Quick question for you. Which Scottish team has won their last four home games, scoring 13 goals in the process? St Mirren are on a run of form at home. One of those wins was against Second Division opposition, but remember, this season, Second Division teams are on a par with AC Milan in the early 90s.
Ross County scored four at St Mirren Park but St Mirren scored five, while Hearts were despatched 2-0. This is a team with good home form who kept their squad in place over the international break. My best advice to you is to avoid betting on this one.
Many clubs have trouble paying their bills but the problem with Hearts and their regular tardiness when it comes to wages, evident again this month, appears to be different. Hearts cash balances will have peaked weeks, possibly months, ago. From now on they will be eating into ‘reserves’, or more likely, accruing additional debt at their owner’s bank. The club have been here many times before and Vlad has dipped into the equivalent of his commercial pocket to avoid an insolvency event but I’ve always found it curious why he didn’t do so on time. It’s not as though anyone can be surprised pay day is coming.
As such, there appears to be a degree of control over late payment. The money is always provided but not before pain is passed down from owner to earners, which is a bit curious.
For all his faults, and they are many, Romanov and other shareholders in Ukio Bankas have ‘invested’ countless millions in Hearts, money they are unlikely to get back with the residential property market so depressed. They have also not exposed the club to outrageous fortune – the overwhelming majority of debt is owed to the bank itself, balances at HMRC and other creditors are low, and they pay their football debts. This means that if Hearts go into administration, the route back through a CVA would be clear. The only serious losers would be staff made redundant, while Ukio would face a write-off, perhaps already acknowledged internally.
I was surprised at the news Danny McGrain was appointed first team coach yesterday but also delighted. Danny’s was not a name mentioned for the position when Alan Thompson left the club but he is immersed in the fabric and culture of our club. ‘In the days of changing ways’ a strong thread of continuity is an invaluable asset in ensuring the new generations acquire the important elements of our identity.
We are a club in touch with all that is important.
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SFTB
If only
DickEmeryCSC
Cafu,Lamh, Alves.
In my view, the three finest fullbacks in the last twenty years.
Each one in the mould of Danny Mc.Grain.
Danny was the original, an advancement of the genre created by Dunky Mc.Kay.
I don’t think any mature Celtic fan would disagree.
Danny = Timeless.
….PFayr
Did you ever drink Blastaways?
What a drink that was
Evening bhoys from a colder hun free mountain.
Had to light the fire tonight, forecast is good for the next week so.
Having pledged a few bob to Chuck I am getting a wee bit worried that my money might not be safe after reading this………
http://thedemiseofrangersinpictures.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/ticketus-must-own-new-co-rangers.html#!/2012/10/ticketus-must-own-new-co-rangers.html
Great Quiz CRC, well done SOAL-unlucky SFTB-thought you had it in the bag!
Thomthethim
Hells teeth am I mature now
SOAL
You know I drank anything and everything ….still do ..sometimes :-))
CRC good quiz – happy to be back participating.
H!H!
Haven’t read back, but just in case, if any of you Lanarkshire mob have been slagging the El Dorado….
I’ll take the f**kin lot o ye! Ya bassas!
T4
boab1888
22:44 on
19 October, 2012
Think you got me mixed up with someone else :-0)
I thought that we wore Red socks in 1970, until I checked it out and most internet leads says orange, as this was part of Leeds third kit, which were lent to us as a wind up but we took them to prove a point.
Leftclicktic posted one link to the kit earlier.
Would love to find a video to either approve or disprove this. Going to speak to my Dad as well, once he is back from hols to see what he recalls.
If Gordon is lurking, I am sure he would be able to confirm.
HH
CRC
….PFayr
Sometimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejU5YAHN3vQ
James
TTTT
Typical all talk :-))
ttt
It must be something in the air, I find myself dissagreeing with you for a second time in a week.
Cafu,Lamh, Alves.
If Cafu and Alves were not from St. America, they would not IMO get near a top class team.
Lahm, decent enough for a German midget :>)))
I usually post absolute crap on here but give me a wee second. On the day of their actual liquidation and death would it not be good to light up the skies with lanterns and fireworks just to let them know that we know? Let everyone know that they are dead and let the skies light up on this celebration of human progression.
Tinto Firs was a complete hun shop, as was the Trade Winds in Thornliebank..
Bad crack.
SOAL
Excellent
DJBEE – yer a genius! What a hoot…! :-)
T4
TET
Hutton ….the white Cafu .. He is/ was pants
TTT
I may count as more elderly than mature but I remember when the football magazines listed their World XI selection that Danny was always in competition with 2 German WC winners, Breitner and Vogts.
