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Mikey
02-12-2012, 05:54 PM
Shortest ever reigning cup holders. Every other team at least made it to January.

Nae luck chumps.

hibbybrian
02-12-2012, 05:58 PM
Shortest ever reigning cup holders. Every other team at least made it to January.

Nae luck chumps.

That gives new meaning to their "Special relationship" to the Scottish Cup :greengrin

Bob Box Fish
02-12-2012, 05:59 PM
Good spot :)

Pretty Boy
02-12-2012, 06:00 PM
2 games unbeaten for Hibs now and 3 without a win for McGlynn against Hibs.

Falling apart at the seams.

Craig_in_Prague
02-12-2012, 06:01 PM
nearer a level playing field now.. and it shows. They have further cut backs to make yet.

judas
02-12-2012, 06:08 PM
Shortest ever reigning cup holders. Every other team at least made it to January.

Nae luck chumps.
Is that an actual fact. Please let it be so.

Mr White
02-12-2012, 06:11 PM
Aye they were getting all excited about beating us twice in the cup in the same calendar year ignoring the counter effect. Thank you pat fenlon, thank you.

VickMackie
02-12-2012, 06:13 PM
I'm having great fun winding up the yams. All I get is 5-1. Retort is that all that was with paying players well above what they should and bumped the taxman at the same time. Cheerio yams.

hfc rd
02-12-2012, 06:19 PM
Plus we have now won the last ever Edinburgh derby.

blueisthecolour
02-12-2012, 06:32 PM
Shortest ever reigning cup holders. Every other team at least made it to January.

Nae luck chumps.
There is a reason for that, do u know what it is?

Part/Time Supporter
02-12-2012, 06:44 PM
Is that an actual fact. Please let it be so.

In the modern era it will be true. Up until the mid 1890s the Scottish Cup was played throughout the season.

http://www.londonhearts.com/scores/sc/1893-94.html

OxoHibby
02-12-2012, 06:51 PM
That gives new meaning to their "Special relationship" to the Scottish Cup :greengrin

Beat me to it

DaveF
02-12-2012, 07:34 PM
Shortest ever reigning cup holders. Every other team at least made it to January.

Nae luck chumps.

:greengrin Someone needs to mention that to Fat Robbo so he can broadcast it to nation when he next bores us to death.

Mikey
02-12-2012, 09:10 PM
Is that an actual fact. Please let it be so.

It's a hibs.net fact and that's fact enough for me.

FACT :greengrin

cabbageandribs1875
02-12-2012, 09:13 PM
I'm having great fun winding up the yams. All I get is 5-1. Retort is that all that was with paying players well above what they should and bumped the taxman at the same time. Cheerio yams.



and that's all the poor wee lambs have :)

Sir David Gray
02-12-2012, 09:13 PM
When was the last time that the cup holders won the trophy and were knocked out in the same calendar year? :confused:

Anyone...?

cabbageandribs1875
02-12-2012, 09:14 PM
There is a reason for that, do u know what it is?


nope, spill :) tell us

Part/Time Supporter
02-12-2012, 09:16 PM
When was the last time that the cup holders won the trophy and were knocked out in the same calendar year? :confused:

Anyone...?

1894, apparently. Huns won the 1893/94 Scottish Cup in February then lost in the first round of the 1894/95 Scottish Cup (to Hearts) in November.

Hibs also did this in 1887. Won the 1886/87 Scottish Cup (beating Dumbarton in final) then lost to Hearts in the first round of the 1887/88 competition.

By number of days between winning the final and being eliminated the next season, this is the third shortest defence.

MB62
03-12-2012, 10:00 AM
Won the cup in May then out at the first attempt in December, less than 07 months later :greengrin

Is this the shortest ever defence in the history of the Scottish cup and has it ever happened that the beaten finalists have then gone on to knock the holders out in the first game of the following season?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:flag: :flag: :flag:

3pm
03-12-2012, 10:14 AM
Not sure.

