Goodwin feels bad for Stendel as drop looms
“But the rest of the
Hearts fans can’t rely on the foundation to sustain the club. All the Hearts fans who aren’t in the foundation now have to come good and set up a direct debit, enhance the cash flow to the club and help it through this period. Hearts are in a unique position because they have a readymade source of additional income.
“Providing they can afford it, Hearts fans should be getting on the foundation website, making a pledge and becoming members of the club. Cash flow is king right now. So start paying a monthly subscription. If £10 a month is too much, £5 a month might be better.
“If the fans want to help the club the foundation is the perfect avenue.
Everything is so uncertain just now. It is unlikely we will have football in front of crowds any time this year. It is like Dunkirk. Let’s get the boats across.”
ST MIRREN manager Jim Goodwin insists he has sympathy for Hearts counterpart Daniel Stendel after admitting he believes the Gorgie outfit are destined to be playing Championship football next season.
Goodwin cannot foresee the Premiership campaign being played to its natural conclusion and reckons any league reconstruction proposal will also fail to garner enough votes from clubs.
The gravity of basement side Hearts’ predicament is not lost on Goodwin after Saints beat their relegation rivals and moved six points clear of 12th place just two days before football was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Goodwin said: “Of course I have sympathy for Daniel Stendel and all the other managers who are affected by it, [Partick Thistle manager] Ian McCall.
“Hearts are where they are for a reason. They have only won four games all season and that’s why they find themselves bottom of the table.
“They had eight games to go, they could have gone and won all of those games but it would have been highly unlikely with the form they were in.
“It’s all hypothetical, nobody expected Hearts to be where they are. If we have to go and play and finish the season we’ll all go and do that but for me that’s not an option.”