Aye, the HST letter is a pretty good piece from the fans. As they said, last season he turned them into the most talked about side in Scotland. Ok, part of that was down to sacking a manager when top of the league and unbeaten, part of that was appointing Graham Rix to replace Burley (apparently the other candidates were Ranieri, Vialli, Nevio Scala and Mattheus, I think!) but they were also playing good football.
Course then he said he would win the SPL next season (this) and win the Champions League (aye, the football one) within 5 years. All that sort of kept them in the news as well.
Ok, he was stark raving bonkers last season.
But this, its just crazy stupid mental and as the letter says, they are now the circus, the freak show.
If they had played with even half of last seasons early season form they would have had 2nd place sown up by now and possibly even be challenging Celtic. Their main rivals for 2nd, and a place in the coveted CL qualifiers again, Rangers, have had the half season from hell and its only in the last few weeks that they have looked like a semi decent team. I am still to be convinced that they are out of the woods yet, 3 of their next 4 are away. Anyway, that aside, Hearts had a great chance to consolidate last years place.
Instead, its all gone to rat-shit. Pressley etc have suffered these goings on for nearly 2 years now. They knew the chance was there to consolidate but the decisions being made are scandelous.
Supposedly a couple of the Lithuanian players are GUARANTEED a first team place if fit, its in their contracts.
Others, sub standard players, have arrived and ended up taking the place of better players. The very decent holding player Brellier kept out by some huddy for instance - but thats cos Romanov doesn't like Brellier. Ohh and despite him not liking Brellier as a player, which he has been quoted as saying so publically, he can't understand why Brellier won't sign a new 3 year contract offered. I mean, WTF, why offer the guy a contract if you dislike him that much??
The manager situation. Comical. One "leaves" on health related stress issues, one comes in, can't speak a word of English, reminds me of Boris Yeltsin, attacks a Falkirk physio who is trying to get on the pitch to treat an injured player, buggers off again. Some Lithuanian is then placed in charge. Except he is not, and was never going to be. Then the stressed manager comes back, probably mainly to answer a speeding charge in Perth but hey, why no give him a shot of managing the team again. Except that he has to do what Romanov says.
Then you have Pressley speaking out. Pressley dropped/left out 2 weeks later after speakign out. This behind rumours of the Lithuanian playing contingent at the club, now runnign into several dozen, going to declare a vote of no confidence in one of the best captains in the SPL. Course they are merely Romanovs stooges, put up to it with him behind them pulling the strings. Fans get uppity about it, Romanov comes back to Scotland, as does Ivanauaskas, the stress case. Romanov makes some gibberish comment about Pressley being the cement that binds the team together, Presslet back in the team. Two weeks later Pressley emptied and finally paid off. I mean - Ehhhhhhhh
Hartley will go. Possibly January. The only reason Gordon won't , aside from him now being captain, is that he is actually worth something.
Now look at all that and as you say, you would expect the Hearts fans to be tearing down the ground in protest. Except Romanov has them over a big barrel and is shoving his cock hard up them anyway he wants. Some of them still "believe", look at what he did last season etc but that number is dropping by the day as he rips the club to pieces and then spits on it and moulds it into his own wee plaything.
If Romanov goes, that could be the end of Hearts. They are in big debt and its only the fact that their debt is now lodged at his own Lithuanian bank that is keeping them alive.
He could also just flatten the ground and do what he wants with it, sell it for flats and fuck of back East. What would Hearts do with no owner, big debts and no ground.
He really has them exactly where he wants them. There is no knight in shining armour on the horizon so Hearts fans have to either suffer the madness with gritted teeth or face the pretty real prospect of their club disappearing doon the swanny. Which would you rather take?
I never thought I would find the day when I (a Celtic fan) can genuinely say that I feel sorry for Hearts fans nowadays. Celtic and Hearts don't like each other but I really do feel for them as a set of supporters now as they are being fucked over royally by some madman and there ain't much they can do about from lie and take it.
Hearts - Spineless Fans?
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Thats the type of post youd expect from a passionate Hearts fan so fair play.
