The generic Hearts thread

[jaf]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

The Rockstar office moved to the old Scotsman at Hollyrood.
I am sure I read about them setting up their first office to make a game in Leith sometime in the 80's, I assume any affinity to Hibs would be from their time there.

I used to work below Rockstar in the late 90s if I recall at Great Michael House overlooking leith links with views of ER in the background. I could see ER from my desk.

[degenerated]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

(Hopefully) The light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train.


Nigel Blackwell.

Top tune

"Where the cocaine is Fairtrade and frequently displayed Is the Buena Vista Social Club CD"

[degenerated]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

It's mental. Of course, it's possible Hearts will recover and pull away from the bottom of the league, but there are no guarantees.

Save from an admittedly very good win against Rangers (a game which Levein never failed to get them fired up for as well, by the way - even if they did take some beatings), they've not won in ages.

They drew 0-0 with Ross County in a match where they did not get a shot on target.

On Saturday, they failed to gain ground on St Johnstone and St Mirren, and they sit above Hamilton only on goal difference.

There has been some amount of hype, which I can't see how it can be considered justified, about them. They're unbeaten this year, I suppose that's something for them to cling on to, but they've only one win in that time. In fact, you can go all the way back to Stendel taking over and it's still only one league win.

St Johnstone had enough chances to win that game twice over. Hearts are a gang, they're nowhere near the team that some of the pundits are making them out to be, and there is every chance they'll be in and around the relegation places based on the evidence of the last year and a bit.

3 wins all season, and two of them with a lucky deflection. They're absolutely sh**e, no matter how much BBC sportsound try and talk them up.

[greenlex]

There seems to be some noise about FOH having now paid Bidco the original loan that saved their club and are about to become majority shareholders within a few months. Just the over budget stand to pony up for now?

[007]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

There seems to be some noise about FOH having now paid Bidco the original loan that saved their club and are about to become majority shareholders within a few months. Just the over budget stand to pony up for now?

Now they've paid back Ann Budge surely they'll start paying back the 200 creditors won't they?

[bawheid]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Now they've paid back Ann Budge surely they'll start paying back the 200 creditors won't they?

They don’t need to pay back the poppy fund. Sir Tom paid it off at the time.

[The 90+2]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Now they've paid back Ann Budge surely they'll start paying back the 200 creditors won't they?

Shhshhhhh. Don’t say that out loud now their all back patting.

[Jack Hackett]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

There seems to be some noise about FOH having now paid Bidco the original loan that saved their club and are about to become majority shareholders within a few months. Just the over budget stand to pony up for now?

I'm just wondering how this is going to change their lives or their fortunes on-field. Is having a couple of seats on the board going to have as much of an impact as our having a couple on our board seems to have?

What actual difference is it going to make?

[Hibeesmad]

Craig Thomson is a paedophile.

[Jones28]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Craig Thomson is a paedophile.

Does “banter” like that not belong in 2010?

[lord bunberry]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Does “banter” like that not belong in 2010?

I hate being pedantic but surely it’s a fact rather than banter

[Hibeesmad]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Does “banter” like that not belong in 2010?

It's true mate.

[Jones28]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

It's true mate.

As soon as I typed that out I knew what the reply would be.

So you’d think I’d have a half decent response ready 😂

True or not, it just makes me uneasy, using the crimes of a pervert to try to point score in football conversations.

[JeMeSouviens]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I used to work below Rockstar in the late 90s if I recall at Great Michael House overlooking leith links with views of ER in the background. I could see ER from my desk.

I worked in that building too from 99 to 03. The Rockstar guys were a shady looking bunch.

[jacomo]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

There seems to be some noise about FOH having now paid Bidco the original loan that saved their club and are about to become majority shareholders within a few months. Just the over budget stand to pony up for now?

After some delay, will it be sink or swim time for Ian Murray’s ‘massive movement’?

[CMurdoch]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Craig Thomson is a paedophile.

No class

[The 90+2]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

As soon as I typed that out I knew what the reply would be.

So you’d think I’d have a half decent response ready 😂

True or not, it just makes me uneasy, using the crimes of a pervert to try to point score in football conversations.

It’s not true and it’s not classy to bring this up about a silly laddie who ruined his own life.

[The 90+2]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I worked in that building too from 99 to 03. The Rockstar guys were a shady looking bunch.

Don’t they have an office next to the tram line across the road from Broughton Street?

[lord bunberry]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

No class

Beasts tend not to have class.