Can't be too many holders who have went out in the same calendar year.

scott7_0(Prague)
03-12-2012, 10:51 AM
A new first for Hearts - embarrassing Scotland since 1874.

8983

hfc rd
03-12-2012, 10:55 AM
The shortest cup holders in world football history. Makes it even sweeter that we were the ones who knocked them out of their so called BIG CUP.

MB62
03-12-2012, 11:10 AM
Not sure.

Can't be too many holders who have went out in the same calendar year.

Scottish cup games always started in January for the 'bigger' teams apart from this year.
BTW why was that changed? I have been in Oz for the last four weeks and was expecting us to be playing the dodgers at the weekend, why was it changed? :confused:

HIBERNIAN-0762
03-12-2012, 11:11 AM
Big team......lol...my erse!

:flag:

hibee_girl
03-12-2012, 11:12 AM
Scottish cup games always started in January for the 'bigger' teams apart from this year.
BTW why was that changed? I have been in Oz for the last four weeks and was expecting us to be playing the dodgers at the weekend, why was it changed? :confused:

It's cos there's a winter break this year

Keith_M
03-12-2012, 11:13 AM
I'd be willing to bet that no team has ever been put out of the cup in the same year they won it in the very next game by the team they beat in the final


Odds = 1,000,000 to 1

Mikey
03-12-2012, 11:13 AM
It's the shortest reign in modern times. There were shorter reigns in the late 1800's but the format was different then.

poolman
03-12-2012, 12:04 PM
:greengrin Someone needs to mention that to Fat Robbo so he can broadcast it to nation when he next bores us to death.


Aye, I wonder what the wee misshapen Hobbit will say on Sportsound this Sat after that drivel he was spouting last week

GIRFU ya wee tramp :flag:

Bristolhibby
03-12-2012, 12:45 PM
One of my Jambo mates (beeling BTW) came back with the real answer.

Kilmarnock in the League Cup. Won the Cup on 18th March 2012, knocked out by Hamilton on 28th August 2012.

He was very precise on this fact, as if that changes anything.

Cant wait till the "January (Fire) sale".

J

sadtom
03-12-2012, 01:01 PM
1894, apparently. Huns won the 1893/94 Scottish Cup in February then lost in the first round of the 1894/95 Scottish Cup (to Hearts) in November.

Hibs also did this in 1887. Won the 1886/87 Scottish Cup (beating Dumbarton in final) then lost to Hearts in the first round of the 1887/88 competition.

By number of days between winning the final and being eliminated the next season, this is the third shortest defence.

What 2 are shorter?

LancashireHibby
03-12-2012, 01:41 PM
One of my Jambo mates (beeling BTW) came back with the real answer.

Kilmarnock in the League Cup. Won the Cup on 18th March 2012, knocked out by Hamilton on 28th August 2012.

He was very precise on this fact, as if that changes anything.

Cant wait till the "January (Fire) sale".

J

That's not the "big cup" though as they keep telling us!

Part/Time Supporter
03-12-2012, 01:43 PM
What 2 are shorter?

Vale of Leven (1879) and Dumbarton (1883).

sadtom
03-12-2012, 03:53 PM
Vale of Leven (1879) and Dumbarton (1883).

Ta.

Sir David Gray
03-12-2012, 07:32 PM
One of my Jambo mates (beeling BTW) came back with the real answer.

Kilmarnock in the League Cup. Won the Cup on 18th March 2012, knocked out by Hamilton on 28th August 2012.

He was very precise on this fact, as if that changes anything.

Cant wait till the "January (Fire) sale".

J

That doesn't count.

That's the League Cup and we're talking about the Scottish Cup, you know the cup that Hearts have that "special relationship" with? :aok:

So is that it official then? Hearts have the record for the shortest reign as Scottish Cup holders in modern times.

Is that another 'first' for Edinburgh's big team? :confused: