They say the board read this forum.
Well
Dear Board Members.
If you think that following last years disaster that what happened in Dumfries tonight was in any way acceptable then you must be living in a bloody bubble.
To once again subject the supporters of this club to 'yet another' cup humiliation is just ****ing well unbelievable. Bad enough that the supporters of our biggest rivals were handed the bragging rights in Edinburgh for decades to come in the most degrading and embarrassing manner possible, without ( less than 3 months later ) handing them another chance to take the P1sss out of us on a plate.
To get to the stage where we are a threat to Dundee Utd, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Hearts and even hopefully Celtic, will take time and setbacks can be anticipated and even accepted along the way .......... against these clubs.
2 - 0 defeats to part time clubs in the first round of one of the two competitions we have a realistic chance of winning are not acceptable. Not any more !!!
Please, please dont trot out the usual pathetic platitudes and patronising drivel about sharing the fans pain etc etc etc.
Just get a bloody grip.
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Thread: To the board
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28-08-2012 10:27 PM #1
To the board
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28-08-2012 11:02 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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28-08-2012 11:05 PM #4
If the Board do read Hibs.net, I bet their hearts leapt with joy when this thread appeared.
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29-08-2012 12:05 AM #6
We are like a rudderless boat, absolutely no direction....Sad times
"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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29-08-2012 12:11 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I still feel confident for the rest of the season and at the moment the league is the most important thing to Hibs
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29-08-2012 12:24 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-08-2012 09:14 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But not any more. I for one am fed up trying to rationalise or find excuses for Hibs failures on the park. If you look again at my post you will see that I didnt expect us to be beating the likes of Dundee Utd or Celtic I am not asking for the Earth.
The clubs you have quoted above have bad cup results mostly because they dont really care about certainly the League Cup and probably until the QF stages the F.A. cup, Spanish Cup or Scottish Cup. They have bigger fish to fry and so do their supporters. Have a look at the records of those clubs overall in the last 20 years ..... It makes it a lot easier to take and even brush off a bad cup result.
Hibs do not have that luxury. A result like this would have been unacceptable at any time in Hibs history ... to have it handed to us on the back of last season is something that we as Hibs supporters should be taking the club to task for. I do not want Pat Fenlon sacked or anything like that ... but he has to be asked by the board and us too, why he thought it was acceptable ( injuries notwithstanding ) to endanger what has been a decent start to the season, not to mention a potentially valuable income source and a chance of on field success, by fielding anything other than his strongest possible team in this fixture.
There is a thing that most businesses dealing with the public recognise, its called 'managing customer expectations' Most Hibs supporters accept that the chances of going to Glasgow at the weekend and getting a result are slim at best. Most Hibs supporters expect this football club to be able to go to Queen of the South ( good luck to them ) and come away still in one of the two competitions we have any chance of winning.
In that context ... which of those two fixtures should the people running Hibs have been looking on as the more important. The one we have little chance of winning, even with our strongest team, or the one that could have been used to take the club forward on and off the park and the one we had the best chance of getting a result in.
How can we hope to continue to improve when we continue to make the same mistakes on and off the park?Last edited by NAE NOOKIE; 29-08-2012 at 09:16 AM.
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29-08-2012 09:38 AM #10
Bovril - your attitude is spot on.
For too long a lot of Hibs fans - myself included - would look to find excuses for performances and results like that.
"Oh, lay off them...they've had a good start to the season..."
"Results like that can happen to anyone..."
"It's more important to win SPL matches..."
"We're rebuilding...have some patience..."
Reports on recent focus group meetings with board members all come back with the same thing - the cup final result hurt us just as much as the fans. It won't happen again. Blah, blah, blah....
Well Hibs....IT HAPPENED AGAIN LAST NIGHT. We have become a soft touch off the park. Fan pressure needs to be applied to Hibs so that Hibs apply it to their managers and players.
