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3 minutes ago, MarkDevriesScores4 said:

Is that basically saying donating to another club to fund action against another member is against SPFL rules? 
 

I genuinely don’t think many clubs would or could donate funds for this cause anyway. DU will just have to use their begging bowl to collect tears instead.

 

at least that will prevent Celtic involvement 

 

It definitely looks that way, but these 'rules' appear to be more like guidelines just now. 

 

They don't trust the SPFL to win this fight is what I take from it. 

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Good statement from both clubs..this has always been us versus the Spfl..these clubs only named as they will be affected when we win..

 

I get the feeling the spfl and media are happy to play both parties against each other..

 

To ask clubs who they claim are at deaths door to fund this is laughable..wouldn't be surprised if one club from Glasgows east end back them though. 

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Similar to how the SPFL board acted by trying to get other clubs to join them in court against us.

Proving prejudice to the panel should be a piece of piss.

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13 minutes ago, NANOJAMBO said:

"We consider such an approach to be at odds with the fundamental requirement of the SPFL rules that the SPFL and each Club shall behave towards each other with the utmost good faith.  We cannot therefore let that pass without comment"

 

 

Let them be in no doubt as to how Hearts see this. Well said. 

Let's hope the arbitration panel take it on board too.

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MarkDevriesScores4

I wonder if ND might have a quick call with DU this morning asking them to shut up before the hole they’ve dug themselves gets any bigger.

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Hagar the Horrible

If you remember Doncasters ill advised letter to call to arms all clubs to join in the Litigation against us, now DU are begging for money to assist their action AGAINST us.  If these clubs donate, then at least not be cowardly about it, join the arbistration process, it will help pay our legal fees because if we win we get awarded costs.  And you will be facing oblivion if it is a compensation settlement. 

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A perfect statement to set the record straight for the 'hard of thinking' in Scottish Football and the SMSM

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Hagar the Horrible
2 minutes ago, MarkDevriesScores4 said:

I wonder if ND might have a quick call with DU this morning asking them to shut up before the hole they’ve dug themselves gets any bigger.

I dont think he is that clever, I am convinced it was him who came up with the begging bowl idea

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7 minutes ago, TypoonJambo said:

Its also insinuating that the SPFL should have stepped in to stop the begging. 

 

Or not encouraged it/given passive consent in the first place?

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1 minute ago, Hagar the Horrible said:

I dont think he is that clever, I am convinced it was him who came up with the begging bowl idea

he must know his own rules ?

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MarkDevriesScores4

I do enjoy every statement from Hearts/PT because it is factual, straight to the point and pulls no punches.

 

DU statements are panicky, threatening and actually embarrassing.

 

there will be a few at Tannadice raging this morning following that statement which is fantastic.

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Heartsofgold
3 hours ago, DUFCFan said:


Begging bowl 🤣


Did your team not put it’s bank details on its own website? 😅😅


Pipe down.

For our OWN fans to contribute.  Not to beg our rival clubs to pay for litigation/arbitration that's completely unneeded or warranted.  Now **** off back to your Dundee cesspit you irrelevant peon.

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26 minutes ago, Des Lynam said:

 

This is not about two Clubs, Hearts and Partick Thistle, battling against other member Clubs. This is about these two Clubs battling against the organisation, which is meant to look after all of our interests, and holding them accountable for their prejudicial actions. We would contend that any Club in our position would be taking similar action.

 

 

 


Except Stranraer , obviously! 
 

Hope we haven’t shot ourselves in the foot with that bit !

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With Dundee fans, the first game at Dens after 86, in the match programme ,a Dundee columnist did write that he wished for the only time in his life,  that Dundee lost that day, only after he knew result was irrelevant to his club. Too  many Celtic sympathetic fans with Dundee now i think.

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2 minutes ago, hmfc_steve said:

he must know his own rules ?

 

It’s no longer about knowing them. It’s the interpretation of them and whether or not that interpretation is shared by the arbitration panel.

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39 minutes ago, Special Officer Doofy said:

Here, @Darkblue, @DUFCFan said all Dundee fans are scum. You going to take that?

 

:jj:

 

Back of the Wheatfield pls.

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1 minute ago, George Cowie said:


Except Stranraer , obviously! 
 

