theonlywayisup
14-05-2016, 07:07 PM
OMG - the past 24 hours has been very very difficult.
I felt last night that the Hibs fans were fantastic. Always encouraging, always singing, with very few negative comments to our players - certainly around me. Some classics - Turnbull Tornadoes, Oh 2 be a hibee etc etc. The fans were (and are) fantastic.
Then that final minutes of dispair - the Cummings shot, the Stokes shoulder (why couldn't he get his head on it) and then the inevitable happens. I briefly thought "why is Hippolyte not taking it". It didn't matter, you knew what was going to happen.
The aftermath. My mate of 50 years plus, almost in tears, The stunned silence, not anger. We couldn't understand what had happened and yet it all felt inevitable.
The car journey home - we blamed everyone from players to managers to referees. We argued, we don't always agree.
I've renewed for next season, and I wonder why. I've had enough. I don't want to play this game anymore.
Today, I didn't want to speak, read, think anything to do with the Hibs. I told my son off for drumming a Hibs song with his hands. And yet, by tea time, I'm thinking "Shanks said no, I don't think so". We're the mental Hibees, alright.
We're Hibernian supporters. We've had knocks, far too many knocks. Yet, we always bounce back.
One day, one day soon. We will be back. We will be back.
I felt last night that the Hibs fans were fantastic. Always encouraging, always singing, with very few negative comments to our players - certainly around me. Some classics - Turnbull Tornadoes, Oh 2 be a hibee etc etc. The fans were (and are) fantastic.
Then that final minutes of dispair - the Cummings shot, the Stokes shoulder (why couldn't he get his head on it) and then the inevitable happens. I briefly thought "why is Hippolyte not taking it". It didn't matter, you knew what was going to happen.
The aftermath. My mate of 50 years plus, almost in tears, The stunned silence, not anger. We couldn't understand what had happened and yet it all felt inevitable.
The car journey home - we blamed everyone from players to managers to referees. We argued, we don't always agree.
I've renewed for next season, and I wonder why. I've had enough. I don't want to play this game anymore.
Today, I didn't want to speak, read, think anything to do with the Hibs. I told my son off for drumming a Hibs song with his hands. And yet, by tea time, I'm thinking "Shanks said no, I don't think so". We're the mental Hibees, alright.
We're Hibernian supporters. We've had knocks, far too many knocks. Yet, we always bounce back.
One day, one day soon. We will be back. We will be back.