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hibs0666
13-04-2013, 04:58 PM
Can't ever recall Hibs coming from three behind.

nonshinyfinish
13-04-2013, 05:01 PM
Can't ever recall Hibs coming from three behind.

I am struggling to think of anything like that - we are usually on the other end of these sort of comebacks.

CallumLaidlaw
13-04-2013, 05:06 PM
I remember us being 2-0 at ER In the 90's and winning 3-2. Can't remember who against. Also 3-1 down to Dundee utd and winning 4-3 and then beating Gretna after being 2 down. BUT, today was the best. The occasion helped. And my 8yr olds first trip to hampden.

Baldy Foghorn
13-04-2013, 05:08 PM
I remember us being 2-0 at ER In the 90's and winning 3-2. Can't remember who against. Also 3-1 down to Dundee utd and winning 4-3 and then beating Gretna after being 2 down. BUT, today was the best. The occasion helped. And my 8yr olds first trip to hampden.

Today was the best comeback I have witnessed (I think):cb

Golden Bear
13-04-2013, 05:11 PM
Easy 5-0 v Napoli after losing the first leg 4-1. Nothing else can come close imo.

sleeping giant
13-04-2013, 05:13 PM
Can't ever recall Hibs coming from three behind.

Napoli but that was over 2 legs.

erin go bragh
13-04-2013, 05:15 PM
Yes


ggtth

jws1875
13-04-2013, 05:16 PM
Il always remember when we where 2 down at er against killie, has nothing on today though

Mr White
13-04-2013, 05:20 PM
Previous to this was when we were 3-1 down to st mirren and won 4-3 in 91, me and my old man won the halftime draw to meet the payers at the next home game. Today pissed over that from a great height.

G15 Hibs
13-04-2013, 05:29 PM
I'm pretty sure that Hibs have never come back from such a deficit in such an important game. Ever.

Seveno
13-04-2013, 06:46 PM
I can't remember a comeback like that in 50 years of watching Hibs. Talk about 'a game of two halves'. We could have won it with goals to spare in normal time.

i am totally drained, still in shock but can't wait to read the pares tomorrow.

PapillonVert
13-04-2013, 06:54 PM
Easy 5-0 v Napoli after losing the first leg 4-1. Nothing else can come close imo.

That one came immediately to my mind as well!

Although it was over 2 games...

Biggie
13-04-2013, 07:15 PM
Was talking about that at the game with my son....couldn't recall hibs ever doing that....2 down at Tyne to get a draw was the best I could remember......amazing comeback

Sir David Gray
13-04-2013, 07:17 PM
It's the greatest Hibs comeback I have ever witnessed.

Billy Whizz
13-04-2013, 07:18 PM
In modern times, yes

YehButNoBut
13-04-2013, 07:21 PM
Don't think we have ever topped that.

To be 3-0 down at HT in a SC semi final and come back to win, regardless of the opposition is an amazing feat.

Especially the way we played in the first half it was schizophrenic like fielding 2 totally different teams.

But huge credit must go to the team in the 2nd half to turn that round.

Famous Fiver
13-04-2013, 07:31 PM
Napoli game was superb, today was superb Yet another glory day watching the Hibees. Those of us who stayed were rewarded. Never even entered my mind to leave. Up there with the Semi Final penalty shoot out win against Rangers, the 1-nil league Cup semi with Rangers, 6-2, 0-3 (Hearts and Rangers) etc etc but the only day it does not match up to is 1st January 1973!!!! Been at them all. It's no a bad day to be a Hibby.

sbell1875
13-04-2013, 08:09 PM
I've been going pretty much every week since season 99/00 when we came back to the SPL and I've been struggling to think of great comebacks in games.

What's everyone's best memories of epic comebacks like today?

monktonharp
13-04-2013, 08:16 PM
I've been going pretty much every week since season 99/00 when we came back to the SPL and I've been struggling to think of great comebacks in games.

What's everyone's best memories of epic comebacks like today?I'm struggling to remember as today takes the biscuit. 4-3 against Celtic maybe 20 years ago at ER. although I don't thunk we were getting pumped 3 nil at the time.

Vini1875
13-04-2013, 08:31 PM
Didn't we have a comeback from 3 down v Ayr with Franck and Russell just playing at the start of their Hibs careers. Game back against Killie after 2 down to win 4-2 maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Can't remember winning after being 3 down.

jon paul jones
13-04-2013, 08:47 PM
Napoli game was superb, today was superb Yet another glory day watching the Hibees. Those of us who stayed were rewarded. Never even entered my mind to leave. Up there with the Semi Final penalty shoot out win against Rangers, the 1-nil league Cup semi with Rangers, 6-2, 0-3 (Hearts and Rangers) etc etc but the only day it does not match up to is 1st January 1973!!!! Been at them all. It's no a bad day to be a Hibby.

