The Unthinkable

[meister]

Rangers and Celtic winning the league has just become the norm and I'm pretty much immune to it. I want Hearts to be the team that breaks that cycle and get it right up them. Would hat Aberdeen to win the league, just can't see it happening.

 

I wouldn't though, now that it ain't going to be us this season, mind Aberdeen coming second a decent amount behind Celtic and popping Rangers into third (or fourth). Now that would be hysterical !!

[N Lincs Jambo]

The OF are the bigotry fuelled cancer in Scottish football and the cancer grows bigger year by year with each trophy they win, with each ECL/EL qualification and the money they rake in (yes I'm aware Rangers are still a financial basket case). This makes it just that bit more difficult every single year for a team outside Glasgow to win a trophy let alone a league title.

 

Early days but the mutton-molestors seem to have got their shit together and are actually giving them a proper challenge. How long that will last who knows? They will still have to cope with dodgy refs and institutionalised bias even if they do keep performing on the park. The league cup semi will give us an idea if they can cope.

 

If you look at the entire history of Scottish football, whenever there has been a break from OF domination, there have been multiple teams involved. In the 80s the title went out of Glasgow 4 times (should have been 5) with even Dundee United getting in on the act. In the first 20 post-war years, the title went out of Glasgow 8 times. 5 times to Edinburgh, once each to Dundee, Aberdeen and Kilmarnock. Even in years when one of the OF won it, non OF teams came very close on several occasions. The only exception was Motherwell's title in 1932, the only time in the inter-war years it went outside Glasgow.

 

Yes I get it. We're Hearts fans and we're pissed off (rightly so) that it's not us doing the challenging but I believe that we need not just one but several non-OF teams/clubs capable of challenging if our league is ever going to be interesting again going into the spring. **** the OF and all who sail in her.

 

Tin hat firmly on 😂

 

 

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

1 hour ago, darrenold said:

We had our shot exactly 19 years ago in 2005. It's their turn to sack their managers and appoint a sex offender 🤣

Post of the day

[Lord Beni of Gorgie]

26 minutes ago, N Lincs Jambo said:

The OF are the bigotry fuelled cancer in Scottish football and the cancer grows bigger year by year with each trophy they win, with each ECL/EL qualification and the money they rake in (yes I'm aware Rangers are still a financial basket case). This makes it just that bit more difficult every single year for a team outside Glasgow to win a trophy let alone a league title.

 

Early days but the mutton-molestors seem to have got their shit together and are actually giving them a proper challenge. How long that will last who knows? They will still have to cope with dodgy refs and institutionalised bias even if they do keep performing on the park. The league cup semi will give us an idea if they can cope.

 

If you look at the entire history of Scottish football, whenever there has been a break from OF domination, there have been multiple teams involved. In the 80s the title went out of Glasgow 4 times (should have been 5) with even Dundee United getting in on the act. In the first 20 post-war years, the title went out of Glasgow 8 times. 5 times to Edinburgh, once each to Dundee, Aberdeen and Kilmarnock. Even in years when one of the OF won it, non OF teams came very close on several occasions. The only exception was Motherwell's title in 1932, the only time in the inter-war years it went outside Glasgow.

 

Yes I get it. We're Hearts fans and we're pissed off (rightly so) that it's not us doing the challenging but I believe that we need not just one but several non-OF teams/clubs capable of challenging if our league is ever going to be interesting again going into the spring. **** the OF and all who sail in her.

 

Tin hat firmly on 😂

 

 

I think I would be more convinced if they were blowing teams away, however this run is very reminiscent of the run that got Robson the gig.

 

They seem to have played most of their games at Pittodrie, and last seasons shit show, no midweek football seems to have landed in their laps also.

 

However, they have found a manager who inspires, it would have to be the perfect storm and I'm not sure Celtic are deteriorating.

[N Lincs Jambo]

2 minutes ago, Lord Beni of Gorgie said:

I think I would be more convinced if they were blowing teams away, however this run is very reminiscent of the run that got Robson the gig.

 

They seem to have played most of their games at Pittodrie, and last seasons shit show, no midweek football seems to have landed in their laps also.

 

However, they have found a manager who inspires, it would have to be the perfect storm and I'm not sure Celtic are deteriorating.

 

The bits in bold I totally agree. I didn't watch their match last night but apparently it should have been game over at half time. By all accounts they let the huns back in the game second half but after the equaliser they went after, and got, a win. Sadly we didn't.

 

Far too early to judge Critchley but unlike Robson, Thelin is tried and tested in his own country. 9 points is a lot for Rangers to claw back to get second.

