Ron Gordon is one guy. There are no raft of investors, hedge funds and other leeches like the English teams have as owners where they always need to maximise profit for the investors.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As I said I do have concerns about Ron Gordon the biggest of which is who he sells the club to next. That is the big one.
As I also said there are no vast riches to be made in Scottish football so that keeps the big investor sharks away.
P.S. Although not answering your question directly I did say rather a lot about Ron and Hibs etc in my last mega post
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02-05-2021 07:29 PM #91
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02-05-2021 07:34 PM #92
Didn't Fergie force the previous owners out over a horses stud rights. Quite funny how it's turned out.
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02-05-2021 07:36 PM #93
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As for your Ron Gordon quote he didn’t and you can’t possibly know what he would have done. Perhaps you replied to the wrong post?
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02-05-2021 07:39 PM #95This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I also would complain if our club fell into the hands of an unsavoury character. It's maybe a generational thing to want our club run by a character with ethical intentions.
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That's nonsense.
I don't think Man U are 'dead', but there's simply no comparison between the two, other than Gordon's nationality.
The difference in the manner of each purchase is much more than just semantics.
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02-05-2021 08:02 PM #101
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What is the nub of the issue here? They have American owners? So do we. They have owners with no connection to football? So do we. Their owners regard football as investment? So do ours. only the scale is different. This is capitalism in all its ruthless glory.
That's the modern game. Our club is no better nor worse than most others that are remotely comparable. If Ron Gordon was interested solely by the Corinthian spirit, he could have bought Albion Rovers. This is business; he will not chuck millions at it, in order to see Hibs win the league. He wants a return on his investment, that's fine, but let's not try to claim some moral high ground. He is no better than the other mega rich owners who bought clubs. It isn't altruism, there is something he wants in return. It mightn't be as naked, but he didn't buy Hibs out of love. Let's get real here.HIBERNIAN FC - ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SINCE 1875
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02-05-2021 08:11 PM #104
Some of the videos from the protest are clearly nothing to do with the super league or protesting against the owners. It’s a sizeable number of neds taking advantage of an opportunity to act like cretins.
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02-05-2021 08:13 PM #105This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-05-2021 08:14 PM #106
I don't buy this stuff. Man Utd have won a lot of trophies under the Glazers when Fergie was in charge especially. Now their fans are unhappy because they're not winning cups and City and Liverpool are.
Football is about big teams at the top and other teams aspiring to be one of the top teams. It was ever thus. Rich men acquire big teams. Get over it.
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There's nothing wrong with making a profit - it's how any economy operates to engineer something, create something or offer a service that adds value to the raw parts it came from - but if it comes at the expense of human rights, employee rights or doesn't offer someone a living wage then that's completely destructive to society.
As for 'unsavoury character', that is again personal values. Have now given up all Amazon accounts and subscriptions (the Audible was a tough one to give up), avoid tax dodging companies as much as possible, avoid large Tory donors as much as possible and go from there. It's a really simple choice - if you don't want these characters succeeding, don't fund them.
The generation that has followed mine have a lot of this at the forefront of their minds and they get called silly little schoolyard names like "woke", "PC", "lefty" and the like and it's pathetic. They're a generation that will do much more than my generation or any that have come before mine since WW2 IMO and I have faith that they also wouldn't stand for an excellent club that does wonders for the community falling out of that ethos.
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02-05-2021 08:20 PM #108
https://youtu.be/0pFuCV-CJlI
Fans singing about people dying
Smashing doors for access to the stadium
Manchester United fans.Cougars!!!
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02-05-2021 08:33 PM #112
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Man United fans with green and yellow scarfs breaking into the ground and changing rooms lighting flares, attacking the police and security staff over owners who pay their players mega bucks to win trophies, oh the irony.
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The reality is that if we didn’t have rich people, regardless of where they come from, then Hibs probably wouldn’t be here.
Of course you don’t have a say in a takeover of something that isn’t yours.
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