Option to postpone the derby

[timewilltell]

Since we have 3 players called up to the Australia squad we have been offered the opportunity to postpone the Hearts fixture. Hibs have turned down the offer.

[Beefster]

Good.

[BILLYHIBS]

Bring it on !

[Hermit Crab]

Since we have 3 players called up to the Australia squad we have been offered the opportunity to postpone the Hearts fixture. Hibs have turned down the offer.


We beat Celtic without those 3 in the team.

[Since90+2]

If we get an injury to Kamberi or Shaw in the next games it's going to leave us very very short up front.

Boyle especially is a big miss as we have very little width with Aygepong also injured.

[MWHIBBIES]

Interesting. Must have a plan for it that doesn't require Boyle, Milligan or Maclaren. With Gray, Hanlon, Agyepong, Mavrias, Marv and now rocky missing I might've said yes to a postponement.

[Hermit Crab]

Interesting. Must have a plan for it that doesn't require Boyle, Milligan or Maclaren. With Gray, Hanlon, Agyepong, Mavrias, Marv and now rocky missing I might've said yes to a postponement.


Will they all still be missing for the derby though?

[Pretty Boy]

Terrible decision. I'm in England, with no access to a TV, on the 29th so they really should have consulted me before making such a selfish decision.

[danhibees1875]

Interesting. Must have a plan for it that doesn't require Boyle, Milligan or Maclaren. With Gray, Hanlon, Agyepong, Mavrias, Marv and now rocky missing I might've said yes to a postponement.

That's 2 players short of a whole team, all of whom could easily be starters IMO and make a fairly reasonable team:


Marciano
Gray Hanlon CB Mavrias
Boyle Milligan Bartley Agyepong
Maclaren ST

[Hibbyradge]

Terrible decision. I'm in England, with no access to a TV, on the 29th so they really should have consulted me before making such a selfish decision.

Agreed. I'll be in the air over the Atlantic on my way to Last Vegas.

I'd return my season ticket if I had one.

[EH54]

Depending on when the re arranged game would be, Hearts have a few key players missing too, they might be back by the re arranged fixture. But if we are planning on strengthening big time in January I'd have taken the postponement like!

[MWHIBBIES]

Will they all still be missing for the derby though?

I dunno, potentially.

[Hermit Crab]

Depending on when the re arranged game would be, Hearts have a few key players missing too, they might be back by the re arranged fixture. But if we are planning on strengthening big time in January I'd have taken the postponement like!


Naismith is back on Saturday.

[Borderhibbie76]

I can just seen the threads on here now if we lose the Derby...

We better pray nothing happens to Shaw or Kamberi in next week or we really are Donald Ducked

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[mutley]

I can just seen the threads on here now if we lose the Derby...

We better pray nothing happens to Shaw or Kamberi in next week or we really are Donald Ducked

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I can see it too, if we win it , it will be all “so glad we didn’t postpone” and if we loose “oh we should have postponed” etc


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[flash]

I would have called it off.

[I'm Spartacus]

Correct decision, why should we give them the benefit of potentially having additional players back in their squad plus this new guy coming in??

[flash]

Correct decision, why should we give them the benefit of potentially having additional players back in their squad plus this new guy coming in??

We could easily have 8 players missing.

[Hibeesmad]

Correct decision in terms of many supporters probably already making financial and Work commitments to be able to attend the match on the date set

[SaulGoodman]

I don’t know why we didn’t take the option. Chance to get players back and a breather in a jam packed December schedule.

[Stuart93]

I’m glad we didn’t postpone or that would’ve ruined my all day drinking plans

[Weir07]

Crazy if we were offered a postponement and didn't take it, appreciate it would spoil some plans but from a purely football perspective, it's a no brainer.

[cabbageandribs1875]

should have cancelled it :agree: we need Marv playing against their brutes

[J-C]

Quite right, the only one of the 3 probably needed is Boyle and he's been struggling recently.

