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  2. Harry Potter

    On the beach advert

    i try and ignore adverts, boring, pointless, forcing folk to fly away , lol, or a river cruise, imagine being stuck on a barge😅.
  3. Gillsland jack

    Brenda

    Conveniently forget Kevin 'O Donnell and his antics at Darkheid, the chap Brines sending Takis off at Tynecastle helping Sellick to comeback from 2-0 down and many many more times the refs helped Sellick that I'm not going to waste anymore of my Friday holiday documenting.
  4. We_are_the_Hearts

    Scottish Cup Semi Final Ticket Thread - on sale Wed 27/3

    What part is shite? Piss off elsewhere 😂 what age are you?
  5. As much as I love Scotland I can't wait to get back to the one team that has no equals tomorrow. MON ❤️
  6. cheetah

    Scottish Cup Semi Final Ticket Thread - on sale Wed 27/3

    2 days of sales gone, 3 weeks left, not really the time to start moaning about sales.
  7. manaliveits105

    More Tory lies

    Junta bingo a bit slow lately
  8. The Goalscoring Knee

    Tynecastle Park Hotel ( updated )

    V complimentary review, I thought, in the Times travel section today There is a joke to be had about the idea of going to Tynecastle Park in the hope of getting a good sleep. But that’s the reality at Heart of Midlothian’s home in 2024. The 150-year-old club they call the Jambos has opened Edinburgh’s most unlikely place to stay — a four-star hotel owned and operated by the club itself inside its stadium. Opened last month, Tynecastle Park Hotel is neatly tucked into one corner of the stadium, where the fans’ experience on matchdays is regarded as one of the best in Scotland. Tynecastle has four compact and steep stands tightly enclosing the pitch, putting it in the Goldilocks zone when it comes to the ingredients for generating a cracking atmosphere. Throw in plenty of nearby pubs and Haymarket railway station 20 minutes’ walk away and you have a maroon cauldron ticking all the boxes as a modern football venue. When Hearts committed to rebuilding the dilapidated main stand in 2017, the club realised it could offer more than just the usual corporate lounges and function suites in the new glass-fronted stand. And so the idea for a hotel was hatched. The target market is varied. Any reasonably priced hotel close to Edinburgh city centre should do OK for tourists. Hearts fans from near and far will fancy the idea of putting money into the club via an overnighter or a weekend break. Overseas visitors for their European games may do the same (tribalism dictates that for fans of rival Scottish clubs the very idea is utterly unthinkable, of course). The hope is that Six Nations fans will also see it as an intriguing option, given Murrayfield is just a mile away. The O2 Academy is within walking distance too. Club colours are used sparingly in the hope of reaching more than just the matchday crowd What Hearts have created is a neat, bright, functional hotel with a bit of class. Guests enter through the same main entrance as the players and management do on match days. At reception — after the tiny personal satisfaction of answering “And are you a Hearts fan yourself?” with “No, no, Aberdeen” — I headed upstairs past a warren of lounges and suites. These throb with people when there is a home game. A shrewd decision was taken not to make the bedrooms too “Heartsy”. No wall-to-wall maroon or posters of the Jambos legend John Robertson — it doesn’t feel as if you’ve walked into a Gorgie teenager’s bedroom. Barring a couple of tartan cushions on the bed and some maroon on a rug, the Hearts colours are barely visible at all. The rooms are bright and spotless and the en suite showers have a smart marble finish. It all feels satisfyingly modern and businesslike. Molton Brown toiletries are a nice touch. An en suite shower room. Surprisingly the rooms don’t offer a view of the pitch — or at least not a real one. The design of the stand does not allow for that, but in some rooms the HD plasma screens feature a stream of the playing surface taken from a fixed camera high behind one of the goals. Unaware guests have mistakenly thought they were looking at a still image simply there to serve as wallpaper, only to then spot a groundsman walking out or a bird flying across the screen. If Hearts have a home game a guest can watch on that stream in their room. Meals are in the Skyline restaurant on the third floor with a three-course deal at £34.95. Starter options include chicken and black pudding terrine and cured duck breast. Mains include a haunch of venison bourguignon, seared guinea fowl, and fresh haddock fillet in a beer batter. No pie and Bovril here. The hotel may be new, but Skyline opened in 2019 and last year earned a spot in OpenTable’s UK Top 100 Restaurants. The food and service are excellent. The adjoining cocktail bar has a screen showing Sky Sports but the volume is low and unobtrusive. For football fans, especially, the whole hotel experience is enjoyable and different. Tynecastle has come a long way. About 25 years ago I went to an Aberdeen game there when there was a single lavatory cubicle for an away terrace capable of taking 8,000 fans. And it was out of order. In his seminal guide to British football grounds in 1987 the architectural historian Simon Inglis wrote affectionately of Tynecastle’s hemmed-in, inner city charm: “Tenements and a soot-coloured distillery watch over the ground like cell blocks over a prison yard.” Just as tourists delight in the ramparts and dungeons of Edinburgh Castle, he concluded, so “lovers of Scottish football delight in the cloistered intricacies of Tynecastle”. The old place has not moved an inch but … but, boy, has it grown and spread its wings. Michael Grant was a guest of Tynecastle Park hotel (B&B doubles from £90, tynecastleparkhotel.com). Until March 31, the hotel has B&B doubles from £150, including dinner for two
  9. Victorian

