All games against the Old Firm are big games, and you could say all 38 games in a season are equally big in the scheme of things. This just has a feeling of being a particularly massive game for us...
1. The media are starting to sit up and take notice of us
2. Is the 'real' Hibs the ones who capitulated 4-1 at ER against the Hun, or the ones who beat celtic in Glasgow?
3. Getting to the business end of the season, can we hang on to the OF's coattails and maybe grab a Champions League place?
4. Start of a run of 3 away games in 6 days.
5. Fully fit squad, no excuses for absences.
IMO this game will define what happens to this season.
View Poll Results: Is this bigger than other recent games with the OF?
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14-02-2010 11:12 AM #1
Is this the defining game of Hibs' season?
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14-02-2010 11:17 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-02-2010 11:21 AM #3
No I don't think it is.
It is important, undoubtedly; but I don't think that we can say that it is the defining game of the season. For instance, what happens if we play poorly but not as bad as at Christmas, and the Huns win 2nil, and we then go to Perth and Motherwell and get 2 wins? We'd still be in the mix for 2nd, in the lead for 3rd, but pretty much out of the league race (not that any of us really believe that we can win that anyway).
I think 'defining' is a term, and a sense, that can only really be ascertained afterwards, with hindsight. So yes it's important, but no more so than the other games against the Rangers have been this season - which have all received the big build up.
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14-02-2010 11:22 AM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What he says
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14-02-2010 11:24 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm more excited about this game than i have been in a while...
Come on the Hibs
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14-02-2010 11:24 AM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We blew it big time when we got horsed by them 4-1 at ER. If we're genuinely challenging to do special this season then we need to win today. If we do, it might get interesting; if we get horsed again then we're looking at 3rd at best.
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14-02-2010 11:26 AM #7
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Not sure about a defining game, but all six pointers have a big impact.
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14-02-2010 11:29 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Here's hoping for another Ivan like perfomance!Last edited by cockneymike; 14-02-2010 at 11:31 AM.
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14-02-2010 11:35 AM #9
I don't think todays result will make much difference at all.If we win, great, if we lose its probably expected. We don't measure our season on how we do against the old firm, we measure it on how we do against the rest, and we are doing fine at that.
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14-02-2010 05:01 PM #10
Obviously talking with hindsight here, but I don't know how you can say that any game is "defining" in advance, short of it being an actual decisive game (ie cup final or semi final, last league game or two with something to play for). You can look back afterwards and say that this or that game was important, but that is hindsight talking really.
I think the first game was quite important, it set a tone in terms of the determination to keep at it, even if the performance wasn't that great. That has typified the season so far in a few characteristics.
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14-02-2010 05:04 PM #11
In as much as it defines us as runners up at very best, yes.
In any other way, no.
We're a much improved team from last season and we might qualify for Europe.
However, it will be the league placing in May that will define us.
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14-02-2010 05:25 PM #12This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I just hope theres no impact on the coming weeks performances...
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14-02-2010 05:55 PM #13
We could have played like champions and still got beat at Ibrox today. Celtic teams that have won the league have got beaten at Ibrox. It's not an easy place to go and win and whether you do or don't doesn't matter to us.
Not one team has won there in the leagu this season so we're not fairing any differently to any of our competitors excpet the Huns, who are champions, present and most likely next.
As was said above, consistantly picking up points against non OF teams is what will define our season as a success.
Whether or not we take 4-6 points in our next 2 games would be more of an indicator IMO.
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14-02-2010 06:01 PM #14
If we play the rest of the season like we did in that first half today we'll be absolutely fine.
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14-02-2010 07:06 PM #15
This game and most games vs the old firm is far more important to the media and the old firm than it is the rest of the clubs ...funny that eh ......
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14-02-2010 08:47 PM #16
See the win that we had against Celtic? Well I would swap that right now for a win against Dundee United a few weeks back. Make no mistake, Parkhead that night was great, but Rantic and Celgers are not our direct competition.
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17-02-2010 09:53 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I blame that appearance on Football Focus 'Are Hibs Ready to Split the Old Firm?'...thats when it all started going Blobby-shaped
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24-03-2010 06:25 AM #19
In that 6 weeks that have passed since the Rangers game, we've got 4 points out of 18 in the SPL, been embarassed in the Derby, been put out of the Cup by a 1st division team, and gone from being a shoo-in for Europe to struggling for a top 6 place.
What went wrong?
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