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Mikey
24-02-2010, 03:03 PM
Some sicko (quite literally :greengrin) has dredged this up from the depths of the PM board.

It's a copy of the open letter that the badge and blazer brigade sent to Mr Romanov in December 2006...........



An open letter to Vladimir Romanov

Dear Vladimir,

Seasons Greetings.

We are writing to you on behalf of members of the Heart of Midlothian Supporters Trust to offer our hopes for Hearts for the future.

First and foremost, we are fans. We are the people who have spent much of our lives following Hearts, in good times and in bad, at Tynecastle and around Scotland, and in many European games. We’ve watched as Hearts have had some triumphs like the 1998 Cup win, but we’ve also been there when they’ve lost the league on goal difference twice in our lives. We’ve sat on the horrible benches at Clydebank in the January sleet (although you probably don’t remember that) and seen them lose cup semi finals on penalties to Airdrie. We were all there, of course, when we squeezed our way to victory over Gretna in the Cup and when we beat Celtic and Aberdeen at the end of last season to secure our place in the Champions league.

We have loved the triumphs and hated the disappointments. We have had our heroes and those we have screamed at from the terraces. We have all spent far too much time and money supporting Hearts, but that’s what we are – Hearts fans.

And it’s not always been easy. We have had our differences with the previous owners of the club and worked very hard two years ago to ensure that Tynecastle was not sold. We really feared that our club was about to go to the wall.

So we were all delighted when you came along with your vision and big ambition. And you delivered. More money, some great players and tangible rewards. There was a real sense of optimism around Hearts and a lot of excitement across Scotland that there could be a real and consistent challenge to the Old Firm. But that’s all gone now.

The truth is that we have gone from being the best thing in Scottish football for decades to being a laughing stock. People talk about us – but rarely about the football. What we see now is constant interference, the public humiliation of some of our greatest players and a businessman who seems to see our club as a vanity project. And it is our club. You may be the owner in the legal and financial sense, but as our motto says, “regardless of who the custodians of HMFC may be, the fans are the lifeblood and the only constant.” We’re the people who create that fabulous atmosphere in Tynecastle, who trek all over Scotland and Europe, who spend our hard earned cash. We are the people who are now being mocked at work because of your antics. We are the people who believe our club has lost its self respect.

And that’s a real crime. We may not have won many trophies over the years, but we have been respected. We all know the story of the first team who went to war in 1914 and of the great players who have played for us over the years. We are an important sporting institution and you have turned us into a circus freak show.

As a result, we have lost our respect for you. The way you treated Steven Pressley was, for many of us, the last straw. We know him well enough to know that if he thought it was in the best interests of the club to criticise, then there must have been real problems. You may have brought money to the club, but Elvis has shown not only great class as a footballer but real integrity. Your response to being challenged seems to have been the response of the playground bully.

It now seems that you and the board don’t care about results on the pitch. The farce we have just endured of having a central defender play in midfield against Aberdeen with Paul Hartley on the bench, demonstrates that you don’t even respect the fans anymore. Surely the first most important task is to put the best team on the park. To do anything other demeans you, the club, the players, the opposition, the competition and the supporters. And although you may say that it was a decision made by Valdas, it has now reached the point that no-one believes that. It looks like another public humiliation for a player who has contributed far more to Hearts than you.

It doesn’t have to be like this. Our request to you is that you care about the integrity of the club and that you put the fans at the front of your thinking. We need you think of yourself as the custodian of the club, with our future in your hands. In line with best practice in running any business, you need to appoint people you trust then leave them to get on with the job. If they fail because of their own mistakes, you can sack them. If they fail because of your interference, you put them in an intolerable position.

We need a board that meets its legal obligations to put the interests of the club first.
We need a Chief Executive who is not the Chairman (a trap Chris Robinson fell into) and has the confidence respect of you, the employees, players and fans.
We need a transparent and frequent mechanism, formally established, where supporter consultation and input will be taken seriously, as you promised when you took over.
Then we need the very best players on the pitch, playing at their best. If we get that, it really will be a happy Christmas, and every prospect of a great 2007 and beyond.

