Would Livi be 'in better place' if Bartley took charge earlier?

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Saturday was a mixed bag for Livi fans.

There was an impressively gritty performance to get our first clean sheet in six months and a much-needed point at Easter Road.

This led to much hope and number crunching that Carol Vorderman would be proud of.

The theory was if Hearts do what everyone expects them to do later that night and we could beat Killie a week later then there's only three points in it.

Sadly for us it didn't go that way with the other Edinburgh team.

We're now nine points behind and fast running out of games.

We needed Hearts to do us a favour.

Now we need snookers and a minor miracle.

The only crumb of hope left is that we somehow win against Killie, which now seems that bit harder on their showing in the Hearts game.

To be fair we were really up for it against Hibs with a traditional Livi style, bodies on the line, defend at all costs performance.

It wasn't pretty but that point added to our tally was a beautiful sight.

We are now four unbeaten under Marvin Bartley and playing better defensively, albeit the goals are still a bit lacking.

Makes you wonder if changing the manager was perhaps a little late and maybe we would be in a better place if Marvin had taken charge earlier.

Who knows?

But at least we are going down with a fight.

I wasn't wholly convinced in Big Marv's appointment, I thought it was more of the same and didn't achieve the change required to turn our season around.

I'm very happy to say he's won me over and I think whatever league we are in next season, he should be our manager.