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**stoneyburn hibs** · 19-12-2017 12:08 PM

Just been given £4.5m by an anonymous benefactor.
Lucky gits

***3pm*** · 19-12-2017 12:08 PM

The Hibs boy who backed them on Sunday.

***green day*** · 19-12-2017 12:14 PM

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Just been given £4.5m by an anonymous benefactor.
Lucky gits

From the JKB AGM thread

"Another £1,5m from our Benefactor"

They clearly have someone with more money than sense supporting them.

**Pete** · 19-12-2017 12:17 PM

Hibs: the people’s club.

Hearts: The club of the establishment, snobbery, inherited wealth, dodgy debts and Panama papers.

**Geo_1875** · 19-12-2017 12:20 PM

So now they can afford to finish off their stand.

Or if we beat them next week Potter will buy 6 or 7 players to make sure they don't lose to us in the cup.

**~~My_Wife_Camille~~** · 19-12-2017 12:23 PM

tory ****s

***sleeping giant*** · 19-12-2017 12:28 PM

I hope it gets nicked

**Scottie** · 19-12-2017 12:32 PM

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Just been given £4.5m by an anonymous benefactor.
Lucky gits

Maybe they could pay it back to all the people they screwed over.

***snooky*** · 19-12-2017 12:34 PM

Maybe it's not actually been "given" but it's a 'sub' from someone with a former connection to the club.

**~~The_Horde~~** · 19-12-2017 12:35 PM

Vlad.

**MyJo** · 19-12-2017 12:37 PM

How do "anonymous donations" fit with the financial fair play rules that are meant to be in place nowadays?

***FifeHibs*** · 19-12-2017 12:46 PM

Anne Budge is the mystery benefactor.

***KdyHby*** · 19-12-2017 12:47 PM

main stand to reach £15 million Hearts chairwoman Ann Budge and manager Craig Levein arrive at Tynecastle for today's agm. Pic: Greg Macvean BARRY ANDERSON Email Published: 12:58 Tuesday 19 December 2017 0 HAVE YOUR SAY Hearts owner Ann Budge has revealed that the final cost of Tynecastle Park’s new main stand will reach £15 million. Budge told shareholders at Tuesday’s annual general meeting that anonymous benefactors have agreed to provide an extra £1.5m to help with the project. The initial cost to rebuild the stand was to be £12m, a figure revised to £14m earlier this year. Budge confirmed that stadium redevelopment is now expected to total £15m. Benefactors were initially giving £3m towards the cost but will now contribute £4.5m in total by the time work is finished at Tynecastle in summer 2018. “I thought we were looking at £14m, I’m now telling you I think we are looking at £15m,” Budge explained to shareholders at the 111th Hearts AGM inside the stadium’s Gorgie Suite. Budge predicted that the new stand will earn Hearts around an extra £1m income per year. She added that the board have the use of a £1.75m loan facility to help with costs and are intending to use at least some of those funds over the winter months. There are no plans at the moment to rename the new stand through sponsorship but this has not been ruled for the future. Hearts still hope to replace the Tynecastle pitch next summer with a hybrid surface similar to that at Murrayfield. Budge explained that the price for this will be between £850,000 and £1m. Manager Craig Levein also addressed the AGM and said he expects another six or eight youth academy players to sign professional contracts with the Edinburgh club next summer. That follows the recent progress of 16-year-olds Harry Cochrane and Anthony McDonald into the first team this season. Levein also insisted Hearts’ recruitment must improve after six out of nine players signed in January this year were released during the summer. “I think the recruitment was better in the summer than it was in January. We got a real fright in January, when mistakes were made,” said Levein, who was director of football at that time with Ian Cathro head coach. “We are trying to limit mistakes but I don’t think we’ll ever get to a point where we don’t make any. “I’m glad I decided to go back into the dugout (in September). At least I go home on a Saturday night exhausted from shouting rather than sitting in the stand frustrated.” A question from the floor asked Levein when Hearts would “stop being bullied by Hibs in derby matches”. The Easter Road side have not lost any of the last eight meetings between the clubs since August 2014. “Nobody has sat in that stand feeling sick more than me,” replied Levein. “We’ve been poor in derby matches in the last couple of years and we will be ready for the next one. I can’t guarantee we’ll win but we won’t be bullied, that’s for sure.”

