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What is printed in the Express won't start this season, next at the earliest
How would it save Hearts?Quote:
Originally Posted by Weststandwanab
If it is voted in, it wouldn't take effect until next season at the earliest.
And how would it save Rangers?
:faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
It's all looking pretty bleak for them now isn't it?
:thumbsup:
Killie should hold out until the last game of the season is played and then in the Monday go into admin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thecat23
If they are still about that would get their backs up.
Do exactly what they did.
:faf: :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Danderhall Hibs
North Korean Central News Agency?Quote:
Originally Posted by portohibee
Literally the most tragic thing I've ever seen. They're almost becoming a parody of themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by portohibee
Billy listening to Dire Straits. Proud.
Never mind the financial situation. Hearts just keep giving!! Scotty Robinson whining in the papers, Locke biting back (ferrets fighting in a sack?), Locke and Billy Brown under fire for hoofball, Darren Murray off to the heady heights of administration hit Coventry City (rats and a sinking ship anyone?) talk of Gary Mackay becoming yoof supremo Does it get any better? You bet it does........ BDO, Ian Murray et al, struck dumb because they are only now realising that they have been holed below the water line by a Russian submarine, and the good ship Hawrts is heading to oblivion. Tick tock. Great days to be a Hibby!!!!
Find myself filling up with tears of pride having seen that picture. In only a matter of months wee Billy has gone from strugglin' to having his own show. What a brave warrior.Quote:
Originally Posted by portohibee
Does anyone else love this painful ending they are going through opposed to a quick blitz? Hope it drags out even longer and they suffer even more.
someone might want to point out the lyrics aren't "money for nothing, and the kids for free"Quote:
Originally Posted by 3pm
Billy storing up memorable experiences in case at any point in the future he wants to be able to look back and claim that he's done things. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by portohibee
Hey, leave him alone, he's been places!!Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
Billy about to administer some electric shock treatment to Scott Robinson for greeting to the press.
And getting it wrong, by placing the electrodes on his own temples. Not proud of his incompetence at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by steviehibsleith
Indeed. I always look forward to seeing a post from Bajillions.Quote:
Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital
Haven't seen one recently, though. Everything has gone quiet on all fronts. Calm before the storm?
I await with interest the next post from our friend Bajillions.
:greengrin East Fife and they got ridQuote:
Originally Posted by Pedantic_Hibee
Let's hope it is after the League Cup game. One more humiliation on and off the pitch please.Quote:
Originally Posted by PapillonVert
Are you not supposed to post a link to the Barry Anderson article you quoted that from?Quote:
Originally Posted by fat freddy
And now over to Bachman Turner Overdrive for "you ain't seen nothing yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by portohibee
or
Is he doing a lie detector test for the Jeremy Kyle show? Honest Jeremy I thought we owed it to ourselves, everyone was saying it.
Nope, he's reading the DNA results and has just found out that he's not only Gary Locke's Dad but he's his brother too :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
:faf: Sure you don't mean mother?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonnyboy
That little gem is on page two of the report :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
There's a possibility this journalist was a yam? Don't think his look into the future was that good really.:greengrin
A CITY OF TWO TALES..; What the Dickens is going on in Edinburgh? While Hearts are battling it out with the Old Firm at the top of the Premier, Hibs are fighting for survival. Our man in the capital RAY HEPBURN investigates the cause of the chasm between the arch-rivals.
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<a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+CITY+OF+TWO+TALES..%3B+What+the+Dickens+is+going +on+in+Edinburgh%3F...-a060659921">A CITY OF TWO TALES..; What the Dickens is going on in Edinburgh? While Hearts are battling it out with the Old Firm at the top of the Premier, Hibs are fighting for survival. Our man in the capital RAY HEPBURN investigates the cause of the chasm between the arch-rivals.</a>
HIBERNIAN: From Duff to Duffy
THE day David Duff walked into Easter Road Easter Road is the home ground of Scottish football club Hibernian. Located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, the stadium has a capacity of 17,500, making it the seventh largest stadium in Scotland and the largest stadium used primarily for football in Edinburgh. in August 1987, the Edinburgh club picked up a tab they are still paying for.
