SPFL and Covid ( Leagues 1 and 2 to restart )

[Last Laff]

13 minutes ago, Riccarton3 said:

Quaint. These qualities of which you speak, where are they anywhere in Scottish football?

There’s none, all round.  There’s no point in our owner mentioning them to try take a moral

highground though when we want to

lynch Doncaster or twats on a sponsored walk.  

[Riccarton3]

Posters developing a tired old  narrative now - worthy of the best from any broken hibby -  when faced with the indefensible. 

[luckydug]

The next part of this process is the sting. 

Three days at COS plus the best part of seven days at arbitration. 

All that time to decide nothing to see here. 

Nobody's allowed to know what was said and the reasonings behind the decision. For all we know they could just have been sitting drinking tea and munching biscuits all day. 

Dread to think what this is going to cost

500k maybe even a million. 

Easy money being a lawyer💰

 

 

[harrywragg]

Excerpt of a message on the PTFC website from our CEO tonight ... 

 

But I ask everyone associated with Thistle to never forget today. To never forget how it feels to be relegated unfairly. To never forget that there are many good decent people and clubs in Scotland who stood with us, publicly and privately – but there are some whose fear and self-interest got in the way of doing the right thing.

 

This'll be my last post until we meet again - seems it's all a bit sensitive tonight and the recriminations have started amongst both sets of fans on their forums. 

 

All the best to your crew in the championship this season & Stranraer in L2. 

 

OTIG 🇧🇪

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

1 minute ago, Riccarton3 said:

Posters developing a tired old  narrative now - worthy of the best from any broken hibby -  when faced with the indefensible. 

Enlighten us. What is this narrative you speak of?

[stuart500]

When innocent people are found not guilty their immediate reaction is usually just plain and simple relief. There is no sense of triumphalism or gloating. Just relief that the ordeal is over.

 

Guilty people who escape a guilty verdict on the other hand tend to gloat. They know they have got away with their crime and take extra pleasure in rubbing their victims' noses in it.

 

Doncaster's reaction tells us all we need to know (if we ever doubted it).

What an absolute despicable charlatan. 

 

Neil Doncaster anagram = Rodents can lie. Coincidence?

 

 

 

[Riccarton3]

2 minutes ago, Last Laff said:

There’s none, all round.  There’s no point in our owner mentioning them to try take a moral

highground though when we want to

lynch Doncaster or twats on a sponsored walk.  

You should take a wander into an old firm forum. Either will do. Then you will see darkness. What you describe here is almost commendable in comparison. It's a nothing  argument just a bizarre attack

[Lone Striker]

1 minute ago, Last Laff said:

There’s none, all round.  There’s no point in our owner mentioning them to try take a moral

highground though when we want to

lynch Doncaster or twats on a sponsored walk.  

Are you  suggesting that our CEO should be saying publicly that she wants to lynch ND ?    Don't know about you, but I'm very pleased and proud that we've got a CEO with class, integrity  and dignity amid a cesspit of 2-faced morons.   ICT and Partick reps have similar dignity and integrity.   I'll leave the lynch mob for you to organise.

 

 

 

issuing 

[colinmaroon]

52 minutes ago, Jambof3tornado said:

They backed us in the hope the league would be declared null and void, they are not our friends.

 

Irony!

 

I think my post finished with enough to make it clear I agree and, if in any doubt, look at my posting history on the subject.

[niblick1874]

Double post

Edited July 27, 2020 by niblick1874

[Riccarton3]

6 minutes ago, Geoff Kilpatrick said:

Enlighten us. What is this narrative you speak of?

Moving away from what has just occurred as if it was normal.

Edited July 27, 2020 by Riccarton3

[stuart500]

5 minutes ago, harrywragg said:

Excerpt of a message on the PTFC website from our CEO tonight ... 

