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Originally Posted by itslegaltender

I think the majority of Dundee fans are wanting relegation, that's why you are not seeing any noise coming from them.

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Why would they want relegated??????????




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Are we expecting Hearts apologists out in force today on the radio stations?. Expecting to hear a lot of this....."the fans have done their bit"......"the SPL can't afford to lose another big club"......"hearts are an institution"......"hearts are slf sustaining"..........."foundation of Hearts have a plan in place"......."it's a shame for the fans who are helpless in this".

Any journalist or ex player likely to put the case for the financial doping, cheating and downright criminality that has been going on over Tynie way. No chance.:rolleyes:

Before I start getting slated, I wan't them dead. I can't stand them, the club, the players, Gary Locke, and most off all, the most delusional supporters I have ever had to listen too. IMO they deserve all they get.

But I do see where Greiggy is coming from. The derbies are what you look forward too. When the fixtures come out, they are the first ones you look for. I don't think his reasoning, and why he wants them to stay in the SPL deserves him to be branded 'a yam'.

So I will miss the derbies, especially now we have started to get the edge in them, but for years of cheating, they really do deserve whatever they get.

Bit of a contradicting post ha

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Originally Posted by Thecat23

You have to admit though. You don't post for 2 years and its on the thread of hearts going bust you decide too. Not only that you are wanting them to be saved! Can't blame folk for thinking you are a yam. Out of all the threads over the months why pick this out of interest? I'm not saying you are a yam by the way. But that also doesn't mean I believe you're a Hibby.

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I think you are being unfair here. There are Hibs fans, often of the older generation, who don't relate to the idea that supporting one football team means they have to hate the other. You can't have a game unless you have two sides and it is all the better that the other side just happens to be a close neighbour and therefore ups the stakes and rivalry.
Personally I would like to see hahahahearts survive and get back to the values and ethic that allow for healthy and fair competition. I would like to see that happen across Scottish football because hatred is killing the sport.
As my very wise parents used to say "two wrongs never made a right". Just because hahahahearts football club and their fans have behaved in a classless manner does not mean we should lose our dignity. Hibs always had more class than hearts. I think all this baying for the death of another club and snorting over the corpse is not Hibs class.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser1962

Every scenario they discuss involves the phrase debt free. They even suggest that the Liths should be grateful if they actually get anything at all. Tubes.

(£70.6m Total

UBIG= £10m; UKIO - £15m; DFE = £22m; Debt Forgiveness = £16.7m; a very dodgy looking inter company "compensation income" = £2.9m and initial outlay = IRO £4m . I do not imagine one penny of this was Vlad's)

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This is the crux for me. UBIG was just a vessel to obtain money from UKIO and pass through to Vlads vanity projects. There is no way HoMFC could have obtained the money they did directly from UKIO and they knew it. As long as Vlad was funding them it was hard to swallow but legit. Then it turns out its not even his money and its all debt that will never be paid back and leave innocents in Lithland footing the bill.

The SPL must distribute justice.

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Originally Posted by Kaiser1962

Totally agree with your post Ross.

This is oft repeated over the road and it just highlights their ignorance. They have swallowed up around £70m of the ordinary Lith's money and think, nay they expect, that they are going to just walk away. Every scenario they discuss involves the phrase debt free.

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Debt Free.......Stadium Free.......Player Free.......History Free.

good luck with that :na na:

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Originally Posted by Treadstone

This is the crux for me. UBIG was just a vessel to obtain money from UKIO and pass through to Vlads vanity projects. There is no way HoMFC could have obtained the money they did directly from UKIO and they knew it. As long as Vlad was funding them it was hard to swallow but legit. Then it turns out its not even his money and its all debt that will never be paid back and leave innocents in Lithland footing the bill.

The SPL must distribute justice.

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Spot on. Everyone knew from the start that there was something dodgy going on, but now that a lot of it is out in the open then punishment is the only option. And severe punishment at that.

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Originally Posted by duffers

Before I start getting slated, I wan't them dead. I can't stand them, the club, the players, Gary Locke, and most off all, the most delusional supporters I have ever had to listen too. IMO they deserve all they get.

But I do see where Greiggy is coming from. The derbies are what you look forward too. When the fixtures come out, they are the first ones you look for. I don't think his reasoning, and why he wants them to stay in the SPL deserves him to be branded 'a yam'.

So I will miss the derbies, especially now we have started to get the edge in them, but for years of cheating, they really do deserve whatever they get.

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The derbies are a highlight because they are a contrst which either side can reasonably hope for a result.

If hertz survive, there would be no derbies while they scavenged in the lower divisions. If cup draws threw us together, it would be no contest and hardly worth working up a sweat over.

So, if they survive, if there were any derbies, they'd be a pale shadow of what they were.

Let them die. I want them to die.

And that feckless cooncil better not get involved.

One other point; when hibs were on their knees, so many pundits were proclaiming one city one team would be a good thing. Where are tbose erseholes now?

I'm warming to bomber

Brown told The Sun: “Romanov’s a rogue. From day one at Hearts you could see what he was going to do and there is not a great deal of difference between him and the Craig Whytes of this world.”

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Originally Posted by keekaboo

So nobody read this then? :wink:



'Dundee boss John Brown has hit out at Hearts’ majority shareholder Vladimir Romanov, dubbing the Lithuanian a “rogue”.

Brown said: “Hearts’ support have constantly turned out to fill their stadium for a rogue in Romanov basically.

“From day one you could see what he was going to do. So there’s not much difference between him and the Craig Whytes of this world.”'

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In fairness,he`s absolutely correct with this quote,albeit all the jambos couldnt see what Ripemov was doing!!

I see Deans is saying the SFA have "no right" to give the yams a points deduction, really? I think I will ask my mate who works for the water board just to do a wee check to confirm that these cretins really are from another planet.

Think it was Caversham that pointed out the fact that though the Yams claim to have received no funds or benefit from UBIG, they have actually benefited from favourable repayment terms against the borrowing which makes a mockery of their claim.

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Originally Posted by carnoustiehibee

I'm warming to bomber

Brown told The Sun: “Romanov’s a rogue. From day one at Hearts you could see what he was going to do and there is not a great deal of difference between him and the Craig Whytes of this world.”

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Bomber is great value - as is Kenny Shiels. I dont suppose I would agree with them if we got into a heated discussion about politics - but thats life, live and let live.

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Originally Posted by Hibernianinc

I voted for them to not exist anymore.

I really, really enjoyed last Sunday, against initial expectations. So, at the risk of being controversial, should we keep them?

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No

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Originally Posted by keekaboo

Why would they want relegated??????????