Its the best performance of football in our era now. This is one of those moments everyone will ask were you there

there's class, there's first class and then there's hibs class

lyonhibs
13-04-2013, 08:51 PM
Yes. Never mind that we've - probably, but not in my lifetime - had other 3 goal comebacks, this was in the semi final of the Scottish Cup. After an abysmal 45 mins that was a distillation of the past 4 months. Insipid, slow and entirely dispassionate.

No one, but no one saw that coming.

Not just a great comeback, but the best I've felt after a Hibs game, except for CIS Cup 2007. Went some way to restoring my faith in what Scottish football can produce.

PeterboroHibee
13-04-2013, 08:52 PM
It was an outstanding comeback. To be 3-0 down to a team who had battered us first half, and to come out and show the fight and desire to turn it around like they did suggests they have a lot more character than we all may have thought.

Griffiths goal to win the tie made it even more special!

Onion
13-04-2013, 09:04 PM
It's the greatest Hibs comeback I have ever witnessed.

Seen some great comebacks... remember a 0-3 to 3-3 in the 70s against St J in Perth, and the unforgettable 5-0 v Napoli... but today caps them all as

it was over 1 match
the nature of the comeback (so horrendously poor to so irresistibly good)
the quality of the goals.

It was truly a STUNNING, MIND-NUMBING comeback unlikely anything I've seen as Hibs fan. Even now hours after the match, still can''t get my head around we're in the Scottish Cup Final. Did that really happen ?

jgl07
13-04-2013, 09:25 PM
Didn't we have a comeback from 3 down v Ayr with Franck and Russell just playing at the start of their Hibs careers. Game back against Killie after 2 down to win 4-2 maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Can't remember winning after being 3 down.

Hibs came from 3-1 down at on a wet day at Ayr to draw 3-3. I think John Hughes scored one of the goals, maybe Mixu too.

I can recall a match against Rangers around 1994 when Hibs came from 3-0 down to lose 4-3.

The best comeback from 3-0 down was when Manchester City played Spurs at White Hart Lane in an FA Cup time circa 2005. It was 3-0 to pursa at half time when Joey Barton was sent off. City with ten men came back too win 4-3 in extra time.

CropleyWasGod
13-04-2013, 11:39 PM
I'm struggling to remember as today takes the biscuit. 4-3 against Celtic maybe 20 years ago at ER. although I don't thunk we were getting pumped 3 nil at the time.

We were 2-0 and 3-1 down in that game, IIRC. Scored 3 times in the second half. Eddie May scored the winner?

Like you, I can't remember ever seeing us come back and win from 3-0.

4-0 up, and not winning? Oh yes.

6-2 (3?) up and not winning? Oh yes.

2-0 up against Meadowbank and losing? Oh yes.

Sanger
14-04-2013, 07:07 AM
We were 3-0 against them in a 1950 League cup tie at Brockville and won 5-4

CallumLaidlaw
14-04-2013, 07:16 AM
As I've said elsewhere we've come back from 2 down to win in a few that I remember. 3-1 down with 20 mins to go in the early nineties to win 4-3. 2-0 down also in the nineties, to win 3-2, then 2-0 down to Gretna to win 3-2. Never seen us come back from 3 tho.

Steve-O
14-04-2013, 07:19 AM
I was complaining a couple of months back that no team I support ever seems to do amazing comebacks.

Thank you for listening Hibs!

Craig_in_Prague
14-04-2013, 07:23 AM
The best comeback from 3-0 down was when Manchester City played Spurs at White Hart Lane in an FA Cup time circa 2005. It was 3-0 to pursa at half time when Joey Barton was sent off. City with ten men came back too win 4-3 in extra time.

re. best comebacks.. did Man UTD not win 5-3 at white hart lane haven trailed 3-0? my memory might be failing me but I remember Beckham scoring a peach ala Sparky.

Aldo
14-04-2013, 07:27 AM
re. best comebacks.. did Man UTD not win 5-3 at white hart lane haven trailed 3-0? my memory might be failing me but I remember Beckham scoring a peach ala Sparky.

Yip 3 nil down at half time I think.

Beckham btw is no where near Griffiths Class ;-)

Treadstone
14-04-2013, 07:32 AM
We were 2-0 and 3-1 down in that game, IIRC. Scored 3 times in the second half. Eddie May scored the winner?