 

But I ask everyone associated with Thistle to never forget today. To never forget how it feels to be relegated unfairly. To never forget that there are many good decent people and clubs in Scotland who stood with us, publicly and privately – but there are some whose fear and self-interest got in the way of doing the right thing.

 

This'll be my last post until we meet again - seems it's all a bit sensitive tonight and the recriminations have started amongst both sets of fans on their forums. 

 

All the best to your crew in the championship this season & Stranraer in L2. 

 

OTIG 🇧🇪

Sad ending but your input has been very welcome. Good luck next season. Hope you come straight back up. 

[The Real Maroonblood]

10 minutes ago, Geoff Kilpatrick said:

I will repeat incidentally. Mods - CHANGE THE FECKING THREAD TITLE. WE WERE EXPELLED, NOT RELEGATED.

This.

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

Just now, Riccarton3 said:

Moving away from what has just occurred add if it was normal.

Nothing is normal in the corrupt pit that is Scottish football.

[Lone Striker]

6 minutes ago, harrywragg said:

Excerpt of a message on the PTFC website from our CEO tonight ... 

 

But I ask everyone associated with Thistle to never forget today. To never forget how it feels to be relegated unfairly. To never forget that there are many good decent people and clubs in Scotland who stood with us, publicly and privately – but there are some whose fear and self-interest got in the way of doing the right thing.

 

This'll be my last post until we meet again - seems it's all a bit sensitive tonight and the recriminations have started amongst both sets of fans on their forums. 

 

All the best to your crew in the championship this season & Stranraer in L2. 

 

OTIG 🇧🇪

All the best, Harry.  Thanks for coming on here these last few weeks.  Good to get your input.   Good statement from JL too  👍

[wavydavy]

40 minutes ago, Jambo-Fox said:

Great sentiment and admired!

 

However the years take their toll!

 

I wrote to Bill Lindsay once, told him how he could rally all Hearts supporters and use that energy and finance to challenge corrupt authorities and the duopoly! Alas he never replied!

However I kept believing that Hearts would rise to be consistently at the top of Scottish Football! However decades of experience and recent events tells me that it’s unlikely that anything will ever change as long as the structural status quo prevails!

 

It’s sad ...

 

It is sad but we can never give up hope of making the change. At least AB has tried which is more than can be said for Bill Lindsay.

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

Just now, stuart500 said:

Sad ending but your input has been very welcome. Good luck next season. Hope you come straight back up. 

Indeed. And then in two seasons time we might play each other. Incidentally, I hope Partick also boycott the likes of Forfar.

[colinmaroon]

 

I think Ann's use of the word, "War" is deliberately ambiguous.

 

 

[Homme]

Meanwhile our Premier League kicks off on Saturday, sponsorless....

[Nookie Bear]

10 minutes ago, harrywragg said:

Excerpt of a message on the PTFC website from our CEO tonight ... 

 

But I ask everyone associated with Thistle to never forget today. To never forget how it feels to be relegated unfairly. To never forget that there are many good decent people and clubs in Scotland who stood with us, publicly and privately – but there are some whose fear and self-interest got in the way of doing the right thing.

 

This'll be my last post until we meet again - seems it's all a bit sensitive tonight and the recriminations have started amongst both sets of fans on their forums. 

 

All the best to your crew in the championship this season & Stranraer in L2. 

 

OTIG 🇧🇪

Best of luck next season. I hope you guys come to Tynie for a friendly as soon as fans are allowed. 
 

 

[ictblahblahblah]

22 minutes ago, Guess The Crowd said:

PS If I remember correctly, would I be correct in assuming you’re not a huge fan of the Ross County chairman?!!!

Understatement.!

 

12 minutes ago, TheBigO said:

What you're seeing here is pride in our club for doing the right thing and acting with integrity, hence ah well we tried.

It was that integrity that lead you to this stage, at all costs this arbitration nonsense shouldve been avoided and at the very least, just the threat of going to Switzerland should never have been taken off the table.  Theres little merit in playing by the rules and being the stiff upper lipped gentlemen when the rules themselves are bent to begin with, I cant imagine (or can imagine) how snide the characters within the SPFL were behind the scenes and off the records this past few months, corruption shouldve been assumed off them from day one.