Hope we haven’t shot ourselves in the foot with that bit !

 

Our position is that we have the resource to fight, Stranraer don’t. We are not in the same position as Stranraer.

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7 minutes ago, Hagar the Horrible said:

If you remember Doncasters ill advised letter to call to arms all clubs to join in the Litigation against us, now DU are begging for money to assist their action AGAINST us.  If these clubs donate, then at least not be cowardly about it, join the arbistration process, it will help pay our legal fees because if we win we get awarded costs.  And you will be facing oblivion if it is a compensation settlement. 

Acting in good faith

" everybody have a pile on to expel 2 member clubs from their leagues"

 

and now

"everybody have a pile on to fund the fight to keep those same 2 clubs out of the divisions they should be in"

 

Honestly, its utterly disgusting

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2 minutes ago, George Cowie said:


Except Stranraer , obviously! 
 

Hope we haven’t shot ourselves in the foot with that bit !

Stranraer cannot afford to , that is the only reason

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I don't know about anyone else but I'm sick of all this (although I enjoy the entertainment on KB ). I'm just looking forward to a Saturday home game whatever league we are in a few pints maybe a pie in the diggers or a breakfast in the caley sample room before the game , gid laugh wi the mates, opinions on how shit we are playing, what we would do if we where the manager we all do it eh 😂it just seems like a different life time now. Our good days will be back soon regardless of all of all them clubs trying to **** us over .

We are the FAMOUS

WE are the BEST supported club in the world.
WE are are the HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN.
Only Hearts
Forever Hearts
FTSPFL
FTSFA
FTH

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2 minutes ago, Heartsofgold said:

 Now **** off back to your Dundee cesspit you irrelevant peon.

 

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:sadrobbo:

 

We need more insults like this imo.

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2 hours ago, bobskeldon said:

Despite it not fitting the narrative some people drive, not all Dundee Utd, Raith or Cove fans will be happy or supportive of what has happened! My postie is a Raith fan and thinks that what has happened should not have because it was/is unfair. 

Ok.

 

Dundee changing their vote and in the manner they did it was wrong.

 

Ross County Chairman coming out with the “take their medicine” was wrong.

 

Dundee Utd stating that they would not vote for reconstruction under any circumstances was wrong.

 

Raith Rovers consistently voting against reconstruction, thereby leaving behind Falkirk, the team they lead by the slimmest of margins going by the PPG, was off the scale wrong.

 

Championship clubs voting against reconstruction despite the situation that Partick Thistle found themselves in (one point behind with a game in hand) is off the scale x 1000 wrong.

 

A significant number of Chairman making derogatory comments toward Hearts and Partick Thistle, and in particular a hugely negative narrative toward Ann Budge was/is wrong.

 

Few Chairman/CEO’s - with the notable exception of Gary Deans - making any comment about how unfair the whole situation has been toward Hearts, Partick Thistle, Stranraer, and other clubs who were in strong play off positions, and Kelly Hears and Brora Rangers.

 

Few Chairman pointing the finger - rightly - at the SPFL for being the architects of this debacle is wrong.

 

The C3 perpetuating the rest of the world v Hearts/Partick Thistle is wrong.

 

There is lots more but you get the point.

 

The point that you make is correct. No real fans were involved in the decision making process of any of these events. Where your argument falls down is that very, very, few of these fans have made any attempt to make their feelings known in support of us. Viewing social media platforms, fans forums, newspaper websites, it is clear there is a very large number of vocal fans who are voicing their option on the matter. The opinion - in the main - is “feck them, they deserve it” particularly in relation to us. Strangely enough I have yet to look one fan of another team in the eye and have them tell me that. Many have said it shouldn’t have happened and is unfair to my face, only for me to read their real thoughts and hatred towards us on social media.

 

My thought on this matter is simple. Only Hearts. I am of the opinion that we should make every effort to cause as much financial harm to those clubs who have shafted us as is humanly possible. By doing that the decision makers at these clubs will be able to have documentary evidence of the consequences of their self interest, it’s called a balance sheet, with tens of thousands of pounds missing from it feom games against Hearts.

