Hearts, Rangers and Celtic games moved for TV as Sky Sports select upcoming Jambos clash

A Hearts fixture has been selected as part of the latest round of TV fixtures, alongside Rangers and Celtic clashes.

Several of the Jambos’ recent matches have been beamed on the small screen amid their continued form at the top of the Premiership. Five of the last six have been shown on TV and plenty before that have been too, with March’s trip to Kilmarnock’s Rugby Park the latest to be picked by Sky Sports.

March 14th will remain the date of play but it will now be an 8pm kick-off instead of 3pm. It’s a kick-off time Hearts and fans have gotten used to of late with matches against Falkirk, Dundee United and St Mirren within the last month beginning at that time. Upcoming games in St Mirren vs Rangers, the Dundee derby at Dens Park, Rangers vs Aberdeen and Dundee United vs Celtic are the other games selected across Sky and Premier Sports.

Hearts defeat vs St Mirren assessed

Next up for the league leaders is a home derby with Hibs, following Tuesday’s 1-0 defeat by St Mirren. Head coach Derek McInnes said ahead of it: “It’s professional football, you lose a game, which happens, you've got to try and just go and win the next game and that's the intention. We had a bad night, I thought we actually started the game okay, but I thought between 10 minutes and then the sending off we just gave St Mirren too much encouragement.

“The difficulty of the game for us was the fact that we were down to 10 men again. There is a knock on with that, you also lose the players for the next game and obviously we've had to deal with that recently. I thought we had a wee bit of lack of energy with some, there was a lot of players maybe not played as much recently, but that aside, I thought we competed admirably.

“When we have lost games this season, it's been by an odd goal or penalty kicks, we're in games all the time, the competitive element of the team is there, and the bar has been raised, and everybody expects so much from us every game. It's difficult to produce your best every game and when you're not your best in the Premiership, then at times you put the result at chance.

Hearts vs Hibs preview

“We were over ourselves with delight when we won in the last minute, it's stuff the fans love and all the rest of it, but the game itself was pretty tight. Hibs played that day the way we expected them to play, they come off the game.

“They try and hit you on transitions, they've got good speed at the top end of the pitch and we've won the game on a second phase of a set play, with a cross into the box in the dying embers of the game.

“We've got three home games out of the next four, we're going through a couple of tough fixtures, we've got some good fixtures coming up for us, tough at the same time but I really think in terms of really strong fixtures for us to go and show our strength and hopefully get results.”