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I think two Edinburgh based clubs is too much for the Scottish top flight. Ideally you're looking at about half that number.

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It's what the community of football clubs believe is right...

And a wee reminder for our "diddy pals" St Mirren of how some Hearts fans felt ahead of that match -

It's time for the Premiership to pull the drawbridge up for a season in these unprecedented times. Surely a team getting promoted after a 27 game season is unfair on the top flight clubs who have battled for 38 matches.

Just think, if successful businesswoman Ann Budge hadn't absolutely shat herself from the off, and implemented a less aggressive strategy while showing some contrition both on the position her club were in when the league was called and on her previous comments showing utter disdain for the lower leagues, Hearts might have been looking at clubs supporting reconstruction. Just think, if Leslie Deans hadn't gone down the Rudy Giuliani ranting drunken creepy lawyer route then clubs may not have felt like they were being threatened on the vote today. Just think, if Heart of Seethelothian hadn't absolutely stank out the league with a succession of dreadful performances on the pitch and terrible player purchases and managerial decisions off it, they may not have found themselves in this position in the first place. Just think who's fault all this is and who, rightfully, are being huckled down to the seaside leagues.

I tried to resist, but...

You’re quite correct @SEETHING that a Judicial Review in Scotland can be against a private body Again, assuming you’re as knowledgable as you claim to be on Scots Law, you’ll be aware that the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 states that there is a three month time bar on requesting a review. On what ground would HoMFC be asking for a review, as the suspension of games was over 3 months ago, and you have by my reckoning less than a month to go for the vote to end the season? In addition, that handy piece of legislation also stipulates that should a pursuer prejudice their case by causing unnecessary delay to the proceedings (which arguably HoMFC have by fannying around with Reconstruction for so long in order to defeat their own ends; as well as actually voting in favour of the resolution which ultimately ended in their relegation), then the courts can exercise their discretion and dismiss the request out of hand.

Only 5 months to go until October!

You have to hand it to Ann Budge, Douglas Park, Scot Gardiner, Jacqui Low, that Falkirk gobshite and of course all their assorted ITK media hangers on who have made Neil Doncaster look like a four dimensional chess grand master throughout this saga. Other than the missing vote misstep they've been smacked around senseless by the SPFL for fully three months now and only Budge's pathetic legal challenge is still left on the board. You hate to see it happen.

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Salty ?

Their longest unbeaten run for a while.

We probably voted for this reconstruction (All jokes about our vote actually being received aside) and I understand why we did and supported my club in doing so. I wanted a 14 team top flight as I think that'd be better for the game overall. That was until Hearts & Ann Budge decided to cry about the grave injustice of it all, issue thinly veiled threats and have the biggest temper tantrum since Rangers in 2012. This combined with journalists like Tom English either being on the payroll of some clubs or so out of his depth he shouldn't be a journalist has made this the tastiest fucking decision since 2012 when Rangers were papped to League 2. I'm all for this. If only Ann Budge didn't come at the situation with a disgusting lack of class she'd have maybe curried more favour. Ann Budge, Leslie Deans, Tom English, Scot Gardiner & others... Get it fucking up you.

Ewan Murray’s tears. Crack cocaine.

At least he improved Celtic. Budge bought Hearts for a cut price deal on behalf of the fans, got the fans to build a stand for her to put her name on, got someone else to pump money in to pay the wage bills, then forced the same fans who put in £6m a year to pay her £2.5m, on top of her yearly dividends, to hand the club over to them. She'll now leave them in the second tier with an unsustainable wage bill and Neil McCann as manager. Its ingenious.

Alternatively they go to Dens Park on the last day, needing a point for promotion...

Just logging in to make sure I remember my password.

NO MORE JAMBOS!

Easier to blame others for our ‘misfortunes’ than accept that we are utter dugshite.

7 months without a game for the diet currants

Lets not forget Partick Thistle in all this.