 

The majority of fans of these clubs have sat idly by and watched this debacle unfold. We need to ensure that their clubs, and they themselves, realise there are consequences for self interest and apathy.  As had been said many times about us, I will say about them, feck them, they deserve it.

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2 minutes ago, George Cowie said:


Except Stranraer , obviously! 
 

Hope we haven’t shot ourselves in the foot with that bit !

Stranraer are NOT in our position in that they simply can’t afford the risk of court action. We could have, I suppose, funded them to be included at minimal extra cost to us. Must be a reason we didn’t. Perhaps we didn’t think it was appropriate for clubs to fund other clubs legal fees ?

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Just now, hmfc_steve said:

he must know his own rules ?

I think he does and to the letter, its the arrogance that he thinks they dont apply to him.  Him and Lawwell presented a case to end the season, that they did not think would be challenged, They though they won when 13 clubs asked for an independent enquiry, which the rules should change that if 3 or more ask for it it should be granted without delay?

 

I think the SPFL board know they dont have much of a case and need DU to justify their part as they can say they are acting on behalf of a member club in distress, that we are putting them through.  IF DU pull out there is no mandate to fight it.  By DU not being involved it is acceptance that they are happy for remaining in the championship, regardless of how they voice their objections in public.  They have to voice it in court and that costs money, And the court still might not agree, and it will cost you twice as much.

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1 minute ago, George Cowie said:


Except Stranraer , obviously! 
 

Hope we haven’t shot ourselves in the foot with that bit !

Stranraer weighed up the costs and risks involved and decided they could not afford it. I would suggest that Dundee Utd, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers should have done the same.

 

The alternative for Stranraer was to request funding from external sources or reduce themselves to laughing stock by begging for funds from other SPFL clubs. They had no external benefactor willing to subsidise them and as begging appears to be against the SPFL rules, they wisely avoided prostituting themselves.

 

In any case, if we win, then I am certain that they way will not be adversely affected.

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1 hour ago, Nelly Terraces said:

Totally agree. The stewardship of Scottish football & the ingrained culture of failure resulting in it being a complete tinpot backwater has been a disgrace. I'm not for government intervention in these matters but I genuinely think there should be in this case. The entire structure of the game here is needing an overhaul on every single level.

Might get your wish depending on what comes out at the arbitration hearing. 🤔

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3 hours ago, DUFCFan said:


Begging bowl 🤣


Did your team not put it’s bank details on its own website? 😅😅


Pipe down.

Mods can you please Launch this scumdee fan from our page ps feck dundee utd 

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3 hours ago, hughesie27 said:

It would have been nice if those Dundee fans put pressure on their Club/Nelms over the weekend when they were getting pressured to change their vote. Saying that they now stand by us against our plight when the horse has bolted isn't worth a jot.

 

**** them.

Not so sure those Dundee fans would have known what was going on any more than we did. I very much doubt Nelms was issuing updates to a fanbase he appears to ignore. I'm pretty sure, though, that if they'd known, at the time, that he was changing the vote in a way that helped Utd gain promotion, they'd have gone absolutely apesh*t!

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31 minutes ago, MarkDevriesScores4 said:

Is that basically saying donating to another club to fund action against another member is against SPFL rules? 
 

I genuinely don’t think many clubs would or could donate funds for this cause anyway. DU will just have to use their begging bowl to collect tears instead.

 

at least that will prevent Celtic involvement 


Probably just prompt an anonymous donation from Desmond or Lawwell.

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3 hours ago, DUFCFan said:


Begging bowl 🤣


Did your team not put it’s bank details on its own website? 😅😅


Pipe down.

Our club put our bank details on our website in response to hundreds of fans contacting the club wishing to provide further financial assistance. That further assistance is in addition to the £138,000 per month FOH provides the club.

 

Your poxy wee club didn’t even create their own go fund me page. The reason for that? They would have been upstaged on the amount of money raised by two fans walking in the pissing rain for hours 😂😂😂😂

 

Might be an idea for you all to scrape the back of your necks, what is the going rate for brass nowadays? 😂😂😂😂

 

 

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29 minutes ago, AllyjamboDerbyshire said:

I do wonder if every piece of documentation requested will turn up as I am certain there will be some actions that should have been recorded, even minuted, that won't have been, and others that someone, or some people, won't want read out at the tribunal. I do hope it's the case that if any documents are not produced that it goes straight back to the CoS, and Lord Clark.

