...will we bounce straight back up?
I think it's fair to say last time round we bought our way out of the First Division with signings like Latapy and Sauzee. It was also probably a less competitive league than it is today. The debt created by that exercise was quickly cleared by a freakish run of high quality young players who could be sold off for substantial transfer fees as well as decent television money on the table
What now? It would probably cost even more to buy our way back to the SPL and there would be little in the way of transfer income or television money to cover that - far less than in the 1998/1999 season. Would we bounce straight back up?
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Thread: If we go down again...
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24-12-2011 05:11 PM #1
If we go down again...
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24-12-2011 05:15 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We are in a very precarious position
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24-12-2011 05:19 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:20 PM #4
East Mains and a shiny new stand could be blamed! They've both made me desperate to get along to ER recently.
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24-12-2011 05:22 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:22 PM #6
If we go down and don't invest. We will end up like Dundee
Less talk, more gifs. 21.05.16
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24-12-2011 05:24 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:28 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The one strange thing is that as a club we would probably be better going through a relegation that pulled the club together like it did the last time than season after season of the dross we are going through just now winning so few games. Narrow survival followed by little investment in the team over the summer to get the fans excited could see crowds fall to 6-7k. Far too many people I know are already unlikely to renew ST's next year, they've been pushed to far already
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24-12-2011 05:31 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Dunfermline will falter and get relegated they are poor thats what will save Don Feflons bacon till next season.
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24-12-2011 05:32 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:35 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:39 PM #12
I sat beside the Hibs dugout today and I liked what I saw from Fenlon - night and day from Calderwood. But how many players can he realistically bring in during January? This squad is rotten, it's beaten, it's finished and needs to be dismantled as soon as possible. Whether Fenlon has the tools available to him to do that next month remains to be seen.
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24-12-2011 05:42 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:44 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:47 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We only had half a dozen crowds or so over 10k at home the whole season IIRC.
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24-12-2011 05:48 PM #16This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:52 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This time round i would say no, if we get relagated next year i think we may find it very dificult to bounce straight back up, Hibs are as soft butter, there is no fight in the team, get relagated and we could be down there for a couple of seasons.
There is something seriously wrong at HFC, we have tried getting rid of all the players at the end of last season, yogi says that was his masterplan, i dont think so, too many players he didn't sign with contracts that ran out at the same time, my guess would be it was RP plan to get rid of all the players, we have sacked the last 3 managers who have been picked by RP, the last manager was a disaster and RP backed him all the way even when it was clear that CC didn't want to be here, he backed him again in a statement with selective stats which was a kick in the teeth to the fans who could clearly see that it was not working with CC, eventually RP decides to get rid of CC the same way he did with Yogi, before the AGM, our owner STF tells us that RP is the best man for the job, so RP give's of noises that he will be taking a back seat at the club and SL and FH will be left to pick the new manager and run the club, low and behold we get a new manager and who is perading him to the press, yep Rod i'm taking a back seat Petrie.
So we have an owner who turns up once a year to tell us how rosy it is at ER and that RP is the right man for the job, surely even STF can see that RP has passed his sell by date at HFC, Rod Petrie is taking this club one way and that is down, he is a negative on the club now. Time for him to go, and no i dont have the money to buy him out before for anyone who asks, but if things continue the way they are going, then fan pressure will force him out.
He cant keep sacking managers and paying off players and not take any of the blame and get away with it.
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24-12-2011 05:52 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 05:59 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It doesn't look good, it really doesn't.
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24-12-2011 06:08 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 11:10 PM #23
We are pish but dunfermline and ICT are worse and the sheep are just as bad as us no better but no worse we wont go down but we are still pish
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24-12-2011 11:20 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 11:22 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I suppose if we get relegated we can all console ourselves with the fact that there are several teams worse than us, even if we did finish below them!
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24-12-2011 11:29 PM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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24-12-2011 11:29 PM #27
Every week folk say we won't go down and now that's 4 on the bounce we have lost i can't see us picking up anytime soon either the whole team has nothing to it they are a bunch of wimps who can't see out a game
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24-12-2011 11:32 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
No team in the SPL is currently worse than we are. If things continue the way they are, our odds of going down are pretty much even with Dunfermline.
I hate seeing comments like "We won't go down", or "We are going down".
Lets just stick to the facts instead of making pointless predictions, because it isn't getting us anywhere.
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25-12-2011 12:17 AM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Quite the opposite in fact.
In their last 9 games, they have only lost by more than one goal on one occasion and that was against Celtic when they lost 2-0 and they have also scored 17 goals.
Over the same period, we've lost by more than one goal on four occasions and have scored just 7 goals.
Apart from anything else, they currently find themselves 4 points ahead of us in the table, so to try and claim that they are worse than us is rather silly.
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25-12-2011 02:31 AM #30
The one thing I would agree with Calderwood on is that this squad is soft. The softest he's ever been involved with, I understand. The whole "cakes on a Friday" debacle; the whole "let's not contest a drop ball" as seen at Tannadice yesterday. The players need bottle. Can that be installed by bringing in two or three new faces in January? I, sadly, have my doubts.
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