Presumably they’ve sold enough season tickets for them to announce to the fans they’ll be spending all their money on a new pitch instead of players for next season.
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Presumably they’ve sold enough season tickets for them to announce to the fans they’ll be spending all their money on a new pitch instead of players for next season.
There seems to be a large split in the hertz fans between those who have faith in budge and levein and those who see the reality of the situation. I think levein has actually done a reasonable job with the squad he has but if McLean is the level of signing their getting and either lafferty or naismith go then they are looking at at least two or three seasons fighting for 5th place in the league. The temptation is of course is to spend loads of money they don't have and I'm not sure once you've had the addictive effect of winning games with phantom money will they be able to help themselves. In fairness a large number on twitback are seeing reality and their number is growing. They will rally round I'm sure with buying season tickets but it will depend how they start next season. If they start to lag behind us again then the knives will be getting sharpened. I think in summary they are hoping things will get better but will stick with it until it all goes Pete tong.
Hearts are charging £300 for a kid to be a mascot against Celtic or Hibs.
How much do Hibs charge ?
Well this will help with flagging season ticket sales won’t it!
And the new super dooper pitch. Something about that announcement makes me smell as rat. A big fat ugly Budge type rat. They need to do something about the pitch but I’m atead of replacing the Skoda with a VW they want to go immediately to a Aston Martin. I have a feeling this wee arrangement will be financed and staged in a way the new stand is.
More and more cash needed for the stand. So money must be tight. Levein loves to pass the pressure on to others with another young coach in Maclean. He is desperate to get back to DOF role asap - all the power and zero accountability.
MacLean has scored 5 goals for St Johnstone this season, 2 less than Rowan Vine scored for them the season before joining us. :-)
Fair enough, I disagree. I used to think it was a massive benefit to us, I'm now of the opinion the club should have tried a collaboration instead. I also don't think it's an asset we could sell in the future neither unless Queen Margaret Uni fancy a sports centre near their Mussie campus.
The benefits are that we don’t have to schedule training to avoid clashes with other organisations, all our teams train in the same place which is a great benefit for the youngsters and especially the development team boys. We can arrange as hoc training sessions without worrying about clashing with the local hockey team or Edinburgh rugby.
I don't think the FoH pledgers will accept another diversion from the target of paying off Budge and taking control themselves.
The collections for the sum promised to fund the Budge folly must be complete and £ 2.5 million + interest to buy the HOMFC shares from Bidco is the pot the DD's will be channeled towards.
^In a nutshell.
There is another difference - if we want to put other facilities in (new pitches / equipment) we dont have to ask the owner.
Staffing costs etc will be broadly the same for East Mains and Riccarton, they pay a hefty fee to rent it, but if we want to upgrade facilities, we pay ourselves - swings and roundabouts in my opinion.
However - regardless of whether people think its worthwhile - its an asset on Hibs balance sheet, whereas Riccarton is plainly not.
Of course we could still be avoiding dug***** at the Jack Kane :greengrin
Reputedly because of Hibs previous bad experiences with Edinburgh Council thy high tailed it out of the capital altogether so that there could be no EDC meddling or restrictive shenanigans.
My dad was speaking to him a year or maybe two years ago, when he was in good form, and suggested to him that we could do with him at Easter Road. While he said he would love to, he admitted that it was never going happen then at his stage of his career, in addition to the wear and tear on his body that dictates that he can only play on grass.
If this is the market Hearts are now shopping in, then this is very good news indeed.
"Money's too tight to mention" - Can't stop singing this every time I'm on here and see this thread title. Great tune!
In the winter if the pitches are frozen they have to get in line with everyone else to use the facilities. Also any facilities that are shared aren’t exclusively available to hearts. It’s an absolute no brainier to have your own training centre. Once you’ve got over the hit off paying for it, it’s yours to do what you want to, and you can tailor it to the individual needs of your particular club. I believe we’re looking to build a full size indoor pitch at East Mains. Hearts can’t make any changes to Riccarton as it isn’t theres.
Aye but we don't get to pretend that we own it and in some instances even brag about it and end up looking like bellends when some hobo asks for evidence of said ownership.
Most of the downsides to owning EM are in the past in my opinion, and however we look at it is an asset on the (legendary) balance sheet,something we own and paid for. Riccarton, for the thieves is all in the cash out column.
I don't know. Originally HMFC (still under Robinson) & HWU were meant to be equal partners at Riccarton (£2.5m each with the rest coming from SportScotland), however when it came to putting the funding together, Hearts financial situation was so precarious that they didn't meet the requirements for the SportScotland grant, therefore HWU had to bin them as partners and go it alone, albeit with HMFC as tenants.
There was nothing of note in the discussions for them to fall through. Hibs offered to buy Hunter's Hall, maintain the Community Centre there as well as building a dedicated training ground for the club and the council knocked it back straight away even though they were actively trying to bring in a private owner at the time.
:agree: So long as landlord remember to a) charge them, and b) charge them market rate and c) diligently pursue any arrears or debt.
It really shouldn't be like this but they played fast and loose with public money before and failed to do anything meaningful about the accruing debt.