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because first division is their level:confused:

saying that, the ****bos will toil down there once they loose half of their squad

Monday cannot come soon enough. In fact, the next derby can't come soon enough. Imagine horsing them 3/4-0 at the PBS in front of a half empty stadium because they can't handle the humiliation coming their way

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Originally Posted by rcarter1

Bomber is great value - as is Kenny Shields. I dont suppose I would agree with them if we got into a heated discussion about politics - but thats life, live and let live.

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Who's Kenny Shields? :tsk tsk:

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Originally Posted by rcarter1

Bomber is great value - as is Kenny Shields. I dont suppose I would agree with them if we got into a heated discussion about politics - but thats life, live and let live.

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Indeed - "Only An Excuse" will have practically written itself this year!

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Originally Posted by carnoustiehibee

I'm warming to bomber

Brown told The Sun: “Romanov’s a rogue. From day one at Hearts you could see what he was going to do and there is not a great deal of difference between him and the Craig Whytes of this world.”

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Well said bomber ya big Hun p****

Because even he knows that they'll get away with it. They're not getting a points deduction.

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Originally Posted by Treadstone

This is the crux for me. UBIG was just a vessel to obtain money from UKIO and pass through to Vlads vanity projects. There is no way HoMFC could have obtained the money they did directly from UKIO and they knew it. As long as Vlad was funding them it was hard to swallow but legit. Then it turns out its not even his money and its all debt that will never be paid back and leave innocents in Lithland footing the bill.

The SPL must distribute justice.

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Yip.

And without the cash flow that UKIO provided UBIG have folded.

From Note 23 in their latest accounts (signed off on April 8th 2013)

"UAB Ukio Banko Investicine Grupe, the company's parent company, and a company in which Mr Vladimir Romanov has a controlling interest, has continued to provide funding to the company during the year."

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Originally Posted by Hibercelona

Who's Kenny Shields? :tsk tsk:

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My Bad.. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by CentreLine

I think you are being unfair here. There are Hibs fans, often of the older generation, who don't relate to the idea that supporting one football team means they have to hate the other. You can't have a game unless you have two sides and it is all the better that the other side just happens to be a close neighbour and therefore ups the stakes and rivalry.
Personally I would love to see hahahahearts survive and get back to the values and ethic that allow for healthy and fair competition. I would like to see that happen across Scottish football because hatred is killing the sport.
As my very wise parents used to say "two wrongs never made a right". Just because hahahahearts football club and their fans have behaved in a classless manner does not mean we should lose our dignity. Hibs always had more class than hearts. I think all this baying for the death of another club and snorting over the corpse is not Hibs class.

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I too would miss the derby. However, I used to miss having long hair but I've got used to being bald. If they disappear we'll get over it and develop new rivalries. If they are allowed to wriggle out of their current predicament they will no doubt see it as vindication and will soon return to their horrible ways. You just know that they are unable to change and like a biting dog they should be put down. **** them.

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Originally Posted by Jones28

Monday cannot come soon enough. In fact, the next derby can't come soon enough. Imagine horsing them 3/4-0 at the PBS in front of a half empty stadium because they can't handle the humiliation coming their way

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Anybody seriously thinking this bunch of clowns will do anything to damage Hearts..........

The current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive),*Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen FC) and Michael Johnston (Kilmarnock FC).

Edit..I thought Steven Thompson had resigned but this is lifted straight off the SPL site.:confused:

I for one wouldn't be surprised if they look at this and recommended Hearts as the way to structure one's business in the future.:rolleyes:

If Dundee stay up because of Hearts they will have benefited twice. Dunfermline werent saved when Rangers were punted, so Dundee probably feel they cant really moan for getting the benefit both ways.

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Originally Posted by Spike Mandela

Anybody seriously thinking this bunch of clowns will do anything to damage Hearts..........

The current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive),*Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen FC) and Michael Johnston (Kilmarnock FC).

Edit..I thought Steven Thompson had resigned but this is lifted straight off the SPL site.:confused:

I for one wouldn't be surprised if they look at this and recommended Hearts as the way to structure one's business in the future.:rolleyes:

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I don't think we should get hung up on the decision on Monday, i think it'd be hilarious if they got relegated but even if they don't they've got bigger problems ahead.

FWIW i think the people mentioned above will look at the likelyhood of hearts seeing out the season and realise it's not going to happen so will decide it'd be crazy not to take this chance to relegate them rather than wait till happens either mid season or a week or two before the season starts.

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Originally Posted by CentreLine

I think you are being unfair here. There are Hibs fans, often of the older generation, who don't relate to the idea that supporting one football team means they have to hate the other. You can't have a game unless you have two sides and it is all the better that the other side just happens to be a close neighbour and therefore ups the stakes and rivalry.
Personally I would love to see hahahahearts survive and get back to the values and ethic that allow for healthy and fair competition. I would like to see that happen across Scottish football because hatred is killing the sport.
As my very wise parents used to say "two wrongs never made a right". Just because hahahahearts football club and their fans have behaved in a classless manner does not mean we should lose our dignity. Hibs always had more class than hearts. I think all this baying for the death of another club and snorting over the corpse is not Hibs class.

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All of this :agree: (maybe because I'm older). Fierce rivalry great, hate bad.

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Originally Posted by Spike Mandela

Anybody seriously thinking this bunch of clowns will do anything to damage Hearts..........

The current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive),*Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen FC) and Michael Johnston (Kilmarnock FC).

Edit..I thought Steven Thompson had resigned but this is lifted straight off the SPL site.:confused:

I for one wouldn't be surprised if they look at this and recommended Hearts as the way to structure one's business in the future.:rolleyes:

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If there is wiggle room they will probably take it.

Although they could look foolish if Hearts themselves go in admin shortly after.

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Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

You are another who has forgotten about the 3 lads who borrowed a tent from their mate, and camped outside tynecastle for 4 hours a few years ago.

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That article is somewhere in the Ammunition thread :greengrin

Can't wait til Monday when no doubt the Cardownie, Milligan, Murray, Foulkes mob will be 'Asking questions in the House' demanding an investigation.

And then we'll get the list of creditors and we'll see exactly who has been turning a blind eye into unpaid business rates, etc, why late filing of Annual returns, non fully audited accounts, annual accounts for an 11 month year,etc were all quietly ignored by the authorities no doubt influenced from Charlotte square.

IF and we all know it's a BIG IF , we do it next Sunday the city Fathers should have a PUBLIC (how about outside St Giles over the HOM stone) formal handing over of the trophy by Vlad to Sir Tom!

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Originally Posted by rcarter1

If Dundee stay up because of Hearts they will have benefited twice. Dunfermline werent saved when Rangers were punted, so Dundee probably feel they cant really moan for getting the benefit both ways.

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That was a completely different situation though.

If Hearts get deducted 18 points, that puts them at the bottom of the table, therefore, Dundee would "by the law of the game" not be relegated.

Rangers going tits up was a different scenario all together.

