I used to work below Rockstar in the late 90s if I recall at Great Michael House overlooking leith links with views of ER in the background. I could see ER from my desk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
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I used to work below Rockstar in the late 90s if I recall at Great Michael House overlooking leith links with views of ER in the background. I could see ER from my desk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibee87
Top tune :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by KingPat4
"Where the cocaine is Fairtrade and frequently displayed Is the Buena Vista Social Club CD" :greengrin
3 wins all season, and two of them with a lucky deflection. They're absolutely sh**e, no matter how much BBC sportsound try and talk them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
There seems to be some noise about FOH having now paid Bidco the original loan that saved their club and are about to become majority shareholders within a few months. Just the over budget stand to pony up for now?
Now they've paid back Ann Budge surely they'll start paying back the 200 creditors won't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by greenlex
They don’t need to pay back the poppy fund. Sir Tom paid it off at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 007
Shhshhhhh. Don’t say that out loud now their all back patting.Quote:
Originally Posted by 007
I'm just wondering how this is going to change their lives or their fortunes on-field. Is having a couple of seats on the board going to have as much of an impact as our having a couple on our board seems to have?Quote:
Originally Posted by greenlex
What actual difference is it going to make? :dunno:
Craig Thomson is a paedophile.
Does “banter” like that not belong in 2010?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibeesmad
I hate being pedantic but surely it’s a fact rather than banter :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
It's true mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
As soon as I typed that out I knew what the reply would be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibeesmad
So you’d think I’d have a half decent response ready 😂
True or not, it just makes me uneasy, using the crimes of a pervert to try to point score in football conversations.
I worked in that building too from 99 to 03. The Rockstar guys were a shady looking bunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaf
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Originally Posted by greenlex
After some delay, will it be sink or swim time for Ian Murray’s ‘massive movement’?
No classQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibeesmad
It’s not true and it’s not classy to bring this up about a silly laddie who ruined his own life.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Don’t they have an office next to the tram line across the road from Broughton Street?Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Beasts tend not to have class.Quote:
Originally Posted by CMurdoch
Agreed, we should stick to emphasising the crimes their former owner remains indicted for in Lithuania but continues to evade in Russia, the stolen money is directly linked to everything their wee club was doing on the pitch then, and of course the stigma they carry around since.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
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That's what happens to you when you spend all night at your computer screen and come from Dundee.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Next to Baillie Gifford down from the Playhouse. They clubbed together to help Hearts out.Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
It’s not a level playing field. External contributions over the past few years mean HMFC fans have ploughed through £25m of extra cash to 30 June 2019 and by my calculations will need another £5m of extra cash to see them through to the end of the current season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deansy
They simply cannot survive on their own, it always has to be someone else's money, or they will sink without a trace, a simply corrupt football team, always have been always will be, and they will continue to get away with it until the powers to be do a proper investigation on them as to why they rely on these cash injections.
Something tells me it stinks, big time.
Without getting into a debate about it, as I’ve no idea why it was even brought up, did he not plead guilty and was placed on the sex offenders register? Would seem as clear a case of him being a paedophile as you’ll get.Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
The whole thing was a sorry episode. They way Hearts dealt with it as a club was shocking tbh. Keeping him on the books and loaning him out to Kaunas etc. Didn't cover themselves in glory especially after employing Graham Rix. Luckily neither of them, or Romanov are affiliated with Hearts anymore so don't think it's a stick we should beat them with personallyQuote:
Originally Posted by calumhibee1
Whats not level about it? Their own fans are ploughing the cash in.Quote:
Originally Posted by cocteautwin
Fair play to their fans. Are you not slightly curious as to the anonymity donations, though? A club with a history of avoiding debts and money laundering has millions of pounds being ploughed through it with no discernable sign the money being spent sensibly. When theres a pattern like that people should be asking questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil MaGlass
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Yip leave them to their business model and us to ours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil MaGlass
What always surprises me is the small pledger to FoH is about £20 a month which is £240 a year on top of their season ticket. They can of course stop the pledges at any time but in essence imagine their season ticket as £240 more.
That equates to us paying on average around £640 a year. Could you imagine us paying that sort of money for the sort of turgid play they have had over the last few years and relegation type form this year?
There is a reason why the donations are anonymous. Hearts don't want you know who they are from and the donator does not want to be known. Only one person has publicly come up with money since Hearts went into admin. If the doctors were anybody else but her they would have come forward when Hearts were in admin. Why if they had four times the money to give away that saved Hearts would they watch Hearts fans take out a loan at 6% interest? Why watch when another £2 million is made. If they were business people they would have taken the club over, provided some working capital and appointed real business people to run the club with a business plan they signed off on and reviewed regularly. Nobody pisses £9 million up the wall with no control.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kato
Quite possible to route the money through special purpose vehicles to disguise the source.
Interesting Budge's net worth estimated by Forbes at £16 million in 2019. She received £28 million for her IT company.