[Bostonhibby]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

As soon as I typed that out I knew what the reply would be.

So you’d think I’d have a half decent response ready

True or not, it just makes me uneasy, using the crimes of a pervert to try to point score in football conversations.

Agreed, we should stick to emphasising the crimes their former owner remains indicted for in Lithuania but continues to evade in Russia, the stolen money is directly linked to everything their wee club was doing on the pitch then, and of course the stigma they carry around since.

Sent from my SM-A750FN using Tapatalk

[FilipinoHibs]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I worked in that building too from 99 to 03. The Rockstar guys were a shady looking bunch.

That's what happens to you when you spend all night at your computer screen and come from Dundee.

[FilipinoHibs]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Don’t they have an office next to the tram line across the road from Broughton Street?

Next to Baillie Gifford down from the Playhouse. They clubbed together to help Hearts out.

[cocteautwin]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Their 'superior' derby-record cost 'other people' just over £100m over 30+ years - now it's back to the level playing-field it's us who look forward to the derby now !

It’s not a level playing field. External contributions over the past few years mean HMFC fans have ploughed through £25m of extra cash to 30 June 2019 and by my calculations will need another £5m of extra cash to see them through to the end of the current season.

[HIBERNIAN-0762]

They simply cannot survive on their own, it always has to be someone else's money, or they will sink without a trace, a simply corrupt football team, always have been always will be, and they will continue to get away with it until the powers to be do a proper investigation on them as to why they rely on these cash injections.

Something tells me it stinks, big time.

[calumhibee1]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

It’s not true and it’s not classy to bring this up about a silly laddie who ruined his own life.

Without getting into a debate about it, as I’ve no idea why it was even brought up, did he not plead guilty and was placed on the sex offenders register? Would seem as clear a case of him being a paedophile as you’ll get.

[Since452]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Without getting into a debate about it, as I’ve no idea why it was even brought up, did he not plead guilty and was placed on the sex offenders register? Would seem as clear a case of him being a paedophile as you’ll get.

The whole thing was a sorry episode. They way Hearts dealt with it as a club was shocking tbh. Keeping him on the books and loaning him out to Kaunas etc. Didn't cover themselves in glory especially after employing Graham Rix. Luckily neither of them, or Romanov are affiliated with Hearts anymore so don't think it's a stick we should beat them with personally

[Phil MaGlass]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

It’s not a level playing field. External contributions over the past few years mean HMFC fans have ploughed through £25m of extra cash to 30 June 2019 and by my calculations will need another £5m of extra cash to see them through to the end of the current season.

Whats not level about it? Their own fans are ploughing the cash in.

[Kato]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Whats not level about it? Their own fans are ploughing the cash in.

Fair play to their fans. Are you not slightly curious as to the anonymity donations, though? A club with a history of avoiding debts and money laundering has millions of pounds being ploughed through it with no discernable sign the money being spent sensibly. When theres a pattern like that people should be asking questions.

Sent from my SM-A405FN using Tapatalk

[Spike Mandela]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Whats not level about it? Their own fans are ploughing the cash in.

Yip leave them to their business model and us to ours.

What always surprises me is the small pledger to FoH is about £20 a month which is £240 a year on top of their season ticket. They can of course stop the pledges at any time but in essence imagine their season ticket as £240 more.

That equates to us paying on average around £640 a year. Could you imagine us paying that sort of money for the sort of turgid play they have had over the last few years and relegation type form this year?

[FilipinoHibs]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Fair play to their fans. Are you not slightly curious as to the anonymity donations, though? A club with a history of avoiding debts and money laundering has millions of pounds being ploughed through it with no discernable sign the money being spent sensibly. When theres a pattern like that people should be asking questions.

Sent from my SM-A405FN using Tapatalk

There is a reason why the donations are anonymous. Hearts don't want you know who they are from and the donator does not want to be known. Only one person has publicly come up with money since Hearts went into admin. If the doctors were anybody else but her they would have come forward when Hearts were in admin. Why if they had four times the money to give away that saved Hearts would they watch Hearts fans take out a loan at 6% interest? Why watch when another £2 million is made. If they were business people they would have taken the club over, provided some working capital and appointed real business people to run the club with a business plan they signed off on and reviewed regularly. Nobody pisses £9 million up the wall with no control.

Quite possible to route the money through special purpose vehicles to disguise the source.

Interesting Budge's net worth estimated by Forbes at £16 million in 2019. She received £28 million for her IT company.