Great. Another dodgy vlaster to keep the circus act going for another 7 or 8 years. :rolleyes:
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Started reading this thinking we had a sensible view from the West.....however he's of the view that they will sneak under todays meeting as nothing has been rubber stamped and any penalties will be next season........hope he is wrong
Would Massone pass the spl's 'fit and proper persons' tests? Given the state he left Livingston in, I'd be surprised
All robbo and allan preston are trying to do is pleading for hertz to survive this season and take the 15 point hit next season.Facts dont come into it as you would expect as theyare as deluded as any other hertz fans.Its sad seeing robbo spout such drivel as i thought he had changed since becoming an honorary highlander.
If the SPL bottle it today and give them a point deduction for next season it wont be too bad. They would get an initial 15pt deduction, Yams would pile in with season ticket purchases and then with the Jambos going into admin meaning a further point penalty, there season would be ultimately worthless along with us extending our run against them.
Almost hoping this is the outcome today.
Never let them forget 20th May 2013.
If Hearts do survive, and that seems a big IF at present, I would much rather they got the points deduction next season, they would almost certainly be relegated with the team they would have left and we get the chance to give them 3 more doings and rip the pi sh out of them at the same time.
And if the gods are in our favour even better if we can do it as Cup winners.
The events in the weege today are just a side show, relegation before liquidation would just be the icing on the cake. The real end game is taking place a long way from the incompetence of Scottish fitba and a long way from where anybody cares about that grubby little club.
Anyone know what time the Lithuanian court will decide? And does anyone know how you do an "18 point deduction" hand sign that we could dupe famous folk into performing...:)
Angelo Massone should be banned from ever partaking in anything football related ever again after what he did to Livingston.
A crook, a charlatan, a fraudster, a liar, a cheat and an absolutely vile **** of a human being.
So all we need is the SPL to clarify this, then the points deduction is a certainty?
Sadly I can see them bottling it and then becoming a laughing stock in a few months time when that lot go to the wall.
Doncaster out, Hearts deid. Can't think of a much better scenario. Win Win.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...body-says.html
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The definition of an insolvency event in the SPL rules include ceasing or forming an intention to cease business. That suggests that the formal legal process is unnecessary and I can't see how anyone could argue that a declaration of insolvency is not forming an intention to cease business.
That would be a second "insolvency event" and would get a separate punishment - which would apply next season.
There is no doubt that what happened last week triggered the SPL rule on insolvency. The problem is this. Where it's the parent company and not the football club that is insolvent, the SPL don't HAVE to dock points. They can decide that what has happened will not cause problems for the integrity and continuity of the league and also that the relationship between UBIG and Hearts is not close enough to merit applying the penalty.
That's also my reading of the SPL rules. However, as I've already said on other posts, this is not an automatic penalty situation. The SPL has the discretion not to impose the penalty because it's the parent company in the "group undertaking" (not the football club) that has suffered the "insolvency event".
The way i see it is, if they don't relegate them, the SPL will have another summer of what we had with sevco. And the only difference is, they know they are going pop 100%, its just when?
They need to get them out the SPL now, and have all this bother further down the leagues away from their main product.
It will also let Dundee have a fair crack at trying to plan for next season.
I agree. I think the answer to question 1 - has an insolvency event taken place? - has to be yes (and within the season, so the 18 point penalty would apply), the second question - is UBIG's involvement strong enough to warrant the penalty - is the critical one. The fact that HoMFC are at least £40m better off and UBIG the same amount worse off than they otherwise would have been should make the second answer yes as well IMO.
I think the spl's worry at the moment is that they will go pop. They know they have to deduct points but they will know that if they relegate them, they will go pop and the spl will be blamed for them going pop.
they will be weighing up the options that give them the least grief. Let them away with it and have the circus through closed season and possibly start of next season, or,relegate them and be blamed for their demise. Personally I would be happy to relegate myself and be branded as the one that destroyed hearts!