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fiolex1
17-04-2022, 11:44 AM
I feel worse this morning than I did yesterday on the result. I thought we put a decent effort in but on reflection another poor result at Hamden.

matty_f
17-04-2022, 11:46 AM
We just recorded Quick Bang for the podcast and I have to say the discussion was very cathartic, feel much better post conversation than i did before it!

H18 SFR
17-04-2022, 11:47 AM
I was happy with the fight we showed. Once SM gets his summer transfer business done we will be in much better shape.

I’m genuinely looking forward to a fresh start come 9th July when the season starts.

We will be back at Hampden in due course - that is a cert.

Nicho87
17-04-2022, 11:49 AM
Yesterday just summed up our season over the course of the match

Enthusiasm
Let down
Dejected
Promise!
Optimism
Discipline
Defeat

Sir David Gray
17-04-2022, 11:50 AM
Yeah I can't say that sleeping on it has helped me to feel any better I must be honest.

When all is said and done it was another defeat to Hearts at Hampden and the fourth loss in 16 years.

Fifehibee1960
17-04-2022, 11:50 AM
Today seems to feel much better that yesterday.... i did expect to lose anyway... its bad when your home fans expect to lose.... i am certainly looking forward to next season along with many new players and old ones gone

OldEast
17-04-2022, 11:59 AM
Today seems to feel much better that yesterday.... i did expect to lose anyway... its bad when your home fans expect to lose.... i am certainly looking forward to next season along with many new players and old ones gone

I'm always full of optimism re Hibs. Next season has a bit more promise than usual. I'm not disappointed with this season as I expected nothing else with this squad and the injury list.

Seekyit
17-04-2022, 12:01 PM
Being honest i feared for us yesterday, i thought we were going to get a tanking and it looked that way at 2-0 down. In the end we gave them a bit of a fright. Not much consolation, but I'm disappointed not disillusioned in the way i have been leaving Hampden on quite a few previous occasions.

heretoday
17-04-2022, 12:04 PM
I think we acquitted ourselves pretty well and the results of both games were a lot better than I for one expected. Let's face it, anyone out of nappies knows the small world of Scottish football is swings and roundabouts and it wouldn't be a surprise if we're in an identical position this time next season but with the results reversed.

IberianHibernian
17-04-2022, 12:09 PM
I was happy with the fight we showed. Once SM gets his summer transfer business done we will be in much better shape.

I’m genuinely looking forward to a fresh start come 9th July when the season starts.

We will be back at Hampden in due course - that is a cert.Exactly . Two of our winter signings Henderson and Clarke were two of our best players yesterday and I`m sure there`ll be some more good signings in summer to supplement young players already at the club . Also surely we won`t have so many injuries next season .

wookie70
17-04-2022, 12:14 PM
I'm always full of optimism re Hibs. Next season has a bit more promise than usual. I'm not disappointed with this season as I expected nothing else with this squad and the injury list.

I feel less enthusiastic about next season than I have for a long time. We are starting from a lower point with a manager with little experience and what he has has been pretty much a disaster. Our owners appear pretty clueless and I have little faith in our CEO. I'm struggling to retain an interest and bought our STs before the Derby games as I fear I may not have bothered if I left it until today or later. I think I might have been right as despite being disappointed after another Hampden disappointment it doesn't hurt that much toady and I'm glad I don't have to watch Hibs until the next home game. I turned down a shift in a new job to go to the Aberdeen game and if we are as poor as we have been that will be the last time I do that. Given the job is photographing sport that may mean I miss much of the games I have already bought a ticket for and I doubt I'll let that continue for too long

B.H.F.C
17-04-2022, 12:16 PM
The fact we actually played quite well has me feeling worse I think. It was absolutely there for us and we just didn’t have enough about us.

I wanted to win that game more than anything yesterday but it might have paper things over a bit for those in charge. We have a hell of a lot of work to do to get us back to being a decent team.

