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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TheBattered Bunnet. 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.
TheBarcaMole
18:07 on 13 January, 2014
BTW, have expressed my ‘irrational thoughts’ with some of the contributors on here by e-mail, SMS, phone calls, conversations. Appreciate that none of said recipients bellowed ‘you’re nuts TBM’……….. Maybe they were just being polite eh!
The Dundee shenanigens came just a fortnight or so after the chaos at Ibrox & it was popular belief (amongst Celtic fans) the authorities had to even up the score. Ever since that fateful night Celtic F.C has come under sustained attack from both Police & media Propaganda. Some of it warranted in the form of flares & smoke bombs but the rest can only be described as anti Celtic venomous hatred.
Hail Hail!
Maybeimdelusional¶noidcsc
Weefra, I just don’t understand his anti Amido stance. It’s as if he wants him to fail, suggesting Steven Thompson, John Sutton and Kris Boyd are better players. I think he is afraid that if the big man becomes a success his own credibility will be a bit like Keevin’s.
See kiko Martinez ducked fighting Carl Frampton today the feckin coward !!!!
Ragin was looking forward to rematch
Ronaldo wins Ballon D’Or.
CliftonvilleCelt,
Were ye at Solitude on Saturday?
TheBarcaMole
I would imagine that it is one of the standard tactics of any smear campaign worth it’s salt!!
Something about that whole Motherwell story stinks, indeed Scottish Football stink to ugh heaven as they try to keep the corpse from rotting further!
Bada?
Whit? What about Nicky Law?
Tricoloured Ribbon-Xavi just edged him out of Team of the Year mate,shockeroonie!!
DjYNWA67
Correct, the orcs as much as said they would bring us all down and the powers that be will deflect attention from their alleged criminality by any means possible, that’s how those feckers roll..
the bookworm
I have not read the ET for about 8 years, so did not know he was bad mouthing any of our players. When I did read the rag, I thought he came over as a, type, of tim. Imho of course. :)
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Weefra..,
He went to St Thomas Aquinas before he took the soup
http://youtu.be/xVxvYsBq7GI. Big Sammy gives us a wee tune afore hez offski.
Hebcelt,
If yer about,
How many Tims in Stornoway then?
Tom Hennessy @TomGoalie33 1h
@JimFitz67 @Heavidor an ex colleague now working as an asset turn around specialist in the city of London
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Tom Hennessy @TomGoalie33 1h
@Heavidor 2/2 realities were put before them, so Super Sally’s assertions in last weekends press using Manuel’s” I know nothing” line..crap!
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Tom Hennessy @TomGoalie33 1h
@Heavidor by all a/c’s he nearly shat himself when a con call involving major shareholders, the board & Sally Friday last, stark 1/2
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@Heavidor 2/2 is in trouble due to poor structural survey a major stumbling block to any sale & leaseback deal….
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Tom Hennessy @TomGoalie33 1h
@Heavidor Laxey have presented through the CEO a comprehensive list of cuts, this is across the board & non negotiable, sale & leaseback 1/2
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy 18 57.
Lewis Trilogy-Peter May .
Butting in -but for what it is worth .
I have read it. I liked it..The novels work as thrillers, the novels are very evocative of place and culture. . Dark and chilling ..
MurdochauldandHay & Wee Oscar
19:15 on
13 January, 2014
Tick Tock Tick Tock :))
Hope you are well sir
Till later all watching footie at my mates calls(it’s a hard life)
DjYNWA67 18:59 on 13 January, 2014
TheBarcaMole 18:07 on 13 January, 2014
For sure DjYNWA67 ‘the anti Celtic venomous hatred’ twas ever thus……….. It’s the (probable/possible) infiltration bit that has me wondering WTF is going on here???
Maybeimdelusional¶noidcsc……..SE Asian branch……..
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
South of Tunis
You’re not butting in at all. I’ve read them too. I loved them some flaws but generally brilliant. I have become more interested in the Island of Lewis as a result of the books. I was wondering what hebcelt felt about May’s descriptions of Island life rang true.
starry plough forza oscar 19:04 on 13 January, 2014…..
Understand that and agree but just what is the long game????? That’s the bit that puzzles me, and leads me to thinking is this more than just the Media House propaganda machine in action???
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
radio scotland off the ball.
spiers was on with cowan, and cant remember who else.
cowan was asking questions to have a yes / no answer only.
several rounds of daft wee questions, then came the biggy, from a tweeter feed,
to spiers
“are the rangers club the same club”
speirs said NO,
then said “its insults my intelligence to suggest they are”.
the zombies are revolting.
Bada Bing
A wee correction
“BFSDJ wins Balloon D’Orc”
Saint Stivs
Listened to it Saturday whilst working…..couldn’t stop laughing after Speirs reply.
TheBarcaMole
How much does Focus cost to fund, who created it and why, who rubber-stamped the costing and how is it justified to the Big Chiefs.
Now imagine that in the corridors of power a wee secret whisper of incompetence and WTF kind of a thing..
Call for The Cleaner, Hollywood, could be but ruth is much stranger than Richard in my humble opinion..
The Long Game is preservation of the Gravy Train allegedly!!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
18:57 on 13 January, 2014
Hebcelt
Have you read the Lewis Trilogy by Peter May? If so, any thoughts?
Ghuys, try his latest “Entry Island” – set in Nova Scotia/Quebec with strong links to Western isles. Stoater, probably more satisfying than The Trilogy.
SPFO 16.46
Apologies Starry, just tracked back and saw you post re Motherwell youngsters and Police Scotland statement. This one is worth following.
Well spotted before the award winning STV news programme !!!
HH
sftb
lol
hh
http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/90m4jnapb79f1ajeq55lar4a4/title/bobby-collins
Bobby Collins dies.
Sad news from Mexico.
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=5241
SFTB
It was a misprint,
BFDJ actually won the Ballon D’ung
RIP Bobby Collins.
Saw him play against us for Morton. Class.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
RIP Bobby Collins, a Celtic great,.
SSB CLUTCHING AT STRAWS TONIGHT…….hehe…..hurtin’ cretins….
Monaghan1900
See all these mullions FF are on about………………………..
is their cookery section got any hints on lintel soup?
:-)
Tricoloured
No had to work my wee girl and da were there said it was good game I’m on way out to solitude now to get tickets for final laters
God bless Bobby Collins, and may his soul rest in peace……wonderful Celtic player / ambassador ….
R.I.P. Bobby Collins, outstanding player. May heaven be your bed.
Fat Sally wins Balloon d’Orc.