The morning after the night before

[fiolex1]

I feel worse this morning than I did yesterday on the result. I thought we put a decent effort in but on reflection another poor result at Hamden.

[matty_f]

We just recorded Quick Bang for the podcast and I have to say the discussion was very cathartic, feel much better post conversation than i did before it!

[H18 SFR]

I was happy with the fight we showed. Once SM gets his summer transfer business done we will be in much better shape.

I’m genuinely looking forward to a fresh start come 9th July when the season starts.

We will be back at Hampden in due course - that is a cert.

[Nicho87]

Yesterday just summed up our season over the course of the match

Enthusiasm
Let down
Dejected
Promise!
Optimism
Discipline
Defeat

[Sir David Gray]

Yeah I can't say that sleeping on it has helped me to feel any better I must be honest.

When all is said and done it was another defeat to Hearts at Hampden and the fourth loss in 16 years.

[Fifehibee1960]

Today seems to feel much better that yesterday.... i did expect to lose anyway... its bad when your home fans expect to lose.... i am certainly looking forward to next season along with many new players and old ones gone

[OldEast]

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Today seems to feel much better that yesterday.... i did expect to lose anyway... its bad when your home fans expect to lose.... i am certainly looking forward to next season along with many new players and old ones gone

I'm always full of optimism re Hibs. Next season has a bit more promise than usual. I'm not disappointed with this season as I expected nothing else with this squad and the injury list.

[Seekyit]

Being honest i feared for us yesterday, i thought we were going to get a tanking and it looked that way at 2-0 down. In the end we gave them a bit of a fright. Not much consolation, but I'm disappointed not disillusioned in the way i have been leaving Hampden on quite a few previous occasions.

[heretoday]

I think we acquitted ourselves pretty well and the results of both games were a lot better than I for one expected. Let's face it, anyone out of nappies knows the small world of Scottish football is swings and roundabouts and it wouldn't be a surprise if we're in an identical position this time next season but with the results reversed.

[IberianHibernian]

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I was happy with the fight we showed. Once SM gets his summer transfer business done we will be in much better shape.

I’m genuinely looking forward to a fresh start come 9th July when the season starts.

We will be back at Hampden in due course - that is a cert.

Exactly . Two of our winter signings Henderson and Clarke were two of our best players yesterday and I`m sure there`ll be some more good signings in summer to supplement young players already at the club . Also surely we won`t have so many injuries next season .

[wookie70]

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I'm always full of optimism re Hibs. Next season has a bit more promise than usual. I'm not disappointed with this season as I expected nothing else with this squad and the injury list.

I feel less enthusiastic about next season than I have for a long time. We are starting from a lower point with a manager with little experience and what he has has been pretty much a disaster. Our owners appear pretty clueless and I have little faith in our CEO. I'm struggling to retain an interest and bought our STs before the Derby games as I fear I may not have bothered if I left it until today or later. I think I might have been right as despite being disappointed after another Hampden disappointment it doesn't hurt that much toady and I'm glad I don't have to watch Hibs until the next home game. I turned down a shift in a new job to go to the Aberdeen game and if we are as poor as we have been that will be the last time I do that. Given the job is photographing sport that may mean I miss much of the games I have already bought a ticket for and I doubt I'll let that continue for too long

[B.H.F.C]

The fact we actually played quite well has me feeling worse I think. It was absolutely there for us and we just didn’t have enough about us.

I wanted to win that game more than anything yesterday but it might have paper things over a bit for those in charge. We have a hell of a lot of work to do to get us back to being a decent team.

[LunasBoots]

Yesterday felt crap but as the rest of this season has gone I've got over it pretty quickly, have been at the stage of can't wait until the end of this dreadful season for months now

[Frazerbob]

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Yesterday just summed up our season over the course of the match

Enthusiasm
Let down
Dejected
Promise!
Optimism
Discipline
Defeat

I read that to the tune of Paninaro by The Pet Shop Boys.

