Franc Ergs

Hearts chief Ann Budge has said that "philanthropists" have been in touch to offer financial help to other Scottish clubs. Budge told BBC Sportsound that wealthy individuals or groups have offered no-strings-attached help worth millions of pounds. This would be to help ensure lower league clubs survived the Scottish football shutdown enforced by COVID-19. However the Hearts owner expressed frustration at the SPFL after being asked to put the information in writing and they'll discuss it next week, despite this being a time of emergency. She told the BBC: "I have taken to the SPFL an amazing philanthropic gesture from some of the people that I know, to help lower division clubs cope with the challenges that they are being confronted with. I've taken that to them, and now I'm being asked to put it down in writing, and tell them exactly what's on offer. "It's a nonsense, it's not quick enough. They are not decisive enough – 'being a member's organisation you'll have to put forward what you're suggesting'. I'm offering them money, not my money. A fund to help people. "They are philanthropists. They are people who can see what's happening. I know them. They know me because of Hearts, but that's irrelevant in this situation. What they are saying is 'we would like to help Scottish football' and I can't even get that moving." https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/sport/football/philanthropists-been-touch-hearts-owner-18336272

Dingwall's a one horse town, and even the horse wants to leave ,so surely it'd have to be in Inverness. Tartan shirts ? you could definitely be their marketing guy ?.

Think it's because the Scottish cup is an sfa thing and not a spfl thing. If things don't go to plan and Hearts win it ,that would cause another shitstorm with the Europa league place.

There will always be the question ,'Why did the EPL conclude, and not the SPL ?". And that's just one of the reasons why there will always be an asterisk attached to this seasons title.

An ICT and County merger into Highland FC would make more sense ,and keep top flight football in that area.

Great job again @Rousseau ?.

Clicked the link for Rayhaan Tulloch, and there is a list of comparable players on the right. Jizz Hornkamp and Adil Titi are two that appeared ,and could be worth signing purely for the comedy value ?.

Do the votes have to be in by 5pm today ?

You don't get rid of Ashley, he gets rid of you.

I think right back was his more favoured position, but he was never really going to be challenging Tav for that spot.

Fair enough, i was forgetting he was on loan. Very harsh and, imo, undeserved description of him .

Looks to me like we'll be holding on to Ojo then.

? What a rip off.

I presume we'll all be wearing these in the near future. https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/Rangers-FC-by-DesignsULove/43698807.9G0D8

My only advice to Castore when designing the new shirt is to make sure that the badge is embroidered , no cheap looking iron on shite.

There speaks the voice of Tim Jong Un.

Barker new four year deal maybe ?

Sorted that for ya ?

I thought we'd banned the Record on on this forum.

A segment of an interview on the BBC this afternoon with David Currie interviewing Neil Doncaster. DC - When you look at the cards that some clubs are being dealt ,.. Hearts ,Stranraer, Partick Thistle in particular ,..perhaps, and then the clubs who are hoping to get into the SPFL through the pyramid system. Do you see the injustice,.apparent injustice in there? ND - "You’ve got to remember that we are a sporting competition , and every year we have a sporting competition, you get champion clubs, and you get clubs that are relegated, that is the nature of the league, and clearly no one expected that the line would have to be drawn under the lower league season at this stage due to the covid 19 crisis , but…we have to deal with the consequences, and ultimately you could have gone down the route of voiding the season and saying look .the season doesn’t matter, and how would the likes of Dundee Utd have felt about that ? and that’s aside from all the legal ramifications that would go with voiding the league. So ultimately in a sporting competition you have to have a pragmatic way forward,..and the board believe, and i think rightly, that drawing a line under the season in the lower leagues ie. on a points per game basis, we do exactly what’s happened in the French league,.. that clearly has consequences for the likes of , ..Dundee Utd,…promoted,..and Raith Rovers ,..promoted, but clearly those people who miss out are going to feel disenfranchised, ..that is the way of these things”. Doncaster is truly a man bereft of any compassion whatsoever, and a guilt level so high that he can not even bring himself to mention the clubs that he so badly let down, instead refers to them as " Other people" What are these legal ramifications that he refers to? i may have missed something here, does he mean the tv deal ,or does he mean legal ramifications from the three clubs currently sitting top ?.

Donny's probably too busy on the phone to Peter ,so i'll do a pre emptive and do Neil's PR for him by giving his response to the ICT statement, ( feel free to copy and paste it Neil). 'We've received no complaints of threats ,or bullying ,from any club , if ICT had a complaint ,they should've contacted us with it, and it would've been dealt with in the appropriate manner'. Listening to his interview this afternoon, there's no way he's going to resign. The vote for the independent investigation is a mere distraction for him.

You can still both be part of the new GNPL reconstruction group.

@BEARGER currently top of the league has yet to release a statement . I'll not hold my breath.

What's the point in that ? , when we can overcomplicate things.