LunasBoots
17-04-2022, 12:20 PM
Yesterday felt crap but as the rest of this season has gone I've got over it pretty quickly, have been at the stage of can't wait until the end of this dreadful season for months now

Frazerbob
17-04-2022, 12:29 PM
Yesterday just summed up our season over the course of the match

Enthusiasm
Let down
Dejected
Promise!
Optimism
Discipline
Defeat

I read that to the tune of Paninaro by The Pet Shop Boys.

Lago
17-04-2022, 12:41 PM
I was happy with the fight we showed. Once SM gets his summer transfer business done we will be in much better shape.

I’m genuinely looking forward to a fresh start come 9th July when the season starts.

We will be back at Hampden in due course - that is a cert.
This

Wilson
17-04-2022, 12:45 PM
Effort is the least we should expect from anyone that pulls on the shirt. I find it hard to take any solace from the fact we competed well. We should.

We did nothing that surprised them and never threatened to deliver an unexpected win.

So in the end it is just another defeat. Another missed opportunity.

Boss_Nass
17-04-2022, 12:57 PM
Effort is the least we should expect from anyone that pulls on the shirt. I find it hard to take any solace from the fact we competed well. We should.

We did nothing that surprised them and never threatened to deliver an unexpected win.

So in the end it is just another defeat. Another missed opportunity.


This is spot on. Another embarrassing loss for our club and a rookie manager who seemed delighted with being beat yesterday at the helm.

Pete
17-04-2022, 01:02 PM
This is spot on. Another embarrassing loss for our club and a rookie manager who seemed delighted with being beat yesterday at the helm.

Can you explain why you find yesterdays loss'embarrasing'?

It's the last thing I feel, and I can't see why anyone at the club would feel that way either.

Disappointing yes, but embarrassing?

Boss_Nass
17-04-2022, 01:10 PM
Can you explain why you find yesterdays loss'embarrasing'?

It's the last thing I feel, and I can't see why anyone at the club would feel that way either.

Disappointing yes, but embarrassing?


I feel embarrassed that our hampden record is so abysmal and I feel embarrassed that this team couldn’t land a glove in two important games on our rivals who let’s face it aren’t world beaters. We had a lot of possession in the second half but did nothing with it. Aside from Porteous header I can’t recall a decent chance in the second half. It is also hugely embarrassing for Maloney’s post match reaction to be one of pride. He should be furious that we lost the game and trying to install a winning mentality not acceptance of the frustrating “okay we lost but we tried hard and our fans sang louder” attitude which has been present in all the post match drivel.

jacomo
17-04-2022, 01:22 PM
A cup semi final v Them and we start with James Scott up front.

Pinning our goal scoring hopes on someone who hasn’t scored a goal for us… the only thing I expected from him is that he ran and ran and ran some more and maybe hassled a defender into a mistake.

Tbf he did a lot of running for about 20 minutes, and then he reverted to jogging and pointing, seemingly to instruct a team mate to pick up an opponent.

Then we have one of our most experience players getting sent off for two avoidable bookings.

The manager could have subbed Newell to take away that possibility but he didn’t make any changes until too late. Bringing on two subs in the 90th minute when you are chasing a game is close to pointless.

Yes we dug in and didn’t get hammered but that is thin gruel, frankly.

Stuart93
17-04-2022, 01:38 PM
Why the **** did he start James Scott. Squad selection is baffling at times

Hibernia&Alba
17-04-2022, 01:53 PM
Yeah I can't say that sleeping on it has helped me to feel any better I must be honest.

When all is said and done it was another defeat to Hearts at Hampden and the fourth loss in 16 years.

Yep, I'm still scunnered. Should be used to it in derby games, but it never gets any easier.

Sir David Gray
17-04-2022, 01:58 PM
Yep, I'm still scunnered. Should be used to it in derby games, but it never gets any easier.

Agreed, I'm sick to the back teeth of it.

