Obesity

This is going to be a struggle isn't it.
Here goes.

I did not catch much of the game at Dunfermline on Saturday. This was largely down to this weekend being one of those big 6 nations days where my interest and loyalties are always stretched and divided.
It was a bad weekend for sport all round then, this is how it panned out.
I did make some effort to catch the cup game against Dunfermline on the radio, but i could only get coverage online and i had stuff i had to be doing so i had to keep moving around and couldn't keep track on the proceedings - either that or the game in the first half was so diabolical that my brain rejected the coverage.
At 4 the rugby started and my attention was diverted to the TV. After an initial pounding by England which we seemed to have weathered without losing too much, Scotland took the lead. Short lived, very short lived and for the rest of the first half Scotland hung on valiantly.
Every now and then during this first half i would be checking the score in the Hearts game, a not totally unsurprising 0 - 0 each time i checked.
Pretty soon into the second half it became blatantly obvious that Scotland were going to get beat in this game, so my interest switched to the Hearts result, back to the radio to pick the bones out of the the nil - nil. Within seconds of switching on the radio it is clear that nil - nil was not the result and Hearts had taken a sore 1 - 0 defeat, a goal 4 minutes into injury time.
Disgusted i switched the radio off and back to the TV.
Within a couple of minutes it was clear that Scotland were on for a bit of a tanking from Jonny boy Wilkinson and the rest of the auld enemy. Disgusted i switched the telly off and turned back to the radio.
By now i am pretty disconsolate, the sporting weekend is shot.

The radio is turned back on just in time for me to hear Valdas Ivanauskas's post match interview on Radio Scotland.
Incredulous as well as totally disgusted the radio was switched off for good.
If you did not hear the interview it was awful a disgrace to our club really.
There is no excuse, no cultural or language barrier can excuse Valdas's complete lack of acceptance of any blame ( him, his tactics or the players ) for the fact that we had just been dumped out of the cup.
All he could come up with when pressed for 'Valdas what went wrong?'
was
'some pe er peepl they think arts is a a dive arts is a diving club, is not goot for arts, er Roman'

For the above nonsense read - Hearts are again victimised by everyone on the planet it is really not our fault, toys oot the pram.

I did not listen to the whole of the interview i was so totally p'd off by his attitude that i walked away in ...... you guest it in disgust!
I am floundering whilst i write this, i can't get the words out to express just how f**k*ng angry that b*ll*cks made me.
That quite simply is just not good enough, Valdas needs to be in a position where you can explain what went wrong and what went right, with some semblance of logic and dignity, respect and decorum.

Feels to me like the season is toast and in a way i am glad all this sh*te has been exhausting. Of course it is not, there are still games against Hibs and the rest of them to be negotiated and i guess there is a European place to be fought for - Celtic beat Hibs in the Scottish Cup Final to free up a UEFA cup spot for Hearts to take, that's about as good as it feels we can expect right now.
Right now it feels like we need to skulk into a corner and lick our wounds and to build some kind of team spirit out of the broken wheel we currently have. I would be happy just to see some evidence of that before the season ends.
The worst thing is it all seems so self inflicted, the latest episodes of Vlad's strategic and tactical self harming has sent many Hearts supporters over the edge ( again ). I am teetering i have to say.
Hartley sold to Celtic feels like Vlad is certifiable in his megalomania - It is as if he would rather see Hearts burst and finished as a football team than have us reach any level of success if means a decision of his is not followed to the letter.
So the Riccarton 3 go! Gordon currently ostracised and will go in the summer, would have went in January if anyone was really interested. That's fair enough if there is descent, no player is bigger than the club blah blah but Vlad's handling of the situation probably couldn't have been worse - i would not be surprised if Vlad ends up making an arse of things with Gordon such that we get next to b*gger all for him and his career is set back years. All this so Vlad can impose his obese ego on any deviation from the party line. Where is Vlad's mum, if she is still with us we should call her - maybe she can give him a clip round the ear, strap him back in his pram.

Talk today of takeover bids £45M from an Icelandic billionaire in consortium with some others, Scottish and middle eastern. £45m is pretty much the value of the land plus taking on the debt, does that mean it is a good deal?

Any roads apologies for this rubbish post but it is the best i can do under these adverse circumstances.

Come on now folks


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