Humiliate your rivals in the Cup Final by putting five goals past them and, if you don’t pay the piper, you pay the consequences. Winning trophies while running up debts you cannot afford to pay is not a viable strategy. The consequences, if you are fortunate enough to survive, has to be painful, otherwise football removes the moral hazard of failure, making Hearts recent experience more likely to happen to other clubs.
Hearts season at the bottom of the Scottish Premiership is the cost of pouring millions of pounds creditors will not receive onto the Hampden Park pitch to hit five goals past a Hibs team, who live within their means. Many other teams were denied progress in the cups, or higher prize money in the league, while the fantasists were building to their 5-1 glory.
Billy Brown’s nonsense about rescinding a punishment for a club who are still in administration is yet another fantasy, but it was fostered in 2012, by the notion that Scottish football can change insolvency rules on the hoof to accommodate a failed club. If you want to change insolvency rules, knock yourself out, but there is near-uniform agreement that you cannot change rules when a favoured club falls foul, in order to benefit them.
This notion that because the rules were not changed to help Newco Rangers into top flight football, Scotland’s reigning Third Division champions would be outraged, is hardly news. The 11 top flight clubs, most of whom appear to be enjoying a competitive ‘Best of the Rest’ league race, and a whole clutch of lower league clubs, would also be outraged if Hearts were advantaged.
In October 2011, when Rangers fate was privately acknowledged, Craig Whyte, Neil Doncaster and SPL chairman, Ralph Topping, discussed this rule change ruse. It should have been a 30 second conversation; declined when first proposed. Instead, Scottish football was put through the real trauma of a fantasy fear of Armageddon. Now everyone who can’t pay their bills think they have the same entitlement to campaign for a rule change – and why shouldn’t they, the tabloids told everyone that changing the rules on the hoof was acceptable.
Hearts fans know this. They are heading for relegation, those I have spoken to have accepted the situation. For them, it’s all about ensuring the club survives and sorting things out for the long term, SPFL results don’t even register. I don’t know any who want to see their club go cap in hand for rule changes, the way Whyte, then Green, did. It’s demeaning and lacks dignity.
This is turning into my favourite domestic season yet. All the ‘They’ve suffered enough’ merchants better get their strategies sorted for the next episode.
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!!bada bing!!
20:48 on 13 January, 2014
Raspberry-weet-P T night out The Lorne Hotel Friday 24th,hope to make it.
Cheers mate
djbee
20:56 on 13 January, 2014
They stopped supporting anybody when their Club died…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Thanks for the offer re the puppies. The family couldnt dedicate the same time they did when they got Homer re work commitments and that!!
Got a tap at the cab window today outside Central.
Foreign lassie asks me ” Can You ride me to Bearsden?”
“I’ll do my best” says I.
DjYNWA67 20:56 on 13 January, 2014……….
Thanks. Appreciate the considered response.
Who do you think is behind this malevolence???
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Night all.Night wee Oscar my hero. God bless x
Joe Filippis Haircut 18:58 on 13 January, 2014
“I accept that there are many clever posters on CQN I have never said otherwise. I also accept many will have a good idea of the Rangers situation with others wishful thinking plays a big part in there opinions. However,even the Chairman of the Bank of England will not know the exact income and expenditure of the Ibrokes club only those in the know will have any idea. So to keep saying week after week that they are going broke this week next week or the week after that is pure nonsense and does no good to the credability of CQN. We as a club and supporters should be concentrating on our own club in my opinion. H.H.”
Joe – It has been well enough documented that Sevco, a club without a banking facility, is losing around £1m per-month.
At the club’s inaugural AGM in December, their latest chief executive clearly stated Sevco will have to embark on serious cut in order to survive.
Uncertainty on the future of Sevco is not ’wishful thinking’ it is very much reality. And it is a great laugh as well.
What’s not to enjoy?
HH
r.i.p. bobby collins
he was our hero in the 50s
As for who is behind it all, well…..
Sad to hear of the wee man, Bobby Collins.
Our headmaster, William Collins took us to see the Celtic visit Dunfermline in 1956, my first Hoops game.
Charlie Dickson, who died a few months back opened the scoring and Bobby equalised.
Sad loss, that big smile and those twinkling eyes.
RIP
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/1956-03-07%3A+Dunfermline+Athletic+1-1+Celtic%2C+League+Division+A
Was Marc guiding not a goalkeeper in celtic youth teams, but never made it.
Then took a journalist course at uni ?
Sftb,
The tourney was on last year.
I take it wee Bobby Collins has passed away. He is the first Celtic player I ever was aware of. I was a wee, wee bhoy, (3 or 4)being passed from Dad to uncle to uncle and back in the ole Jungle and hearing everybody calling for the wee barra. I looked and looked and couldn’t see any wee (or even big) barrow.
voguepunter
21:00 on 13 January, 2014
Got a tap at the cab window today outside Central.
Foreign lassie asks me ” Can You ride me to Bearsden?”
“I’ll do my best” says I.
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Was it your chopper?!
http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/celtic/260229-celtic-target-midfielder-stefan-johansen-arrives-in-glasgow/?