 

Granted in the early part of the year none of us were sure what we were facing with the virus but even back in March/April, there were voices calling for patience who were dismissed out of hand, that shouldve been all of our moment to take notice of what the SPFL were planning.  Not that I'm having a dig at anyone on this board about doing more especially, fans of all clubs shouldve been putting more pressure on the SPFL directly, they had to be made aware from the start that they were being watched.

 

Frustratingly it looks like theyre going to get away with it again and theyll be hosted in every tinpot boardroom in Scotland with plastic tennents cups and co-op sandwiches by chuckling dinosaurs about what theyve forced you guys to go through.  I'm fuming on your behalf.

[7628mm]

1 hour ago, Pasquale for King said:

If £8m is a correct figure then he’s cost us over £10m in total, and Budge would still love to have him at the club if she could. 

 

It could be looked at another way if you take the 24 points we were not allowed to play for or "relegated" under the decision to finish the league.

FOH have raised over £10,000,000 to date

The SPFL including the vast majority of the members have just stolen 80% of the money we have raised to buy our club and it could possibly reach the full amount of FOH contributions of 100%

 

I am at this moment beyond angry

[Riccarton3]

9 minutes ago, Lone Striker said:

Are you  suggesting that our CEO should be saying publicly that she wants to lynch ND ?    Don't know about you, but I'm very pleased and proud that we've got a CEO with class, integrity  and dignity amid a cesspit of 2-faced morons.   ICT and Partick reps have similar dignity and integrity.   I'll leave the lynch mob for you to organise.

 

 

 

issuing 

No, thinks Hearts fans should show class and dignity while getting shafted by crooks.

[EIEIO]

3 minutes ago, 7628mm said:

 

It could be looked at another way if you take the 24 points we were not allowed to play for or "relegated" under the decision to finish the league.

FOH have raised over £10,000,000 to date

The SPFL including the vast majority of the members have just stolen 80% of the money we have raised to buy our club and it could possibly reach the full amount of FOH contributions of 100%

 

I am at this moment beyond angry

Nice angle like your thinking,  makes me angry too though.

[ictblahblahblah]

51 minutes ago, colinmaroon said:

The SPFL will go out of their way to make it as awkward for Hearts fans to get to Inverness.

 

The BBC have got you covered there, they already make half the clubs play on Friday nights for live coverage on their Gaelic channel.

 

Incidentally it didnt take me long to start appreciating that service given I usually end up working away from Inverness most of the year, hopefully you guys arent around long enough to start appreciating it but who knows if the SPFL will get away with their 'no promotion 2021' angle they seeded a couple of months ago, maybe you will.   No doubt with you guys being the big draw theyll have you playing games at every stupid time slot they can get away with.

[Riccarton3]

9 minutes ago, Geoff Kilpatrick said:

Nothing is normal in the corrupt pit that is Scottish football.

That's right. That's the big picture. And shown in multi colour hi definition widescreen in this disgrace .The wee picture is our own **** ups. 

[Jambof3tornado]

15 minutes ago, colinmaroon said:

 

Irony!

 

I think my post finished with enough to make it clear I agree and, if in any doubt, look at my posting history on the subject.

I was in agreement with what you said!!

[Pasquale for King]

12 minutes ago, 7628mm said:

 

It could be looked at another way if you take the 24 points we were not allowed to play for or "relegated" under the decision to finish the league.

FOH have raised over £10,000,000 to date

The SPFL including the vast majority of the members have just stolen 80% of the money we have raised to buy our club and it could possibly reach the full amount of FOH contributions of 100%

 

I am at this moment beyond angry

I look it at that way too, they wouldn’t be able to di that to us though if it wasn’t for that cu next Tuesday Levein.

