Walter Bishop Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Petrie and co. clearly trying to take all the flak away from themselves due to the imminent arrival of "fans messiah" Pat Fenlon by whining about Hearts and the council.... http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/hibs_accuse_edinburgh_council_of_bias_towards_hearts_over_stadium_1_1981656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cow Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Bitter wee team mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Petrie and co. clearly trying to take all the flak away from themselves due to the imminent arrival of "fans messiah" Pat Fenlon by whining about Hearts and the council.... http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/hibs_accuse_edinburgh_council_of_bias_towards_hearts_over_stadium_1_1981656 Hibs ***** wetting their collective pants on Hearts issues again whats new ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawaii Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Did Man Utd or their fans have a moan when Man City shifted from Maine Road to the Commenwealth games stadium? Personally I feel that if edinburgh council DOESN'T help Hearts out then questions should be raised in Parliament about why Aberdeen council will back a community stadium but Edinburgh will not. Maybe we need to ask Milne what he did to get that deal through? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Just think if the worse happened that lot will go bust themselves afterall they will have nothing to seethe over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deevers Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Didn't expect anying else- a) From Petrie and Tom Farmer or From the Hibsman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Bitter wee team mentality. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian Lambretta Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I really dont get this unless Petrie is aware of information on a proposed stadium that we dont know about. Its been made abundently clear that the council are not interested and that should be the end of the matter but the fact this plum keeps dragging this up would suggest otherwise. Are they having second thoughts and now see it as a viable opportunity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victorian Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 horrible feckers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feeno Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Scotsman gettin a trifecta of results here, gettin simpletons to read their paper, having a go at the Edinburgh Council and having a go at Hearts, doesnt matter what level of truth there is attached to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chester™ Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Did their planning permission not continually get extended (by the Council) when it shouldnt have for their new stand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bilel Mohsni Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Maybe we should all have paid more attention to "impartial newspaper" The Scotsman's bias-o-metre? You know the one where they used an arrow in a pressure guage format to point out whether this council was more biased than the last biased council towards Hearts. How anyone on here can still defend the EEN or Scotsman is beyond me. They would be as well just becoming the official PR arm of Easter Road to be honest. Those papers are going out of their way (as are Hibs) to do everything in their power to block any possible joint venture for Hearts and both parties seem to want us to go to the wall... http://www.facebook....ps/88828825717/ Here's the article to prevent more hits on their website... Published on Thursday 24 November 2011 00:33 THE row over a proposed joint stadium between Heart of Midlothian and Edinburgh City Council intensified yesterday after it emerged arch rivals Hibernian had accused the local authority of ?favouritism?. Fresh doubts over the prospect of Hearts being able to hire part of a new ?community stadium? have also emerged after councillors admitted such a facility would have to have a running track. Sir Tom Farmer, the owner of the Easter Road side and the club?s chief executive Rod Petrie are understood to have protested to the authority at a behind-closed-doors meeting recently. Council chiefs were asked to explain why Hearts have been offered assistance to find a suitable replacement for Tynecastle, as well as help to meet the cost of a ?30,000 study, when Hibs were offered no help to rebuild Easter Road. Hibs fans have been left furious after it emerged that the council was pursuing plans for a shared stadium with Hearts, shortly before they declared they were being forced to quit Tynecastle due to problems over redeveloping the ageing ground. Mr Petrie also made his feelings clear to the fans at the club?s recent AGM, when he compared the council?s efforts to help Hearts with the problems Hibs had faced over Easter Road, including a protracted dispute over a plot of land near the ground. He said: ?We have the craziness of the City of Edinburgh Council wanting to build a stadium for Hearts because Tynecastle is not fit for purpose and because Hearts have chosen to spend money on players rather than on a stadium.? Sources at the city council claimed that Hibs? officials said their club was warned the main stand might have been closed down if it failed to meet health and safety standards. They raised concerns that, by comparison, Hearts had been offered more leeway because of stalled efforts to redevelop Tynecastle. An insider said: ?The concerns from Hibs have definitely made it more difficult for the council to press ahead with any kind of shared stadium with Hearts. ?They believe there has been an element of favouritism and bias in the way the two clubs have been treated. ?Any shared stadium is bound to be seen as the council building a stadium for Hearts, and that is a political non-starter in a city like Edinburgh.? Earlier this month Dave Anderson, the council?s director of city development, said it would be a ?failure of ambition? on the council?s part not to examine the joint stadium plans. However, Jim Lowrie, the city?s planning leader, said: ?I don?t see a shared ground with Hearts really being a goer at the moment. ?The council doesn?t really have any money for something like that and if we were going to look at a new stadium it would need to be for athletics, as that is what we received funding for previously. It would need a running track, but Hearts wouldn?t be happy with