Our next 5 games

[Silky]

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Sorry mate but you're dreaming if you think that's realistic given our form.

That was some dream he had. How did you know?

[Silky]

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There's optimism, realisim and wishful thinking.

Realism would have done!

[StevieCowan]

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IF we don’t win any of the next 5, should questions start being asked of Lennon? I have confidence in him, however if it gets to 2 or 3 wins out of the last 15 then surely the questions must be asked?

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[NORTHERNHIBBY]

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Our games up to the split are all winnable, 6 out of 6 wins would surely put us in at least 3rd and near 2nd.

Away to Killie
Home to Hamilton
Home to Hearts
Away to St Johnstone
Home to Partick
Away to Ross County

Toughest may be next week but hopefully momentum from last 2 games will see us through.

The hardest game will be away to Killie but what a boost we will get if we win that one.

[wookie70]

Kilmarnock will be tough on the astro given their form, Hearts are stuffy but we should have too much for them and the other 4 games are against the 4 bottom teams in the league. Hamilton, St Johnstone, Ross County and the Jags will most likely be fighting for their lives but we will be favourites in at least 5 of the next 6 games. The Rangers and the Dandy Dons have a very similar run of fixtures so if we want to stay in contention for an automatic slot into Europe then we will have to get a good haul of points.

[SeanWilson]

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Sorry mate but you're dreaming if you think that's realistic given our form.

Didn't dream big enough 😀🍺 predictions after that yam loss were woeful.

[SeanWilson]

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No' a bad prediction, only one game out so far.

PS - Care to share your lottery numbers ?

Sadly, given my gambling record, you'd be better off betting blind 🤣
Gladly, however; knew it then and I know it now, NL is class and we're so much better than that ***** game, which everyone decided the rest of our season on...

GGTTH

[timewilltell]

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3 points if we’re lucky

I make that 12....

[Stevie Reid]

Can this go in the vault as the definitive knee-jerk reaction thread?!

[hibbysam]

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Can this go in the vault as the definitive knee-jerk reaction thread?!

It wasn’t really knee jerk though, we were fairly garbage for over a month and on paper it was a very tough run. Just glad we managed to address it and go on an outstanding run which should guarantee us at least 4th.

[Stevie Reid]

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It wasn’t really knee jerk though, we were fairly garbage for over a month and on paper it was a very tough run. Just glad we managed to address it and go on an outstanding run which should guarantee us at least 4th.

It was complete knee jerk and we weren't garbage (and it was after our first game in three weeks) - we haven't been garbage all season. It was just a spell where we'd had too many draws.

[blackpoolhibs]

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It was complete knee jerk and we weren't garbage (and it was after our first game in three weeks) - we haven't been garbage all season. It was just a spell where we'd had too many draws.

Exactly, if anyone thinks we've been garbage at any time this season, they have not watched us for very long.

[Billy Whizz]

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Exactly, if anyone thinks we've been garbage at any time this season, they have not watched us for very long.

Can’t agree more, much higher standard of player now, than we’ve had since around 2007

[hibbysam]

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It was complete knee jerk and we weren't garbage (and it was after our first game in three weeks) - we haven't been garbage all season. It was just a spell where we'd had too many draws.

We barely looked like scoring, we only won 1 in 7, behind the scenes it was a fiasco. Couple that with the run that was coming and it wasn’t knee jerk and completely understandable.

Thankfully we recruited well and have went on an outstanding run.

Also you say a ‘spell’ but we were drawing too many games all season, but during this ‘spell’ we actually started losing games.

[DavidDavidGray]

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It was complete knee jerk and we weren't garbage (and it was after our first game in three weeks) - we haven't been garbage all season. It was just a spell where we'd had too many draws.

We had won 2 games in 10 and the Stokes situation was still unresolved, definitely not knee jerk. Was a very tough run of fixtures and we have done extremely well to win 4 out of 5. Looks stupid in hindsight but at the time was 100% not knee jerk.

[Stevie Reid]

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We barely looked like scoring, we only won 1 in 7, behind the scenes it was a fiasco. Couple that with the run that was coming and it wasn’t knee jerk and completely understandable.

Thankfully we recruited well and have went on an outstanding run.

Also you say a ‘spell’ but we were drawing too many games all season, but during this ‘spell’ we actually started losing games.

We scored in every game bar one of that supposedly bad run, and by the end of it we were at the end of January and had lost five league games.

We suffered from not putting teams away and having Celtic, Ranges and Aberdeen in the space of 6 days.

[Stevie Reid]

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We had won 2 games in 10 and the Stokes situation was still unresolved, definitely not knee jerk. Was a very tough run of fixtures and we have done extremely well to win 4 out of 5. Looks stupid in hindsight but at the time was 100% not knee jerk.

It was knee jerk. We were comfortably 4th in the league and only lost 5 times at that point. We had only won two out of ten, but had only lost three out of ten. Shocker against Aberdeen, last minute defeat to St. Johnstone, and we somehow lost to Rangers despite murdering them.

Was a complete knee jerk to the Hearts defeat.

[hibbysam]

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We scored in every game bar one of that supposedly bad run, and by the end of it we were at the end of January and had lost five league games.

We suffered from not putting teams away and having Celtic, Ranges and Aberdeen in the space of 6 days.

Your last point, those three teams were part of this run we just had, apart from playing the old firm away rather than at home, so I’m struggling to see how it’s knee jerk to suggest those results could be mirrored.

We had only lost 5 games, but had lost 3 in 7 games, and only won 1, so again not knee jerk but basing it on current form. The same way a lot of people now suggest we’ll win 5/6 of our next 6.

