Just wondering; what were the hearts teams and fans mentality before the Romanov years? Did they come out with "big team" pish?
Have hearts always robbed off charitys and local businesses?
When was the last time they were not over spending and on a level playing field with us?
Just wanting a glimpse in the future for what is to come....
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Thread: Before Romanov.
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20-05-2017 01:33 PM #1
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Before Romanov.
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20-05-2017 01:38 PM #2
The overspending started under the odious Mercer in the 80s. The Pieman carried it on to increased levels before the Mad One arrived. Their fans have been gradually gaining some warped sense of superiority complex since they accumulated a few lengthy unbeaten runs over us under Mercer. Before then, they were just another set of football fans imo. They created the hate. The tide has turned now though.
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20-05-2017 01:47 PM #3
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Romanov took on £22 mill of debt and stopped them selling Tynecastle and renting Murrayfield. Been on the make for years.
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20-05-2017 01:48 PM #4
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Trying to sign Lee McCulloch frok Motherwell for £1million rings a bell
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Can I just add that they haven't won the League Cup since Harold MacMillan was Prime Minister, The Beatles were just making a name for themselves, The Forth Road Bridge was still a couple of years away from opening, Nobody had heard of Dr Who and even he hadn't come across the Daleks yet and I was still in shorts.
Disgraceful.
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20-05-2017 01:50 PM #6
the big team.
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20-05-2017 02:21 PM #8
Before mercer they were about the same as most opposition fans outside the uglies to me.
I had no real issues with their fans of that era. The attitudes of superiority, bigness and thievery to win at any cost comes from that era as did the extra glory hunters since.
They're paying for it now Hell mend them.
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20-05-2017 03:16 PM #9
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But on the arrival of Romanov the sense of superiority grew and grew based on a load of talk backed up with very little on or off the pitch apart from two cup final wins against a village team and a team of mostly duds with a stinking attitude ..... I've said it so many times, but I've never been able to understand how in these circumstances where Hibs were doing very little and couldn't buy a derby win that the hatred grew and grew from the maroon side of the rivalry, when in any normal universe it should have been the other way around.
I dare say it would take a team of psychologists and psychiatrists to make sense of that one ...... my personal theory is that much as Hearts would like to claim to be Edinburgh's go to team its just never going to happen and no matter how many derby wins they have or will have or how many cups they win Hibs have and always will have a solid support in the capital and beyond ..... I think that's something they just cant get over and they hate us for it
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I remember Romanov saying that Hearts would never lose 5-0 in Scotland again, a few months later Celtic scudded them 5-0
Not forgetting their we are unbeatable song as Boozy put the first of 2 past them.Last edited by Hermit Crab; 20-05-2017 at 03:25 PM.
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20-05-2017 05:09 PM #12
During that era there was Hearts fans saying Celtic was there rivals on the pitch now and we were just there near neighbors.
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For those too young to remember Mercer did things like call the Hearts fans "customers" and told all and sundry that Hearts would be leaving Scottish football to join a European super league as they out-grown it. Total thatcherite con-man who had to try and asset strip his closest competitor to pay-off the debts he had accrued.
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20-05-2017 06:36 PM #14
They are pretty useless without a World War to win. Or 'the big war' as their fans refer to it.
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20-05-2017 06:45 PM #15
The jambos always spent way beyond their means from the early eighties.Reckon the root of it was the hurt of losing 0-7 to us at their beloved PBS.
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20-05-2017 06:48 PM #16
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Before 1998, no-one ever mentioned 1902. Instead, I recall the Daily Record listing all the teams that had won trophies since the "famous" had won a trophy. The list included Partick Thistle, Raith Rovers, St Mirren, Dunfermline, Kilmarnock, Motherwell along with Hibs, Aberdeen, Dundee United and the smellies.
Now St. Johnstone, Inverness Caley Thistle, Ross County, St Mirren, Aberdeen, Celtic and, yes, Hibernian have all won a trophy since the "famous".Last edited by theonlywayisup; 20-05-2017 at 06:52 PM.
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20-05-2017 08:05 PM #18
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http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/n...for-1638m.htmlLast edited by Mr White; 20-05-2017 at 08:15 PM.
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Fitzroy Simpson, Gordan Petric and I can't remember the third.
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