Moynihan (QC for the Board) got slapped down at the CoS - I don't recall Lord C saying anything in agreement at his whining about the scope of the required documents, only that they should be made available on time. 

 

IMO they'll be asking for the legal opinion (on ending the season) as that sets out the intended strategy (which they appear to have followed to the letter). Granted, the document is in the public domain but Hearts don't have an official copy and it is marked "in confidence" . But that strategy clearly shows the SPFL Board never had any intention of going for recon although whether this is borne out in the Board minutes remains to be seen (although you'd expect Rangers will know all this and have been hopefully helping out as "whistleblower"). 

 

Failure to produce simply isn't an option - this is a matter of law now, no matter how the SPFL try to spin it (and they already tried that in the CoS). 

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6 minutes ago, Malinga the Swinga said:

Stranraer weighed up the costs and risks involved and decided they could not afford it. I would suggest that Dundee Utd, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers should have done the same.

 

The alternative for Stranraer was to request funding from external sources or reduce themselves to laughing stock by begging for funds from other SPFL clubs. They had no external benefactor willing to subsidise them and as begging appears to be against the SPFL rules, they wisely avoided prostituting themselves.

 

In any case, if we win, then I am certain that they way will not be adversely affected.

Turns out The C3 clubs could afford the legal case even less than stranraer did!

 

Turns out the C3 clubs are getting bills made of C4, and I, for one, would dearly like them all to go up like the Sept of Balor

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14 minutes ago, Governor Tarkin said:

 

:jj:

 

Back of the Wheatfield pls.


Try and coincide it with Fatty the Buffet Slayer and his mate starting their sponsored kebab shop crawl. Make it a proper show.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Des Lynam said:

 

We’ve probably raised about a million from doing that. You think that fat ***** can walk for 18 hours? 

My guess is the Arbitration hearing will be over before he reaches Barnton.

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Let's not forget that our statement isn't just off the back of the Dundee Utd and Cove statements or even the BBC article stating that clubs have been asked to help out - its also off the back of the comments by the Raith Chairman yesterday, where he confirmed that clubs have in fact sent them money already!

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3 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Ok.

 

Dundee changing their vote and in the manner they did it was wrong.

 

Ross County Chairman coming out with the “take their medicine” was wrong.

 

Dundee Utd stating that they would not vote for reconstruction under any circumstances was wrong.

 

Raith Rovers consistently voting against reconstruction, thereby leaving behind Falkirk, the team they lead by the slimmest of margins going by the PPG, was off the scale wrong.

 

Championship clubs voting against reconstruction despite the situation that Partick Thistle found themselves in (one point behind with a game in hand) is off the scale x 1000 wrong.

 

A significant number of Chairman making derogatory comments toward Hearts and Partick Thistle, and in particular a hugely negative narrative toward Ann Budge was/is wrong.

 

Few Chairman/CEO’s - with the notable exception of Gary Deans - making any comment about how unfair the whole situation has been toward Hearts, Partick Thistle, Stranraer, and other clubs who were in strong play off positions, and Kelly Hears and Brora Rangers.

 

Few Chairman pointing the finger - rightly - at the SPFL for being the architects of this debacle is wrong.

 

The C3 perpetuating the rest of the world v Hearts/Partick Thistle is wrong.

 

There is lots more but you get the point.

 

The point that you make is correct. No real fans were involved in the decision making process of any of these events. Where your argument falls down is that very, very, few of these fans have made any attempt to make their feelings known in support of us. Viewing social media platforms, fans forums, newspaper websites, it is clear there is a very large number of vocal fans who are voicing their option on the matter. The opinion - in the main - is “feck them, they deserve it” particularly in relation to us. Strangely enough I have yet to look one fan of another team in the eye and have them tell me that. Many have said it shouldn’t have happened and is unfair to my face, only for me to read their real thoughts and hatred towards us on social media.

 

My thought on this matter is simple. Only Hearts. I am of the opinion that we should make every effort to cause as much financial harm to those clubs who have shafted us as is humanly possible. By doing that the decision makers at these clubs will be able to have documentary evidence of the consequences of their self interest, it’s called a balance sheet, with tens of thousands of pounds missing from it feom games against Hearts.