[DavidDavidGray]

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It was knee jerk. We were comfortably 4th in the league and only lost 5 times at that point. We had only won two out of ten, but had only lost three out of ten. Shocker against Aberdeen, last minute defeat to St. Johnstone, and we somehow lost to Rangers despite murdering them.

Was a complete knee jerk to the Hearts defeat.

Whatever you say mate

[Borderhibbie76]

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We barely looked like scoring, we only won 1 in 7, behind the scenes it was a fiasco. Couple that with the run that was coming and it wasn’t knee jerk and completely understandable.

Thankfully we recruited well and have went on an outstanding run.

Also you say a ‘spell’ but we were drawing too many games all season, but during this ‘spell’ we actually started losing games.

We lost to rangers and Aberdeen...hardly crime of the century and Aberdeen apart we were never garbage

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[Jones28]

😂😂😂Christ I'm going to stop trying to predict the future

[Stevie Reid]

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Your last point, those three teams were part of this run we just had, apart from playing the old firm away rather than at home, so I’m struggling to see how it’s knee jerk to suggest those results could be mirrored.

We had only lost 5 games, but had lost 3 in 7 games, and only won 1, so again not knee jerk but basing it on current form. The same way a lot of people now suggest we’ll win 5/6 of our next 6.

That's a fair point re: the mirroring of the fixtures certainly. Though given that we'd already won at Ibrox, taken a point at Celtic Park and only narrowly lost to Aberdeen at ER, people could've shown a bit more faith. Dundee away and Motherwell at home should always have looked winnable for us.

[SeanWilson]

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Whatever you say mate

He's absolutely spot on. We were a comfortable 4th having looked competitive against everyone around us bar the battering in Aberdeen... the cup game was a shocker but not season defining, as has been proven in the subsequent 5 games. Onwards and upwards!
GGTTH

[Wilson]

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He's absolutely spot on. We were a comfortable 4th having looked competitive against everyone around us bar the battering in Aberdeen... the cup game was a shocker but not season defining, as has been proven in the subsequent 5 games. Onwards and upwards!
GGTTH

Looking competitive doesn't keep you in 4th though. Only results do. Playing teams off the park doesn't matter if you don't win the games.

There was a point where, bar a couple of games we let slip, we could have been second. The fact we had stopped talking about second and became fixated on our comfortable fourth is testament to the drop off in form.

It is not the worst crisis if we are at the right end of the table and are playing well. However, if the management and players set a high standard of performances and results, as they should, then it should be expected that questions are asked when the results aren't coming.

[Stevie Reid]

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Looking competitive doesn't keep you in 4th though. Only results do. Playing teams off the park doesn't matter if you don't win the games.

There was a point where, bar a couple of games we let slip, we could have been second. The fact we had stopped talking about second and became fixated on our comfortable fourth is testament to the drop off in form.

It is not the worst crisis if we are at the right end of the table and are playing well. However, if the management and players set a high standard of performances and results, as they should, then it should be expected that questions are asked when the results aren't coming.

The results at the time still had us comfortably in 4th though, with the performance levels pointing to an improvement, rather than a continued decline, being more likely.

Lennon and the players have indeed set a very high standard. As the spell being referred to was the first bit of real adversity we had faced since he took over (and still wasn't that bad), a bit more faith from the support (on here) was justified.

[hibbysam]

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The results at the time still had us comfortably in 4th though, with the performance levels pointing to an improvement, rather than a continued decline, being more likely.

Lennon and the players have indeed set a very high standard. As the spell being referred to was the first bit of real adversity we had faced since he took over (and still wasn't that bad), a bit more faith from the support (on here) was justified.

We weren’t ‘comfortably’ in 4th. Hearts were on a great run, and we’re gaining on us week on week, down to around 4/5 points. We were slipping further from 2nd/3rd, and falling closer to hearts who had their tails up. It was perfectly reasonable to be worried about the next set of, extremely difficult, fixtures.

As said, thankfully January was very good recruitment wise, and we turned the corner, but it wasn’t knee jerk based on one cup defeat.

[Stuart93]

Enjoyed reading this thread back, apart from a few very optimistic posters nobody really gave us much chance of picking up any more than 6 points max from the five games, footballs a funny old game. We must be one of the most unpredictable teams on the planet and I love it.

[hibbysam]

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Enjoyed reading this thread back, apart from a few very optimistic posters nobody really gave us much chance of picking up any more than 6 points max from the five games, footballs a funny old game. We must be one of the most unpredictable teams on the planet and I love it.

What supporting Hibs is all about and makes us so entertaining.

[Stuart93]

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What supporting Hibs is all about and makes us so entertaining.

Correct sir

[Stevie Reid]

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We weren’t ‘comfortably’ in 4th. Hearts were on a great run, and we’re gaining on us week on week, down to around 4/5 points. We were slipping further from 2nd/3rd, and falling closer to hearts who had their tails up. It was perfectly reasonable to be worried about the next set of, extremely difficult, fixtures.

As said, thankfully January was very good recruitment wise, and we turned the corner, but it wasn’t knee jerk based on one cup defeat.

Being 5 points clear in 4th isn't comfortably in 4th place? And it wasn't too bad above us - whilst losing to Rangers and Aberdeen directly didn't help us obviously, during the same time period we are taking about, in the space of a month Rangers lost to Dundee, St. Johnstone, Killie and Hamilton.

Aberdeen certainly benefitted a bit, they won three in a row in December, but had lost to Rangers (twice) and Celtic on either side of those wins, they drew against Hearts too.

Below us, Hearts have lost one game in 17 and are still nine behind us. Motherwell have barely won a game in months. Only Killie have been in good form.

We were comfortably in 4th when the winter break kicked in. Given the upshot of the Portugal trip, the Hearts game in the SC just came too early for us, unfortunately.

We haven't been below 4th since the end of October, and the first run of fixtures was done.