topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 51 minutes ago, paranoid android said: Halliday is better at LB than he is in midfield. Our midfield options aren't any better than they were two years ago - it doesn't seem that we've learned anything. Was hoping that JJ would address the major issue, which is player recruitment - he hasn't. That would be Joe Savage's job now. Hopefully Jim Jefferies will be enjoying his retirement pottering around East Lothian in the sunshine We do have 9 weeks of transfer window left so, while a certain amount of impatience is in order, there's no need to panic just yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 48 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: That would be Joe Savage's job now. Hopefully Jim Jefferies will be enjoying his retirement pottering around East Lothian in the sunshine We do have 9 weeks of transfer window left so, while a certain amount of impatience is in order, there's no need to panic just yet. I thought JJ had been brought in to consult? Is he not doing that anymore? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, paranoid android said: I thought JJ had been brought in to consult? Is he not doing that anymore? I believe that was only intended as a temporary arrangement until a Director of Football was recruited. JJ is now Director of Football at Edinburgh City Which is the kind of simpler, low stress environment that's more appropriate for a 70 year old who's already had one heart attack. Edited June 29, 2021 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) 13 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: I believe that was only intended as a temporary arrangement until a Director of Football was recruited. JJ is now Director of Football at Edinburgh City Which is the kind of simpler, low stress environment that's more appropriate for a 70 year old who's already had one heart attack. Delighted for JJ if he's now enjoying his retirement, and getting in a few rounds of golf. Really think we have to address the midfield situation, though - I'm starting to pine for Olly Bozanic. Edited June 29, 2021 by paranoid android 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 12 minutes ago, paranoid android said: Delighted for JJ if he's now enjoying his retirement, and getting in a few rounds of golf. Really think we have to address the midfield situation, though - I'm starting to pine for Olly Bozanic. Edinburgh City should keep him just busy enough If you're getting impatient just remember that in Summer 2005 we'd signed nobody until Skacel arrived on July 19th I doubt we're going to have quite as spectacularly transformative a window this time but there's clearly plenty of time to get things right There's also plenty of time to screw this up as well but at least we haven't screwed up yet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 1 minute ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: I doubt we're going to have quite as spectacularly transformative a window this time but there's clearly plenty of time to get things right There's time - not convinced there's much of a budget. We can't continue to recruit in the way he have in previous seasons - it's largely been poor, imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) 47 minutes ago, paranoid android said: There's time - not convinced there's much of a budget. We can't continue to recruit in the way he have in previous seasons - it's largely been poor, imo. There's not going to be a 2005 budget anyway Top flight sides were able to take out long term government loans while Hearts basically borrowed Season Ticket revenue from this year to cover last years truncated season and are paying that back through discounts on this season so Hibs and Aberdeen have probably got a financial advantage over us this summer That said we do have the FoH money coming in, much of the dead wood is off the payroll, and a couple of thousand people voluntarily paid full price for their season ticket renewals so while we're not shopping from the top drawer we're not necessarily scraping through the bins at the back either. I have been criticised before, and sometimes rightly, for being overoptimistic but hopefully I can say "I reckon we can afford someone better than Bozanic" without being branded a "happy clapper" It may take a few weeks though Edited June 29, 2021 by topcat(The most tip top) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: There's not going to be a 2005 budget anyway Top flight sides were able to take out long term government loans while Hearts basically borrowed Season Ticket revenue from this year to cover last years truncated season and are paying that back through discounts on this season so Hibs and Aberdeen have probably got a financial advantage over us this summer That said we do have the FoH money coming in, much of the dead wood is off the payroll, and a couple of thousand people voluntarily paid full price for their season ticket renewals so while we're not shopping from the top drawer we're not necessarily scraping through the bins at the back either. I have been criticised before, and sometimes rightly, for being overoptimistic but hopefully I can say "I reckon we can afford someone better than Bozanic" without being branded a "happy clapper" I wouldn't criticize you or call you a happy clapper. I'm just concerned re the squad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, paranoid android said: I wouldn't criticize you or call you a happy clapper. No offence taken 2 minutes ago, paranoid android said: I'm just concerned re the squad. Just remember There are more things that frighten us than injure us and we suffer more in Imagination than in reality Lucius Annaeus Seneca the younger, Stoic Philosopher, Roman Writer, Dramatist and reluctant founder of Ancient Corsica HMSC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 hours ago, paranoid android said: I thought JJ had been brought in to consult? Is he not doing that anymore? I think his "job" amounted to telling football illiterate Ann Budge whether Hearts were winning or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 To be fair, Seneca never had to suffer the indignities of Elliot Frear. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Darren said: I think his "job" amounted to telling football illiterate Ann Budge whether Hearts were winning or not. Big Kev Kyle said on the Open Goal podcast that JJ (I refuse to call him The Jet) couldn't believe some of the things he saw happening behind the scenes at Hearts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 3 hours ago, paranoid android said: To be fair, Seneca never had to suffer the indignities of Elliot Frear. Even his Stoicism would have been challenged 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 An unusually optimistic/positive post from me. John Murray has finally fucked off, so things are looking up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. X Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 30/06/2021 at 12:57, paranoid android said: An unusually optimistic/positive post from me. John Murray has finally fucked off, so things are looking up. Allan Preston thinks you're being unfair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 9 minutes ago, Mr. X said: Allan Preston thinks you're being unfair. Fair enough - if Preston is making those claims, I'm happy to believe that they're true. the problem with Preston, though, is that he is scathing about Hearts' player recruitment, but only when Levein isn't on the same show - he bottles it any time Levein is on the same show. I'm still glad Murray is away as he was a link with the previous regime, and, if he was Chief Scout, he must have recommended at least some of the awful singings that Levein and Budge sanctioned. Onward. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Wonder Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Even if those claims from Preston are true, it doesn't excuse him being a poisonous bully with a lot of the young guys he was responsible for. Delighted he's gone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieThomas Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 That's a heartfelt defence from Allan Preston, but the glaring problem I have with it is that he's a resounding fuckwit that I wouldn't listen to if he was holding forth on the colour of shite. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 The other thing that's just occurred to me is that Preston is an agent, so he's maybe done quite well from dealings with Murray. Embarrassed that I didn't get there earlier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 7 minutes ago, paranoid android said: The other thing that's just occurred to me is that Preston is an agent, so he's maybe done quite well from dealings with Murray. Embarrassed that I didn't get there earlier. ^About to change username to "only slightly paranoid android" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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