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Originally Posted by HIBERNIAN-0762

I see Deans is saying the SFA have "no right" to give the yams a points deduction, really? I think I will ask my mate who works for the water board just to do a wee check to confirm that these cretins really are from another planet.

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If he did say SFA ... he's right ... but the SPL are a'coming, Leslie!

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Originally Posted by CentreLine

I think you are being unfair here. There are Hibs fans, often of the older generation, who don't relate to the idea that supporting one football team means they have to hate the other. You can't have a game unless you have two sides and it is all the better that the other side just happens to be a close neighbour and therefore ups the stakes and rivalry.
Personally I would like to see hahahahearts survive and get back to the values and ethic that allow for healthy and fair competition. I would like to see that happen across Scottish football because hatred is killing the sport.
As my very wise parents used to say "two wrongs never made a right". Just because hahahahearts football club and their fans have behaved in a classless manner does not mean we should lose our dignity. Hibs always had more class than hearts. I think all this baying for the death of another club and snorting over the corpse is not Hibs class.

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I wouldn't waste a line on one of their festering boadies ....

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Originally Posted by Spike Mandela

Anybody seriously thinking this bunch of clowns will do anything to damage Hearts..........

The current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive),*Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen FC) and Michael Johnston (Kilmarnock FC).

Edit..I thought Steven Thompson had resigned but this is lifted straight off the SPL site.:confused:

I for one wouldn't be surprised if they look at this and recommended Hearts as the way to structure one's business in the future.:rolleyes:

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If the SPL wanted to let Hearts off with this they wouldn't be spending this much time and effort on it IMO. Really easy to come out yesterday and release a statement saying something like "UBIG is sufficiently seperate enough that we don't feel Hearts should be punished"

You don't take legal advice and 4 days to make a decision if you've no intention of doing anything about it.

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Originally Posted by Treadstone

This is the crux for me. UBIG was just a vessel to obtain money from UKIO and pass through to Vlads vanity projects. There is no way HoMFC could have obtained the money they did directly from UKIO and they knew it. As long as Vlad was funding them it was hard to swallow but legit. Then it turns out its not even his money and its all debt that will never be paid back and leave innocents in Lithland footing the bill.

The SPL must distribute justice.

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I've always doubted hertz were getting all of that money; I think the crook may have simply been lining his own pockets. Not that that means I have any sympathy whatsoever for the gimps.

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Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs

You are another who has forgotten about the 3 lads who borrowed a tent from their mate, and camped outside tynecastle for 4 hours a few years ago.

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Originally Posted by Mikey

That article is somewhere in the Ammunition thread :greengrin

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Here ye go.............

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/footba...astle-1-499086

There's a huge amount of hilarity in that thread. I may have to dig out some of the best ones this evening :greengrin

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Originally Posted by sevenil

Can't wait til Monday when no doubt the Cardownie, Milligan, Murray, Foulkes mob will be 'Asking questions in the House' demanding an investigation.

And then we'll get the list of creditors and we'll see exactly who has been turning a blind eye into unpaid business rates, etc, why late filing of Annual returns, non fully audited accounts, annual accounts for an 11 month year,etc were all quietly ignored by the authorities no doubt influenced from Charlotte square.

IF and we all know it's a BIG IF , we do it next Sunday the city Fathers should have a PUBLIC (how about outside St Giles over the HOM stone) formal handing over of the trophy by Vlad to Sir Tom!

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He may be a yam, but he's far too sharp to get himself involved in their ******.

just lifted from sickbag;

Even without the BTC and liquidation Rangers were ignoring bills left and right for a year, we've been the exact opposite. We've gone to extraordinary lengths as a club and a fan base to pay our way with players, suppliers and the taxman out of our own pockets. I think anyone who's half looked into it or who doesn't have an agenda to try and convince everyone we're in the same boat as Oldco can easily see that.


Speechless.

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Originally Posted by clerriehibs

just lifted from sickbag;

Even without the BTC and liquidation Rangers were ignoring bills left and right for a year, we've been the exact opposite. We've gone to extraordinary lengths as a club and a fan base to pay our way with players, suppliers and the taxman out of our own pockets. I think anyone who's half looked into it or who doesn't have an agenda to try and convince everyone we're in the same boat as Oldco can easily see that.


Speechless.

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Unbelievable!

I also liked this one...

Id actually say that most hobos dont want us hammered either, theres a lot of daft trolling going on etc but most football fans in Scotland see the bigger picture here and realise whats at stake for the game up ere.

Not been reading Hibs.net have you?

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Originally Posted by clerriehibs

just lifted from sickbag;

Even without the BTC and liquidation Rangers were ignoring bills left and right for a year, we've been the exact opposite. We've gone to extraordinary lengths as a club and a fan base to pay our way with players, suppliers and the taxman out of our own pockets. I think anyone who's half looked into it or who doesn't have an agenda to try and convince everyone we're in the same boat as Oldco can easily see that.


Speechless.

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cretins, deserving of everything that's coming their way :agree:


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Originally Posted by Spike Mandela

Anybody seriously thinking this bunch of clowns will do anything to damage Hearts..........

The current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive),*Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen FC) and Michael Johnston (Kilmarnock FC).

Edit..I thought Steven Thompson had resigned but this is lifted straight off the SPL site.:confused:

I for one wouldn't be surprised if they look at this and recommended Hearts as the way to structure one's business in the future.:rolleyes:

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Thompson resigned and came back after a few months, all earlier this season.

BTW, you've got two clubs (Aberdeen and United) represented on that board who would be better off with Dundee in the SPL than Hearts.

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Originally Posted by Rawr.rar

Noticed that Brown's interview on the BBC build up page was along the lines of finishing the season on a high note etc, basically just accepting they were relegated.

Why isn't he shouting from the rooftops about Hearts' predicament? He's been very vocal about any other percieved injustices against Dundee (and Rangers) - surely if there's one person who's going to be all over this it'll be him? :dunno:

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Dundee don't want to kick up too much of a fuss publicly before a decision is made because it would look grasping / desperate and would be counter-productive.

They're perfectly well informed of the situation and have made their views known privately (as have others).

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Originally Posted by 3mT

Unbelievable!

I also liked this one...

Id actually say that most hobos dont want us hammered either, theres a lot of daft trolling going on etc but most football fans in Scotland see the bigger picture here and realise whats at stake for the game up ere.

Not been reading Hibs.net have you?

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They are an unbelievably deluded bunch. I overheard two of the mutants talking in the lift at work yesterday....

Mutant 1: so looks like we could be in the 1st next year
Mutant 2: really, the SPL is a joke, that will just leave Celtic in the league..

Really, even despite this season and the fact they haven't come close to putting up a challenge since 86 they still view themselves as something they've never been.