[I'm Spartacus]

Momentum is key IMO and we are getting things back on track - lets keep in going.

[where'stheslope]

Naismith is back on Saturday.
Remember Uche came back to early and paid the price!!!

[Carheenlea]

A brave decision, but I wouldn’t have expected Hibs to make a song and dance about it. Prepare in our usual manner without too much noise and hopefully we still have plenty to see off Hearts.

[Cod Boy]

Should call it off as they would in our shoes.

[steelendhibs]

To be fair, we knew Milligan and MacLaren were Australian when we signed them so there shouldn't really be any surprises. As for Boyle, although we have known about it for a few months, it is still a bit of a blow.....perhaps more so concerning the injuries rather than form. It's a brave decision not to postpone if we indeed had the option, I just hope we have a few other players back from injury if not just for confidence and psychologically for the players who are fully fit going into it. Seeing a few seasoned pros on the bench could be the boost to the players starting against hearts

[Keith_M]

Terrible decision. I'm in England, with no access to a TV, on the 29th so they really should have consulted me before making such a selfish decision.

Im in germany with a moanin faced bitch till the 29th. Ah might murder her, so Ah suppose a postponement won't help much...

[EH54]

What a day the 29th is going to be. If Hibs win that would top it. Usually go out Boxing Day but I'm saving myself for the 29th this year.

[wookie70]

Would we have noticed if their combined contributions since the last Australian game was withdrawn. Hopefully a bit of sunshine and a challenge will get them back on track as they have all been poor or non existent for a couple of months.

[heretoday]

It seems a rather foolhardy decision but what the hell.

[Hermit Crab]

Remember Uche came back to early and paid the price!!!


Who says its too soon though?

[Famous Fiver]

If we've got 8 players missing does that mean we're going to give them a doing with just 3?

Canny wait!!!

[hibbyfraelibby]

We could easily have 8 players missing.

...just like last night, and that was just the ones on the park😉

[A Hi-Bee]

It seems a rather foolhardy decision but what the hell.

The kind of decisions best left to the club to make.
:thumbsup:

[Jones28]

I’m glad we didn’t postpone or that would’ve ruined my all day drinking plans

Me too

[007]

Maybe Sky didn't want to cover it if it was to be rearranged, meaning we'd lose out on the money.

[Hermit Crab]

Maybe Sky didn't want to cover it if it was to be rearranged, meaning we'd lose out on the money.


Would we? I thought the money went into a pot a each team got a share of that?

[007]

Would we? I thought the money went into a pot a each team got a share of that?

Don't know, was just speculating. Maybe someone will confirm how it works.

[LancashireHibby]

Will be interesting to see the response of the three - might they feel a little undervalued if they interpret the non-postponement as “we’ll be fine without you”?

[Eyrie]

Don't know, was just speculating. Maybe someone will confirm how it works.

It's been discussed on here before, and I'm pretty certain that the home team doesn't get a fee for the game. That is something that has to change as the home team is the one losing out because TV coverage means a smaller gate.

[wookie70]

It's been discussed on here before, and I'm pretty certain that the home team doesn't get a fee for the game. That is something that has to change as the home team is the one losing out because TV coverage means a smaller gate.
Particularly as hardly any The Rangers and Celtc home games are on TV.

[Hi Heid Yin]

Boyle is the only one of the 3 who might have been useful to have around for the derby, so I'm with Neil Lennon and our club going ahead with the game.

Losing a McGinn and a Mcgeouch and an Allan for a derby would be another matter - then..definite game postponement!

[Hi Heid Yin]

Will be interesting to see the response of the three - might they feel a little undervalued if they interpret the non-postponement as “we’ll be fine without you”?

If it helps to encourage decent and consistent performances out of them on their return and a "Right, I'll show you what I can do" type attitude, then all the better.

[Albanian Hibs]

Good decision. I have an all dayer planned.

