What do you prefer: exciting football or good results?

[elevengoats]

I think this is the right time to ask this question.

Even though we all want great results AND great style of play, would you rather:
1) See us playing attacking football, maybe regularly winning 4:3 or losing 3:4 and finishing 6th; or
2) See us scraping 1:0 wins, creating maybe couple of chances per game and stopping opposition from creating anything, and finishing in the 3rd-4th place.

So which one?

[MWHIBBIES]

The best teams usually play the best football, or at least very good football. Should go hand in hand. Can't remember a really ugly to watch league winning side in any top leagues recently.

[sean04]

How about attacking football and winning games. Don’t need to be wide open at the back to play quick attacking football

[Lee Marvin]

The best teams usually play the best football, or at least very good football. Should go hand in hand. Can't remember a really ugly to watch league winning side in any top leagues recently.

Aberdeen, albeit relative success

[marleyhib]

Winning is rarely boring, your options are bogus

[BlackSheep]

Scoring more goals than the opposition would be a start... but some good football surely leads to good results.

[Mikey_1875]

Agree that they are not mutually exclusive. But to play along then realistically we are not going to win the league, so I'd rather have the exciting football.

[easty]

If those were the only 2 options then I'd take the boring football and 3rd place finish every time.

[Pretty Boy]

There seems a misunderstanding about the 'good teams win when they aren't playing well' saying.

I take it to mean that when the likes of the current Liverpool side have an off day they still scrape a win. However they are characterised far more by being an excellent football side who play expansive, attacking football and entertain. Others seem to see it as a team playing dull football and winning a lot of games 1-0.

For me exciting football and good results aren't mutually exclusive. It's perfectly possible to play exciting football and still win the majority of your games, in fact I'd argue playing expansive football makes it more likely that will be the case.

[ABZHFC]

100% attacking football, look at Aberdeen fans and how miserable they are with McInnes, finishing best of the rest doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, even though I accept we should be challenging for it given the size of our budget

[Fife-Hibee]

I prefer us playing well and winning. Your poll suggests that it has to be either one or the other, which isn't true at all.

We need a combination of players that can offer different things, but gel together as a unit. Fast wingers, a couple of strikers that can offer different types of goals. A bully in the heart of midfield who will terrify the ***** out of any opposition player that dares to cross over into our half of the field. Side backs that can tackle and track their runners and 7ft tall centre backs who will throw themselves in the way of opposition shots without fear or hesitation.

[Eyrie]

Obviously both.

But if I had to choose I'd prefer to watch attractive football. I get bored enough at work without sitting through it at weekends as well.

[Smartie]

Good football.

If you're trying to play good football then folk will be patient with you whilst you sort out the imperfections that stops it from being winning football.

If you play crap football then the knives are out for you the first time results dry up, and it happens to everyone.

[Scouse Hibee]

A team that competes every season near the top end of the table would be my preference, you obviously need consistently decent results to do that so results for me.

[hibeejeebies]

I think this is the right time to ask this question.

Even though we all want great results AND great style of play, would you rather:
1) See us playing attacking football, maybe regularly winning 4:3 or losing 3:4 and finishing 6th; or
2) See us scraping 1:0 wins, creating maybe couple of chances per game and stopping opposition from creating anything, and finishing in the 3rd-4th place.

So which one?

Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but I think defending, when done well, is an art form, and I would rip your arm off for a Hibs team that won 1-0 most weeks.