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Originally Posted by CentreLine

I think you are being unfair here. There are Hibs fans, often of the older generation, who don't relate to the idea that supporting one football team means they have to hate the other. You can't have a game unless you have two sides and it is all the better that the other side just happens to be a close neighbour and therefore ups the stakes and rivalry.
Personally I would like to see hahahahearts survive and get back to the values and ethic that allow for healthy and fair competition. I would like to see that happen across Scottish football because hatred is killing the sport.
As my very wise parents used to say "two wrongs never made a right". Just because hahahahearts football club and their fans have behaved in a classless manner does not mean we should lose our dignity. Hibs always had more class than hearts. I think all this baying for the death of another club and snorting over the corpse is not Hibs class.

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Nothing to do with hibs class.

I want them dead never to be seen again.
They are total trumpets full of wanabee choclate hardmen. Thinking they are some top team. Let them play in the east of scotland league under whatever guise they wish.

Once they go under we need to push on and have a team from the capital city that is a force.

Sunday's visit to the saville dome reinforced my distain

We won't convert older fans but there will be lots of young kids at school that want to go to a game on a saturday. They will see their wee pals go. Our fanbase will grow.

HFC NO 1 one city one team the future is bright its green and white

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Originally Posted by bigwheel

Isn't it strange that there have been no protests outside Tynecastle this week, or during this whole remarkable recent episode. Even Dunfermline had that, and the Rangers fans were there regularly. Do they not care? Do they feel the board have done nothing wrong? Can anyone explain why the fans are not up in arms over this dripping death of their club....I can't understand why they aren't furious and seeking to make some demands...

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I said at the outset of Vlads reign that there appeared to be Vlad infiltrators on the Scotsman comment pages and kickback filling the pages with pro Vlad propaganda and ridiculing dissenting posts.

Given his Russian military background its no surprise.

IMO over the years this has gotten to the point where only Vlad supporters are left to air their views and those who would have led the revolt have been so marginalized they no longer have a platform to make their stand.

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Originally Posted by Part/Time Supporter

Dundee don't want to kick up too much of a fuss publicly before a decision is made because it would look grasping / desperate and would be counter-productive.

They're perfectly well informed of the situation and have made their views known privately (as have others).

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:top marksShouting about this publicly would be folly, it's not going to change anything. Much better to maintain a dignified silence. If nothing else it will give Hearts fans something else to complain about. The decision needs to be made on the circumstances, not because of pressure from other clubs who have something to gain from their demise.

Sorry if I've missed it, but did they get paid this month or not?

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Originally Posted by SuperTortolano

Sorry if I've missed it, but did they get paid this month or not?

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Nothing official yet but Mikey say's they haven't and to be honest, I believe him more than Hearts anyway :wink:

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Originally Posted by bingo70

I don't think we should get hung up on the decision on Monday, i think it'd be hilarious if they got relegated but even if they don't they've got bigger problems ahead.

FWIW i think the people mentioned above will look at the likelyhood of hearts seeing out the season and realise it's not going to happen so will decide it'd be crazy not to take this chance to relegate them rather than wait till happens either mid season or a week or two before the season starts.

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I think that's a good point. I genuinely believe the SPL will make their decision without fear or favour, and taking off the green-tinted glasses the decision could go either way - although Mikey's case for the prosecution thread does present a very strong case. Even if they do escape the points deduction though, they state in their own accounts that as things stand they will not make it to the end of next season. They also have to find £10m by 31 March 2015 and £15m by 31 December 2015. The first debt might be negotiated down in a purchase deal but the second one can't be and they have absolutely no hope of getting replacement finance.

Relegating them now might be doing them a favour.

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Originally Posted by SuperTortolano

Sorry if I've missed it, but did they get paid this month or not?

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It would have been leaked somewhere more than just a troublemaker on hibs.net (:greengrin) if they hadn't so i think we can assume they've been paid.

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Originally Posted by bingo70

It would have been leaked somewhere more than just a troublemaker on hibs.net (:greengrin) if they hadn't so i think we can assume they've been paid.

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on the other hand they usually trumpet it as though it's some sort of great achievement when they do, we've heard nowt. :wink:

Good enough for me :na na:

Andy Barryson @AndyBarryson_8
Am hearin fae ma sources that Hearts players haveny been paid. I hink it's true cos ah huvny been paid by them this week either!

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Originally Posted by SuperTortolano

Sorry if I've missed it, but did they get paid this month or not?

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No evidence to suggest otherwise so I'm going to say yes they've been paid. I've said it before but I don't think we'll see anymore wage delays for another few months at least, assuming their still alive

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Originally Posted by #FromTheCapital

No evidence to suggest otherwise so I'm going to say yes they've been paid. I've said it before but I don't think we'll see anymore wage delays for another few months at least, assuming their still alive

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Nae evidence tae suggest they have, news like paying their staff on time is usually heralded by allisbarry as a great achievement.

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Originally Posted by Bajillions

Good enough for me :na na:

Andy Barryson @AndyBarryson_8
Am hearin fae ma sources that Hearts players haveny been paid. I hink it's true cos ah huvny been paid by them this week either!

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Event: Players and staff haven't been paid

Barry: Minor technical hitch

This wages argument is reminding me of Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk

Sat on the beach overlooking the German Baltic coastline and enjoying an ice cream sound in the knowledge that somewhere along the coast to my right, there are folks plotting on what to do with the corpse that once was HMFC. Gives me a nice warm cuddly feeling inside, life is good. There's a few half decent bits of totty here too ::-)

My take:

1. If you refer to Mercer as 'Wallace' on here you are gagging to be labelled a Yam. In that context, LTYF.

2. Doesn't matter at all what we wish for as an outcome, what will be will be anyway.

3. It's all good. There is no bad outcome for us. They can either die leaving us as the sole Edinburgh club with the potential over the years to grow our revenue, fan base and success or they can limp on as a zombie parody of a football club probably without a stadium and certainly on the equivalent of life support for the best part of a decade - maybe longer.

4. Every outcome involves the direct and harsh confrontation of smug, deluded, arrogant, complacent establishment types and their moronic followers with brutal reality. Walter Mitty hits brick wall at 100mph with no seatbelt. The squealing and pain is going to be long, slow and unbearable for them.

5. The Yams have earned this and I mean really earned it. In the best tradition of 'I was only following orders' and 'none of us knew what was going on' they willingly and complicitly turned their eyes and minds away from the truth about the financial doping and hollowing out of their club that was taking place. They have betrayed not only their club in their spineless willingness to indulge a madman's hubristic folly, they have also destroyed a long standing and once proud Edinburgh institution. For years now it has been evident that the arrogance and divisive unpleasantness coming from the Yams has emanated from the top and permeated the whole institution from top to toe. A fish stinks from its head as they say and Romanov has certainly done that. All the way back to the early 'Docksider' references this was an enterprise built upon spin, dodgy accounting and splitting the city where previously there had been healthy and friendly rivalry.

