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Thread: When did it change?
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04-03-2021 06:35 PM #61
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04-03-2021 06:49 PM #62
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04-03-2021 06:51 PM #63This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-03-2021 08:52 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I haven’t been on here on a computer in years so no idea if it’s still there.
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04-03-2021 09:00 PM #65This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I just seen a photo of Jack Harkness’ timeless report on Hibs 8-1 win v the Huns in the 1940s. I vividly remember reading Jack Harkness in the Sunday Post myself, 30 years after that event but still over 40 years ago. Age young or old doesn’t come on it’s own.
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04-03-2021 09:16 PM #66This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-03-2021 09:55 PM #67This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Think you can leave your date of birth blank so that it doesn't show.Mature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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04-03-2021 10:06 PM #68This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Mind you in this age (?) , Farmer sold on that entire golden generation in a fairly short spell didn’t he? Murray, Brown, Thomson, Whittaker, Riordan, O’Connor, Fletcher, Murphy, Sproule, Imagine being 12 in 2006 and facing that with Hearts winning the cup? And we might have been getting better crowds at the time than Harrower and eventually Hart did (don’t quote me on that though). But we did get East Mains and a finished stadium in return. Harrower, Hart, Waugh and their successors left us with nowt , zero legacy, less indeed than we started with, maybe too much less. And Hart is revered now on the basis of maybe three brilliant years followed by two or three decades of decline.
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04-03-2021 10:17 PM #69
I actually think the abuse at the match was worse in the 70’s and 80’s. Anything went back then. The difference was that come Sunday you started to forget about the result and look forward to the next match. There wasn’t the endless analysing and debating the minutiae of every game and individual performance like there is now.
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.' - Paulo Freire
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04-03-2021 10:36 PM #70This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
A battle outside the away end was a given once the opportunity arose to get the **** off the chest.
Music was better though.
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05-03-2021 04:00 AM #71This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
one of my pet hates - who calls even their boss Mr or Mrs? In my 20+ years in a number of industries, with the UK I’ve never come across it."We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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05-03-2021 07:23 AM #72
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Having watched Hibs for 50 years at ER and stood in all parts of the ground, I think the abuse of the players and team has become worse over time. That has accelerated over and I think it partly feeds off social media. I can remember only Ally Brazil getting pelters and more down to his limitations rather than would he actually did on the park. I remember a gang beating up on Rob Jones and willing him to making a mistake before he established himself. In the last 10 years have seen widespread ganging up on players because of concerted attacks on social media
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05-03-2021 07:57 AM #73This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Before Rod's involvement with Hibs, we had been relegated once since the 1930's and twice in his time and after the latest it took the recruitment of LD to lift the club to Scottish cup winners. There is little doubt that enormous credit is deserved for the infrastructure changing to such a fantastic degree but whether the cost [not monetary terms] needed to be so high, for me, is debatable. Back in the Sauzee/Latapy era the relationship between fans and the club was poisonous and the 11,000 crowds that, that fantastic team got was testament to that and this was often quoted as our break even figure, therefore showing the distinct lack of foresight and appreciation at what could be achieved, which fast forward a number of years would show us.
To me the deceit started with the Kenny Miller sale, not the fact he had to be sold, but we were repeatedly being told that the club was not in trouble, despite the huge amount of expensive [Duffy] signings still attached to the club and the better quality added by McLeish, afterall we were owned by a very rich man who had just sold his highly rated business to a major international organisation, so there was no reason not to believe the line being fed out of ER. Overnight it came out we had 22 million debts and Hibs had to deal with them which would mean the break up of the team starting with the sale of Kenny Miller, who after a season predominantly in Rangers reserves, went south for a million more than we got for him.
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05-03-2021 08:52 AM #74
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i remember speaking to jimmy Nicholl after his game in charge as caretaker and he was quite open that lots of players (not just Hibs) can't handle abuse from the crowd and Easter Road in particular was not an easy place to play for Hibs' players.
Players will not try things in games that they do in training for fear of abuse from the fans. That's just the way it is.
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05-03-2021 08:59 AM #75This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-03-2021 11:15 AM #76
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05-03-2021 12:18 PM #77
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I have heard it all my days at Hibs and to be honest I heard it during a season watching Aberdeen and a season with Dundee Utd (Uni student and no car-so what do you do?) Every team has fans that do it. I remember the worst case for me was De la cruz's name being read out to the crowd at the 2nd leg AEK game and even in the heart of the East under the gantry one or two guys giving it big boos and shouts about how bad he was. It started a bit of an argument with me and some others but the rest of the support were disappointingly quiet. I don't go along to shout abuse and encouragement really is everything though it doesn't stop the uncontrollable groans that escape when a player does the wrong thing or misses a chance.
Right now though - I'm glad I'm not at games because a couple of players wind me up so much I would be finding it very hard...
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05-03-2021 12:43 PM #78
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Folk will always give it large on match day.
I remember sitting behind Alistair Stevenson at the Youth cup final in 2009, a bloke sitting in front of him was giving Kurtis Byrne pelters for failing to link play, Kurtis then pops up an scores the winner in the last minute of extra time. The boy was up dancing in his seat like a young yin, with Stevenson behind him just shaking his head.
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05-03-2021 12:47 PM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
lol the life of a fickle football fan eh.
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05-03-2021 01:55 PM #80
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Thats what I remember it as.
It all seemed so much simpler back then
I also think we were not exposed to all the football we see today. How often had many of us seen a Liverpool or Man Utd game and as for foriegn teams once in a blue moonLast edited by Not So Young; 05-03-2021 at 01:58 PM.
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05-03-2021 06:38 PM #81
Im not quite the same vintage as the OP but I dont think now, actually at the games, the abuse is as bad as it was in say the 80s and early 90s. What I would say tho is that opinions on the forums etc of players and managers seem to be formed ridiculously prematurely imo with little leeway given for other factors. I think players and managers got more time in the past definitely.
If I was player Id keep off social media and away from messageboards....I remember reading a player say once they could read 99 positive comments after a game but it would be the 1 negative one that would stick in their minds.
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