    More Tory lies

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  10. Victorian

    More Tory lies

    From time to time, one of these reptiles suggests that MP remuneration should be greatly increased. Industry rate, ken? Must attract the best people, innit? The opposite is true. Making the MP rewards package more and more lucrative attracts the wrong people.
  11. Dolf_lundgren

    Aberdeen

    Jack Ross would be a good option for them, shouldn’t be too hard to get him out of a u21 job.
  12. RustyRightPeg

    Scottish Cup Semi Final Ticket Thread - on sale Wed 27/3

    Right, I’ll bite to it. Enough of your shite. All you’ve done is moan. Piss off elsewhere.
  13. JKBMod 6

    Summer 24 Transfers - Vargas signs 5 year deal ( updated )

    If you want to discuss Hibs players or Hearts players from 15 years ago, please don't do it on this thread. If your comment is not related to the coming transfer window then please don't post it. Thanks.
  14. Gundermann

    Brexit Deal agreed ( updated )

    That's a but opinionated. But otherwise spot on.
  15. We_are_the_Hearts

    Scottish Cup Semi Final Ticket Thread - on sale Wed 27/3

    Disappointing as would sell out if Hibs or Aberdeen. Suppose every team has glory hunters/shitebags.
  16. hughesie27

    On the beach advert

    Almost as if its deliberate.
  17. Greedy Jambo

    Burger King is better than Mcdonalds

    Yeah, It was a silly comment from me, I was just going by my own experience. Toyota and Honda seem to be the most reliable vehicles.
  18. Harry Potter

    The all new "seethe" thread

    Easter bargains, you mean dropped to normal price, 😅,
  19. Sir PH

    Saint George is cross……oh me

    Your eyes must be painted on. There's plenty of examples of the police turning a blind eye to criminal behaviour at these Palestinian marches.
  20. the original dalry llama

    Gigs you are going to

    This is my plan B for Sunday.
  21. XB52

    Saint George is cross……oh me

    That's just made up rubbish from racists and islamaphobes. You're not a very good advert for Christianity are you. And still not given 1 example of anyone being arrested ONLY for waving a UJ
  22. gjcc

    Japan

    Are the Nippon Nippoff tour buses any good?
  23. boag1874

    Saint George is cross……oh me

    What am I accusing you of other than talking pish about seeing someone arrested for simply waving a union jack? You’ve had a stinker and rather than go “you know what folks, that was an exaggeration” you’ve gone off on one about street preachers being targeted. I have no side in a religious divide, I think religion can be a force for good and can help people through hardships, can inspire people to become better people, can give peoples life purpose. This is what religion should be in my eyes. I don’t however respect people who weaponise religion and use it as a mechanism for their own prejudices or extreme views, regardless of what religion they claim to represent. “What they say offends your wee ears” there you go, I don’t think it’s acceptable to stand on a busy street and air (as you’ve implied by that statement) bigoted views to passers by who want nothing to do with you and are just trying to go about their day.
  24. alicante jambo

    Semi final travel thread ( merged )

    Any buses going from dalkieth?
  25. Ibrahim Tall

    Aberdeen

    Given they had a good 5 year period of us, Hibs and Rangers effectively in the shit via admin or relegations the massive opportunity they’ve managed to squander to secure ‘3rd’ pretty much permanently is insane, let alone be fighting against relegation with an extremely mediocre squad. Pleasing but ****ing mental
  26. TheBigO

    Japan

    Superb Sydney thanks very much. If you're holidaying in Musselburgh any time, happy to repay with the highlights and top spots
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