VincentGuerin

Go away.

Only if you think both outcomes are equally likely.

You'd do well to keep in mind that you are a mere guest in the Premiership forum and moderate your tone accordingly.

What Aberdeen say here is fair enough, just like Motherwell's statement. But what we need next is a club to make similar points in a week when they haven't been on the wrong end of a bad call.

Aberdeen. A great bunch of lads.

Anyone paying even a passing level of attention to the league this season should have been able to engage common sense and schedule this for the earliest possible date. We all know/knew that Dens is more vulnerable to a call-off than anywhere else, and that should have been part of the decision making process. Your point stands up if we just steadfastly ignore the context that we are all well aware of. Scheduling for tonight was a poor decision and it's come back to bite the authorities. Of course Dundee are responsible, but you can't be surprised when something that was likely to happen happens after you've failed to mitigate for it.

Aye, but the point stands. I don't think anyone is basing their current expectations on Aberdeen winning the cup.

They're 4 points off Europe with a game in hand.

I'll never be able to watch the heart-warming 2008 hit comedy about Owen Wilson's family and their dug ever again, Fucking spewing here.

St Mirren are really important. Really, really important. Will that do? Anyway, next.

He does often watch Aberdeen.

Pretty sure it's Conference League second qualifier. The round Hibs played the team from Andorra in this season. Three ties from the group stage, unseeded for at least the last two.

Can Dundee please announce the team as being 100% weans, igniting Celtic Twitter into a pure, unadulterated HEADSGONE, before calliing the match off 20 minutes prior to kick off, inflicting the same condition on the sticky buns? That would be just smashing, cheers.

WE'VE FUCKING BLOWN IT! Devastated.

St Mirren clinch Top 6 "I'm not saying budget that we didn't budget dare to dream, but this is budget probably budget the greatest underdog budget story in the history of budget football. Some of the teams in the bottom six have up to five hundred times our budget budget and for an amateur team made up purely of enthusiastic but rag-tag volunteers budget such as ours to budget finish about such heavyweights budget is truly sensational, marvelous, wonderful, budget, amazing. Budget. BUUUDGEEETTTT!!!!" Hibs are safe from the automatic drop Aberdeen will finish in the bottom half "No data is clean, but most is useful. Ours is shite."

I don't think anybody is likely to turn up at, say, St Johnstone and whack them a no-strings £100m. But I would have no real objection to it. Let's say St Johnstone get £100m tomorrow from a rich fan. It's not unsustainable, as they literally have that money. It's not really any different to them receiveing a huge transfer fee. There is no risk to St Johnstone and that would become part of their FFP calculation. Spend it any way they like. It doesn't stop people giving a club money, but it stops people loaning clubs money with strings that can lead a club to a bad place, it stops clubs racking up huge debt, and it stops clubs becoming reliant on the month-to-month funding of a rich backer, like Gretna were. My concern is that we wait until things go bad before we do anything. Scottish clubs have had financial problems pretty much as long as fitba clubs have existed in Scotland. We're in a spell of relative calm just now. I don't think it's wise to let things carry on until some charlatan turns up somewhere and drives a club bust. I see it as a club safeguarding issue. Other people see it as a moral issue in terms of "you have this many fans, so you can't ever improve". I don't think of it like that (while obviously I don't see a doped-up club from nowhere as an optimal situation), but I understand why some do value that over all other considerations. I think for FFP we need to make a choice between the two views..

@RandomGuy. You're boring me to tears here, so I can only imagine the impact on the causal bystander. To clear things up, I think the issue is that you're putting two separate points together. Let me clarify for you. If someone was giving Livingston no-strings money to develop the club, I'd have no objection to that. They could build a training ground, fund their women's team, develop long-term revenue streams, even just fund their team. Whatever. I don't see any damage to football in that and would have no objection to it. It would be putting Livingston at no unnecessary risk that I can see. If a Livi fan won the lottery tomorrow and gifted the club no-strings £50m quid. good luck to them. My point about Livingston that you are trying (incoherently) to link to Anderson is that in the three decades they have existed, they have failed to engage their local population, are heading for their third administration, and show no signs of being in any way viable as a top-end Scottish club. In that sense, I think the whole set-up and theft of the previous club has been a bit of a waste of time. There's no meaningfully sustainable high-end football club in Livingston, which was the aim (at least in public) in the 90s. That's a completely separate issue. It's quite clear these are two different topics, so I'm happy to clear that up for you and hopefully end your confusion.

We can play silly buggers all you like. Hearts are financially viable as a top flight football club with or without Anderson. It's nice to have the money, of course, and we're basically lucky. If he didn't exist our season tickets would be more expensive, we wouldn't have a hotel, and we'd be further back in terms of our post-admin recovery and development. But we'd almost certainly be in the top flight anyway, and competitive in it. Livingston, as we have seen repeatedly in their short history, are not viable as a top-flight club. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid comparison to make. But, there we are.

It was magnificent at times when Hearts did it on the rare occasions that Souttar was fit. With a player like that available playing the back three transformed Hearts as a side and made much more of the other players in the team. If you don't have someone that good at carrying the ball and passing the ball at centre half it can end up just being a jumbled mess. Like anything to do with tactics and shape, it's a good idea with the right players.

Look, we get it. You lived in Edinburgh, some Hearts fans were nasty to you. Fine. But you honestly make every St Mirren - Hearts thread a total snoozefest. Nobody can be fucked arguing with you. Nobody is getting all worked up. You're just really, really boring. I won't be replying to you again on the topic. Hopefully we can salvage a match thread here.

Talking about 86 again will be really interesting and full of lots of new things to say. As someone who was approaching my second birthday at the time, it's very relevant to me.

What's not sustainable about it? I'm really not sure you're grasping that the aim here is to stop clubs spending beyond their means. Anderson's money is gifted to Hearts. It is literally within our means. If he'd been loaning it to us and wanted it paid back, I'd be extremely concerned. But he isn't. The money has helped us put infrastructure in place that will see the club in a good position for years to come.

f**k off / Hi, nice to see you.

Not spending all day going back over old ground, as this was extensively covered at the time. Hearts have been spending hugely on infrastructure over the last few years, and the Anderson money has been factored into our spending. Despite the Hibs.net view of this, it does not mean Hearts are reliant on Anderson to remain a going concern. He's helpful, of course. But he also exists and his input is planned for. It's like you building a nice house with your own money and then your old man giving you twenty grand to build an extension and people pointing out that you couldn't afford it without him. That's true, but you've got the money from him, so you can. And you paid for the nice house yourself. We've got full houses every week, we've got the FoH money, we've got rising commerical income. Anderson is nice, but we'd manage without him. And fortunately a lot of our recent spending (finishing the stand, building the hotel etc) is spend we won't have to make again.

Fair dos. I think you'd be well-suited to a job in Scottish football administration. Call the SFA.