 

The majority of fans of these clubs have sat idly by and watched this debacle unfold. We need to ensure that their clubs, and they themselves, realise there are consequences for self interest and apathy.  As had been said many times about us, I will say about them, feck them, they deserve it.

No real need to provide so much documentary evidence, perhaps getting all this praise has given you delusions of grandeur😁 It sounds as if your arguement is based entirely on your view that ALL fans of these clubs think the same and can therefore ALL be blamed for the actions of their clubs. I conclude this because I merely stated that not ALL fans of these clubs can be tarnished with the same arsehole brush that applies to the arsehole fans of these clubs e.g.  I certainly do want tarnished with the arsehole brush of many of our own arseholes, do you?

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9 minutes ago, AllyjamboDerbyshire said:

Not so sure those Dundee fans would have known what was going on any more than we did. I very much doubt Nelms was issuing updates to a fanbase he appears to ignore. I'm pretty sure, though, that if they'd known, at the time, that he was changing the vote in a way that helped Utd gain promotion, they'd have gone absolutely apesh*t!

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9 minutes ago, AllyjamboDerbyshire said:

Not so sure those Dundee fans would have known what was going on any more than we did. I very much doubt Nelms was issuing updates to a fanbase he appears to ignore. I'm pretty sure, though, that if they'd known, at the time, that he was changing the vote in a way that helped Utd gain promotion, they'd have gone absolutely apesh*t!

They voted no. They then decided to withdraw that vote. What else was going to happen!?

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2 minutes ago, NANOJAMBO said:

Moynihan (QC for the Board) got slapped down at the CoS - I don't recall Lord C saying anything in agreement at his whining about the scope of the required documents, only that they should be made available on time. 

 

IMO they'll be asking for the legal opinion (on ending the season) as that sets out the intended strategy (which they appear to have followed to the letter). Granted, the document is in the public domain but Hearts don't have an official copy and it is marked "in confidence" . But that strategy clearly shows the SPFL Board never had any intention of going for recon although whether this is borne out in the Board minutes remains to be seen (although you'd expect Rangers will know all this and have been hopefully helping out as "whistleblower"). 

 

Failure to produce simply isn't an option - this is a matter of law now, no matter how the SPFL try to spin it (and they already tried that in the CoS). 

This is why I am wondering what the effect will be if they fail to provide all the requested documentation, hopefully it means that the case goes straight back to the CoS where it might end up with the SPFL having to demonstrate they've done nothing wrong rather than us having to show that they have done.

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8 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Our club put our bank details on our website in response to hundreds of fans contacting the club wishing to provide further financial assistance. That further assistance is in addition to the £138,000 per month FOH provides the club.

 

Your poxy wee club didn’t even create their own go fund me page. The reason for that? They would have been upstaged on the amount of money raised by two fans walking in the pissing rain for hours 😂😂😂😂

 

Might be an idea for you all to scrape the back of your necks, what is the going rate for brass nowadays? 😂😂😂😂

 

 

Exactly ! We've never asked any other club for anything 

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Just now, Bigyan said:

Let's not forget that our statement isn't just off the back of the Dundee Utd and Cove statements or even the BBC article stating that clubs have been asked to help out - its also off the back of the comments by the Raith Chairman yesterday, where he confirmed that clubs have in fact sent them money already! 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fifetoday.co.uk/sport/football/dundee-united-raith-rovers-and-cove-rangers-will-continue-fight-tribunal-approaches-2907423%3famp

 

I still don’t believe that any money ever actually changed hands and this was all bravado but interesting that they now need to confirm to the arbitration panel if it was (a) a lie and no funds were provided, (b) confirm that funds were provided and hope that the arbitration panel doesn’t agree with the Hearts/Partick view of this.

 

Possible liar, possible rule break.

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4 minutes ago, JamboGraham said:

 

I still don’t believe that any money ever actually changed hands and this was all bravado but interesting that they now need to confirm to the arbitration panel if it was (a) a lie and no funds were provided, (b) confirm that funds were provided and hope that the arbitration panel doesn’t agree with the Hearts/Partick view of this.

 

Possible liar, possible rule break.