[Callum_62]

Got a feeling we might ask for special dispensation as are Celtic doing for Rogic


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[lyonhibs]

A wise choice. All us "1 game a season" fans based abroad should be adequately catered for......

[One Day Soon]

Im in germany with a moanin faced bitch till the 29th. Ah might murder her, so Ah suppose a postponement won't help much...

Bit harsh on May

[TrinityHibs]

Im in germany with a moanin faced bitch till the 29th. Ah might murder her, so Ah suppose a postponement won't help much...

You are better than that poor attempt at humour

[Connollys11]

Since we have 3 players called up to the Australia squad we have been offered the opportunity to postpone the Hearts fixture. Hibs have turned down the offer.
Great news only one of the three will probably be here when we return from the winter break anyways hopefully.

[cabbageandribs1875]

Great news only one of the three will probably be here when we return from the winter break anyways hopefully.



which one ? one of them has a contract until 2021 and the other for another 18 months

[Steve20]

None of them have been playing well, but I just don’t think players should be putting country before club ever. Especially for Boyle, who already seems to be placing playing for Australia above Hibs. Should never be missing Hibs games for this.

[JimBHibees]

Got a feeling we might ask for special dispensation as are Celtic doing for Rogic


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We probably will however whether we have the same bargaining power as Celtic is probably open to question especially when you consider Milligan is captain and the coach will want him there from the off.

[Waxy]

Boyle is the biggest miss but he’s gone slightly erm off the boyle.

[Heisenberg]

In the press today that we are doing the same as Celtc and speaking to the Australian management to try and have our players available for the Derby.

[flash]

On reflection glad the game is on as postponing would mess up people's plans on getting totally wasted.
Good old Scotland.

[McD]

None of them have been playing well, but I just don’t think players should be putting country before club ever. Especially for Boyle, who already seems to be placing playing for Australia above Hibs. Should never be missing Hibs games for this.


The players don’t choose when the international fixtures will be played. Neither do Hibs. Feel free to blame FIFA for that, but it’s a bit harsh having a pop at the players for that.

As for MacLaren and Milligan in particular, I’d be more surprised if they didn’t put playing for their country first.

[SirDavidsNapper]

Could you imagine we requested a postponement, got our players back and got beat? Nah i'll take my chances without them.

[Hermit Crab]

Could you imagine we requested a postponement, got our players back and got beat? Nah i'll take my chances without them.


Can you imagine the Hearts fans chant if we get beat without calling it off?

Postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby, postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby. To the tune of theres only one Neil Lennon.

[danhibees1875]

Can you imagine the Hearts fans chant if we get beat without calling it off?

Postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby, postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby. To the tune of theres only one Neil Lennon.

That would be one of the worst chants in history.

[calumhibee1]

That would be one of the worst chants in history.

:greengrin

Thought the same when I read it.

[Hermit Crab]

That would be one of the worst chants in history.


It would be true though!

[danhibees1875]

It would be true though!

Yeah, but we could have awful songs too.

We are Hibernian FC
We didn't postpone the derby
We decided to play, and then to win
Even with 9 players missing

:dunno:

I think it's too late in the day to see a postponement, I hope we can agree with the socceroos to allow us to keep the 3 until after the game though. :agree:

[Tynie01011973]

Australia don't play their first game until 6 January in the Asian Cup so don't see why the players can't fly out day after the derby. They will still have a week training with the squad before games start.
C'mon Hibs get it sorted 👍

[lyonhibs]

Can you imagine the Hearts fans chant if we get beat without calling it off?

Postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby, postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby. To the tune of theres only one Neil Lennon.

Hahaha you're not being serious surely?

[3pm]

Can you imagine the Hearts fans chant if we get beat without calling it off?

Postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby, postponed the derby, you should have postponed the derby. To the tune of theres only one Neil Lennon.

Aw naw.

[JimBHibees]

That would be one of the worst chants in history.

Yep doesnt really roll off the tongue. :greengrin