[darrenold]

57 minutes ago, Lord Beni of Gorgie said:

Post of the day

Lol it is a belter tbf

[The Real Maroonblood]

6 hours ago, doctor jambo said:

I'd be happy for them TBH. Worked in catering at Pittodrie as a student and saw all the games.

Loads of mates were Dons fans.

Football forums are not indicative of the general support.

I like aberdeen, good luck to anyone who can have a real go at the old firm and deny them CL football.

Would I be jealous? Sure.

Bitter ? no

I remember supporting D utd and Aberdeen in Europe before the OF duopoly destroyed the good will in Scottish Football.

Good post.

[GinRummy]

Aberdeen can lick their own woolly arseholes. . 

[The Real Maroonblood]

10 minutes ago, GinRummy said:

Aberdeen can lick their own woolly arseholes. . 

[the posh bit]

I don't mind Aberdeen too much. Most Dandies I have met have been sound. It would be quite funny if and when The Rangers sack their current manager they then went on to pinch Aberdeen's guy in charge. 

[darrenold]

Should have been relegated in 2000

[Morgan]

Right now, I’d take 9th for us and 2nd for the sheep, come the end of the season.

 

Hibs 12th obviously.

[Morgan]

44 minutes ago, GinRummy said:

Aberdeen can lick their own woolly arseholes. . 

[Lonewolflins]

7 hours ago, Der Kaiser said:

We won't get relegated. 

Aberdeen won't win the league.

 

100% confidence from me.

I think we will be in a relegation fight all season , we are that poor it’s frightening 

[Rudi5kaceldream1ng]

47 minutes ago, the posh bit said:

I don't mind Aberdeen too much. Most Dandies I have met have been sound. It would be quite funny if and when The Rangers sack their current manager they then went on to pinch Aberdeen's guy in charge. 

I stay up in aberdeen. 

 

I don't mind the football team tbh. 

 

However them and their fans have a huge (and warranted) complex about the superiority of Edinburgh hahaha

 

Tbf the rest of scotland does but hey ho we get it in the neck seen as we're the biggest team from the best city in Scotland...

 

Ah well...HHGH

[gregzy2k7]

Would be really funny if they fecked 2nd place and finished 3rd only for us to finish 10th and somehow shithouse our way to a SC win and take the euro groups off them.

 

🙏🙏🙏

[Lonewolflins]

I hate Aberdeen more than Hibs , a fan base of complete arseholes to a man . **** them and I hope they fall of a cliff rapid . 

[jamboozy]

I wish nothing but ill on the 80’s time warp, sheep shagging, tight fisted ***kers.

[Pilmuir]

7 hours ago, FWJ said:

I’m jealous and bitter too - but more than that bewildered at our respective positions this season compared to last.  WTF has happened?

 

Otherwise, no.  Another meaningless Celtic league title please and a spectacular Aberdeen collapse.  Them even splitting the OF would be unbearable.

Me too. What a difference a year makes.

[Watt-Zeefuik]

10 hours ago, Americana said:

When do you get to the point with Aberdeens flying start where you start to think "were not catching them, so good for them" and start to hope they do the unthinkable and take away a league from the OF.

 

Granted its early days but it should encourage others to push ahead in the future. 

 

For winning the title, **** 'em.

 

For taking second, I wish them well.

[Sarah O]

10 hours ago, kingantti1874 said:

**** no. Rangers and Celtic winning the league is meaningless.  Doesn’t hurt at all. If anyone else does it it has to be us.

 

Aberdeen aren’t winning the title anyway, fair ****s to them but they have been lucky (not last night) . Their actuals goals scored is double their xG.  

Exactly this. 

[Sarah O]

2 minutes ago, Watt-Zeefuik said:

 

For winning the title, **** 'em.

 

For taking second, I wish them well.

And this

[vegas-voss]

10 hours ago, haj said:

https://afc-chat.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/45119-lets-all-laugh-at-hearts/page/45/#comments
 

I trust this answers your question 

Seems to be a cycle we are in Hearts good one season with Aberdeen pish then the next season roles reverse.Is it European football that is causing it ?

 

Just seems weird 

[Cade]

Aberdeen aren't winning the league ffs.

Hearts are not going down.

 

This feckin place is mental after every single defeat.

[buzzbomb1958]

9 hours ago, Der Kaiser said:

We won't get relegated. 

Aberdeen won't win the league.

 

100% confidence from me.

There’s more chance of the sheep building a new stadium than winning the league 

[indianajones]

Aberdeen will finish closer to fourth than they will to second. 

 

The weirdest fans in Scotland. And that's saying something. 

[Rudi5kaceldream1ng]

12 hours ago, gregzy2k7 said:

We are well passed that point 🤣

 

What are they 20+ points clear of us?

