Goal-less Run

[sunshine1875]

Not wanting to depress anyone more than they currently are, but that is now three games without a goal scored - the Hertz game, the Ayr game and now the Celtic game.

It made me think of the past and I can recall going seven games in 1987/88 without seeing the Hibs score a goal and that included playing a SC game away to Dumbarton that finished 0-0. For the replay, I remember arriving about 5 minutes late from the pub only to hear a cheer as Hibs had been awarded a penalty. Great a chance to see a Hibs goal, I thought, only for us to miss it (Kano I think, though the goalie made a good save IIRC). We eventually won 3-0.

Checking the Hibs website, the run of games are below (our score first) - the away games when we scored were games that I obviously missed. Anyone else remember these games or a worse run of goal-less games .

L 0-1 H Celtic
L 0-1 A Dunfermline
L 0-2 H Rangers
W 2-1 A Dundee United
D 0-0 H Falkirk
D 0-0 H St Mirren
D 0-0 A Hearts
D 0-0 H Aberdeen
L 0-2 A Celtic
D 1-1 A Morton
D 0-0 A Dumbarton
W 3-0 H Dumbarton

[fife hfc]

That list only has us going 5 games without a goal or am I missing something:confused:

Anyway your right about it being concerning as at the moment I can't see where a goal is going to come from.

[Hibs Class]

Hibs will score on Tuesday

[HibeePaj]

Hibs will score on Tuesday

thanks.

player, and what half?
:wink:

[fife hfc]

Hibs will score on Tuesday

Aye but will we concede more than we score? At the moment we can't keep a clean sheet and don't look like scoring so a recipe for disaster.

[Hibs Class]

thanks.

player, and what half?
:wink:

My inclination towards optimism only allows me to make predictions in the most general of terms.

(However if pushed I would say Miller in the first half)

[Albion Hibs]

Aye but will we concede more than we score? At the moment we can't keep a clean sheet and don't look like scoring so a recipe for disaster.

I think our inability / the fact we dont have a consistant goal scorer makes it far harder to keep a clean sheet.

If I was an oppotion manager I would be saying just go at them, regardless of what they do they will struggle to score.

The fact we dont retain / keep the ball in wide areas of up front puts us under pressure for the majority of ever 90 mins.

Fingers crossed Duffy can bring something new on this front.

[sunshine1875]

That list only has us going 5 games without a goal or am I missing something:confused:

Anyway your right about it being concerning as at the moment I can't see where a goal is going to come from.

The clue is that "I can recall seven games in 1987/88 without seeing the Hibs score a goal" not that Hibs went seven games without scoring a goal. IIRC the games that I was at and did not see a Hibs goal are the ones highlighted below:

L 0-1 H Celtic
L 0-1 A Dunfermline
L 0-2 H Rangers
W 2-1 A Dundee United
D 0-0 H Falkirk
D 0-0 H St Mirren
D 0-0 A Hearts
D 0-0 H Aberdeen
L 0-2 A Celtic
D 1-1 A Morton
D 0-0 A Dumbarton
W 3-0 H Dumbarton

[gringojoe]

Pretty sure we had a long run of games late 70's where we didn't score then against somebody even more pants that us we scored 5 or 6.

[Storar]

If you want to include pre season games we had a horrible run back in 2008

Hibernian 0 – 0 Rangers 4 May 2008
Celtic 2-0 Hibernian 11 May 2008
Hibernian 0 – 2 Motherwell 22 May 2008
Hibernian 0 – 2 IF Elfsborg 6 July 2008
IF Elfsborg 2 – 0 Hibernian 12 July 2008
Raith Rovers 0 – 0 Hibernian
FC Barcelona 6 – 0 Hibernian 24 July 2008
Cowdenbeath 2 – 0 Hibernian 28 July 2008
Clyde 3 – 0 Hibernian 30 July 2008

Fair enough alot of pre-season games there but still, there was alot of concern at the time