Hearts is to lodge an appeal against the Scottish FA's Disciplinary Committee's decision to fine the club £100,000 for its disciplinary record last season.

The appeal will be based on the fact that Jim Jefferies' side improved its discipline significantly in season 2010-11, its red card count slashed to just five compared to ten during the previous campaign.

The club strongly believes that the heavy fine - £40,000 of which is suspended - grossly misrepresents the improvements made, with Hearts' final season disciplinary co-efficient of 7.54 well below the previous season's co-efficient of 8.33.

Hearts will also use in its defence the fact that the difference between the average co-efficient across the league and its final co-efficient has reduced substantially from 2.94 in season 2009-10 to 1.63 last season, demonstrating a further trend of improvement.

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