I hope Pat Fenlon has been dragged into an office this morning to explain himself. I hope that he has then gone out on the training pitch and kicked the utter **** out of the players.
Results and perfomances like last night....unacceptable. END OF.
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29-08-2012 11:20 AM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Can't argue with much of that if any at all?!
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29-08-2012 11:27 AM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Agreed 100% with the above.
Bottom line, its NOT ****ing good enough (or respectful or in line with our REAL ethos and what we're all about) to say "but it's Hibs" or failure is "expected". Yes, it happens but it shouldnt be for the want of trying or on the back of stupid decisions.
This one is very simple;
* Play your strongest players
* In their strongest position
* Every time, in every game, unless they are injured or physically unable
FFS, any Sunday pub team coach could tell you this.
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29-08-2012 11:40 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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what i love about hibs.net is is someone will have a rant and rave about something (and rightly so) and in the next line your brought right back down to earth .........
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29-08-2012 11:57 AM #14
Well that result will have knocked about 1000 of the gate against Kilmarnock, unless by a miracle we get a result this weekend.
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29-08-2012 12:00 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
No more bloody excuses.
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29-08-2012 12:06 PM #16
What is worrying is that Fenlon apparently rested one or two players which then rendered the team unable to beat Queen of the South. Surely alarm bell should be ringing in as much that we should have solid replacements should these people be injured.
I think if Mcpake gets injured we would end up leaking goals.
If Fenlon is serious about bringing in more signing he needs to ship out the driftwood.
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29-08-2012 12:15 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Agree with all this post.
Its also a concern to me that after only a few weeks into the season we are resting anyone.
*****in ragin'
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29-08-2012 12:27 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-08-2012 12:43 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
PS Sorry for being so thick!
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29-08-2012 12:47 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That rant was answered by "they are full time".Last edited by CropleyWasGod; 29-08-2012 at 12:51 PM.
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29-08-2012 12:55 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hibs should not be losing to teams like that in Cup competitions when they are potentially fantastic income generators for the Club if round to round progression can be achieved particularly against current 2nd Division teams!Last edited by TornadoHibby; 29-08-2012 at 01:16 PM.
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29-08-2012 01:34 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That starting line up and bench, should have been more than enough to win last night......Unfortunately every single outfield player had a disaster......Its usually OK when one or two have an off day, but not the whole lot"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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29-08-2012 01:53 PM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-08-2012 02:09 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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29-08-2012 02:17 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I reckon the Celtic representatives that will have no doubt been in the crowd watching us will not be the slightest bit concerned about Deegan and co when we head through on Saturday. Thing is we know they can play as we've seen already this season. Pish against Utd but good against Hearts, dug out a result against St M and ground out a result against St J but last night it was back to pish, there's not even any consistency with form now
If the board do read these forums then read this. Make funds available to the gaffer to strengthen or face many more years of poor attendances and under achieving, tight fisted gits that you are. Us season ticket holders have forked out our hard earned cash its about time you as the board did the same...................Last edited by Hermit Crab; 29-08-2012 at 02:21 PM.
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29-08-2012 02:51 PM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-08-2012 02:54 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Why it was not his fault we got beat, that was a strong enough team to do the job they chose for whatever reason not to try.
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29-08-2012 03:23 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I am not offering this as an excuse, as we knew we had little depth in the squad already.
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29-08-2012 04:01 PM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The fact that results like this happen regularly to Hibs sides....? Well, that buck stops somewhere else...
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29-08-2012 04:15 PM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The minute I saw the team I had the same concern as one of the other very good posts elsewhere re why we think we have the depth of squad to do it and also why this tournament / the risk of an embarassment was so unimportant. I was certain we'd be in for a doing from an in form team and so it proved. Sad thing was that I wasn't surprised and even worse I never felt as angry about it as I used to so thanks for reminding me how I used to feel!
Great admiration for the fans that did go - we still carry an away support thats inconsistent with how we perform / the effort we put in at times.
Onward and upward.
"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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