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Although he did actually buy me a drink once so to be fair to him he is not as tight as some people make out.
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12-05-2018 10:55 AM #61
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12-05-2018 11:04 AM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Part of the reason was that we are talking about at least 2 companies, 3 or more loans, a share issue, and a bank that wanted everything as confidential as possible.
I made lots of assumptions, which may or may not have been reasonable. From memory, I concluded that the bank wrote off between 2m and 4m of a 10m debt.
Not going to swear to it though.
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12-05-2018 12:24 PM #63This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It would be nice to see Hibs attract some outside investment, but as has been said many times ( mostly by me ) our plan to pass 51% of control to the fans makes the chances of attracting the ultra rich with more money than sense virtually nil ... rich folk want the tag 'owner' as the bare minimum for pouring their cash into football's money pit and that's something you wont get at a fan controlled club.
Anybody moaning about the player budget had better start facing up to the reality of what 'fan owned' really means. From now on the way at Hibs will be to spend what we earn from gate money, transfer fees, TV money, prize money and sponsorship and it cant ( and wont ) all go on players wages or transfer fees to bring folk in, the cost of just running the club runs into millions and that's before you start paying the players.
That's why HSL in the years to come will go from being a nice wee boost to club funds to being vitally important ... its going to become imperative that they gather as many contributors as possible and more importantly, that those contributors continue to pay into HSL after the share buying phase has ended. I myself am not a member, but I do intend to join soon and when I do I wont even bother about the share side of things, its all going to be about keeping Hibs competitive.
Forget managerial meltdowns or who will or wont be sold or leave in the summer. By far the biggest issue facing this club is what's going to happen when it does become fan controlled and how we intend to finance it to a standard that will keep us in the hunt for trophies and European football .... in spite of asking these questions for over two years now I have yet to see any plans or projections from anywhere, be that the current Hibs board or HSL, as to how we intend to move forward when the time comes.
As far as I'm concerned we seem to be stumbling blindly into the unknown with nobody taking any notice of addressing the problems that fan ownership will inevitably throw up ... especially in the areas of decision making structures and how to attract investment to a fan controlled club. This is not Germany where big business and rich individuals are still happy to chuck in money without control, we do not have a fan base running into hundreds of thousands like Bundesliga clubs that we can use as a crutch when the going gets tough either. Hibs know all of this, HSL knows this .... but the sound of silence from both parties regarding the future is deafening.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail ..... its time a few folk in and around Hibs got a grip on this before its too late.
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12-05-2018 12:36 PM #64
Whatever your thoughts on Kano these days, I liked him as a player. He scored winners (and other goals in games we won) v Hearts, Huns, Celtic. Not blessed with great pace but an intelligent footballer, who was great in the air for his height, and had a decent career after he left us.
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12-05-2018 02:04 PM #65This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Wonder if Kano as put any funds into Hibs and if he offered us a loan how much he would expect in interest
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12-05-2018 06:01 PM #66
I've just challenged Simon Pia on Twitter who has been spouting his nonsense the last 2 days too!! Firstly asked him where he has been for the last 2 seasons and why he only comes out with his nonsense after a negative result/week for club...
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12-05-2018 06:13 PM #67
I saw Pia’s Tweets. Numpty with no idea of the facts. It’s up to STF whether he takes the £500K each year. There is no money being siphoned from the club. The money is legitimate debt repayment.
As for Kano, a good player who made the most of his ability. Staunch Hibee but I wouldn’t call him a Hibs great, let alone a legend.
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12-05-2018 06:24 PM #68This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He's really a total fanny.
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12-05-2018 06:25 PM #69This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-05-2018 07:46 PM #70This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It rio's
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12-05-2018 08:07 PM #71This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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12-05-2018 08:24 PM #72
Kanes seems to have a personal vendetta against Petrie. I think he's arrogant and wants himself to be the saviour of hibs.
Folk like Kane and Pia seem to revel in bad times at hibs because they can push their agenda. Egomaniacs.
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12-05-2018 08:29 PM #73This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-05-2018 09:07 PM #74
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Who is Simon Pia ? the only time Ive heard or seen his name is when it has cropped up on here & it always appears to be negative.
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12-05-2018 09:15 PM #75This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He shared a flat with Gordon Brown when they were young.
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12-05-2018 09:23 PM #76
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12-05-2018 09:57 PM #77
I've got respect for Paul Kane as a former player, but if he's a "legend" then we need a new set of words for the actual Hibs legends.
There's nothing wrong with questioning the board but it needs to stay within the realms of realism. You can't tell someone else - someone who's already saved the club once - how they should spend their money. I wish Sir Tom would just gift its a few million as well but its his decision, the sense of entitlement annoys me. And i hate the word "investment" in the club. Let's be real, any "investment" is actually a donation, you'd be as well burning the money as expecting a return on your "investment".
Folk moan about Sir Tom getting repaid his 5 million at 500,000 a year, if he'd genuinely invested £5 million in almost anything else all those years ago he'd likely have made a hell of a lot more.
Like someone said above, 4th place this season - after the past few years disasters - is a brilliant result.
For me the goal of the board right now should be working towards 4th next year, and the year after that and the year after that, until 4th place is just expected from us as a club. And then we build on that until we expect to be third every year and challenging for second. No more of this one good season every 10 routine we've been used to.
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13-05-2018 12:26 AM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-05-2018 07:30 AM #82This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-05-2018 07:40 AM #83
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agree 100%
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13-05-2018 07:49 AM #84
Theres no doubting Kanos Hibs credentials and he made the best out of limited ability. That's not a put down as guys a lot better than him of the same generation never made it and he had the dedication to have a very good career.
Don't quite understand his vendetta against the Board and hes allowed himself to be a bit of a rent a gob whenever BBC Glasgow want to peddle their anti Hibs agenda.
Pia is a typical politician , two faced backstabber and ive been in his company when he left party colleagues without a name. He is another rent a gob with an anti Board agenda, albeit a slightly more articulate one than Kano.
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13-05-2018 07:56 AM #85
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People really don't realise what fan ownership will be like, it's not utopia, tight budget & the possibility of falling behind comparable clubs.
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13-05-2018 08:04 AM #86This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Kane - “Ah’m no going to meet her, why should I?”
Me - “To try to unite the fans?”
Kane - “If she thinks she can unite the fans more than I can, she’s I’m for a shock.”
Aye nice one ‘Kano’. She also ripped him a new one at the next AGM when he started his p*sh, and that was when we were probably at our lowest point.
Decent player, miles away from legend status, and too deep rooted views on people to be trusted for a sensible opinion.
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13-05-2018 09:05 AM #87
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The accounts guys on here have scrutinised the accounts year after year looking for evidence to support claims made by Pia and others, Cav did a detailed piece on the car park sale, but the only evidence that is established is that STF has put in significantly more than he has taken out. Still not happy they then follow the kickback agenda that somehow Hibs (STF) have stiffed the BoS, knowing that details of that particular deal (between STF and the Bank) will never be known.
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13-05-2018 09:07 AM #88This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Its a Ponzi scheme, dont you know...............
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13-05-2018 09:35 AM #89This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As others have said if we can find a way to properly continue a managers fund without ownership after that then that might be an option to consider.
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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29-05-2018 06:05 AM #90
Leeann with a thinly veiled dig at Mr Kane.....
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...urst-1-4745928
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