Will we be playing Hearts next season?

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Hearts really don't look like they have the potential to beat the drop. They have a 15 point disadvantage but have gained no more points than second bottom after more than a quarter of the season.

 

Could it make next season a bit more interesting? In fact half the teams will be no strangers to the SPL and will be not be much different to playing the bottom half of the top league.

 

That's when our current squad will make a lot more sense. We could have saved money with a lesser team this season (although who wants the results and performances to be worse than they are?) but we'd have the same squad for next season too as who is going to sign a one year contract? Otherwise we could have ended up like QotS in the bottom three of the Championship - which so many people wanted to copy.

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PS Looking at the Championship table, I think next season will not only be a big step up but is also far more interesting in that we know a lot more about the clubs who have far more of a higher profile history. Stenhousemuir brings up a blank when I think of them, while Raith Rovers and Falkirk bring back memories of performances, style and results.

 

Who can forget, "And they'll be celebrating on the streets of Raith [sic] tonight!" Or "FC Bayern 0 - 1 Raith Rovers FC"?

 

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I was at the Rangers 10 Raith Rovers 2 match as a youngster.

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That's when our current squad will make a lot more sense. We could have saved money with a lesser team this season (although who wants the results and performances to be worse than they are?) but we'd have the same squad for next season too as who is going to sign a one year contract? Otherwise we could have ended up like QotS in the bottom three of the Championship - which so many people wanted to copy.

 

Are you saying we cant develop the players we signed and they only have a 'Game A' and aren't capable of being coached to play a certain type of football?

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A liquidator has been appointed for Hearts' parent company UBIG.

 

Following a series of courtroom postponements, UAB Bankroto Administravimo Paslaugos will now begin winding up the Lithuania-based company which holds 50% of shares in the club.

 

Hearts entered administration in June, with fans' group Foundation of Hearts named the preferred bidder in August.

 

And the club's creditors will be given the chance to accept an offer for the club worth £2.5m on 22 November.

 

"We welcome today's news," said FoH spokesman Ian Murray MP. "It's another step forward in the process towards giving Hearts a new start.

 

"We are hopeful that things will continue to progress ahead of the CVA [Company Voluntary Arrangement] meeting."

 

UBIG, which was controlled by former Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov, had its assets frozen in April after declaring insolvency.

 

The collapse of his bank, Ukio Bankas, led to the ruin of the Russian-born businessman's Lithuanian concerns.

 

So I take it if they don't accept this on the 22nd then Hearts will possibly start in the 4th tier next season?

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I suspect CVAs are normally accepted if it's as much as a company can pay. Liquidation usually means you get less money and so is not usually a good option for creditors. They also don't have a false creditor intent on destroying them either for punishment, to make an example, or as part of a bigoted conspiracy.