Edited July 27, 2020 by Pasquale for King

[Guess The Crowd]

10 minutes ago, ictblahblahblah said:

Understatement

 

Good man. 

 

Your post on that particular subject had me laughing out loud.

 

Hopefully hear more from you on this forum (ICT equivalent very poor these days) 

[Pasquale for King]

7 minutes ago, ictblahblahblah said:

The BBC have got you covered there, they already make half the clubs play on Friday nights for live coverage on their Gaelic channel.

 

Incidentally it didnt take me long to start appreciating that service given I usually end up working away from Inverness most of the year, hopefully you guys arent around long enough to start appreciating it but who knows if the SPFL will get away with their 'no promotion 2021' angle they seeded a couple of months ago, maybe you will.   No doubt with you guys being the big draw theyll have you playing games at every stupid time slot they can get away with.

Most of the games are on the BBC Scotland channel now but everything else is spot on. 

[Ricardo Quaresma]

12 minutes ago, 7628mm said:

 

It could be looked at another way if you take the 24 points we were not allowed to play for or "relegated" under the decision to finish the league.

FOH have raised over £10,000,000 to date

The SPFL including the vast majority of the members have just stolen 80% of the money we have raised to buy our club and it could possibly reach the full amount of FOH contributions of 100%

 

I am at this moment beyond angry

 

Think that was their aim from a long way back

[TheOak88]

21 minutes ago, Homme said:

Meanwhile our Premier League kicks off on Saturday, sponsorless....

 

I think Sky are sponsors now, arent they?

[niblick1874]

2 hours ago, Borders Jambo said:

Agreed.  We need to move on but never forget this.

 

Move on to what? There is nothing but corruption ahead. let's not butter this up.

[Bazzas right boot]

1 hour ago, smiler said:

Not many now Shomato, is it not just Tosh The Hibby that's left in that camp? 

 

1 hour ago, smiler said:

Wazzocks 😉

 

 

Look at you. 

 

Big boy pants on and calling other posters names. 

Well done you. 

 

Must have had a white wine or two. 

Anything negative to do with the club and you're all about this place  like a fly around shite. 

 

 

[TheOak88]

32 minutes ago, Geoff Kilpatrick said:

Enlighten us. What is this narrative you speak of?

 

The #wegoagain chat. This place specialised in it after every Levein defeat which led to us being in this mess. 

[Homme]

1 minute ago, TheOak88 said:

 

I think Sky are sponsors now, arent they?

 

I've not seen that confirmed. Just rumoured since the SPFL owed them refund money. 

 

Seems most likely scenario but its not like they attracted Sky if true, just basically gave them a freebie for a few hundred k or so. 

[TheOak88]

Just now, Homme said:

 

I've not seen that confirmed. Just rumoured since the SPFL owed them refund money. 

 

Seems most likely scenario but its not like they attracted Sky if true, just basically gave them a freebie for a few hundred k or so. 

 

Yeah, I haven’t really read into it so cannot say for certain. But as you say I thought it was part of the deal so that we did not need to refund Sky anything for missed games at end of the season. 

[Bazzas right boot]

Just now, PontiusPilate said:

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and convince our players not to win WWI  that would show Duncaster

 

1 minute ago, PontiusPilate said:

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and convince our players not to win WWI  that would show Duncaster

 

Hibs post if there ever was one. 

 

 

[hughesie27]

39 minutes ago, luckydug said:

The next part of this process is the sting. 

Three days at COS plus the best part of seven days at arbitration. 

All that time to decide nothing to see here. 

Nobody's allowed to know what was said and the reasonings behind the decision. For all we know they could just have been sitting drinking tea and munching biscuits all day. 

Dread to think what this is going to cost

500k maybe even a million. 

Easy money being a lawyer💰

 

 

Anderson will cover the costs. No problems. 

[Geoff Kilpatrick]

7 minutes ago, PontiusPilate said:

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and convince our players not to win WWI  that would show Duncaster

Vermin.