[Lago]

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I was happy with the fight we showed. Once SM gets his summer transfer business done we will be in much better shape.

I’m genuinely looking forward to a fresh start come 9th July when the season starts.

We will be back at Hampden in due course - that is a cert.

This

[Wilson]

Effort is the least we should expect from anyone that pulls on the shirt. I find it hard to take any solace from the fact we competed well. We should.

We did nothing that surprised them and never threatened to deliver an unexpected win.

So in the end it is just another defeat. Another missed opportunity.

[Boss_Nass]

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Effort is the least we should expect from anyone that pulls on the shirt. I find it hard to take any solace from the fact we competed well. We should.

We did nothing that surprised them and never threatened to deliver an unexpected win.

So in the end it is just another defeat. Another missed opportunity.

This is spot on. Another embarrassing loss for our club and a rookie manager who seemed delighted with being beat yesterday at the helm.

[Pete]

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This is spot on. Another embarrassing loss for our club and a rookie manager who seemed delighted with being beat yesterday at the helm.

Can you explain why you find yesterdays loss'embarrasing'?

It's the last thing I feel, and I can't see why anyone at the club would feel that way either.

Disappointing yes, but embarrassing?

[Boss_Nass]

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Can you explain why you find yesterdays loss'embarrasing'?

It's the last thing I feel, and I can't see why anyone at the club would feel that way either.

Disappointing yes, but embarrassing?

I feel embarrassed that our hampden record is so abysmal and I feel embarrassed that this team couldn’t land a glove in two important games on our rivals who let’s face it aren’t world beaters. We had a lot of possession in the second half but did nothing with it. Aside from Porteous header I can’t recall a decent chance in the second half. It is also hugely embarrassing for Maloney’s post match reaction to be one of pride. He should be furious that we lost the game and trying to install a winning mentality not acceptance of the frustrating “okay we lost but we tried hard and our fans sang louder” attitude which has been present in all the post match drivel.

[jacomo]

A cup semi final v Them and we start with James Scott up front.

Pinning our goal scoring hopes on someone who hasn’t scored a goal for us… the only thing I expected from him is that he ran and ran and ran some more and maybe hassled a defender into a mistake.

Tbf he did a lot of running for about 20 minutes, and then he reverted to jogging and pointing, seemingly to instruct a team mate to pick up an opponent.

Then we have one of our most experience players getting sent off for two avoidable bookings.

The manager could have subbed Newell to take away that possibility but he didn’t make any changes until too late. Bringing on two subs in the 90th minute when you are chasing a game is close to pointless.

Yes we dug in and didn’t get hammered but that is thin gruel, frankly.

[Stuart93]

Why the **** did he start James Scott. Squad selection is baffling at times

[Hibernia&Alba]

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Yeah I can't say that sleeping on it has helped me to feel any better I must be honest.

When all is said and done it was another defeat to Hearts at Hampden and the fourth loss in 16 years.

Yep, I'm still scunnered. Should be used to it in derby games, but it never gets any easier.

[Sir David Gray]

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Yep, I'm still scunnered. Should be used to it in derby games, but it never gets any easier.

Agreed, I'm sick to the back teeth of it.

[Coco Bryce]

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Why the **** did he start James Scott. Squad selection is baffling at times

Subs as well. Far too late getting them on yesterday again.

[hibee_girl]

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Subs as well. Far too late getting them on yesterday again.

Bringing Jasper and Muller on in the 90th minute was utterly pointless.

[Scottie]

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Yep, I'm still scunnered. Should be used to it in derby games, but it never gets any easier.

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Agreed, I'm sick to the back teeth of it.

Don’t know if it’s an age thing but the older I get the worse I feel after every game against them.

Will never understand why we are never able to get the better of them. Even yesterday we had the better of them and still couldn’t get a result.

[Sir David Gray]

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Don’t know if it’s an age thing but the older I get the worse I feel after every game against them.