Like you, I can't remember ever seeing us come back and win from 3-0.

4-0 up, and not winning? Oh yes.

6-2 (3?) up and not winning? Oh yes.

2-0 up against Meadowbank and losing? Oh yes.

We were actually 3-2 up in that game after being 1-0 and 2-1 down, Celtic got dodgy penalty to equalise late on and Eddie May scored the winner after that. TGFIW invaded the pitch at final whistle and I remember a steward getting stuck into a Celtic fan. No TV coverage at that time but think you could get a Hibs tape of the game which was awful for the time and by todays standards absolutely rank.

LancashireHibby
14-04-2013, 07:40 AM
Yip 3 nil down at half time I think.

Beckham btw is no where near Griffiths Class ;-)

Nowhere near as talented a baby maker either.

NorthNorfolkHFC
14-04-2013, 07:52 AM
Strange one yesterday with the initial team. Robertson hasn't been starting, Cairney hasn't been starting regularly and Deegan has been involved.

Even stranger was his first sub with Handling who has hardly played any football this season.

MoscowHibs
14-04-2013, 07:53 AM
On 26th March 1983 we were 3-0 doon tae Dundee Utd at one stage and came back tae draw 3-3, that was probably the best comeback I was at.

jodjam
14-04-2013, 07:56 AM
Came from 3-1 down late in game to beat st mirren 4-3. Gareth Evans got one of them

Caversham Green
14-04-2013, 08:23 AM
The best comeback from 3-0 down was when Manchester City played Spurs at White Hart Lane in an FA Cup time circa 2005. It was 3-0 to pursa at half time when Joey Barton was sent off. City with ten men came back too win 4-3 in extra time.

Arsenal probably trumped that this season at Reading. 4-0 down and pulled one back just before half time then went on to win 7-5 after extra time.

Woody70x2
14-04-2013, 08:29 AM
I've been going pretty much every week since season 99/00 when we came back to the SPL and I've been struggling to think of great comebacks in games.

What's everyone's best memories of epic comebacks like today?

I can't remember how long ago it was, maybe about 6/7 years, but I remember being 3 down against Killie and winning the game 4-3.

Steve-O
14-04-2013, 09:47 AM
I can't remember how long ago it was, maybe about 6/7 years, but I remember being 3 down against Killie and winning the game 4-3.

Was 2-0 and we won 4-2 :agree:

Hermit Crab
14-04-2013, 09:49 AM
Hibs came from 3-1 down at on a wet day at Ayr to draw 3-3. I think John Hughes scored one of the goals, maybe Mixu too.

I can recall a match against Rangers around 1994 when Hibs came from 3-0 down to lose 4-3.

The best comeback from 3-0 down was when Manchester City played Spurs at White Hart Lane in an FA Cup time circa 2005. It was 3-0 to pursa at half time when Joey Barton was sent off. City with ten men came back too win 4-3 in extra time.

It was a Jon Macken header in stoppage time that won city that game.

fat freddy
14-04-2013, 10:10 AM
i have a memory of being 3-0 down to dundee at easter road in the early seventies....it ended as a 3-3 draw i.i.r.c.

Killiehibbie
14-04-2013, 10:23 AM
I'm struggling to remember as today takes the biscuit. 4-3 against Celtic maybe 20 years ago at ER. although I don't thunk we were getting pumped 3 nil at the time.Closer to 30 years ago but still one of the games that stick in the mind.

Speedy
15-04-2013, 05:52 PM
Easy 5-0 v Napoli after losing the first leg 4-1. Nothing else can come close imo.

If we go on to win the cup then Saturday was the biggest comeback ever.

killie-hibby
15-04-2013, 07:39 PM
Can't ever recall Hibs coming from three behind.

Have supported Hibs since 1956 and cant recall such a magnificent turnaround. Rule out Napoli as that was over two matches. Saturdays match was surreal,in that it showed in 120 minutes what I have suffered and enjoyed over the past 57 years supporting Hibernian.
It was the first time I have seen RP on the touchline at the final whistle embracing a Hibernian manager.

Pretty Boy
15-04-2013, 07:44 PM
The comeback was all the better in that I doubt even one person in the Hibs end expected it.

We were beyond woeful in the 1st half, it was honestly as bad as I can ever remember us. It really was horrific.

Then the 2nd half was like a different team. Good tempo, fight, attacking intent and a real hunger. It was great to watch and the fans responded.

Play like the 2nd half from now until 4.45 on May 26th and we have a real chance.