It has been noticeable that the more the club, it's office holders and owner and the vast majority of it's deluded followers have indulged in their fantasist dreams - manifesting in vile behaviour and provoking almost all other senior Scottish clubs - the more some elements have attempted to self-medicate their pain with increasingly contrived initiatives. From 'we won the war' through to cake bakes for survival their behaviour has become increasingly fantastical and detached from reality. The air armada of flying chickens now coming home to roost were nurtured, reared and fully grown by no one other than the Yams themselves.

6. I feel sorry for the likes of my uncle who would not recognise the club he spent his life supporting. He would struggle to understand how an Edinburgh rooted club managed to allow itself to get to such a self deluded stage that it believed it was ok to rack up unsustainable debts, have the arrogance to believe that those debts should be inflated further rather than managed and reduced and willingly snuggle itself into the arms of a snake oil salesman who self evidently made his money - if it was ever his money at all - in the chaotically criminal post-communist fall of Eastern Europe and who had previously been turned down by other Scots sufficiently grounded to realise that if the offer seemed too good to be true then it probably was too good to be true.

7. What's my preferred outcome? Hibernian supremacy in Edinburgh, annual European adventures, annual cup wins and a massive growth in the Hibernian supporting family for decades to come.

8. And Hearts? Really, who cares? Which is where this all started because it is the fact that no-one particularly cares abut them that really drives them into a frenzy. Outside of them, no-one cares if they go bust, disappear, limp on, become Cowdenbeath's biggest rivals or decline to a social club somewhere in West Edinburgh. The most damning thing you Yams reading this face? In the end, you just don't matter very much.

:fenlon

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Originally Posted by One Day Soon

My take: Excellent post, well written, Sums them up really!!!! GGTTH :not worth

1. If you refer to Mercer as 'Wallace' on here you are gagging to be labelled a Yam. In that context, LTYF.

2. Doesn't matter at all what we wish for as an outcome, what will be will be anyway.

3. It's all good. There is no bad outcome for us. They can either die leaving us as the sole Edinburgh club with the potential over the years to grow our revenue, fan base and success or they can limp on as a zombie parody of a football club probably without a stadium and certainly on the equivalent of life support for the best part of a decade - maybe longer.

4. Every outcome involves the direct and harsh confrontation of smug, deluded, arrogant, complacent establishment types and their moronic followers with brutal reality. Walter Mitty hits brick wall at 100mph with no seatbelt. The squealing and pain is going to be long, slow and unbearable for them.

5. The Yams have earned this and I mean really earned it. In the best tradition of 'I was only following orders' and 'none of us knew what was going on' they willingly and complicity turned their eyes and minds away from the truth about the financial doping and hollowing out of their club that was taking place. They have betrayed not only their club in their spineless willingness to indulge a madman's hubristic folly, they have also destroyed a long standing and once proud Edinburgh institution. For years now it has been evident that the arrogance and divisive unpleasantness coming from the Yams has emanated from the top and permeated the whole institution from top to toe. A fish stinks from its head as they say and Romanov has certainly done that. All the way back to the early 'Docksider' references this was an enterprise built upon spin, dodgy accounting and splitting the city where previously there had been healthy and friendly rivalry.

It has been noticeable that the more the club, it's office holders and owner and the vast majority of it's deluded followers have indulegd in their fantasist dreams - manifesting in vile behaviour and provoking almost all other senior Scottish clubs - the more some elements have attempted to self-medicate their pain with increasingly contrived initiatives. From 'we won the war' through to cake bakes for survival their behaviour has become increasingly fantastical and detached from reality. The air armada of flying chickens now coming home to roost were nurtured, reared and fully grown by no one other than the Yams themselves.

6. I feel sorry for the likes of my uncle who would not recognise the club he spent his life supporting. He would struggle to understand how an Edinburgh rooted club managed to allow itself to get to such a self deluded stage that it believed it was ok to rack up unsustainable debts, have the arrogance to believe that those debts should be inflated further rather than managed and reduced and willingly snuggle itself into the arms of a snake oil salesman who self evidently made his money - if it was ever his money at all - in the chaotically criminal post-communist fall of Eastern Europe and who had previously been turned down by other Scots sufficiently grounded to realise that if the offer seemed too good to be true then it probably was too good to be true.

7. What's my preferred outcome? Hibernian supremacy in Edinburgh, annual European adventures, annual cup wins and a massive growth in the Hibernian supporting family for decades to come.

8. And Hearts? Really, who cares? Which is where this all started because it is the fact that no-one particularly cares abut them that really drives them into a frenzy. Outside of them, no-one cares if they go bust, disappear, limp on, become Cowdenbeath's biggest rivals or decline to a social club somewhere in West Edinburgh. The most damning thing you Yams reading this face?In the end, you just don't matter very much.

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Outstanding, ODS.

Oh how the mighty have fallen, Have a butchers at these three stories.

If you cant be bothered reading the full articles I have quoted my favourite bits.

23rd Oct 2005.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...earts-job.html

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Sir Bobby Robson last night emerged as a strong contender to take over at Hearts after they sacked George Burley.

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14th July 2006

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-Cup-pair.html

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Of the players I want to come in, some players have been at the World Cup but I can't say who they are.

"They are from European countries and play in defence and midfield. Two players I am looking at played in the World Cup.

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20th Aug 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...an/6954606.stm

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The newly-developed stadium will ultimately lead to the creation of over 300 new jobs and provide an economic boost of at least £1.2m per season to both the immediate area and the wider city economy

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You honestly couldn't make it up. GGTTH :faf::faf::faf:

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Originally Posted by Desperate Dan

Nae evidence tae suggest they have, news like paying their staff on time is usually heralded by allisbarry as a great achievement.

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To be fair they've not really been shouting it from the rooftops the last couple of months, I haven't noticed anyway. At the start of the year your right it was a huge announcement every month that they had been paid, but not so much recently. There's nae reason why they shouldn't be gettin paid just now with season ticket money, and according to their accounts the tax bill is monthly instalments.

Anyway late wages is the least of their worries just now, got plenty other things happening to keep us entertained.

That's why we've had a 500 page thread with nearly 15,000 posts and 2 million views about them go bust!

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Originally Posted by 3mT

Unbelievable!

I also liked this one...

Id actually say that most hobos dont want us hammered either, theres a lot of daft trolling going on etc but most football fans in Scotland see the bigger picture here and realise whats at stake for the game up ere.

Not been reading Hibs.net have you?

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To be fair Hibs.net only represents a small percentage of Hibs fans so it can't be claimed that the majority of us want them gone either.

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Originally Posted by desantos0773

That's why we've had a 500 page thread with nearly 15,000 posts and 2 million views about them go bust!