VP-VG mate.:)
HT
Tut tut. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar
R.I.P. Bobby Collins, great Celt.
Hail! Hail!
HT
Thanks.
TT
https://www.facebook.com/dhinde2/posts/10202153522270803
voguepunter, That made me smile, if twas Mick he’d have stuck on the Wolfies straight away.
WeeFra
It’s a bike!!!! :-)
can i have raspberry on that champions league ice cream
20:59 on 13 January, 2014!!
bada bing!!
20:48 on 13 January, 2014
Raspberry-weet-P T night out The Lorne Hotel Friday 24th,hope to make it.
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Whats this he asks..
HH
Vogue Punter
It’s the little things…
Hi CQNers
I was lurking earlier today on previous thread when someone mentioned about players who left Celtic and progressed. Not many. But the “Wee Barra” was most certainly amongst them.
I’m almost sure but time may be playing tricks….. I think I was there on a snowy afternoon at Parkhead when Bobby scored a hat-trick of penalties against a very good Aberdeen team of the 50s.
If I’m wrong please some of you boys correct me.
I loved the players of that era. Tully, Evans, Fernie, Peacock, Fallon and of course Bobby Collins.
RIP wee man.
YNWA
Hail Hail
Geordie Munro
I just saw some scores on the Live Score site from Ghana vs Congo and Libya vs Ethiopia and it states Jan 13.
They must be messing with me head.
Speaking on Monday evening, Bobby’s friend and former team-mate, Eddie Gray said: “In my opinion Bobby Collins was probably the most influential player in the history of Leeds United. He will be sadly missed by all who knew him and played with him.”
HT
Who is?? :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
I just double checked and this “current” tournie is dubbed the Africa-Nations Championship not the Africa Cup of Nations.
Must be a judean people’s front vs the peoples front for judea type of thing
4-2
2nd year at school and 13 years old.
Bus I went on wasn’t going because they had windows smashed previous game
Tried to go on my own on service bus(girl from school told me they were ALL off)
Went home and begged big brother to take me in his pals car…. No room
Gave him my tkt to sell
Call from someone offering me a lift but they didn’t have any tkts(neither did I now)
Went round corner to another guy I knew in same boat as me but still had tkt
Told him I needed his tkt but didn’t have room for him in car(wee lie)
He wouldn’t give me it as he wanted to keep tkt
Told him don’t be a Richard I will give you Stub…… Eventually agreed
Went to game 3 in car one tkt
I found tkt outside ground and one of them double shuffled in with me
Brilliant so far
Just entered ground as McDonald scored for huns
You know the rest
BUT
After all that the eejit who took us and who never went to games wanted to leave early
And we left at 2-2.
Would have stayed but a 13 year old and previous story of no service buses I had no option.
So if anyone asks were you there when ten men won the league I always say YES
BUT.
: > (
Ps Mad Dog > 30 years later your brother in law is still a fud
WeeFra
You’re trying to get me into trouble!! :-)
The 4 – 2 game, wow
Bannockburn CSC double decker breaks down on way to game in Stepps, the big bus garage there couldn’t supply another bus ? lucky me, as a nieve 16 year old, still travelling with my mentors, they know how to get us there (I right ! panic) so about 90 of us then trying to get a lift to Celtic Park.
8 of us, yes 8 into a black cab,
Into the main stand, and were already 1 down
The rest , will never forget,
Celtic, Celtic, that’s the team for me
Celtic Celtic onto to Victory :-)
Now was the 6 – 2 game any better in 2000 ? Splitting hairs now
Hail Hail
If Arsenal spend wisely this window, and they have loads of money to spend, they may well win this tainted EPL.
Arsenal could afford to pay £80Million for Suarez but I doubt they will. I like Arsene a lot because he is really against the big money clubs and the debt they continue to hold.
The Piper has to be paid at some point as Paul67 says.
Who me???? Perish the thought, how’s Minx by the way, hope she’s not online. Hahahaha. How you doin’ buddy, looking after that lovely lass I presume? :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Big Nan
21:04 on
13 January, 2014
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/1956-03-07%3A+Dunfermline+Athletic+1-1+Celtic%2C+League+Division+A
*Interesting tae note on that link that the scorer of 5 goals for the deid team was hunted fae ayebroke once they found out that he was a Ben Affleck.
BTW Charlie Dickson broke this wee school boys heart on April 26, 1961.
Elbows has got a new move he has been trying out at the Conveyor Belt training facilities
https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/7B5B3394C4980265922298273792_1d9e8e053dc.3.1_W_OXBOPWaSuYzPHW8fZGeSOC6p3MYEns9t2RkTwXyIhddFCj1rPNFxet0V2vSbHw.mp4?versionId=6Zk0nq.lyV8Nr9r2qWwULC_MkiMfyyDv
WeeFra
Of course she’s ruined, she just needs reminded of it occasionally!! :-)
How’s your lot mate?
All the Gala fans were raving about James Forrest the other night.Zaluska they thought was a very good keeper.They were saying big Amido was made of Iron,especially when he took that one in the cohones and got right back up.