[TheOak88]

Is now the time that Budge is going to step down? 

 

Surely today is the nail in the coffin of her legacy. 5 year plan has taken us right back to where we started. 

 

Outsmarted by Doncaster and Co at every turn. 

[ictblahblahblah]

18 minutes ago, Guess The Crowd said:

(ICT equivalent very poor these days) 

Sadly like the rest of Scottish football we are somewhat of a dead club walking these days, just another name on the coupon like the rest, its no surprise to see a lack of energy online but it wasnt always that way, even in recent memory.  We've had a couple of chances this past 10-12 years to establish ourselves as another run of the mill background SPL club like Motherwell or Killie and both times we just let ourselves drift backwards, let players leave for free and shown no ambition off the park at all.

 

This is going off too far on a tangent for a Herts board when theres plenty of SPFL bashing to be getting on with but something I've had to wrestle with since our Scottish Cup win in 2015 is the whole support-your-team-at-all-costs mindset thats drilled into folks from youth, its actually nonsense as heartbreaking as that is to admit.  For many that often means feeding an identity-less franchise, that doesnt represent your town at all, run by some tinpot local blazer whos greatest achievement was a retail park, mix and match journeymen, paying £25 to go sit in a shell of a stadium getting laughed at by Billy Dodds on the radio, with no inclination from within at all to offer more.
If a club, even one you once held close to your heart, doesnt show any sort of loyalty, ambition or gratitude to their fans, then they absolutely dont deserve the same energy in return, the relationship should be symbiotic in nature.

And to bring it back on topic, although today and the last couple of months will sting for you guys, you should realise that you feeling a genuine connection with your club right now and believing they are doing everything for you as a fan in return, is something almost no football fans on these islands can claim right now.  Whatever it takes to maintain the relationship must be done, as when its gone it may never return.

 

Edited July 27, 2020 by ictblahblahblah

[graygo]

8 minutes ago, PontiusPilate said:

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and convince our players not to win WWI  that would show Duncaster

 

How very Hibs.

[indianajones]

Mods, how about launching some of these obvious hibs ***** from the forum? 

[Jamhammer]

For a laugh, and lord knows we need one look at the first few pages of this thread 

[RobNox]

44 minutes ago, PontiusPilate said:

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and convince our players not to win WWI  that would show Duncaster

 

Your sister is desperate for a shag, go and see to her, it's nearly ten minutes since her last gang bang with your dad and brothers, and they're too busy banging your mum now.

[Bazzas right boot]

41 minutes ago, TheOak88 said:

Is now the time that Budge is going to step down? 

 

Surely today is the nail in the coffin of her legacy. 5 year plan has taken us right back to where we started. 

 

Outsmarted by Doncaster and Co at every turn. 

 

Aye, now is the time. 

Nothing can go wrong there. 

 

People will be queuing up to take over, lead and invest in Scottish football clubs right now. 

 

 

[RobNox]

54 minutes ago, TheOak88 said:

 

I think Sky are sponsors now, arent they?

 

Didn't we give Sky the sponsorship for nowt as a consequence of calling the season early?

[martoon]

55 minutes ago, PontiusPilate said:

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time and convince our players not to win WWI  that would show Duncaster

 

Hibs are shite, you stupid prick. 

 

Scum 1 Hearts 3.

[TheOak88]

2 minutes ago, Smith's right boot said:

 

Aye, now is the time. 

Nothing can go wrong there. 

 

People will be queuing up to take over, lead and invest in Scottish football clubs right now. 

 

 

 

oh dear, you still can’t see the wood for the trees, mate. 

 

It was the same when Levein was running the show, you couldn’t see the direction we were going in. “Just needs a good summer window”. “Unlucky with injuries, will be flying once we get Souttar back”. 

 

Giving it the sarcastic “what could go wrong patter” with regard to Budge; can you not see that it is already going wrong/has gone wrong.