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We are a football club and a business. Our core competitor has been undergoing a slow motion financial disaster which will present us with a unique business development opportunity whichever way it turns out and you think we shouldn't be discussing it?

There is a world of a difference between not caring abut them and seeing opportunity for ourselves in their demise.

If you can't see that then.....

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

To be fair Hibs.net only represents a small percentage of Hibs fans so it can't be claimed that the majority of us want them gone either.

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I honestly don't know any Hibs fan who wants them to stay alive. I know a few who are not bothered one way or other but none who actively want them to survive.

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Originally Posted by desantos0773

That's why we've had a 500 page thread with nearly 15,000 posts and 2 million views about them go bust!

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Its like watching a wildlife documentary with the group of killer whales, circling and toying with the seal they are about to kill and eat. Its a horrific spectacle and you know whats coming but utterly fascinating to watch and you cant take your eyes off it........

......and in this case the seal in question is a bit of a d**k that none of the other wildlife like. :greengrin

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Originally Posted by One Day Soon

We are a football club and a business. Our core competitor has been undergoing a slow motion financial disaster which will present us with a unique business development opportunity whichever way it turns out and you think we shouldn't be discussing it?

There is a world of a difference between not caring abut them and seeing opportunity for ourselves in their demise.

If you can't see that then.....

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The phrase "Edinburgh's Premier Club" springs to mind

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Originally Posted by MyJo

Its like watching a wildlife documentary with the group of killer whales, circling and toying with the seal they are about to kill and eat. Its a horrific spectacle and you know whats coming but utterly fascinating to watch and you cant take your eyes off it........

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:agree:

It's like when there's an audience when somebody gets executed.

Horrific scenes, but plenty of entertainment value.

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Originally Posted by PatHead

I honestly don't know any Hibs fan who wants them to stay alive. I know a few who are not bothered one way or other but none who actively want them to survive.

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Agreed - me too :agree:

The girls in the ticket office haven't been paid last month or this month. Friend works there and she's not a happy lady that's for sure. Not sure if the players have been paid though?

Can any of you guys on twitter not get in touch with Jim Spence who is covering Hearts game today and ask him to ask about both players and staff wages? Sure he would ask if he thinks he has a scoop that could help save a Dundee club

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Originally Posted by Bajillions

Nothing official yet but Mikey say's they haven't and to be honest, I believe him more than Hearts anyway :wink:

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The best info I have is that the players have been told to say nothing so you can draw your own conclusions from that.

It's a shame Andy Driver isn't still with them. We would have known that morning if they hadn't.

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Originally Posted by Hot Shot Hamish

Oh how the mighty have fallen, Have a butchers at these three stories.

If you cant be bothered reading the full articles I have quoted my favourite bits.

23rd Oct 2005.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...earts-job.html



14th July 2006

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-Cup-pair.html



20th Aug 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...an/6954606.stm



You honestly couldn't make it up. GGTTH :faf::faf::faf:

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I have posted this before but Ewan Murray usually wins the top prize for nonsense.

Ewan Murray trying to put a Yams edge on Fergies retirement wrote this. Final paragraph.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...agerial-legend


And yet, during the 1990 World Cup, the then-Hearts chairman Wallace Mercer believed he could close a deal to bring Ferguson back with a package that included shares in the club and the dual title of manager and director of football. After careful consideration, Ferguson declined Mercer's offer as he believed he could make a success of things in Manchester. How prescient that sentiment turned out to be.


Funny Fergie never mentioned it in his book. 1990 was a busy year for 'Whalearse' and Fergie had just won the FA cup. Wrote this piece as well.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...atch.hibernian


Sir Bobby Robson remains a leading contender...Foulkes also denied reports that another former England manager, Kevin Keegan, was in the frame.

Claudio Ranieri, the former Chelsea manager, is out of the running after failing to impress Romanov during an interview on Thursday...

Ossie Ardiles and the former Holland assistant manager Wim van Hanegem have made contact with Hearts, but will only be seriously considered if moves to bring in Robson or another similarly high-profile candidate, such as Ottmar Hitzfeld, fall through.


:faf:

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Originally Posted by One Day Soon

My take:

1. If you refer to Mercer as 'Wallace' on here you are gagging to be labelled a Yam. In that context, LTYF.

2. Doesn't matter at all what we wish for as an outcome, what will be will be anyway.

3. It's all good. There is no bad outcome for us. They can either die leaving us as the sole Edinburgh club with the potential over the years to grow our revenue, fan base and success or they can limp on as a zombie parody of a football club probably without a stadium and certainly on the equivalent of life support for the best part of a decade - maybe longer.

4. Every outcome involves the direct and harsh confrontation of smug, deluded, arrogant, complacent establishment types and their moronic followers with brutal reality. Walter Mitty hits brick wall at 100mph with no seatbelt. The squealing and pain is going to be long, slow and unbearable for them.

5. The Yams have earned this and I mean really earned it. In the best tradition of 'I was only following orders' and 'none of us knew what was going on' they willingly and complicitly turned their eyes and minds away from the truth about the financial doping and hollowing out of their club that was taking place. They have betrayed not only their club in their spineless willingness to indulge a madman's hubristic folly, they have also destroyed a long standing and once proud Edinburgh institution. For years now it has been evident that the arrogance and divisive unpleasantness coming from the Yams has emanated from the top and permeated the whole institution from top to toe. A fish stinks from its head as they say and Romanov has certainly done that. All the way back to the early 'Docksider' references this was an enterprise built upon spin, dodgy accounting and splitting the city where previously there had been healthy and friendly rivalry.

It has been noticeable that the more the club, it's office holders and owner and the vast majority of it's deluded followers have indulged in their fantasist dreams - manifesting in vile behaviour and provoking almost all other senior Scottish clubs - the more some elements have attempted to self-medicate their pain with increasingly contrived initiatives. From 'we won the war' through to cake bakes for survival their behaviour has become increasingly fantastical and detached from reality. The air armada of flying chickens now coming home to roost were nurtured, reared and fully grown by no one other than the Yams themselves.

6. I feel sorry for the likes of my uncle who would not recognise the club he spent his life supporting. He would struggle to understand how an Edinburgh rooted club managed to allow itself to get to such a self deluded stage that it believed it was ok to rack up unsustainable debts, have the arrogance to believe that those debts should be inflated further rather than managed and reduced and willingly snuggle itself into the arms of a snake oil salesman who self evidently made his money - if it was ever his money at all - in the chaotically criminal post-communist fall of Eastern Europe and who had previously been turned down by other Scots sufficiently grounded to realise that if the offer seemed too good to be true then it probably was too good to be true.

7. What's my preferred outcome? Hibernian supremacy in Edinburgh, annual European adventures, annual cup wins and a massive growth in the Hibernian supporting family for decades to come.