Hey jambons, are ya @SEETHING

The virus will come back. I think that’s something that everyone, whether you want all measures abandoned right now or would prefer to be locked in the house until it’s all over, needs to come to terms with. It isn’t gone and it won’t be gone, until something major changes - a vaccine, some super treatment, natural fizzling out or herd immunity. There’s no reason given what we know now for it to return as strongly, but it will ‘surge’ again. No ifs or buts. I think a gradual approach to the loosening of measures is reasonable. As important as it is that Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia etc have shown little to no bump in cases by easing lockdown, none of them had the level of transmission that we had here. South Korea and China contained the virus significantly better than us, have far more authoritarian governments taking harsher measures than here and yet they’re still having localised spikes and lockdowns. It’s frustrating at the moment because our data is probably better than could’ve been expected at this stage, it’s clear even the Scottish Government are taken aback by it. But if we jumped straight to Phase 3, for example, on Thursday it’d be very difficult to establish what had caused a rise in cases if it arrived, and you’d probably have to row back all the way to Phase 1 to let things settle down. The USA opened up too quickly and it’s going the wrong way. Nothing to be gained by doing that. Talk of schools in blended models for the full academic year seems completely ridiculous but only really in the current climate where there’s a handful of cases/deaths every day. We don’t know what will change in the coming months. Four months ago yesterday I had a great Friday night out at Firhill and the pubs of Glasgow, and the virus was all a big laughing matter in this country. Four months from now is October - anything could really be happening by then. Tl;dr - calm the f**k down. Things probably are a bit slow but we’ll get there. And it’ll come back anyway.

Motherwell no more Aberdeen no more Livingston no more Sky no more

A petition for Judicial Review only applies to public bodies. The SPFL is not a public body.

Where is the great Soothsayer @Stanislav Petrov today?

Some might say that there’s been a relatively good go of it in Glasgow.

SICKENING RAGE INJUSTICE Fighting words indeed from a club whose only stated intention this season was to win promotion, spunked money at two squads and two managers to do so and yet finished bottom without winning a single league game in this calendar year. Fucking shiting ourselves over here then m8. Get doon.

No, I'm watching. Quite enjoying watching the celebrations, and one or two of the gifs are pretty good.. Just refueling the tribal hatred for when we eventually meet you again.

Ewan Murrays twitter is hilarious. Stream of Hearts fans screeching about "self interest ruling all", as if their crusade to restructure football in the entire country at short notice has nothing to do with helping Hearts.

Morten in 2014 - adrift by 14 points (behind Cowdenbeath....) the season after their glorious second place finish in the "promotion race"; proceedings rounded off with a memorably comic 10-2 gubbing from Hamilton Accies. Thistle in 2020 - 2 points behind with a game in hand and 9 games unplayed. Clearly great banter value for fans of other teams; not quite as dignity-removing as the above, though. We're a League 1 team now. We'll get on with it while pointing out that it's quite unfair and a bit frustrating. Meanwhile, the fact that you've followed us down to this forum to try to land some limp slaps is vaguely psychologically interesting. I can only assume that 2013 and your best chance of top flight football in a generation still hurts deeply. You were only 11 points behind us in the end. What might have been, eh?

It was the year of twenty twenty On the eleventh day of March Or the 28th week of the Premiership When they played their football match In the away stand down in Paisley Of hope they were bereft And when the game was over There were no more Jambos left They took on Neil Doncaster On his chin a manly cleft And when the league restructure broke down There were no more Jambos left Their lawyers were expensive And their arguments were deft But when the judge dismissed the court case There were no more Jambos left No more Jambos! (x8) No more! (x8) No more Jambos left!

That's why Trainspotting was set in Paisley.

The BBC's Political Correspondent chipping in Philip Sim @BBCPhilipSim Replying to @PeatWorrier Looking forward to a Scottish court setting the stunning precedent that football teams should look to avoid losing most of their games if they don't want to get relegated

So much for the game changing shift of opinion that he was breathlessly reporting just yesterday. This fraud of a journalist deserves hounding from pillar to post indefinitely for his pathetic reporting of the story.

Get it right fucking up Partick Thistle and Stranraer for prioritising blatant self interest instead of laughing at Hearts.

The SPFL have confirmed we're sticking with the current set-up. On behalf of Clyde F.C. I'd like to extend a GIRUY to Tom English, Ann Budge, Leslie Deans, Zombie Rangers FC, Neil McCann and the Brora chairman.

What an absolute battering for Hearts there. Thanks for the £3 Million

The hubris on Kickback You'd think they were Real Madrid the way they carry on