that.? Sir Tom Farmer declined to comment last night. Mr Petrie was also unavailable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanliHearts Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Aw FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...a bit disco Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 "Sir Tom Farmer, the owner of the Easter Road side and the club?s chief executive Rod Petrie are understood to have protested to the authority at a behind-closed-doors meeting recently." Really? So no preferential treatment there then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Back to 2005 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hearts represent the city of Edinburgh. Hibs are a wee team in leith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 "Sir Tom Farmer, the owner of the Easter Road side and the club?s chief executive Rod Petrie are understood to have protested to the authority at a behind-closed-doors meeting recently." Really? So no preferential treatment there then? The council do favour Hearts,i mean just look at the colour of the buses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahgrassyshoes Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 In every article I read about this Farmer and Petrie are asking why "Hearts were offered assistance..." I was of the impression Hearts went to the council with the proposal? Seems they are just annoyed because they never thought to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad-Stupid Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Champagne is chilling at the back of the fridge ready for the day the paper goes bust. They should make it a national holiday when it happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johanes de Silentio Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hibs officials need to shut their traps about other clubs - it's none of their ******* business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingantti1874 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hibs officials need to shut their traps about other clubs - it's none of their ******* business. This - petrie an farmer would be best served keeping their aids ridden ******* noses out of our business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homme Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I particularly enjoy the spongos over their threatening not to pay their council tax if this goes ahead. Let's see how they get on with that. :Vlad-Stupid: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 This was classic Scotsman Take a relatively dull story "Hearts and Council cooperate on planning project examining where both parties interests might coincide" Run story putting a massive deceptive spin on it. "Council to build new stadium for Hearts" Run the story again with the spin the other way round "Council rule out building new stadium for Hearts" And hey presto you've turned a minor story into not one bu two front page splashes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboinglasgow Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 This was classic Scotsman Take a relatively dull story "Hearts and Council cooperate on planning project examining where both parties interests might coincide" Run story putting a massive deceptive spin on it. "Council to build new stadium for Hearts" Run the story again with the spin the other way round "Council rule out building new stadium for Hearts" And hey presto you've turned a minor story into not one bu two front page splashes Agree, the Scotsman/Evening News has been pathetic in their handling of the story. After the Hearts announcement they even decided that it was at Sighthill (no party ever said that) that it was only a community stadium which the council would build and fund (no one said that was what was going to happen only one of many options considered.) It then gets to run out this idea that Edinburgh council is bias in favour of Hearts and against Hibs. As Robin Cook (the poster) says earlier the most ridiculous bit was the story of what they claimed was baised behaviour in the council with a "bias-o-meter." The craziest part was it took the previous council and had football related actions and it was denying Hibs planning permission for the space of land behind their stadium (or something like that) and their "bias-o-meter" pointed straight to Hearts bias. Shameful. The Scotsman/EEN is desperate for any story to drum up sales and to it trying to show corruption at the centre of the council through a Hearts bias is a way it likes to go, however it is nonsense and it could seriously damage a chance for some much needed development of sporting facilities in Edinburgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay B-8) Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 lol teh money wasted on the the trams you could have built 3 camp nous and still had money left over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I agree it is wee team mentality to seethe about such things. A good parallel would be if we felt that the Edinburgh evening news was as biased against us. I'm just glad none of us think that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Grimes Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Did Hibs bother to ask the council to look into any joint plans for Easter Rd? Wouldn't have seen a problem if they did. The "Hearts chose to spend money on players" is the key bit tho - they're trying to justify to their fan dans why they've not bothered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debut 4 Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I FU@*IN HATE HIBS...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Problem Officer? Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Hibs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasman Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 This was classic Scotsman Take a relatively dull story "Hearts and Council cooperate on planning project examining where both parties interests might coincide" Run story putting a massive deceptive spin on it. "Council to build new stadium for Hearts" Run the story again with the spin the other way round "Council rule out building new stadium for Hearts" And hey presto you've turned a minor story into not one bu two front page splashes Nail. On. Head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardiac Rucksack Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Farmer and petrie. cushiest jobs in football. anything goes wrong blame hearts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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