8. And Hearts? Really, who cares? Which is where this all started because it is the fact that no-one particularly cares abut them that really drives them into a frenzy. Outside of them, no-one cares if they go bust, disappear, limp on, become Cowdenbeath's biggest rivals or decline to a social club somewhere in West Edinburgh. The most damning thing you Yams reading this face? In the end, you just don't matter very much.

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ODS - Take a bow - that for me sums up everything about this situation perfectly.

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

To be fair Hibs.net only represents a small percentage of Hibs fans so it can't be claimed that the majority of us want them gone either.

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It's more evidential than the other side of the coin, though. So, I'm happy that most Hibs fans want them deid.

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Originally Posted by Treadstone

Ossie Ardiles and the former Holland assistant manager Wim van Hanegem have made contact with Hearts, but will only be seriously considered if moves to bring in Robson or another similarly high-profile candidate, such as Ottmar Hitzfeld, fall through.


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was this when they ended up with Rix?!?

With Berra being released, there are Jambo's that genuinely think they should bring him back!!

Good to see they are taking this cost cutting seriously. What part of 'Living out with your means' do they not understand!! Nice to see they are taking this cost cutting seriously.

This attitude is the exact reason why I will have no sympathy when they go kapoot.

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Originally Posted by Hot Shot Hamish

Oh how the mighty have fallen, Have a butchers at these three stories.

If you cant be bothered reading the full articles I have quoted my favourite bits.

23rd Oct 2005.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...earts-job.html



14th July 2006

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-Cup-pair.html



20th Aug 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...an/6954606.stm



You honestly couldn't make it up. GGTTH :faf::faf::faf:

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“Our goal has to be champions of Europe. I want us to be at the stage where to do anything else, to come back without the trophy, would be shameful. I think we’re looking at three years.”
— Vladimir Romanov, October 15, 2005



“I think that the club will no longer be in debt at end of the year and a budget of £10m will be made available. Buying players will be the decision of the head coach and Anatoly Byshovets [the then director of football]. They will look after the team, my only input will be to ensure that their transfer activity is within the club’s budget.”
— Vladimir Romanov outlines his strategy for Hearts in an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia, October 3, 2004



“I’ll put all my efforts into keeping the stadium and build an even better venue to meet the requirements of today and tomorrow — better than anything in Glasgow,” — Vladimir Romanov, November 30, 2004

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Originally Posted by clerriehibs

was this when they ended up with Rix?!?

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Tweeted Murray and asked who got the job. He pulled out some bull about going in a different direction. I said "What about Duffy ?" "Oh aye" he replied "forgot about him".

Embarrassing articles.

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Originally Posted by Thecat23

The girls in the ticket office haven't been paid last month or this month. Friend works there and she's not a happy lady that's for sure. Not sure if the players have been paid though?

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There was a thread over on Brokeback about this, one of them said he'd been told the same and was trying to find out if it meant anything but he was hounded for being a "hobo" even though he gave the name of the person who told him it.

Reading his post again it was actually pretty accurate, they don't like the truth over there it seems as he's now banned.

It's near the start of this thread http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index....d/page__st__50

Post #79 onwards if you're interested.

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Originally Posted by poolman

“Our goal has to be champions of Europe. I want us to be at the stage where to do anything else, to come back without the trophy, would be shameful. I think we’re looking at three years.”
— Vladimir Romanov, October 15, 2005



“I think that the club will no longer be in debt at end of the year and a budget of £10m will be made available. Buying players will be the decision of the head coach and Anatoly Byshovets [the then director of football]. They will look after the team, my only input will be to ensure that their transfer activity is within the club’s budget.”
— Vladimir Romanov outlines his strategy for Hearts in an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia, October 3, 2004



“I’ll put all my efforts into keeping the stadium and build an even better venue to meet the requirements of today and tomorrow — better than anything in Glasgow,” — Vladimir Romanov, November 30, 2004

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And the plums fell for it hook, line and sinker.

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Originally Posted by clerriehibs

was this when they ended up with Rix?!?

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It seems they are still setting their sites as high as ever on Brokeback... GGTTH :fenlon GIRFUY.. :na na:


with play offs looking likely for next season we would have two bites of the cherry; I quite fancy a double of Sir Paul Hartley and Gary Locke both managing to get teams up

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Originally Posted by One Day Soon

My take:

1. If you refer to Mercer as 'Wallace' on here you are gagging to be labelled a Yam. In that context, LTYF.

2. Doesn't matter at all what we wish for as an outcome, what will be will be anyway.

3. It's all good. There is no bad outcome for us. They can either die leaving us as the sole Edinburgh club with the potential over the years to grow our revenue, fan base and success or they can limp on as a zombie parody of a football club probably without a stadium and certainly on the equivalent of life support for the best part of a decade - maybe longer.

4. Every outcome involves the direct and harsh confrontation of smug, deluded, arrogant, complacent establishment types and their moronic followers with brutal reality. Walter Mitty hits brick wall at 100mph with no seatbelt. The squealing and pain is going to be long, slow and unbearable for them.

5. The Yams have earned this and I mean really earned it. In the best tradition of 'I was only following orders' and 'none of us knew what was going on' they willingly and complicitly turned their eyes and minds away from the truth about the financial doping and hollowing out of their club that was taking place. They have betrayed not only their club in their spineless willingness to indulge a madman's hubristic folly, they have also destroyed a long standing and once proud Edinburgh institution. For years now it has been evident that the arrogance and divisive unpleasantness coming from the Yams has emanated from the top and permeated the whole institution from top to toe. A fish stinks from its head as they say and Romanov has certainly done that. All the way back to the early 'Docksider' references this was an enterprise built upon spin, dodgy accounting and splitting the city where previously there had been healthy and friendly rivalry.

It has been noticeable that the more the club, it's office holders and owner and the vast majority of it's deluded followers have indulged in their fantasist dreams - manifesting in vile behaviour and provoking almost all other senior Scottish clubs - the more some elements have attempted to self-medicate their pain with increasingly contrived initiatives. From 'we won the war' through to cake bakes for survival their behaviour has become increasingly fantastical and detached from reality. The air armada of flying chickens now coming home to roost were nurtured, reared and fully grown by no one other than the Yams themselves.

6. I feel sorry for the likes of my uncle who would not recognise the club he spent his life supporting. He would struggle to understand how an Edinburgh rooted club managed to allow itself to get to such a self deluded stage that it believed it was ok to rack up unsustainable debts, have the arrogance to believe that those debts should be inflated further rather than managed and reduced and willingly snuggle itself into the arms of a snake oil salesman who self evidently made his money - if it was ever his money at all - in the chaotically criminal post-communist fall of Eastern Europe and who had previously been turned down by other Scots sufficiently grounded to realise that if the offer seemed too good to be true then it probably was too good to be true.

