

Started very badly up at Ross County.

And then the mood was just, I was going to say enhanced,

but it exploded even further, I think, after the Dundee game.

And the hearts game on paper calling looked like a massive challenge because, obviously,

it's a semi-final.

You see in the other semi-final that sides that you would maybe regularly expect to beat

can turn up on the day, as Aberdeen did, because it's a semi-final.

It's a neutral ground.

You know, the hearts of the big attendance there.

And they're not a bad side at all.

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