Will never understand why we are never able to get the better of them. Even yesterday we had the better of them and still couldn’t get a result.

Yep.

I said yesterday on another thread that if Hearts had dominated that second half yesterday in the way that we had, there is no way they would have lost.

It bugs the life out of me that they dominate so many times against us.

[Hibees1973]

All last week I was dreading the game. Thought we would get well beaten.

I'm over it now. Most people on here seem to think our performance was good. Must admit I was surprised the team showed a bit of fight, but it was still way below expectations. What a powder-puff attack we now have.

Much as I'm over yesterday's defeat I am still seething about the mis-management of the club over the last year. From being in a decent position, which 3 or 4 quality players would have seen us easily in the top 4 and likely to have won yesterday, we find ourselves in the bottom 6 and no European place.

There are so many players in the team who will not be there next season and those that will stay and are nowhere near good enough.

I would love a complete clear out, starting with the Owner, Ron's wee laddie, Manager and Chief Exec. These guys have created this mess and a disconnect with the support.

If all these guys, know the Owner will take some shifting, remain I won't be renewing my ST.

None of them have the qualification or experience to run or manage Hibs. I fear a lengthy period of inconsistent, boring performances, low crowds, Maloneys arrogant and ignorant interviews.

[Sir David Gray]

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All last week I was dreading the game. Thought we would get well beaten.

I'm over it now. Most people on here seem to think our performance was good. Must admit I was surprised the team showed a bit of fight, but it was still way below expectations. What a powder-puff attack we now have.

Much as I'm over yesterday's defeat I am still seething about the mis-management of the club over the last year. From being in a decent position, which 3 or 4 quality players would have seen us easily in the top 4 and likely to have won yesterday, we find ourselves in the bottom 6 and no European place.

There are so many players in the team who will not be there next season and those that will stay and are nowhere near good enough.

I would love a complete clear out, starting with the Owner, Ron's wee laddie, Manager and Chief Exec. These guys have created this mess and a disconnect with the support.

If all these guys, know the Owner will take some shifting, remain I won't be renewing my ST.

None of them have the qualification or experience to run or manage Hibs. I fear a lengthy period of inconsistent, boring performances, low crowds, Maloneys arrogant and ignorant interviews.

Gordon's going nowhere any time soon so if his removal is a prerequisite for you going back I don't think you'll be back for a long time.

Same probably applies to Kensell.

[NAE NOOKIE]

I doubt there was a Hibs fan there yesterday who didn't turn up expecting us to lose given how the last 3 months have gone, to be fair to the players they put up far more of a fight than I expected, especially with 10 men, in all honesty at times you would have thought Hearts were the team a man down.

But as others have alluded to, if you want to win stuff no amount of 'pride in defeat' puts silverware in the trophy cabinet and the fact is it was just another Hampden let down to add to the too many others that have gone before. Getting to semi finals and finals isn't success if you continually lose them and we lose far too many, it also can't be stressed enough that at this point Hibernian FC owes its supporters a massive apology and a massive result somewhere down the line, sooner rather than later.

No Hibs manager should ever find a positive in defeat to Hearts, all that matters in cup matches is the result, all the more so when your opponent is your derby rival. It's getting to the stage where Hibs fans are finding it harder and harder to accept or forgive this ever growing list of defeats to Hearts in big games and that was reflected in the turnout yesterday, with yet another outcome that enabled those who deserted their club for such a huge game to say 'see bloody told you so'

So yeh, in the end it doesn't matter a stuff how much of a fist Hibs made of it or how much better our fans were than theirs, the bottom line is that yet again we lost, yet again Hibs let the fans who did stick with them down ....... it has to stop because in all honesty folk are getting sick of hearing about new attitudes at the club and how it's going to turn all this around, it seems the more things change the more they stay the same at this club and increasingly it makes meaningless pish like 'this is our city' coming from the club look like a bad bloody joke and worse than that a joke at the expense of its own supporters.