7. What's my preferred outcome? Hibernian supremacy in Edinburgh, annual European adventures, annual cup wins and a massive growth in the Hibernian supporting family for decades to come.

8. And Hearts? Really, who cares? Which is where this all started because it is the fact that no-one particularly cares abut them that really drives them into a frenzy. Outside of them, no-one cares if they go bust, disappear, limp on, become Cowdenbeath's biggest rivals or decline to a social club somewhere in West Edinburgh. The most damning thing you Yams reading this face? In the end, you just don't matter very much.

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Excellent summary of the story so far GGTH :flag:

Monster Post ODS. :clapper:

Crystallises it perfectly. I feel for some individual Yams, but the club deserves its fate ten fold..

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Originally Posted by Hot Shot Hamish

Oh how the mighty have fallen, Have a butchers at these three stories.

If you cant be bothered reading the full articles I have quoted my favourite bits.

23rd Oct 2005.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...earts-job.html



14th July 2006

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-Cup-pair.html



20th Aug 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...an/6954606.stm



You honestly couldn't make it up. GGTTH :faf::faf::faf:

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funniest bit is on the 3rd article

"A ray of hope for those fearing that Romanov will run this club into the ground for his personal profit"

pffft hahahaha

Latest from banderson.

“@BarryAnderson_8: Key to #Hearts' #SPL future is Lithuanian court declaring UBIG bankrupt. Not happened yet. #SPL may need to wait till it does before acting.”

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

Latest from banderson.

“@BarryAnderson_8: Key to #Hearts' #SPL future is Lithuanian court declaring UBIG bankrupt. Not happened yet. #SPL may need to wait till it does before acting.”

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What an idiot. A court making a decision on bankruptcy would make it easier to decide, but that isn't the process just now. As it stands UBIG have just said they are insolvent, not bankrupt. They aren't the same thing.

I don't think we've had any information that UBIG has started bankruptcy proceedings? Unless Barry knows something we don't, which is highly unlikely

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Originally Posted by Bajillions

There was a thread over on Brokeback about this, one of them said he'd been told the same and was trying to find out if it meant anything but he was hounded for being a "hobo" even though he gave the name of the person who told him it.

Reading his post again it was actually pretty accurate, they don't like the truth over there it seems as he's now banned.

It's near the start of this thread http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index....d/page__st__50

Post #79 onwards if you're interested.

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they are a shower of fannies over there, the boy merely states the obvious and they attack him like keyboard gangsters, cant wait until they die

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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab

Latest from banderson.

“@BarryAnderson_8: Key to #Hearts' #SPL future is Lithuanian court declaring UBIG bankrupt. Not happened yet. #SPL may need to wait till it does before acting.”

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Meanwhile tubby Salmond increases the overseas aid budget.

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Originally Posted by Bajillions

There was a thread over on Brokeback about this, one of them said he'd been told the same and was trying to find out if it meant anything but he was hounded for being a "hobo" even though he gave the name of the person who told him it.

Reading his post again it was actually pretty accurate, they don't like the truth over there it seems as he's now banned.

It's near the start of this thread http://www.hmfckickback.co.uk/index....d/page__st__50

Post #79 onwards if you're interested.

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It's 100% true mate. I'd I'm good friends with one of them. They are so deluded its frightening.

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Originally Posted by One Day Soon

We are a football club and a business. Our core competitor has been undergoing a slow motion financial disaster which will present us with a unique business development opportunity whichever way it turns out and you think we shouldn't be discussing it?

There is a world of a difference between not caring abut them and seeing opportunity for ourselves in their demise.

If you can't see that then.....

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Think that one just went right over your head.

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Originally Posted by Thecat23

It's 100% true mate. I'd I'm good friends with one of them. They are so deluded its frightening.

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It's not just the delusion, it's the paranoid way they round on anyone who dares raise a dissenting voice.

Even when the guy provides a name, they concoct new ways to dismiss him and keep shouting him down as an outsider.

Reading Kickback is like watching a documentary on life under a dictator.

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It's not just the delusion, it's the paranoid way they round on anyone who dares raise a dissenting voice.

Even when the guy provides a name, they concoct new ways to dismiss him and keep shouting him down as an outsider.

Reading Kickback is like watching a documentary on life under a dictator.

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As opposed to supporting a club under one

I don't get them at all(prob for the best) this must be the biggest case of mass stockholm syndrome ever banning anyone who dares question the regime bareback seems to be run like a totalitarian state they don't have mods they have the Stasi :lolyam:

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I honestly don't know any Hibs fan who wants them to stay alive. I know a few who are not bothered one way or other but none who actively want them to survive.

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The poll on this thread kinda contradicts that, though. It has the absolute narrowest of majority (50.1%) wanting to see the end of them.


I actually know quite a few Hibbies who don't want them to go bust.

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The poll on this thread kinda contradicts that, though. It has the absolute narrowest of majority (50.1%) wanting to see the end of them.


I actually know quite a few Hibbies who don't want them to go bust.

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A further 36% want to see them in a lower division, though! I'm not sure the prevailing mood is magnanimous. :greengrin

According to them, its all going to be ok. Because Doncaster is on their side.

Was he not on the side of another club last season? :greengrin

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According to them, its all going to be ok. Because Doncaster is on their side.

Was he not on the side of another club last season? :greengrin

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I'm no sure I'd want Doncaster on my side anyway given how useless he is. I'd rather play against him than with him :wink:

Listening to radio. Hearing John Robertson, Alan Preston and some random fans saying they won't be relegated this season. They might be right but it is typical yam attitude "it'll no happen coz we say it won't". Just like griffiths goal wasn't over the line because they said it wasn't and hibs will never win the Scottish cup coz they say we won't. Preston's attempts at putting a positive spin on things smacks of utter desperation. Chick young, brian mclaughlin and Richard Gordon pulling him apart.

Alan Preston, John Blobbo, Brian what's his name are giving a rosy picture in radio. Preston sounds like he is in tears blaming everyone else and saying UBIG is nothing to do with club.

Chic comes on and tells Preston to stop talking rubbish.

No shame, no remorse and they sound like the guys defending sevco when it went pear shaped.

Hope they all rot in hell.

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Alan Preston, John Blobbo, Brian what's his name are giving a rosy picture in radio. Preston sounds like he is in tears blaming everyone else and saying UBIG is nothing to do with club.

Chic comes on and tells Preston to stop talking rubbish.

No shame, no remorse and they sound like the guys defending sevco when it went pear shaped.

Hope they all rot in hell.

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Don't you know that "all is barry" and that it's "all very complex" to us mere hobos? :cb

Well done to Chick for realizing that Vlad was a crook from the very beginning. :applause:

The rest of us had no idea....

Says Hearts fans have been acting with dignity and class....

Then goes on to say that Rangers fans also behaved with dignity and class....


I'd like to know his definition of dignity and class. :faf: