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06-06-2011, 10:25 PM
Apologies if a similar topic has been posted already. As some of you may know that the fixtures for the new season are going to be released next Fri. I am just wondering on who you guys would like Hibs to be up against for the first 3 games of the season and why?
I think we are going to start off the new campaign with a home game having started last season's one away to Motherwell. The first game of the season that I would like Hibs to be up against is Kilmarnock (H). The reason for this is because I think Killie really faded away when Mixu and Sammon departed and they kind of struggled. Plus they have been weakened even further with Hamill at Hearts now and Eremenko very likely to be away as well and it also looks very likely that Bryson and Taouil are going to be away as well. Plus they don't have the money to replace these players of the same or better calibre. So therefore they are there for the taking and hopefully a nice 3 points in our opening game to kickstart our season with a win in front of our fans.
The next game and I might get a bit of stick for this but I am willing to take it and I will once again give you a reason for this. I would go for Hearts (A). Yes I know what some of you guys may be thinking after reading that and you may think that I am completely insane for saying that I want Hearts at a very early stage of the season and that we have not won an Edinburgh Derby game in ages because we never seem to turn up. But remember Hearts enter the Europa League on the 28/7 and who knows they could be drawn away for the 1st leg to a team from the other side of Europe. There players will be shattered and their will be tiredness in that squad to exploit as they are not used to playing midweek European games and a domestic game 2-3 days later. They will only have 2 days or possibly 1 to prepare for an Edinburgh Derby while we will have a full week to get the tactics and fire the players up and with our players fully match fit. Some of the Hearts players will simply have one eye on Europe as it will be some of the players' first experience of playing in a European competition. There players will simply be rusty and just imagine a tired Grainger up against a raring to go Sproule? Quite nice, eh. They will be there for the taking and hopefully we get the bragging rights this time, so early in the season and it will be a massive confidence and morale booster to the players so early in the season.
So after that, we have a friendly game against Sunderland so the SPL game on the 6/8 will be be postponed. It will be a good game against Sunderland and the squad will gain plenty of experience and find out some weaknessess about themselves that they can work on by playing against EPL opposition and coming up against good players like Gyan. However back to the subject now. The third game of the season that I would like to see Hibs come up against is St Johnstone (H). The reason for this is quite simple. I really want to f***ing beat them. It is embarrasing for a club like Hibs that we have only beaten them, if I'm right, once in our last eight attempts and that was the first game between the sides when they were promoted back into the SPL two seasons ago. I just hope that the team will be aiming to set the recored straight as that is a very poor record against a much smaller club than us. They are beatable. Yes I know that they have signed four new players already but we will as well. It's just about making sure you bring the right players in the right positions in that are going to improve the squad. We don't want to bring in x, y and z just for the sake of it by saying YES, we have made a signing or two. As we all say, "WE WANT QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY. CC isn't going to want to bring in a player who he thinks isn't going to be an improvement on the current squad he has and just sign him for the sake of it because all of us are getting restless at the current inactivity by the club in the transfer window. It's not as if the season kicks off tomorrow. Don't worry guys, we will sign players before the start of the season as I don't think CC is that stupid by sticking with this current bunch for the meantime. He wants to sign the players that are on his shortlist, who he knows that are going to bring a bit of a feel good factor back at Hibs and improve this current team, but it will always go down to what the player wants and if he recives an offer that is three times better than ours elsewhere then we probably know what his response is going to be.
Apologies for going a bit off topic at the end there. Anyways those are the teams that I would like to see for our first 3 games of the season. What are yours and why?
I think we are going to start off the new campaign with a home game having started last season's one away to Motherwell. The first game of the season that I would like Hibs to be up against is Kilmarnock (H). The reason for this is because I think Killie really faded away when Mixu and Sammon departed and they kind of struggled. Plus they have been weakened even further with Hamill at Hearts now and Eremenko very likely to be away as well and it also looks very likely that Bryson and Taouil are going to be away as well. Plus they don't have the money to replace these players of the same or better calibre. So therefore they are there for the taking and hopefully a nice 3 points in our opening game to kickstart our season with a win in front of our fans.
The next game and I might get a bit of stick for this but I am willing to take it and I will once again give you a reason for this. I would go for Hearts (A). Yes I know what some of you guys may be thinking after reading that and you may think that I am completely insane for saying that I want Hearts at a very early stage of the season and that we have not won an Edinburgh Derby game in ages because we never seem to turn up. But remember Hearts enter the Europa League on the 28/7 and who knows they could be drawn away for the 1st leg to a team from the other side of Europe. There players will be shattered and their will be tiredness in that squad to exploit as they are not used to playing midweek European games and a domestic game 2-3 days later. They will only have 2 days or possibly 1 to prepare for an Edinburgh Derby while we will have a full week to get the tactics and fire the players up and with our players fully match fit. Some of the Hearts players will simply have one eye on Europe as it will be some of the players' first experience of playing in a European competition. There players will simply be rusty and just imagine a tired Grainger up against a raring to go Sproule? Quite nice, eh. They will be there for the taking and hopefully we get the bragging rights this time, so early in the season and it will be a massive confidence and morale booster to the players so early in the season.
So after that, we have a friendly game against Sunderland so the SPL game on the 6/8 will be be postponed. It will be a good game against Sunderland and the squad will gain plenty of experience and find out some weaknessess about themselves that they can work on by playing against EPL opposition and coming up against good players like Gyan. However back to the subject now. The third game of the season that I would like to see Hibs come up against is St Johnstone (H). The reason for this is quite simple. I really want to f***ing beat them. It is embarrasing for a club like Hibs that we have only beaten them, if I'm right, once in our last eight attempts and that was the first game between the sides when they were promoted back into the SPL two seasons ago. I just hope that the team will be aiming to set the recored straight as that is a very poor record against a much smaller club than us. They are beatable. Yes I know that they have signed four new players already but we will as well. It's just about making sure you bring the right players in the right positions in that are going to improve the squad. We don't want to bring in x, y and z just for the sake of it by saying YES, we have made a signing or two. As we all say, "WE WANT QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY. CC isn't going to want to bring in a player who he thinks isn't going to be an improvement on the current squad he has and just sign him for the sake of it because all of us are getting restless at the current inactivity by the club in the transfer window. It's not as if the season kicks off tomorrow. Don't worry guys, we will sign players before the start of the season as I don't think CC is that stupid by sticking with this current bunch for the meantime. He wants to sign the players that are on his shortlist, who he knows that are going to bring a bit of a feel good factor back at Hibs and improve this current team, but it will always go down to what the player wants and if he recives an offer that is three times better than ours elsewhere then we probably know what his response is going to be.
Apologies for going a bit off topic at the end there. Anyways those are the teams that I would like to see for our first 3 games of the season. What are yours and why?