Saw this post on my travels in work and found it absolutely ludocris. How on earth could they manage 4k a week when they are as skint as everyone says they are. Hopefully they are paying wages like that so they go bust again.
"I think it's clear from everything that's been said that he wants to come back up to Scotland. The main reason because he wants to be closer to his daughter. I've heard his wages aren't exactly out of our reach around 7k. I reckon we'd probably offer him something like 4k? Obviously a drop yeah but it's not like he's going from 50k a week to 4k week. Its Ipswich he's at not Manchester United!"
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15-05-2017 04:04 PM #1
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They ditched all their debt and since then have been pretty good at selling practically every ticket available for all of their home games, which will give them a decent base upon which to build. They could have done without being turned over by us in the cups, that is for sure, and I don't think the moneyspinning replays will have compensated them much for the damage to the goodwill coming from their fans that these crushing blows will have done.
The timing of the building of the new stand was peculiar and time will tell as to whether or not they have bitten off more than they could chew at an important time in their revival and rehabilitation.
But does anyone really think for a minute that they're skint? Wishful thinking if so, sadly.
We're outperforming them in a good few ways at the moment. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must be struggling.
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15-05-2017 05:32 PM #4
Why would they be skint, really? Its the same on their site, talking pish about us being skint.
They may need to cut back a bit to fund the new stand but that is nothing surprising, they aren't daft enough to risk the future of the club again.
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They tried moneyball with Mercer and almost went to the wall.
They tried moneyball with the Pieman and Leslie Deans, and almost went to the wall ("not fit for purpose etc")
They tried moneyball with Mad Vlad when DUFC and DAFC wouldn't touch his blood money, and almost went to the wall (touching distance, Bryan Jackson, BDO, cake sales, humbling list of embarassing agencies they owed money to)
So my hunch is that they'll try moneyball again,in due course
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I wonder what happened to his Money Laundering charges?
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15-05-2017 08:37 PM #8
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Don't believe for a moment they are skint, Ann Budge is a very astute business woman.
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15-05-2017 09:04 PM #9
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They'll be nowhere near skint. Unfortunately they now have an owner who has an excellent business head on her.
Too bad that they're honking on the pitch though!
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A lot of water to go under the bridge but their team is full of quite expensive, journeymen from all over the globe, with no loyalty, and when it is broke it is very difficult to get back on the rails. In all my time Hearts have never averaged 16k before- I doubt they will for much longer...Equally over the last 30 odd years our support has been on the back foot and quite defensive. I have never known it so positive as now and with good reason. Sure Hearts are not skint and we should not write them off but it seems like 1972 to me.
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15-05-2017 10:31 PM #11
The chip on their shoulder and their obsession with trying to be the big team will see them live outwith their means again and again and again. As a previous poster said, a leopard doesn't change it's spots.
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Just because some guy wrote it on kickback, doesnt mean its true.
There are some wild posts on here about wages and fees etc
Agree with posters above, Hearts will be well run now, and will have a budget at least conpetitve with us and the dons, if not higher.
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It's their ****** fans that think they are the big team, they aren't in charge of the club as much as they'd love to be.
Budge doesn't seem like a big club kinda gal
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16-05-2017 07:53 AM #17
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Budge isn't skint. She doesn't rely on donations. The club is skint. It does rely on donations - and it doesn't have the funds to complete its main stand. They will still sign another 9 garbage players in the summer though.
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"Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation."
Far too intricate & sensible to be a Merrick philosophy.PERSEVERE
Verb: pə:ːsɪ'ˈvɪə/
To not give up.
To go the distance.
To stop at nothing.
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16-05-2017 09:40 AM #19
Their budget will likely be similar to ours this year. They have been bringing in a lot of money since admin. It's only lack of banking facilities that are making funding the stand a bit tricky.
Our advantage over them next season should be Lennon over Cathro, George Craig over Craig Levein and Leeann over Budge.
We have better people in place and a solid team in place which only needs a few additions. They need another complete rebuild.
And let's be honest, they have also lost a great coach in Neilson.
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17-05-2017 11:06 AM #26
How could they be skint ?
They bumped everyone .No Eternal Reward Shall Forgive Us Now For Wasting The Dawn
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17-05-2017 11:12 AM #27
If they're skint we must be just about bust!
They've had bigger crowds, they pay more than we do and are in the league above us. They also have their FoH money coming in.
Be interesting to see both sets of accounts but I'd be gobsmacked if our turnover is higher than theirs or Aberdeen's.
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