Duff's grand plan - to establish a property-dealing parent company that would provide a "financial drip" - led to receivership in just three years.
Kwikfit millionaire Tom Farmer responded to the vociferous "hands off Hibs" campaign and fought off Wallace Mercer's bid to merge the two clubs. Hibs fan and local businessman Douglas Cromb took over and last year, in came Lex Gold.
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But Hibs are being run by committee with no one apparently "at risk" when things go wrong.
Alex Miller was sacked after a decade in October 1996, and although that seemed harsh, it was probably true that after 10 years his freshness had gone.
Jocky Scott who has had some success as both a player and manager was a solid caretaker for 10 weeks but luring Jim Duffy from Dens park was an error.
The former Celtic defender saw Hibs scrape past Airdrie in last season's play-offs, and two weeks after his departure, they are five points adrift at the bottom of the table.
Duffy made 12 signings in his 14 months at Hibs and in the recent home defeat by Kilmarnock, eight were not considered good enough to start.
Chairman Gold's resignation two weeks ago underlines Hibs' lack of leadership. Now Alex McLeish is trying to gain control of a juggernaut hurtling toward the First Division.
HEARTS: From bust to boom
WHEN Wallace Mercer strode in the front door of Tynecastle in the summer of 1981, First Division Hearts were on the way to being a big club again.
The property millionaire's cheque for pounds 250,000 was to save the Edinburgh club from going to the wall. Five short years later Hearts came within an ace of winning the Premier from Celtic.
Now under Chief Executive Chris Robinson, his bitter public feud with Mercer now happily history, the Tynecastle club are in a :confused: position to go one better.
The Robinson master-stroke was to persuade Falkirk manager Jim Jefferies to return to the club he had served as a player in the 70s.
His inspired work in the transfer market has transformed the team.
Robinson's flotation on the Stock Market and Jefferies' assured stewardship of the team spells stability. :confused:
And with time still on the manager's side, he might yet provide hungry Hearts fans with the trophy they have craved for 36 years.
Whatever the future holds, :Hearts have an ambitious platform which was born 17 years ago and lives on under the new regime for the next century. :trumpet:
THE HIBS HOWLERS
JIM DUFFY'S appointment as manager meant keeper Jim Leighton returning to Aberdeen. The pair did not get on well at Dundee and Leighton told a team-mate on Duffy's first day: "That's the end for me here."
HIBS' decision not to increase their bid for David Platt at Crewe Alexandra in 1988, after Alex Ferguson had recommended him to Alex Miller.
Accompanied by then club managing director Jim Gray, Miller offered around pounds 150,000 for the former Manchester United midfield player.
The decision not to tempt Crewe with an increased offer deprived the Edinburgh club of millions in subsequent transfer fees which could have transformed the future.
THE HEARTS HIGH SPOTS
THE signing of David Weir for pounds 250,000 from Falkirk 18 months ago may qualify for the best piece of transfer business conducted in Scotland in the nineties.
A cultured defender and frequently dangerous attacker when pushing forward, Weir has introduced an elusive touch of class at the back for Hearts. Such has been his progress as he coped with a steep step up in level, he seems certain to be in Craig Brown's World Cup squad in France.
FLOTATION on the Stock Exchange last year was timed perfectly. Floated at pounds 1.40, the shares may not have proved to be the best investment made by the big institutional buyers, trading as they are now around pounds 1.
But the exercise raised vital funds with precious little time to spare as the banks became increasingly anxious about the club's debts in excess of pounds 5m.
I knew Ray and he was a Hibees through and through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostonhibby
Ping Ping Ping "U-boats captain!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by portohibee
I've got mine:greengrinAttachment 11125Quote:
Originally Posted by Craig_in_Prague