 

Call me bitter but I really don't like Aberdeen as a club and don't really care much about their success, I don't really like the thought of them challenging the Tic for the title, (I know, early days) would be a bit like choosing to be kicked in the left nut or the right nut, not sure it really makes much difference. 

 

I personally hope their form falls off a cliff and they finish 4th or something.

 

 

 

 

They finished 2nd in season 2016/17. 

 

This isn't exactly unprecedented. 

[tian447]

**** Aberdeen. 

 

If they were to win it this season, and then we won it next season, it would take some amount of gloss out of it. It would obviously still be fantastic, but they would be the ones who had done the unthinkable first. 

 

Bucket of crabs mentality. No one else should be allowed to do it, only us. 

 

For that reason, I hope they have a complete horror show and finish 4th.

 

Or pipped to the title, and 2nd on the very last game of the season, finishing 3rd after having it in their hands.  That would be stuff. 

[PhoenixHearts]

Never.

 

I'll be honest, I'd genuinely rather Celtic or Rangers always win the league rather than Aberdeen or anyone else that isn't Hearts.

I'm fine with business as usual unless we're the ones to smash the status quo.

 

Maybe one day a team outside the Old Firm will win the league but it HAS TO BE us.

 

A non old firm team winning would be such a monumental event that the amount of prestige it could bring to the club would be incredible. Just think of all the eyes and attention that would be on the club from all across the world.

 

Most casual people outside Scotland tend to just know of Celtic and Rangers and that nothing else ever happens in this league.

 

The club that breaks the duopoly will forever earn the moniker of Scotlands 3rd force and with it probably a lot more global support and the wealth it brings.

 

 

 

[YYZ]

18 hours ago, Americana said:

When do you get to the point with Aberdeens flying start where you start to think "were not catching them, so good for them" and start to hope they do the unthinkable and take away a league from the OF.

 

Granted its early days but it should encourage others to push ahead in the future. 

 

 

No thanks.

 

Aberdeen fans are the oddest bunch of weirdos out there and they absolutely hate us. 

 

I never want Aberdeen to win a fifth league title and Lord it over us that they now have more league titles than us.

 

As luck would have it I am a realist and know they will not even be close come the end of the season.

[EH11 2NL]

****. Put them to the sword ar Tynecastle please Hearts. 

[superjack]

Personally, if someone can break the duopoly, as long as its not hibs, I'm all for it. However, they won't win the league, as even if it's still close in a couple of months, the SFA will step in.

[mr fox]

21 hours ago, Americana said:

When do you get to the point with Aberdeens flying start where you start to think "were not catching them, so good for them" and start to hope they do the unthinkable and take away a league from the OF.

 

Granted its early days but it should encourage others to push ahead in the future. 

Not catching them now; no chance.  
We will finish in the top 6 and still think 4th is achievable.  
We are playing well, but we need a few signings, which will happen.  
He will sort it out; the defense isn’t good enough, and something is missing up top, but possession-wise, it looks good to me.  
Difficult spell, but there’s no way we will be in a relegation battle.

[The Maroon Jacket]

2 minutes ago, mr fox said:

Not catching them now; no chance.  
We will finish in the top 6 and still think 4th is achievable.  
We are playing well, but we need a few signings, which will happen.  
He will sort it out; the defense isn’t good enough, and something is missing up top, but possession-wise, it looks good to me.  
Difficult spell, but there’s no way we will be in a relegation battle.

We are not playing well from the last 2 games 

As well the midfield is rotten with no creativity, no aggression or pace 

The bottom team gets relegated that's where our form is 

[Ray Gin]

22 hours ago, Americana said:

When do you get to the point with Aberdeens flying start where you start to think "were not catching them, so good for them" and start to hope they do the unthinkable and take away a league from the OF.

 

Granted its early days but it should encourage others to push ahead in the future. 

 

We're already at that stage. No way in the world are we catching Aberdeen.

[Fitzroy Pointon]

'96 final, I was walking home from the train station after the game and an Aberdeen fan I was at school with drove past in his mums car laughing out the window at me. 

 

For that reason alone, they can go and **** themselves. 

[haj]

24 minutes ago, mr fox said:

Not catching them now; no chance.  
We will finish in the top 6 and still think 4th is achievable.  
We are playing well, but we need a few signings, which will happen.  
He will sort it out; the defense isn’t good enough, and something is missing up top, but possession-wise, it looks good to me.  
Difficult spell, but there’s no way we will be in a relegation battle.