Bertie was a world class tackler but was more dogged than skilled. Breitner was a superb footballer who could have played midfield as well as full back ( like Davie Hay) but the only area where he was palpably better than Danny was in finishing especially pens.
Danny got rated despite his failure to achieve success with his country in the way that Vogts and Breitner did. But, just as we do not reduce George Best’s assessment we should not diminish Danny for this.
It is a smart move to have Danny’s dugout debut tomorrow. We are playing a Saints team that is good at going forward. McLean, McGowan and Goodwin are a strong midfield. Thompson is an aerial threat and young Carey has a dangerous supply of crosses and free kicks. Nonetheless, they are weak at the back and we should be making them think about us.
We need a good positive win to set us up for Barca.
….PFayr
Hutton, and only a no mark manager picks him for the national team.
9 mill for him, me thinks something dodgy about that :>))))
Paul Lambert knows how good he is……….
Djbee
I have a cohiba cigar ( siglo) and a bottle of Lauren-Perrier …saved from my 40 th birthday waiting for that moment
I’m sure I can fit in a few lanterns
In fact …lets have a bid mad party
TET
Correct …diving Hun steward
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HebCelt..
No Worries..
Yea the Barcà Breakfast is a Early Kick Off with a 6:45am Football KO..;0)
But it’s The Melbourne Cup week so most are Off..Can’t wait..
I have a Young Scouse couple and a Couple from the Czech Republic staying with me Just now so it’s Backpacker Heaven..She is welcome to come thru anytime..
Hope Yir Guid..
001Bhoy
Phyllis
I think you’ll find it’s craic :-,))
Danny Mac was the best right back in the world
and as a left back was comparable to the
great Paul Breitner. Not bad.
When discussing full backs should give the tremendous
Tommy Gemmell a mention.
SFTB
Re Saints ..correct
They are very weak at the back
4-3-3 tomorrow ..on form Hooper, Sammy and AN other ( perhaps McGeoch) …if we’re attacking they can’t score
PFayr – only for people born after 1980.
Phyllis
Not me then pal
Phllis D
“Tinto Firs was a complete hun shop,”
I only worked there one summer as a student. I remember the Charge Hand was a Hun but I don’t remember too much fitba based problems and naebdy bothered Shuggie when he drank there on his own. I never drank there or revisited after I finished my work. I knew how much slops was served there. Every Sunday evening before we opened the doors to the queue outside, we’d have about 40 pints one third full of the afternoon’s beer leavings to top up with fresh beer.
I bet we were not the only pub scamming in such a fashion then.
….PFayr
So you have a bottle of Lauren-Perrier from your 40th Birthday
Swap you it for a bottle of Bezique
I doubt we’ll be playing a strong team tomorrow, expect loads of rests before the Barca game
Cannae really explain why, but this line by the Exiled Tim has had me in knots. The funniest line I have read on here in months.
” Lahm, decent enough for a German midget”.
The Exiled Tim
that link is a belter:), thanks.
SFTB – Paul Breitner was indeed a superb footballer and a proper midfield general.
I will always remember the look of absolute disbelief on his face when Villa beat a very strong Bayern team including Rumenigge in the European Cup final.
He was immense for W Germany.
I told a Saints fan in my work that they would take something from the game tomorrow! We have a lot of players returning from Internationals, some with injuries and others having long journeys. None of them will want to miss out on playing at the Camp Nou.
On the other hand, we have some fringe players who want to establish themselves and everyone is playing for their place on Tuesday! If we were playing ICT or equivalent, then we would definately drop points, but the main thing in our favour is that Danny Lennon likes his boys to play football….and that’s a mistake against us.
T4
I would imagine we will field a second ish team tomorrow.
Lenny has said that there will be no Brown, Forrest, Sammi, Miku.
Izzy is just back, Mathews might still be unfit.
I won’t try to pre-empt Lenny, but I think Lassad will get a run out.
The game on tuesday is much more important than the game the morra, so I fully expect Lenny to field the strongest team possible :>)
SOAL
you can come to ma hoose and we’ll drink both when the Huns are liquidated
PFayr
How are you with regarded speeding law?
MWD
I don’t believe Danny Alves is a right back.
I’ve never seen him in the first third of Barca territory. They just leave Puyol and occasionally, Pique to help him out, in defence.
Barca play a 2:5:3 set up