Found the quotes - 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2020/07/08/bill-clark-reveals-support-from-fellow-spfl-clubs-as-raith-rovers-dundee-united-cove-rangers-remain-in-legal-fight-spfl-hearts-partick-thistle-scottish-fa-arbitration/amp/

 

Certainly suggests money has at least been pledged, and possibly even changed hands...

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There is nothing secret about bank sort code and account number. The details are printed on your cheques. (If you can remember what cheques are)

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7 minutes ago, bobskeldon said:

No real need to provide so much documentary evidence, perhaps getting all this praise has given you delusions of grandeur😁 It sounds as if your arguement is based entirely on your view that ALL fans of these clubs think the same and can therefore ALL be blamed for the actions of their clubs. I conclude this because I merely stated that not ALL fans of these clubs can be tarnished with the same arsehole brush that applies to the arsehole fans of these clubs e.g.  I certainly do want tarnished with the arsehole brush of many of our own arseholes, do you?


I think that’s unfair. I’ve been critical of Ethan Hunt, for the way he has spoken to some posters on here, but on this occasion he is bang on the cash. Dundee fans have been utter ***** about our situation, and it doesn’t take a lot of digging to find that out for yourself.

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6 minutes ago, AllyjamboDerbyshire said:

This is why I am wondering what the effect will be if they fail to provide all the requested documentation, hopefully it means that the case goes straight back to the CoS where it might end up with the SPFL having to demonstrate they've done nothing wrong rather than us having to show that they have done.

Contempt of court charge.

They have been told what they MUST produce, as ordered by a law lord.

NO excuses will be accepted.

No emissions acceptable

 

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1 minute ago, JAMBONI said:

There is nothing secret about bank sort code and account number. The details are printed on your cheques. (If you can remember what cheques are)

 

People who live in the Czech Republic? I'll get my own coat... 

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JamboGraham
1 minute ago, JamboGraham said:

 

I still don’t believe that any money ever actually changed hands and this was all bravado but interesting that they now need to confirm to the arbitration panel if it was (a) a lie and no funds were provided, (b) confirm that funds were provided and hope that the arbitration panel doesn’t agree with the Hearts/Partick view of this.

 

Possible liar, possible rule break.

 

Also (and apologies at quoting myself), but the fact that he states that they chose not to approach Inverness, and Falkirk have confirmed they didn’t approach them; then I would now be expecting our QC to challenge the fact that they (Calpol 3) were selective in who they approached. By being selective it would suggest that they (Calpol 3) are fully aware that not all clubs are in agreement with their case and therefore the club v club argument is weakened.

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17 minutes ago, NANOJAMBO said:

Moynihan (QC for the Board) got slapped down at the CoS - I don't recall Lord C saying anything in agreement at his whining about the scope of the required documents, only that they should be made available on time. 

 

IMO they'll be asking for the legal opinion (on ending the season) as that sets out the intended strategy (which they appear to have followed to the letter). Granted, the document is in the public domain but Hearts don't have an official copy and it is marked "in confidence" . But that strategy clearly shows the SPFL Board never had any intention of going for recon although whether this is borne out in the Board minutes remains to be seen (although you'd expect Rangers will know all this and have been hopefully helping out as "whistleblower"). 

 

Failure to produce simply isn't an option - this is a matter of law now, no matter how the SPFL try to spin it (and they already tried that in the CoS). 

If I recall correctly what Lord Clark said about the documents, they were meant to be disclosed by Wednesday of this week, so Hearts/PT should already have access to them.

 

We haven't seen the actual interlocutor (order) that Lord Clark issued to the parties, but I would be surprised if the document disclosure date was not specified.

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32 minutes ago, George Cowie said:


Except Stranraer , obviously! 
 

Hope we haven’t shot ourselves in the foot with that bit !

 

Are Stranraer in our position? I thought they couldn't afford the costs?

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3 minutes ago, Special Officer Doofy said:


I think that’s unfair. I’ve been critical of Ethan Hunt, for the way he has spoken to some posters on here, but on this occasion he is bang on the cash. Dundee fans have been utter ***** about our situation, and it doesn’t take a lot of digging to find that out for yourself.

All Dundee fans or just the arsehole ones?

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