Whats so good about living within our means?

[BroxburnHibee]

Might as well spend money we don't have - thats where the rewards are.

[BEEJ]

Yeah, we need a new corporate strategy and pronto.

You don't win anything in the Scottish game through honesty, financial prudence and integrity. And if found guilty of financial impropriety in all its forms the footballing authorities up here seem desperate to .... do nothing about it.

[Treadstone]

I am just waiting for the headline in the Evening News soon "Council build Hearts new stadium" .

[Hibercelona]

Might as well spend money we don't have - thats where the rewards are.

It seems more and more logical as time goes on.

If you try to do things the right way, you're punished for it.

But if you bend and break every rule/law in the game, you'll be rewarded, the SFA will bend over backwards to help you, even the council will play their part.

[Sir David Gray]

You just know that, if we went down the road of paying players about £10,000 a week and spending £500,000 on new players etc, we would be liquidated within 5 years!

We just don't have that luck.

[Hibercelona]

You just know that, if we went down the road of paying players about £10,000 a week and spending £500,000 on new players etc, we would be liquidated within 5 years!

We just don't have that luck.

I fail to see what lucks got to do with it.

If Hearts are so important that they simply can't be aloud to die, then it shouldn't be any different for us either.

[Stevie Reid]

We are suffering from our own (understandable) prudence, and then further from the fact that those who spend way, way beyond their means continue to flourish. The end result? More and more Hibs supporters will choose to stay away as the result of not only our poor team, but also the fact that the other teams, who are effectively cheating, get away with it time after time. What's the point, many will ask, and beyond blind loyalty to a cause that we hope will benefit from some sort of justice, we don't have an answer.

Now that it has been proven that Rangers, far beyond any reasonable doubt, have cheated their way to success for a number of years, despite already having a huge financial advantage over 10 of the other 12 teams in the league, the "business" argument (SPL is a business first and foremost and therefore must operate as one, despite the competition aspect being compromised) is constantly trotted out, and, it seems, will ultimately save them from the death that they deserve. Yet, at the same time, we operate very well as a business, yet are constantly reminded (mainly by Yams), that a healthy balance sheet wins you nothing.

UEFA is beginning to impose sanctions to teams who spend beyond their means in an attempt to bring about 'Financial Fair Play' - there is the reward of a place in Europe for the team that finishes top of the UEFA disciplinary Fair Play league, yet the tangible benefits for clubs that already demonstrate financial fair play are zero.

Hearts are in debt to the tune of approximately £26M and there are businesses (many of them small) that are owed money by them who know that they will never, ever, get what they are owed. We suffer, cheats prosper - what is the message, and where is the hope that we are buying into by getting another season ticket?

[lucky]

I would gladly swap places with either of the financial cheats because I'm sick of losing.