who would invest in hibs if Petrie and STF were gone? Who could be the new chairman?
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19-04-2014 09:32 PM #1madhatterLeft by mutual consent!
who would invest? new chairman?
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20-04-2014 01:01 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Andy Murray could buy us, and his mum could become chairwomen.
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20-04-2014 03:04 AM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-04-2014 07:18 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Proclaimers..directors of football
Kirsty Gallagher....Manager...well why not????
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20-04-2014 07:25 AM #5
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20-04-2014 08:28 AM #6
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20-04-2014 09:28 AM #7madhatterLeft by mutual consent!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-04-2014 09:37 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-04-2014 11:49 AM #9
It does not need a multi millionaire. The club already has a very competitive wage bill by SPL standards. Its also a sefl substainable business that pretty much runs itself. What it needs is an owner or chairman that knows about football. Someone with drive and the attitude to succeed. I bet Farmer ran all his other business adventures very well, so why not Hibs? It does not matter if you own a football club, an airline company or an ice cream van, you still have to run it to the best of your ability to strive for success. Farmer does not do that with Hibs.
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20-04-2014 12:17 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-04-2014 12:20 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Football clubs are different all together
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20-04-2014 05:41 PM #12
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20-04-2014 06:52 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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20-04-2014 06:54 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
One of us if we win the Euro Millions, I can't think of anyone else daft enough.
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20-04-2014 06:59 PM #15
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20-04-2014 07:01 PM #17madhatterLeft by mutual consent!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Why they bother pumping billions into English football when they have a much cheaper alternative in Scotland is beyond me...Did they suddenly forget how to be stingy?
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20-04-2014 07:30 PM #18
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If Rangers (and Hearts) can't find anyone with money to take control, then we can't really expect to either.
But, we don't really need much investment (in theory)...just look at Motherwell, Inverness etc.
If we did bring in a new chairman with 'Ambition' and 'Drive' (and no money)...it's difficult to see how 'ambition' and 'drive' would necessarily translate into results. There's no reason to expect that we'd perform (on average) any better than we have done over the past 15 years.
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20-04-2014 08:02 PM #19
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21-04-2014 06:20 AM #20
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21-04-2014 08:35 AM #21
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I heard a rumour at the weekend about a consortium taking over from Farmer, announcement supposed to be in a fortnight, could be all pish, but anyone else heard similar
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21-04-2014 11:00 AM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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21-04-2014 11:05 AM #23
If I was to win the Euromillions I would be taking over and we would be champions
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21-04-2014 04:44 PM #25
If I won the euro millions I'd watch hibs from a great distance prob Cyprus or USA
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22-04-2014 07:14 AM #26
Somebody made a great point on (I think) The The Rangers meltdown thread regarding the definition of "investment" as being someone who puts money in in order to regain that money + a profit.
Is that REALLY what we need? The huns got that and look at the state they're in with a succession of odious characters helping themselves to dosh ploughed into that club by the fans.
It would certainly be nice if some rich weirdo decided they were going to fire the fruits of their labours into Hibs for no return, or some clown won the lottery and decided that Hibs were the best way to dispose of their income. But lets face it, it's not going to happen. We certainly don't want any "London investor" types sticking in to get their "investment plus profit" back. Where would the profit come from in the Scottish game? David Rowland anyone?
The problem at Hibs isn't (and never has been) about the money that we've not spent. It's about what we have spent and how it's been spent. Unfortunately we have pissed away the finest "head-start" we could ever hope to achieve during the era without Rangers and Hearts in the top flight with the financial situation we managed to create after selling off the "golden generation". And then flogging all income gained from the extra season tickets sold and the revenue gained through the cup runs in the past 2 years.
Nah, we have to live within our means and start first of all by competing on the park with clubs like Motherwell and St Johnstone who in spite of having significantly less resources than us have managed to repeatedly rebuild their teams (and management teams) and keep them in the higher echelons of the SPFL. That means backing managers through rough patches, letting them sign their first-choice signings and not blaming them when things go wrong, punting them and going through the expensive cycle of paying off successive management teams and the players they sign.
We don't want any of the cash we as fans put in disappearing into the pockets of "investors".
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22-04-2014 07:26 AM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Something has to change
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22-04-2014 07:36 AM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I wonder if there are many billionaires who would spend £5m so that some people they've never met might like them?
I doubt that the prospect of being idolised by strangers would motivate many people to do anything, never mind throw their money at an ailing Scottish Football team.
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22-04-2014 07:52 AM #29
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There's a reason they are billionaires in the first place.
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22-04-2014 08:10 AM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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