In the 30 years i’ve been watching Hearts I could count on one hand the spells we’ve had where we’ve been playing well enough to feel genuinely confident playing away from home but you’ve generally had faith that we could take care of most teams at home. In isolation every game at the moment feels like we’re going to struggle, yet regardless we still have this attitude of ‘it couldn’t possibly happen’. But when County, Killie and Utd are coming to Tynecastle and getting a result combined with our abysmal away form you start to wonder where the points are  actually going to come from. With Saints away tomorrow followed by Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen god only knows what the table is going to look like come December 1st.

Relegation is an impossibility until it isn’t.

[TexasAndy]

Was interesting listening to Sportsound on the way home on Wednesday convincing themselves that there's a title race between Celtic and Aberdeen.  I had to remind myself it was still October.  Even Tom English who is normally more balanced than the rest was losing the plot.  As in every season let's see how things look February-March.

[Hearts1975]

9 hours ago, PhoenixHearts said:

Never.

 

I'll be honest, I'd genuinely rather Celtic or Rangers always win the league rather than Aberdeen or anyone else that isn't Hearts.

I'm fine with business as usual unless we're the ones to smash the status quo.

 

Maybe one day a team outside the Old Firm will win the league but it HAS TO BE us.

 

A non old firm team winning would be such a monumental event that the amount of prestige it could bring to the club would be incredible. Just think of all the eyes and attention that would be on the club from all across the world.

 

Most casual people outside Scotland tend to just know of Celtic and Rangers and that nothing else ever happens in this league.

 

The club that breaks the duopoly will forever earn the moniker of Scotlands 3rd force and with it probably a lot more global support and the wealth it brings.

 

 

 

Spot on. Can't believe that some folk actually want them to do it. It's the holy grail for us yet some want the sheep to pip us to the post. The exact same team who were the last ones to do it. 

Completely and utterly Baffling. 

Dolly won't see the winter. 

[gordon simpson]

2 hours ago, superjack said:

Personally, if someone can break the duopoly, as long as its not hibs, I'm all for it. However, they won't win the league, as even if it's still close in a couple of months, the SFA will step in.

This ,for sure

[Diego10]

Celtic are far better than Aberdeen and will win the league at a canter. 

 

Would not want Aberdeen to win it, cause I'm so immune to Celtic winning it it'd barely register.   

[MoncurMacdonaldMercer]

at the moment Aberdeen have roughly the same chance of winning the league this season as we do

 

if they’re within 6 points of Celtic going into the last round of fixtures then that can be classified as a title challenge

 

fair play to them for their results against the OF so far

 

when we had the great start under levein we went to parkhead as league leaders and meekly rolled-over to a 5-0 demolition which levein laughed-off - everything about levein and his team was a disgrace that day ( and I’m no levein “hater”)

 

 

[Jacques de Gatineau]

I've never met a likeable Aberdeen supporter. 

[busbyfth]

On 31/10/2024 at 12:11, AC Mallin_51 said:

I don’t mean unthinkable as in it won’t happen I just mean I can’t even bear to bring myself to think about it actually happening 

Gotya - sorry ....too many folk at Tynie went about with the wrong attitude 5 years back...I was one of them (once bitten and all that)  

[Craig Young]

I'd be OK with the sheep coming second to Celtic. 

 

Anything that upsets the rangers, takes money away from them, and hastens their demise is OK in my book

[Life Aquatic]

Aberdeen playing in the Champions league next season... 

 

[bairdy]

On 31/10/2024 at 10:12, AlimOzturk said:

I’ll just be glad if we can somehow avoid relegation rather than worry about Aberdeen

That says it all for me.

[Ron Burgundy]

5 hours ago, Fitzroy Pointon said:

'96 final, I was walking home from the train station after the game and an Aberdeen fan I was at school with drove past in his mums car laughing out the window at me. 

 

For that reason alone, they can go and **** themselves. 

Never Forget

Never Forgive

 

Two rules I live by when it comes to football.

[Andi33]

On 31/10/2024 at 12:43, GorgieFifeLife said:

We don’t have enough wee dicks like Shinnie that’s our problem.  No character in our squad at all.  I don’t see anybody in our team getting ripped into each other during the game or trying to push their teammates on just a bunch of wet lettuces.

And untill we at least get one we'll win ZILCH

[maroonsgotop]

14 hours ago, Howdy Doody Jambo said:

We are not playing well from the last 2 games 

As well the midfield is rotten with no creativity, no aggression or pace 

The bottom team gets relegated that's where our form is 

yup. One league win in our last 16 games, including zero in our last 9 away games (last away win was at St Mirren on 6th April). It's looking grim. Hopefully things change starting tomorrow, as we have the top 3 in our next 3 games after that by which time we could be well and truly screwed.