Swello Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 hours ago, church_of_fudge said: It didn't exist for very long at all - but I quite liked the seated east stand, terracing behind the goals version of Fir Park before the South was built - although it must have been adowngrade for away supporters who had cover before that point. Shown in Katovice game: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 What could have been 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallus Numpty Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 31 minutes ago, ropy said: What could have been Not a lot, most likely. Katowice were stuffed 4-0 by Brugge in the next round, who then dispatched Atletico Madrid on their way to the semi-final. Seems unlikely we'd have done any better. Edited April 20, 2020 by Gallus Numpty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 But a day out in Brugge? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallus Numpty Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, ropy said: But a day out in Brugge? True. Luckily I've had the opportunity to visit since, before it got too overrun by stag and hen dos. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Gallus Numpty said: True. Luckily I've had the opportunity to visit since, before it got too overrun by stag and hen dos. Was it like a fucking fairy tale? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, well fan for life said: Was it like a fucking fairy tale? Also, STATEMENT... Quote I hope you and your family remain safe and well during this period of lockdown. In this time of continuing uncertainty, I would like to update you on two key areas relating to the football club. SEASON TICKETS Firstly, a huge thank you to all of our supporters who have already bought season tickets. We are massively ahead of where we were last year. As of this morning, we have sold approximately 1,000 tickets, many of them new season ticket holders, as well as fans renewing from last year. Those sales compare with 187 in the same time period last year, demonstrating how much our fans have stepped up during exceptional times to back us. As a fan-owned club, your support is always extremely important, but none more so in times like these. We have no wealthy benefactors, we depend on ourselves – and this is a vital part of our income. All we can do is try and steward the club’s finances as best we possibly can and to plan for all potential scenarios that we can think of. We will keep you closely engaged in our thinking as it develops. How the country copes and adapts to the impact of Covid-19 and more importantly, how we defeat it is an ever-changing landscape. In this situation we need to be completely transparent about the total lack of clarity, which still remains, on when we might resume. We don’t want any fan to buy a season ticket if they can’t afford to. However, if you can, then it would be another powerful sign of our absolute determination together to get through this period. LEAGUE RECONSTRUCTION Now that league reconstruction is back on Scottish football’s agenda, it is important for us as a club to gather as many views from our supporters to help set out the club’s position. Although we will approach any discussions with an open mind and with a view on compromise, the club board wish to engage properly in terms of any proposed new structure as part of our own process. The board have already debated and agreed some core principles that we hope will form part of the SPFL’s task force, headed by two very capable individuals in Les Gray from Hamilton Academical and Ann Budge at Heart of Midlothian. We believe quick decisions can often be bad ones. ‘Something needs to be done‘ is not the best methodology to apply. We should be as imaginative as possible and look at a number of different options – not just the obvious ones and immediately box ourselves into a corner around one particular structure. Our hope is that the talks within the task force and a vote, if there is one, remain constructive. Any change should make the game in Scotland more attractive to all the stakeholders, principally the supporters. It has to make the game better in the long term for fans. It also needs to consider the various potential scenarios for restarting the game, their implications for member clubs and therefore how the league and game as a whole navigate it accordingly. The Well Society will shortly conduct their own consultation with members to help us shape our thoughts on what reconstruction should look like from the standpoint of our supporters as owners of our club. Jim McMahon Chairman Edited April 20, 2020 by capt_oats 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 7 hours ago, church_of_fudge said: For the last few months I've been collecting loads of pictures of Fir Park through the years. Would love to see close up pictures of the area you're talking about. So the turnstiles to the old away end was at the end of the East Stand? Basically the bottom of the road that leads down the away stand now? Something I've never known (my first game was in '91, so while being at the Katowice game I have very little memory of the terracing behind the goals at that end). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, capt_oats said: Also, STATEMENT... So we get a vote? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobby Dossar Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Desp said: So the turnstiles to the old away end was at the end of the East Stand? Basically the bottom of the road that leads down the away stand now? Something I've never known (my first game was in '91, so while being at the Katowice game I have very little memory of the terracing behind the goals at that end). Yes they were And before they built the pie stall at the top of the terracing it was a van just inside the gate. If you went for a pie and a bovril you missed about 10 minutes of the game going down the hill to the van 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie McSquackle Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Glad to see the talk of the club pushing for proper discussions which cover numerous options as, from what I heard from Ann Budge on Saturday, it sounds as they're trying to push through one proposal which is basically to save Hearts from relegation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianfranco Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Is this David Ferguson day?I remember his debut at Tannadice. He got subbed on with twenty minutes to go and was booked for bringing down GMS within about 15 seconds. Set the tone for things to come. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisGRAEME Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Good to see the club haven't ruled out a 42 team league. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well fan for life Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, thisGRAEME said: Good to see the club haven't ruled out a 42 team league. I'm all in. We've not had enough nonsense away draws in the cups in recent years. Get me signed up for Elgin City away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YassinMoutaouakil Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Won't shock me if we end up in a two team league with St Mirren playing them three times a week until the end of time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) Introduce a Lanarkshire league to prevent significant travel. Play everybody 10 times? The Edinburgh version would of course continue until Hearts were off the bottom. Edited April 21, 2020 by ropy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 11 hours ago, thisGRAEME said: Good to see the club haven't ruled out a 42 team league. I have the blueprint as an FM19 editor file 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 12 hours ago, thisGRAEME said: Good to see the club haven't ruled out a 42 team league. Genuinely don’t think we could go beyond 22 teams, just need to decide how many times we play each other and how many splits to have. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberbernie Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Give me 12 in the league.......F%@K hearts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desp Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Scotland has what, about 20 full time teams? There is absolutely no chance of going above a 14 team top flight. Any bigger than that, then if you have one bad season and end up going down, you're dropping to effectively part time level. No chance any top flight team is voting for that. 14-10-10-10 will get the go-ahead, I assume. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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