I'm a 60 year old Hibby and was only 4 years old in 1962 when our Maroon chums last lifted League Cup silverware.
Will this be the year that they finally break their hoodoo?
Will this be the year that Levein finally gets his hands on his very first piece of silverware?
The excitement is building in Gorgie and Tinycastle among their long-suffering supporters - including 2 generations of younger Jambos who have grown up and gone through their entire lives having never tasted League Cup victory.
The older ones (an ever-dimishing bunch) will have painfully witnessed 56 consecutive years (over half a century) of seeing their team "Jambottle-It".
Will this be the year that this embarrassing sequence ends?
Watch this space.
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20-08-2018 12:47 AM #1
56 years of League Cup Misery For The Jambos
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20-08-2018 01:09 AM #2
you forgot to mention that those youngsters have been brought up with the fact that it is just a diddy cup. they don't really want to win it.
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20-08-2018 01:40 AM #3
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That dug stuff should have been launched from the competition regarding the illegible player debacle. If they do lift it they'll have prospered by cheating (again).
No reason why we can't lift it instead by way of honest graft and honorable means.
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20-08-2018 01:54 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It's a classic example of "reverse psychology" - a "coping strategy" for endless disappointment.
The more sensible of them know that there are only 3 major domestic trophies to be won. The League Title, The Scottish Cup and The Scottish League Cup (in all it's guises)
The financial disparity in Scottish football, however, leaves The Scottish Cup and The Scottish League Cup as the only 2 trophies any team outwith Celtic/The Rangers can "realistically" hope to win. This makes winning either absolutely vital to not only generate money, but to give supporters "hope".
The Jambos have been hoping and praying for 56 years re The League Cup - all to no avail.
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20-08-2018 02:25 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
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20-08-2018 05:19 AM #6
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This is cringe.
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20-08-2018 05:26 AM #7
If they won it this year after fielding an ineligible player it would be very Hearts.
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20-08-2018 07:25 AM #8
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20-08-2018 07:36 AM #9
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Are they actually salivating over their prospects in this tournament after decades of belittling it and calling it the diddy cup because of our relative success in it?
They really are a queer lot.
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20-08-2018 08:08 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Homophobe!
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20-08-2018 08:27 AM #11
I thought it was pathetic chat when they did it with us and the Scottish, not gonna think any differently of it from this side of the fence.
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20-08-2018 08:36 AM #12
I have mixed feelings about an Edinburgh Derby at Hampden for the Semi / Final : a win and knocking them out/ lifting the cup would be glorious, but a loss would be unbearable.
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20-08-2018 10:54 AM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"Your cupboards are bare, there's no silverwhere, for 36 years in a row"
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20-08-2018 10:59 AM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It was pretty pathetic when they'd push the SC nonsense for the years after we won the LC in 2007. Did they really think that that would get to us after seeing our team win a national cup final 5-1 in front of 30,000+ of our own support at Hampden?
I suspect they'll be immune to such digs about the LC.
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20-08-2018 12:03 PM #16
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This is the sort of thread that a manager would pin up on the dressing room door. Fortunately for us, Hearts don't have a dressing room - although the door has been ordered.
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20-08-2018 12:56 PM #18
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20-08-2018 01:05 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Bring it on
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20-08-2018 02:40 PM #20
I love a bit banter about winless/trophyless streaks and the like. Of course it doesn't always make sense and has far less effect than we might hope but so what? Football rivalry is all a bit daft really when you really think about it.
I'm sure jibes about 42 years or 7-0 never really bothered Hearts fans as much as I thought, just like them holding up 2 hands in a 5-1 gesture or Rudi Skacel parading about in a number 51 shirt really doesn't upset me. The thing about our SC record was that it was a bit of a bizarre anomaly, it's not unrealistic to think we should have won it once or twice in 114 years. No one slags Cowdenbeath for their cup record because no one expects them to have won it. Equally it's not unrealistic to have expected Hearts to have won the LC in the last 56 years, that coupled with their dismissal of it as 'diddy' makes their failure to win it quite amusing.
I daresay standing at Tynecastle watching a pretty dull 0-0 being played out wouldn't have been half as fun if we hadn't been for us singing the Runaround Sue song non stop for most of the 2nd half. That worked because of the slagging we had taken from them over the years particularly since 1998. The day petty mocking of rivals ceases to be part of the game will be the day I give up on football.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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20-08-2018 02:47 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I really doubt it bothers any of them either. Better to concentrate on what certainly does bother them: us playing in Europe regularly and pumping them as often as possible.
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Not just any door though. It's a unique atmospheric door, so if they've definitely ordered it it's never going to fit. It'll be the only dressing room door of it's kind.
Maybe they'll be able to use it on the overdue nursery project? Might make a slide or a shelf.
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20-08-2018 03:57 PM #23
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"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"
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20-08-2018 05:10 PM #25
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20-08-2018 05:22 PM #26
Our cup win in 2016 was romantic and glorious enough on its own but it was massively enhanced by the Jambos obsession with it. I don’t intend to return the compliment and thus scorn rather than gloat at, their poor League Cup record.
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20-08-2018 05:26 PM #27
For those that cringe at such threads as the one I started: never forget the constant, and I mean constant, referral to 1902 that we Hibbies endured/suffered for most of our lives...and I'm 60, so that's 58 years of jibes/banter..call it what you will.
Our pitiful Scottish Cup record was a psychological burden and, yes, an embarrassment for both supporters and club. They revelled in our pain, so, now that we've got that monkey off our collective backs, it's our turn to turn the screw on them!
The day we can't take the Micky out of our Maroon chums is the day I will walk away from supporting Hibs.....and that's not going to happen!!
If this thread makes you cringe then please feel free to ignore it!Last edited by Hi Heid Yin; 20-08-2018 at 05:29 PM.
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20-08-2018 06:39 PM #28
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This Tynecastle door being talked about.
When is the official opening?
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20-08-2018 06:43 PM #29
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