ian1964 10,409 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 ......as cash boost could help save the club HUGH wants Tynecastle side to see off Inverness in semi-final as Jambos are not chasing silverware but a crucial payday that may secure their very survival. I DON'T expect big John Hughes to take this well but I wouldn’t mind seeing Hearts beat Inverness Caley Thistle today to reach the League Cup Final. Mind you, I don’t expect big Yogi to give a monkey’s what this old hack, or any other journalist, thinks about any subject you care to mention. The manager has a carefully cultivated disregard for the press. So he can hardly object when one of us takes an equally independent stance and states a personal opinion. It doesn’t matter to me who wins the Cup. But if Hearts get to the final it could have a significant bearing on the club’s survival fight. And that does interest me from a traditionalist’s point of view. The game in general will be much worse off if Gary Locke’s side are relegated. But Scottish football would be delivered an even more crushing, and lasting, blow if Hearts were to go out of business altogether. That’s why Tynecastle administrator Bryan Jackson will be at Easter Road today with eyes closed and fingers and toes crossed while praying for victory. After he’s counted the size of the crowd and Hearts’ share of the gate. Getting to the final can buy them time. It would ensure revenue, enough to take the club through a calendar month, and that could get them over the line to the end of the season. The club’s future is still so uncertain that Jackson will visit the Lithuanian ambassador in London next week to see if he can speed up the process of Hearts exiting administration. Whether a deal can be done at all, given two Lithuanian banks have Hearts’ fate in their hands and show no interest in looking snappy about it, is still a matter for conjecture. So today’s semi-final has added, possibly historic, significance. It could conceivably be the last big game Hearts play for years, or maybe for ever. Or else it could fund the struggle to fight another day. The old romantic in me wants to see a fairytale finish to the season – Hearts still battling to stay in the major league while preparing for a cup final. And being led on to the field at Celtic Park on March 16 by Billy Brown because he’s agreed to come back and work that day for nothing. Our game’s struggling when Celtic will play Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup next weekend in a stadium where the top tier’s shut due to lack of interest. But Hearts represent the tens of thousands who’d be at Celtic Park to support their side if they made the final. I’m not wishing ill on Caley Thistle because they only took 101 fans to Kilmarnock last weekend. And if they make it to their first final I’ll be the first to congratulate Yogi. But their time could come again as they don’t have any fear of closure. Hearts are on life-support. Consigning Rangers to the bottom tier, instead of looking for a compromise that punished them while protecting football as a business, was a bad idea. If Hearts can’t find their way out of the mess left by Vladimir Romanov the game will have suffered a fresh blow to its image. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/hugh-keevins-hope-hearts-make-3104525 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 it would be lovely if hearts could get out of this mess. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Night Owl Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Poor Hugh... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,409 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Poor Hugh... Poor Hertz! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Night Owl Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Poor Hertz! Yeahhhh. Pumped out of the cup by 9 men, that's a bitter pill on any day of the week. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Cooper 0 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Get it up ye Nuremburg. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aweebluesoandso 290 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Kiss of death from the spewy one there. hahaha. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,254 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Again Keevins is peddling the line about us being punished. Punished for what ? We entered administation/Liquidation because we were bought by a fraudster who withheld PAYE/NI because he hadn't the funds to run the club. No other reason.Nothing to do with debts like the laughable £134m once quoted. Keevins would be better off investigating how Whyte managed to acquire Rangers in the first place but that might unearth too many unsavoury characters in banks well known for their affiliations to the east end of glasgow 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,409 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 ICT have never been to a major cup final, why would any neutral not want them to get to a cup final? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whosthedado 1,487 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Sickens me the Scottish media pandering to Hearts all the time. Was delighted when ICT won that game earlier 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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