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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Gordon the hurting hun wanted to know why we got cheap loans on SSB tonight. Cos we had all them fivers to save up. Ya dope.
Wee sum for you Gordon. I borrow £1000 at 5 % over 10 years. And you borrow £1000 at 10% over the same 10years. Who pays back the most?
No cheating now like the your club did!!
DJBEE
21:30 on 13 January, 2014
Should be legal for the thugs under the tutelage of John Fleming, if it is done against a Celtic player.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
You leave ma Brother in law ( Chopper) oot oh yur durty chat, he received the nickname, due to his reputation as a fighten man, in his daft teenage years.
Awerabest PJ
ps God rest Wee Bobby.
Now a wee 10 pointer in the predictor tonight would be nice :-)
Naemaregoalsplease
PJ
I hope he never used a weapon?! :-)
Villa pull one back.
Ohshit :-)
Papa, how you doing with the new IPad Bhud
Hail hail
cowiebhoy supporting the celtic to 3 in a row
21:28 on 13 January, 2014
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Now the 6-2 game, missed the first goal walking along Janefield St, got in and sat down as we scored our second, had just recovered and caught my breath when the third went in……. magic, even at 6-2 I worry.. can they come back into it…I’m was always like that, think its cause I disliked them…
Now the Partizan Belgrade game…. naw.!
HH
HT
You been watchin yir ole Benny Hill box set?
HT
We are absolutely fine. My ole mum keeps defying medical logic, 94 next month. And other news………….. The friggin hens are laying again, and the ewes are in the byre with the tup. Never seen a happier bhoy. Hehe. Lambing due about mid March. Whoohoo. :)) Life’s ghood. So looking forward to the game on saturday, seems like ages. :)
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Bhoys anyone wanting to go to cliftonville v crusaders final at end of this month go to Sean Graham’s tomorrow to get tickets only back from solitude and there are very few left
Also glens player in belfast telegraph got a bad kicking in belfast by a current cliftonville player (one of our Big players) by all accounts !! Bit stupid of him if true could cost him a good career
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
As far as I know he normally used his HEAD,know whit ah mean.
Awerabest
voguepunter
21:42 on 13 January, 2014
HT
You been watchin yir ole Benny Hill box set?
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Aye, I’ll get it back to ye once it’s signed mate :-)
Cowiebhoy supporting the Celtic to 3 in a row
21:38 on 13 January, 2014
Now a wee 10 pointer in the predictor tonight would be nice :-)
Naemaregoalsplease
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I disagree, goals goals goals is what is required. Experimenting with a trio of over 4.5s that brings in roughly 200/1. Inter are not at the races though, despite the game having 2 goals in the first 15 minutes, Villareal are rocking though.
HH
WeeFra
Glad your mums keeping well pal!!!
The rest of your post was farmer speak so I’ll get back to ye once I have it translated :-)
Will def arrange a wee visit some time soon.
Bada Bing,
I was asking if anyone knew the amount of money.Some Turks were saying it was £2 million split between the teams.Would not surprise me as it was shown on all the Turkish stations,and they advertise all throughout the games here.Advert banners across the bottom of the screen.Also sponsored by mainly Turkish Airlines.They get massive tv audiences for Galatasaray and Fenerbache.
HT
Would have loved to have seen your face that night, mate :O)
Cowiebhoy supporting the Celtic to 3 in a row
Stul at the tutorial stage but my Grandson is in on the wings as backup.
Awerabest PJ
Micktt
At 6-2 I was the same thinking they would come back
Partizan Belgrade was the noisiest I can remember CP think I was 13
PJ
Ahhhhh I’m with you /-)
Petec,
I feel like a TRIfc share at the minute in the Predictor, dropping like a stone :-)
Now there’s been another goal, I suppose 5 points will do
So good luck
I am still not convinced that we should be crowing about our financial stratedy. Certainly not for as long as Brian Quinn is posted missing in action. When the history books show that Rangers the club never cheated and managed to ditch 350 miliion for three years in the wilderness. As that’s EXACTLY as its shaping up. Then its utterly meaningless. Dallas jnr. Apprenticeship can rectify that. In fact it has already been decided. Lets get Brian Quinn in the CQN magazine interview chair. Ask him a few questions. Or John Reid, or DD…
So you want a,resolution …well we all want to change the world…
Not gonnae happen though except for a more acute and modern form of discrimination. One that’s meted out by your own in the name of profit…
Or am I getting it wrong ?
I certainly hope so and look forward to the elegant and perceptive leader backed up by a lucid and compelling debate, civilised and inclusive, or can only Rangers temporary demise inspire such musings ?
HH
turkeybhoy-ta,i noticed we had a Turkish Airlines advert on our sleeve.
Cowiebhoy supporting the Celtic to 3 in a row
21:49 on 13 January, 2014
Petec,
I feel like a TRIfc share at the minute in the Predictor, dropping like a stone :-)
Now there’s been another goal, I suppose 5 points will do
So good luck
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That’s the spirit…..
Y@zz.
From sky regional papers review :
”Nicky Law today insisted the threat of cutbacks at Rangers will not impact on the Ibrox club’s bid to land a unique Treble.”
What a lot of complete crap !!!!!!!
LOL
HT
You know you are welcome anytime. Take care and luv to Minx. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Terrible news about the young santos Laguna team’s bus accident
Ain’t it funny the number of posters missing.? No one calling for Boycotts; or Lenny to be sacked; or Big Petsy to be hung drawn and quartered.
clifonville celt
Haven’t seen that. Elaborate please.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
bcw
Their better staying away, the blog smells nicer. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Boycott Paradise,Sack Lennon,Lawell should be hung,drawn and quartered.
Read the Lewis Trilogy and spoke to a Lewis man who said Peter May wisnae very popular when he went back as there were far too many stories that had some element of truth in them.
Thought the trilogy was a slow burner….Chessmen definitely the best of the lot….enjoyed it though….will download the one suggested.
Reading Julia Philips “You’ll never eat lunch in this town again” very ballsy wummin…
Sky suggesting we are in talks with a striker…..
Re the Huns latest….I am still giggling about Mr Custard who is without doubt my favourite in the while saga.
Kikinthenakas
I’m so glad we’ve got a competitive game on Saturday and not one of those boring bloody friendly tournaments abroad.
:-)))))))
ryecatcher
You as well. :)))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Awe naw….
Aye get Dr.Death in the chair and plug the feckin thing in.
The most disgusting man ever to be allowed on a Celtic board.
NotashotinangerAfghanistanCSC
big-cup-winners-give it til end of the Transfer Windae….
Weefra….
Only joking mate…
Hows it hanging buddy?
Weefra
U mean the santos Laguna bus crash ?
Was on Celtic website team doctor was killed and 20 players injured some seriously
Tontine Tim
21:29 on 13 January, 2014
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.
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Yes I did the write up of that page for the Wiki for obvious reasons and the Rhino as he was known was someone I had seen play for Rangers against Hibs at Easter Road.
My abiding memory was of his powerful physique and charging run which on one attack he could not stop in time and went right over the whitewashed low wall behind the by line!
Charlie Dickson broke a few hearts and was a prolific scorer and like Kitchenbrand was unorthodox to say the least.
Bobby Collins though was all football and will leave only Jimmy Walsh as the survivor of that team I watched back in 1956.