Read more at: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...lion-1-4643058

***Not In The Know*** · 19-12-2017 12:51 PM

that outfit of hers could probably do with a dry clean by now.

***cabbageandribs1875*** · 19-12-2017 12:53 PM

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Anne Budge is the mystery benefactor.

of course she is

**Ozyhibby** · 19-12-2017 12:53 PM

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How do "anonymous donations" fit with the financial fair play rules that are meant to be in place nowadays?

Hibs have no interest in FFP. I asked a fans rep and didn’t even get a reply.

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***Baldy Foghorn*** · 19-12-2017 12:54 PM

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Hibs have no interest in FFP. I asked a fans rep and didn’t even get a reply.

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That's simply untrue Ozy

***Not In The Know*** · 19-12-2017 12:54 PM

A question from the floor asked Levein when Hearts would “stop being bullied by Hibs in derby matches”.

LOL.

***greenlex*** · 19-12-2017 12:57 PM

Ive no problem with any club getting help for things like infrastructure. It should however not be a mystery one. The person or company should be made clear. Why the need for secrecy if there is nothing underhand going on?

***FifeHibs*** · 19-12-2017 01:00 PM

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of course she is

She has also paid for a majority of the stand.

**Velma Dinkley** · 19-12-2017 01:04 PM

Did any Hearts fans ask if the mystery person wants anything in return...like all their money back plus 6% interest?

**~~Fife-Hibee~~** · 19-12-2017 01:04 PM

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A question from the floor asked Levein when Hearts would “stop being bullied by Hibs in derby matches”.

LOL.

Hee hee ! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

**Alan62** · 19-12-2017 01:06 PM

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Anne Budge is the mystery benefactor.

Not sure she is but I do know for a fact there are others from Edinburgh's establishment who have donated to the cause.

**theonlywayisup** · 19-12-2017 01:13 PM

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A question from the floor asked Levein when Hearts would “stop being bullied by Hibs in derby matches”.

LOL.

Having attended the recent AGM, it's interesting that there was virtually no reference to Hertz at all. No questions and very little in the way of a dig at Hertz, especially considering all the problems they've had at Tiny. It was as if they didn't exist.

However, at the Hertz AGM, there's a question from the floor about how can they stop being bullied by the 'wee' team. Big team, my derrière.

***Benny Brazil*** · 19-12-2017 01:13 PM

question from the floor asked Levein when Hearts would “stop being bullied by Hibs in derby matches”. The Easter Road side have not lost any of the last eight meetings between the clubs since August 2014. “Nobody has sat in that stand feeling sick more than me,” replied Levein. “We’ve been poor in derby matches in the last couple of years and we will be ready for the next one. I can’t guarantee we’ll win but we won’t be bullied, that’s for sure.”

It will be a typical Levein type performance then - kick anything that moves.
Am sure Lennon will have the boys prepared.

***easty*** · 19-12-2017 01:14 PM

If some hearts fan wants to gift them a load of their own money, then good for them.

I'd not turn my nose up at a Hibs fan offering us a load of cash.

**Stokesy's on fire** · 19-12-2017 01:29 PM

I wonder of that impacts their CVA?

***Bostonhibby*** · 19-12-2017 01:31 PM

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Did any Hearts fans ask if the mystery person wants anything in return...like all their money back plus 6% interest?

They really, really don't care where it comes from or how its acquired - look at Romanovs "untold wealth" how they soaked it up and who the victims were.

**Pete** · 19-12-2017 01:51 PM

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question from the floor asked Levein when Hearts would “stop being bullied by Hibs in derby matches”. The Easter Road side have not lost any of the last eight meetings between the clubs since August 2014. “Nobody has sat in that stand feeling sick more than me,” replied Levein. “We’ve been poor in derby matches in the last couple of years and we will be ready for the next one. I can’t guarantee we’ll win but we won’t be bullied, that’s for sure.”

It will be a typical Levein type performance then - kick anything that moves.
Am sure Lennon will have the boys prepared.

What's he on about? He’s basically been in charge for these games, interfering on a regular basis.

Like you say, telling them “kick them harder” will be about all he can do to stop us.