New stadium for Edinburgh rugby and/or Hearts? (merged)

**~~PaulSmith~~** · 18-10-2011 09:10 PM

Romanov holding a gun to the heads of the cooncil, assistance or the club goes to the wall.

Cardownie will be trying every dirty trick in the book to make this happen IMO.

**iwasthere1972** · 18-10-2011 09:16 PM

Hope the council do get involved. Original plans would be to have two of the stands running the full length of the pitch but with delay after delay and the costs doubling later having to make cutbacks and stopping the stands at the half way line. Plans also abandoned to have stands behind the goals.

Get the council involved. You know it makes sense.

**HIBERNIAN-0762** · 18-10-2011 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by oldbutdim

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Deary me.

Chris Robinson would be spinning in his grave reading that.

If he was dead obviously.

He's not I'm afraid, was on the same Ryanair flight to Portugal as me a couple of weeks ago, a friggin millionaire as well, typical yak

***3pm*** · 18-10-2011 09:44 PM

There will be a trade off.

Hearts will get a new stadium, the council will get a new Tram stop.

***Bishop Hibee*** · 18-10-2011 09:44 PM

Make no mistake, no Hibby on this site will be laughing if the council gives them a wedge of cash, possibly from the sale of Meadowbank, Jack Kane Centre or any other bit of land in the east of Edinburgh to fund a yam dome in Sighthill, Carrick Knowe Golf Course or wherever.

Local elections in May 2012 so make sure you raise this with your prospective councillors as a no-goer.

***Jack*** · 18-10-2011 09:54 PM

I think there would be a judicial review if Hearts were to get bailed out.

**HUTCHYHIBBY** · 18-10-2011 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by oldbutdim

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Deary me.Chris Robinson would be spinning in his grave reading that.

If he was dead obviously.

I'll probably need to check with some folk on here 1st, but, i thought was most amusing!

***basehibby*** · 18-10-2011 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by smurf

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Council cutbacks all over the city but they are looking to help them out? What a shock.

I would be disgusted if the council wasted OUR cash on bailing out those insolvent jakeys - who plainly cannot afford to sort out their asbestos shed following years and years of irresponsible over-spending.

Let them "lend themselves" another 30 million - that should just about cover it.

**EasterRoad4Ever** · 19-10-2011 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by BEEJ

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Might be good to get the council involved.

Project will end up being three years late with stadium seating confined to behind each goal.

Yams are up **** creek. Can't think of a worse time to go to local government or any sponsors with the begging bowl. EDC have just come off a kicking for the Trams fiasco. Can you imagine the Scottish Parliament agreeing to these clowns spending more public millions on another useless pet project ?

If was just a new ground they wanted/needed, then I'm sure the PBS would have caught fire by now

But they desperately need the cash from the sale of the land to keep them afloat.

***Stonewall*** · 19-10-2011 05:52 AM

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Remove the cooncil and it could be the East Stand you're talking aboot

But there was ample justification and a business case for building the East Stand.

Sufficient demand would have existed but for a combination of the economic downturn and our abject performance under CC/ Yogi.

If we'd invested the money used to fund the East Stand in the team are you confident the last two incumbents would have used it wisely?

**Gatecrasher** · 19-10-2011 06:37 AM

I think it would be a reckless use of public money in the current climate for the council to help fund this, especially since there's a £1bn tram bill heading there way! Care for the auld yins or build the tramps a new stadium?

**Steve-O** · 19-10-2011 06:49 AM

Maybe they could build it right at the airport end of the tramline and the tramline might be of some use every 2nd week...

***Hibrandenburg*** · 19-10-2011 07:19 AM

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**~~Hibernia Na Eir~~** · 19-10-2011 08:21 AM

I hate Hearts FC.

***Gettin' Auld*** · 19-10-2011 08:41 AM

Those ****ers should get no help from council funds.

They've overspent heavily for years and now have to face the consequences, so tough ****.

Leave them to sink or swim all by themselves!!

**Mili Tant** · 19-10-2011 09:15 AM

Hold on a minute. "Heart of Midlothian". Why would the City of Edinburgh Council be involved?

**c31** · 19-10-2011 09:36 AM

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/councillors/6/jenny_dawe

she's the gaffer - email her

***HibbiesandtheBaddies*** · 19-10-2011 09:39 AM

So have the council come out and commented on this yet? Would be nice to know if they are actually aware of our unforunate neighbours intentions.......

**James70** · 19-10-2011 10:52 AM

If the council do agree to the request and they make the same mess as they did of the trams I could see the PBS being demolished and then rebuilt again and the Yams would finish up with a stadium half the size it was originally meant to be.

***RyeSloan*** · 19-10-2011 11:25 AM

You have to laugh at the comment "And it is very clear that 'doing nothing is not an option'."

So what exactly has Romanov and his gang actually done re a new stadium for Hearts.....ermmm nothing....

***Hibs Class*** · 19-10-2011 11:30 AM

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http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/councillors/6/jenny_dawe

she's the gaffer - email her

Good luck with that. She's our local councillor as well as city (mis)leader - you would struggle to find a more useless lump of uselessness.

**IWasThere2016** · 19-10-2011 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Stonewall

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But there was ample justification and a business case for building the East Stand.

Sufficient demand would have existed but for a combination of the economic downturn and our abject performance under CC/ Yogi.

If we'd invested the money used to fund the East Stand in the team are you confident the last two incumbents would have used it wisely?

What was the ample business case? And we might have hired a better manager

Originally Posted by SiMar

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You have to laugh at the comment "And it is very clear that 'doing nothing is not an option'."

So what exactly has Romanov and his gang actually done re a new stadium for Hearts.....ermmm nothing....

**~~Phil D. Rolls~~** · 19-10-2011 12:55 PM

You see this is where the Yamaster Plan (is this in the Yammasaurous) falls down. They base all their presentations to the council on the fact that we are Methadone swilling pikeys who don't pay their council tax, that we have disenfranchised ourselves from the democratic process and frankly are not intelligent enought to object.

For the record, I would like to make it clear that I have never swilled Methadone in my life. I savour every drop.

***greenginger*** · 19-10-2011 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by SiMar

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You have to laugh at the comment "And it is very clear that 'doing nothing is not an option'."

So what exactly has Romanov and his gang actually done re a new stadium for Hearts.....ermmm nothing....

Not true. They spent best part of £1 million on a couple of cardboard boxes full of fancy drawings called a planning application.

**poolman** · 19-10-2011 01:15 PM

I'ts not going to happen

The Yams will have to fend for themselves

The Council don't have a pot to piss in, I was at a meeting this morning re. money for maintenance and there is just not any there.

If the Cooncil miraculously come up with funds to help out the Yams it will be tantamount to fraud

***Keith_M*** · 19-10-2011 02:45 PM

So, what exactly is a "Community Stadium"?

Does it mean that all taxpayers will be able to use it whenever they like? They're supplying soup kitchens for the needy? Or is it just paid for by "The Community" for the sole benefit of Hearts?

**LeithBoozy** · 19-10-2011 03:00 PM

Right take a letter Vitalijus to the EEN, I Vladimir Romanov being of soound mind and body, have decided to team-up with the council and create a new stadium.
What is wrong with that new lie detector, its not even plugged-in yet? BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP.