Trips to Tynecastle

All members should have received an email about forthcoming events and ideas for next season. If you haven't, email yorkhearts@yahoo.co.uk and we'll forward it on. The first trip of next season will probably be for the European game in August, though that is to be confirmed. Subsequent official club trips will be: September 29 - Hearts v Kilmarnock October 27 - Hearts v Ross County November 17 - Hearts v St Mirren December 1 - Scottish Cup Tie (home or away) Yes, the Scottish Cup does start in December next season, so the poor wee team could be knocked out twice in less than seven months!

Membership cards for 2012/13

Membership cards for 2012/13 are available now. Pay your subs to a comnmittee member, and it can be psoted to you, handed to you, or left behind the bar at the White Horse.

Cup final pictures

We've added a cup-final picture gallery. It'd be great if people could add to it with their own pictures. Either email them to yorkhearts@yahoo.co.uk or contact Gav who may be able to give log-in details for the admin page. See the gallery here:

Get this party started....

Forget the Jubilee, the Olympics, York800, the European Championships...... and tell us how you think York Hearts should celebrate the unforgettable 2012 Scottish Cup win. All ideas welcome - the more the merrier, and the more imaginative the merrier.

Membership subs due soon...

Has there ever been a better time to be a Hearts supporter than this summer? No! So make sure you don't miss out on renewing your York Hearts membership for season 2012/13. Fees are frozen yet again (that's seven seasons in a row now) - so it's £10 for adults, £5 for kids and £20 for families (up to 2 adults and as many of your own children as you wish). Remember, all members pay £5 less than non-members on any road-trips we organise, and also receive regular newsy emails, and get priority on any events we organise. Over the summer and into next season, we hope to have some special events to celebrate the cup win and St Andrew's Day, and will also be following Hearts in Europe, the SPL, the Mickey Mouse Cup, and as we try to defend the Scottish Cup! Bear in mind also that £1 of each member's payment also goes directly to the Federation of Hearts Supporters Clubs, of which we are proudly a member. Please let any of the committee know ASAP if you want to renew, and please pay when you can, but certainly by the start of season 2012/13.

And the winner is.....

Thank you to everyone who took part in the player of the year vote.

The results are in, and the points are:

Zaliukas: 1 point

Webster: 4 points

Black: 8 points

McGowan: 8 points

Skacel: 15 points

Rudi Skacel is therefore the York Hearts Player of the Year for season 2011/12.

Player of the year

It's time to vote for your player of the year. This is where York Hearts members vote for their best Hearts player of the season - not to be confused with the equally-prestigious vote for our own 6-a-side team's best player. Please vote for your top 2, in order. A first-placed vote gets 2 points; a second-placed vote gets 1 point, and the player with most points wins.

Send your votes to yorkhearts@yahoo.co.uk by midnight next Thursday night please (May 31). If you want a reminder of some of this season's highlights..... -> Only team to keep a clean sheet at White Hart Lane

-> 4 points out of 6 at Ibrox

-> The 2-0 home win over Celtic in October

-> 3 derby wins out of 3 - the first time we've taken maximum points in the derbies since 1962

-> Beating St Mirren 5-2 in January, despite playing with ten men for 80 mins (Skacel hat-trick)

-> The semi-final win over Celtic and Beattie's last-minute penalty

-> The small matter of the Scottish Cup victory on May 19

After the glorious end to the season, it would be great to get lots of votes so the award can truly be said to represent the whole club. So please, get voting!

The greatest weekend....

Well, has it sunk in yet? - What a glorious weekend for the glorious Hearts!

Thirteen members of York Hearts were lucky enough to get tickets for the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden, to witness the utter annihilation of our so-called city rivals. Back in York, at the White Horse, more than 20 others packed into the main bar room, to watch the joyous scenes on TV.

We'll lift the H-tax today to name and shame Edinburgh's second team in full, and to revel in the result again: Heart of Midlothian 5-1 Hibernian.

A few had headed up to Scotland on Friday evening, but others began bright and early on Saturday.

Ian Warner, Brian Dall, Sam Outing, Tommy Outing and Gavin Aitchison all gathered at Toft Green at 7.30am, to make the long drive north, to glory or despair. The magnitude of the game was lost on nobody. The Outing brothers even made history by arriving on time, but the nerves were clear for all to see. How needless they would prove!

Badger brought the papers; Gav came armed with Mr Kipling Jam Tarts; and the troops were treated to the sounds of the 20 Jambo Classics CD, as we made our way up the A1 to Scotch Corner, and then across the Pennines and up to Glasgow. Just over the border, we collected two more maroon footsoldiers from the Dall clan, and then it was on to Hampden.

We arrived in Glasgow at noon, met our contacts for tickets, and then sought solace, reassurance and refreshment in the pub - The Clockwork Beer Co.

The flag went up, so did the tension, do did the songs, and gradually more of the York contingent began to assemble. We even recruited a newbie, Sam sharply picking up the dulcet tones of a Heworth dialect near the bar. Many seemed in no doubt we'd win - many weren't so sure. Gav wandered around aimlessly, fleeting between optimism and dread. Badger did likewise, though managed to avoid going near the bar.

And then it was time. To the ground we filed. Programme, check. Pie, check. Dangerous levels of adrenalin, check. And then it happened - possibly the finest 90 minutes of football any Jambo will ever enjoy. Barr, Skacel, Grainger, McGowan and Skacel again ensured that we not only won the cup, but pummeeld, pulverised and humiliated Hibs in the process.

We gave them a goal for the sake of it, but who cares. What a day, what a win, what a weekend, what a team.

Some of us headed back to York that night, where the party continued at the White Horse; others headed for celebrations in Edinburgh. North or south, Scotland or England, the joy and unbridled delirium were the same.

When we've all come down off cloud nine, we'll be organising some sort of York Hearts celebration - possibly a race day, possibly a curry night, possibly a day brewing a celebratory beer. If you've any other ideas, let us know.

In the meantime, all together now...... "5-1 in the cup final, 5-1 in the cup final, 5-1 in the cup final, 5-1 in the cup final......"