The Heart of Midlothian Supporters Trust Board. (on behalf of its members).
David Orr, Pamela Forbes, Jane Lewis, Michael Hart, Douglas Masterton, Alex Houston, Martin Laidlaw, Paul Turner, David Turner, Derek Watson.


Do you think it worked?

:lurksub:

HibbyAndy
24-02-2010, 03:12 PM
Derek Watson a ken him :hilarious :hilarious :hilarious

And no it didnt work :thumbsup::thumbsup:


Muppets the lot of them.

Part/Time Supporter
24-02-2010, 03:14 PM
The way you treated Steven Pressley was, for many of us, the last straw. We know him well enough to know that if he thought it was in the best interests of the club to criticise, then there must have been real problems. You may have brought money to the club, but Elvis has shown not only great class as a footballer but real integrity. Your response to being challenged seems to have been the response of the playground bully.

Is this the same Steven Pressley that most of them have given dog's abuse to ever since?

:dunno:

Phil D. Rolls
24-02-2010, 03:15 PM
I resign, that's better than anything I've ever made up :boo hoo:

HibbyAndy
24-02-2010, 03:18 PM
It doesn’t have to be like this. Our request to you is that you care about the integrity of the club


Who are they kidding? Hearts dont have any integrity,They lost that the day they sold there sole to Romanov.

Phil D. Rolls
24-02-2010, 03:19 PM
Who are they kidding? Hearts dont have any integrity,They lost that the day they sold there sole to Romanov.

Apparently he was a shoe in at the time. :greengrin

HibbyAndy
24-02-2010, 03:21 PM
Apparently he was a shoe in at the time. :greengrin

Akin see how this thread could end up :devil:

Romanov needs a good boot up the erchie, Hearts fans shouldnt let this imposter walk all over them.

Andy74
24-02-2010, 03:22 PM
I apologise for saying that Hearts fans have done nothing to address the situation.

I wasn't aware of the existence of such a strongly worded letter that I'm sure has been followed up by all those who put their name to it.

Puts recent Hibs fans campaigns to shame that does.

edit: Having now read the rest of the thread I should have added that the existence of such a letter has certainly put me in my plaice. (going for the fish theme as opposed to footwear one)

jacomo
24-02-2010, 03:54 PM
Who are they kidding? Hearts dont have any integrity,They lost that the day they sold there sole to Romanov.

Is Romanov the fish man?

hibbybrian
24-02-2010, 04:14 PM
Is Romanov the fish man?

Rumour monger :greengrin

Phil D. Rolls
24-02-2010, 04:57 PM
Akin see how this thread could end up :devil:

Romanov needs a good boot up the erchie, Hearts fans shouldnt let this imposter walk all over them.

Heel have some explaining to do when the penny finally drops with those six fingered Hillbillies.:agree:

Pedantic_Hibee
24-02-2010, 07:04 PM
Cringeworthy read to be honest.

Yet that's as hard-hitting as they get. Spineless sheep the lot of them.

grunt
24-02-2010, 07:24 PM
If the "last straw" was three years ago, what have they been doing since?

Bostonhibby
24-02-2010, 08:11 PM
what a letter, I bet he popped out and bought a new biro just to show they meant business.

Has Vlad replied yet? maybe he said leave it with me and I will get back to you?

Either way I don't see them letting this matter rest - bound to have put a note in his 5 year diary - July 2011 - Write to Mr Romanov and tell him if he doesn't reply and we're still here we will form a committee to write a reminder, and remember to use red ink......... erses.

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24-02-2010, 08:17 PM
Who are they kidding? Hearts dont have any integrity,They lost that the day they sold there sole to Romanov.


No. They loost it when Wally Smirker hove over the horizon.


if they ever had any in the first place.... :jamboak:

truehibernian
24-02-2010, 08:24 PM
They beat Falkirk and Hamilton so it's all hunky dory now don't you know. Cracking squad, togetherness, great man manager and backroom team, third force in Scotland and all that, better youth talent than any other team.............BUT.........they remain ugly, remain arrogant, remain a constant source of income for Edinburgh dentists, remain Greggs favourite customers, remain pioneers of the muffin top and slag tag, and remain our favourite team to pumpetty pump pump, (since 1875, never mind 2006) :agree: