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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tomtheleedstim 08:26:
Cheers mate. Right, breakfast and the three ‘Ss’ before setting off for the game. Enjoy your day Ghuys.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Bankiebhoy
If its a panto the only problem is finding a good guy
There is a surfeit of villains
Lustig scored for Sweden midweek
25-1 first goal or 9-1anytime …think ill have a few dollars on that
Lennybhoy
Any idea if theres any spare tickets around for today
Good morning CQN
Tax Doesn’t Have To Be Taxing
Celtic, Celtic that’s the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the Scottish football league
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
PF
:)
………Correctamundo. The Good Ghuys however are the aforementioned citizen journalists ( I don’t like the term’ internet bampots’ – too easy for the MSM charlatan sto be derpgatory and dismmissive)
This site and others have done more for Scottish Football in the last five years than the Scoddish FA and ‘establishment’ have done in the last 100…………
If they (SFA) learn the lessons now, we’ll have a chance of fielding a decent national team and have competitive, productive league set-ups.
If not, we’ll be the League of Ireland in standard and stature before too long.
Woke up to the “news” that the rest of the world outside bampottery is about to know they cheated all and sundry. Ya beauty!
Wee Davy Murray …….Better Call Saul!
Bankiebhoy
I’m not so sure we’re too far removed from the League of Ireland right now
Take us out and the rest are on a par
As for our Govan antithesis …they’re screwed …the last throes of a dying man …some of them are even beginning to realise it ..slow motion car crash . Comedy gold tho
….ach….speeeeelin’ an’ tipin’ awya wi the faeries this morn………….
ManFlu has taken a heavy toll….
:)
PF – aye………fair point
There is still a bit of distance between us tho’.
The important point is this is a turning point for the game. As a Scotsman I’m ashamed that we haven’t been able to rid the game of the parochial, hand-shake brigade. Dumping the Huns is only the start of cleaning house…….
PJ Bhoys earlier post hits the nail on the head – this is symptomatic of a peculiarly scoddish problem in society and our national game.
Morning,
Should be a good game today.
I see Fat Sally was telling the laptops loyal they must be sick asking about Sevco’s away record.
Subtle or what?
If the FTT is in they will drip feed it through MSM slowly
say starting Tuesday late afternoon.
….”Where exactly is wee davie?”
Hiding up Jabba’s jumper …plenty of room
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……….can you imagine the S@@t-storm of black banner headlines, wild speculation, derogatory and inflammatory jibes, gratuitous ‘ comment’ and gleeful triumphalism that we would be subjected to had we in any way been upto a fraction of what this mob have been doing??????
Double-standards doesn’t even touch the sides………
(I’m away to take my blood pressure tablets….)
;)
Bankiebhoy
The Hun saga would not have progressed as it has in any other country other than Scotland
Even in Italy they dealt with Juve
The SFA,SPL are an utter embarrassment …
……correct!
…and when the Italians can get their act together on corruption faster than the guid peepil o’ scoddland then we are up s@@t Creek.
With sincere apologies to our TallyTim chums……
HH
Bankiebhoy
That’s constantly in my thoughts
One only has to look at how the MSM are treating C Green ….wee Fergus was traduced and abused ..he had a credible plan
Green is feted ….and he is an obvious chancer ..and a gobsh1te
So the FTT decision signed off. Soon know the result, as Chuck cannae hold his water.
I want them stripped of the titles they won by cheating.
I want those titles correctly rewarded to Celtic who were cheated out of them.
The FTT result is the catalyst for this to happen.
In an ideal world we would also be reimbursed the £47,000,000 income that we were cheated out of.
Sorry , but not awarding the titles and leaving the year blank doesn’t cut it.
They proudly claim to be the most successful club in the world.
We need to rectify that .
The Truth must be clearly defined.
A67
This week we play the most famous team on the planet in their own arena, fans of all clubs from all over the world will be watching us.
Meanwhile our ex-rivals will be playing a team of amateurs in the bottom league desperately trying to convince their stupid fans that this is a glamour game.
How good is that?
Pf
…aye
Perhaps a better description of Hughie and his grand plan is ‘fetid’………..
…it stinks to high heaven and the easy ride he gets from the usual suspects is nothing more than paid-for plugs………..
What Fergus set out to do he achieved. He was hated and vilified, even by some of our own, but the establishment wanted him gone and preferably gone and belittled.
However what the wee mhan lacked in stature he more than made up for in moxie……the huns don’t yet have their Fergus. And long may that continue.
HH
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Just about as good as it gets football wise
Bankiebhoy
Their thirst for instant gratification …brought upon in large part by their superiority complex …would not allow for a Wee Fergus type ….they don’t do propriety and practicality in business
Their hubris continues to kill them slowly …..
PF
..again correct and Long May That Continue too……..
…..having made the missus her fourth cup of tea I’m away out to tramp the garden……..
HH
Yermanfrommk
..well said
I just got round to listening to bbc jock stein podcast. Nevin heaped praise on the big man and in doing so, came across as a true Celtic fan. He spoke of our European triumph and reminded Mark Pugatch that we regularly reached the latter stages during Stein’s reign. Nevin told his story with obvious pride. You then have wonder why he admitted about five years ago that Chelsea was now his club, due to not wanting anything to do with ‘ old firm problems’. And to compound it last year by berating Celtic fans at the cup final while saying not a thing about Britain’s worst.
His type are the worst.
Bankiebhoy
I had to re read your post there… Thought you meant chucky was in your garden
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Rangers lost the tax case?? Oh we’ll, only 9:39 but I think I’ll have to get stuck back in to the Stella.
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This was alluded to by murdochbhoy yirmanfrommk in his great post today…
The whole saga that has drove them to today, Rangers need to be the best, they say stems from us winning the EC. Perhaps that is true but perhaps it goes back to the late 19th Century newspaper article that asked where was Scotland’s answer to the immigrant’s club that was and is Celtic.
Chasing supremacy.
Their living hate.
Their loathing of all things Catholic and especially Catholic Irish is what did for them.
andrew67
09:22 on
20 October, 2012
Well said mate. They need to be shamed publicly.
T4
Your staring relegation straight in the face there oul fella. :-)
…pfayr- liked your Lustig bet, he’s always hovering around the 6 yard box looking for scraps, will score 10+ goals this season.
andrew67
09:22 on 20 October, 2012
Correct mate, every word you wrote!
When the tax case is reported will any journalist have the balls to ask why the tribunal sat in private?