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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By Jim Spence BBC Sport
Scottish Premier League clubs will next week consider a proposal to change the league’s voting structure.
An 11-1 majority is required for major changes, such as re-distribution of wealth, and some clubs want all votes to be decided by a 9-3 majority.
However, BBC Scotland understands up to three clubs will vote against the proposal, stopping any major changes.
Should the motion be defeated, ongoing discussions over league reconstruction could be halted as a result.
Those in favour of change are keen to achieve a 75% majority system before next month’s vote on re-distribution of wealth and further talks over Scotland’s league set-up.
Delayed payment of player wages at Hearts will be the first item on the agenda at Monday’s meeting.
TBB
They should have it tattoo’d on their nappers.
PFAyr and Snake,
If i might be so bold to interject, I think that you are both correct and are in danger of violently agreeing with each other.
For sure, the corruption prevalent in the old Eastern Europe harbours a lot injustice and bigotry (just look at what happened to England in Serbia this week).
But….only in Scotland…a supposed established cradle of democracy in the west…can the Rangers corruption be not only tolerated but actually excused. The big question is “how can that happen”?
I suspect that PFAyr hits the nail on the head with the motivations.
I travel a fair bit on business and would conclude that under “natural” circumstances, Scotland, should be more akin to the Scandinavian countries than even to England – with a low profile background Calvinist church but essentially being socialist, democratic and tolerant to all.
I can only conclude that it was the large influx of Catholic Irish Immigrants that set the whole institutional bigotry rolling…
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10:03 on
20 October, 2012
Just saw the Leeds Utd incident. Wonder how many hours of community service he’ll get for that breach of the peace.
someone on kds posted a link from that guy’s facebook page where he had a big “blue order” badge.
Top Tip
Recreate the thrill of being a toddler by running away whenever someone suggests you wear a coat
Instead of LL/Huns saying “rankers lost the big tax case”,correct them and say Hector WON the big tax case.The former just feeds their “punishment” mentality.
BSR
Wife says I have not to interrupt when adults are talking with your stupid gags:O( I liked it anyway mate.:O)
VP
Celtic are playing today, and you can get away with crap patter. That’s what I find anyway (ツ)
TeamNewsin 45 minutes CSC
Tim Malone Will tell
Me and PF Ayr regularly agree. I like him and always have since I’ve been on this site, maybe I’m just a little contrary this morning.
You make a great point about Serbia. If I knew more about the ethnic break up of Serbia it might show up something on a par with the biases in Scotland if what we saw the other night is anything to go by.
In Poland the two big Krakow teams – Wisla and Cracovia have a Sectarian element to their rivalry – it is claimed although I cannot see how that Cracovia are a Jewish team (ironically this is the team that Pope John Paul II played for in his youth as a goalkeeper) but the violence on match days is legendary. I have no idea if this extends into the Polish FA but it does highlight there are similar tensions in other countries to that in Scotland.
Big Dariusz Wdowczyk was involved in a corruption scandal in Poland only a few years ago when I was living there. I cannot remember what exactly he was accused of but I remember it being being news at the time. Maybe Zbyszek remembers.
Tim Malone Will Tell
10:45 on 20 October, 2012
‘I can only conclude that it was the large influx of Catholic Irish Immigrants that set the whole institutional bigotry rolling…’
To my mind there were two factors existing in Scotland before the Irish arrived that led to the level of bigotry and sectarianism
1. the extreme Calvinism of the Reformation
2. the fact that when the Irish arrived in the 19th century Scotland wasn’t a well settled, established nation at peace with itself (in the sense of Benedict Anderson’s notion of a nation as an imagined community -‘a nation is a community socially constructed, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group.’ Wikipedia), because of the long standing enmity between the Highlands and Lowlands. Large scale immigration was seen as a threat to the new found national consciousness.
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Spare a thought for Sevco facing up to their first ever Glasgow Derby?
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Snake
If you’re contrary ….I’m hungover :-))
Pax
Did anyone else hear Warnock’s comments regards the Sheff Wed goalkeeper being assaulted?
He said “He went down as if he had been shot”
Outrageous comments
PF Ayr
That’s what I get for not drinking last night.
Tonight will have to make up for it.
Hee hee
Sorry. Warnock said “like a ton of bricks”
Still in very poor taste though
Nearly time for team news. No Brown or Forrest today? Kayal to start in midfield?
Gordon_J
Kris Commons out as well.
Celtic starting XI to play St Mirren: (4-4-2) Forster; Matthews, Wilson, Ambrose, Mulgrew; Kayal, Wanyama, Ledley, Lassad; Watt, Hooper (MH)
Celtic starting XI to play St Mirren: (4-4-2) Forster; Matthews, Wilson, Ambrose, Mulgrew; Kayal, Wanyama, Ledley, Lassad; Watt, Hooper (MH)
Subs: Zaluska, Izaguirre, Miku, McCourt, Rogne, Ibrahim, Lustig (MH)
Forster; Matthews, Wilson, Ambrose, Mulgrew; Kayal, Wanyama, Ledley, Lassad; Watt, Hooper
Subs: Zaluska, Izaguirre, Miku, McCourt, Rogne, Ibrahim, Lustig
Subs: Zaluska, Izaguirre, Miku, McCourt, Rogne, Ibrahim, Lustig
Ooh Ahh no Samaras
Good Team
A wee warning to cyclists going to Ballymote……It has been known for vehicles to go missing there :)
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Celtic starting XI to play St Mirren: (4-4-2) Forster; Matthews, Wilson, Ambrose, Mulgrew; Kayal, Wanyama, Ledley, Lassad; Watt, Hooper (MH)
Dissapointed McGeouch not even on bench, or is he injured?
is it a 12:45 KO?
Need to know when to go for ‘lunch’
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bournesouprecipe,
Yip, no Commons either. Another international injury? And no Sami.
Goodto see Watt getting a start.
Love the look of that line up….. Strong in every dept.
Get intae them!
Forster; Matthews, Wilson, Ambrose, Mulgrew; Kayal, Wanyama, Ledley, Lassad; Watt, Hooper
Subs: Zaluska, Izaguirre, Miku, McCourt, Rogne, Ibrahim, Lustig
First Celtic goal for Lassad from the Sammi position.
Lassad in midfield?
The only issue with the team is lack of creativity with no Commons or Forrest. Should still be too strong for St Mirren.
Looks more like 4-3-3 to me?
That’s what I get for betting on Lustig and Izzy before the team is announced.
Hooper hat trick @’21/1 will have to suffice.
Gordon_J
Looks as if we’ve brought in two players to cover for no Greek God (/’-‘)/