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Thread: Stokesy in bother again
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13-04-2018 12:33 PM #31
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13-04-2018 12:34 PM #32
Stokes is a textbook example of someone being a legend and a waste of space at the same time. He’ll forever be a club legend for his contribution on that day, but lets face it, he has always been a loose cannon who seems to be hellbent on self destruction. His only real success since May 2016 has been to royally piss off the one man in NL who seemed capable of understanding him and getting the best out of him.
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13-04-2018 12:36 PM #33This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-04-2018 12:37 PM #34
Is he completely off our books? I hope we don't have any wage obligation to him if they punt him.
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13-04-2018 12:41 PM #35
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It's a short career that does mean you have to sacrifice things that you and me and joe public haven't had to - which must be difficult when you are a star name with lots of money (for one so young too).
Just wish he could have screwed the nut and proved many wrong. But the day in May will forever be his legacy amongst Hibs fans which is the most important thing........I watched the final again recently and Stokes could have had 4 or 5 goals that day too, it was an immense performance
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13-04-2018 12:47 PM #36
To be honest, Greek football is in a right mess.
Players from Panathinaikos have effectively gone on strike because they haven't been paid money from last season.
The whole League programme was suspended after the President of PAOK Thessaloniki stormed on to the pitch to protest a referees decision with a holstered handgun on his hip.
The President of Olympiacos suspended most of the first team after a Twitter row following a Europa defeat by Atletico Madrid.
The whole thing appears to be on the verge of collapse.
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13-04-2018 12:56 PM #37
Is anyone really surprised by this story, he's finished in the game now, no one will touch him with a barge pole.
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13-04-2018 12:57 PM #38This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Despite the Mythos and the weather, Greece might not have been the best destination for Stokesy.
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13-04-2018 12:58 PM #39This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
hertz are taking on players just now looking to top up their pension pots
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13-04-2018 01:04 PM #40
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In Neil and Leeanne we trust .
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13-04-2018 01:05 PM #41
He’s a flawed hero.
Could have had it all, but could never screw the nut, and given his talent, wasted his career.
For us however he’s a real hero, and will forever be a club legend. Never seen a performance like that in a Hibs shirt in my life, and I really hope he can do something with the rest of his career.
Feel for the guy.
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13-04-2018 01:06 PM #42
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13-04-2018 01:06 PM #43
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13-04-2018 01:11 PM #44
From what I remember, there is a lazy gene in the body that makes you not give 100% all the time. I have it, I´m supposed to be working the noo. Maybe its all doon tae genetics
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13-04-2018 01:19 PM #45
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13-04-2018 01:28 PM #46
Seen him on George Street a couple of weeks ago but assumed he was back home given what’s been occurring in Greek football recently. Anyway, absolute legend and nothing else to add.
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13-04-2018 01:31 PM #47
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Calling Stokes a waste of space
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13-04-2018 01:32 PM #48This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We cherish his memory!
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13-04-2018 01:34 PM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Last edited by mentalhibee; 13-04-2018 at 01:37 PM.
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13-04-2018 01:35 PM #50
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That's some career to have wasted.
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13-04-2018 01:40 PM #51This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I've often wondered if it's the self-destruct chromosome is part and parcel of the outstanding talent these people have or if they are two separate entities.
As they say, "there's a fine line between genius and madness."
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That is one way of looking at it, but I think that a lot of what is said comes not from being intentionally judgemental or indeed sanctimonious as you say, but more from a deep frustration of what we could have achieved with him in the team, week in and week out at the top of his game. The paradox being that a quality player like Stokes performing week in and week out at the top of is game, is EPL quality, not SPL.
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13-04-2018 01:50 PM #55
Won the Scottish Cup with Hibs. How any Hibs fan can come out with the "waste of space" chat is beyond me.
He was at his more or less unplayable best against Ross County over Xmas time and I, for one, am glad I got to see him in that form 1 last time.
His time with us is finito, but what a legend.
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But that final, that game, I'm convinced the very top defenders in world football would have struggled to stop him. Scott Brown, Thomson, Fletcher, they've all played that well on occasion, in run of the mill SPL games, but on the biggest stage, the biggest game of all, to play like that? If you judge players on how they handle the biggest games, Stokes is an all time Hibs great.Last edited by hibsbollah; 13-04-2018 at 01:59 PM.
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13-04-2018 01:57 PM #58
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13-04-2018 02:03 PM #59
Stokesy can walk away from the game today and be relatively satisfied with what he has achieved in his career.
There is life outside football and he will survive, albeit on less money than he's been used to.
He has experienced a life most of us can only dream of - doing what he loved, but eventually fell out of love with.
I will always think of the positive and what he gave us on that special day in May.
Good luck in all that you do from here on, Stokesy!.
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