Coco Bryce
17-04-2022, 02:00 PM
Why the **** did he start James Scott. Squad selection is baffling at times

Subs as well. Far too late getting them on yesterday again.

hibee_girl
17-04-2022, 02:06 PM
Subs as well. Far too late getting them on yesterday again.

Bringing Jasper and Muller on in the 90th minute was utterly pointless.

Scottie
17-04-2022, 02:07 PM
Yep, I'm still scunnered. Should be used to it in derby games, but it never gets any easier.


Agreed, I'm sick to the back teeth of it.
Don’t know if it’s an age thing but the older I get the worse I feel after every game against them.

Will never understand why we are never able to get the better of them. Even yesterday we had the better of them and still couldn’t get a result.

Sir David Gray
17-04-2022, 02:14 PM
Don’t know if it’s an age thing but the older I get the worse I feel after every game against them.

Will never understand why we are never able to get the better of them. Even yesterday we had the better of them and still couldn’t get a result.

Yep.

I said yesterday on another thread that if Hearts had dominated that second half yesterday in the way that we had, there is no way they would have lost.

It bugs the life out of me that they dominate so many times against us.

Hibees1973
17-04-2022, 02:15 PM
All last week I was dreading the game. Thought we would get well beaten.

I'm over it now. Most people on here seem to think our performance was good. Must admit I was surprised the team showed a bit of fight, but it was still way below expectations. What a powder-puff attack we now have.

Much as I'm over yesterday's defeat I am still seething about the mis-management of the club over the last year. From being in a decent position, which 3 or 4 quality players would have seen us easily in the top 4 and likely to have won yesterday, we find ourselves in the bottom 6 and no European place.

There are so many players in the team who will not be there next season and those that will stay and are nowhere near good enough.

I would love a complete clear out, starting with the Owner, Ron's wee laddie, Manager and Chief Exec. These guys have created this mess and a disconnect with the support.

If all these guys, know the Owner will take some shifting, remain I won't be renewing my ST.

None of them have the qualification or experience to run or manage Hibs. I fear a lengthy period of inconsistent, boring performances, low crowds, Maloneys arrogant and ignorant interviews.

Sir David Gray
17-04-2022, 02:18 PM
All last week I was dreading the game. Thought we would get well beaten.

I'm over it now. Most people on here seem to think our performance was good. Must admit I was surprised the team showed a bit of fight, but it was still way below expectations. What a powder-puff attack we now have.

Much as I'm over yesterday's defeat I am still seething about the mis-management of the club over the last year. From being in a decent position, which 3 or 4 quality players would have seen us easily in the top 4 and likely to have won yesterday, we find ourselves in the bottom 6 and no European place.

There are so many players in the team who will not be there next season and those that will stay and are nowhere near good enough.

I would love a complete clear out, starting with the Owner, Ron's wee laddie, Manager and Chief Exec. These guys have created this mess and a disconnect with the support.

If all these guys, know the Owner will take some shifting, remain I won't be renewing my ST.

None of them have the qualification or experience to run or manage Hibs. I fear a lengthy period of inconsistent, boring performances, low crowds, Maloneys arrogant and ignorant interviews.

Gordon's going nowhere any time soon so if his removal is a prerequisite for you going back I don't think you'll be back for a long time.

Same probably applies to Kensell.

NAE NOOKIE
17-04-2022, 02:23 PM
I doubt there was a Hibs fan there yesterday who didn't turn up expecting us to lose given how the last 3 months have gone, to be fair to the players they put up far more of a fight than I expected, especially with 10 men, in all honesty at times you would have thought Hearts were the team a man down.

But as others have alluded to, if you want to win stuff no amount of 'pride in defeat' puts silverware in the trophy cabinet and the fact is it was just another Hampden let down to add to the too many others that have gone before. Getting to semi finals and finals isn't success if you continually lose them and we lose far too many, it also can't be stressed enough that at this point Hibernian FC owes its supporters a massive apology and a massive result somewhere down the line, sooner rather than later.

No Hibs manager should ever find a positive in defeat to Hearts, all that matters in cup matches is the result, all the more so when your opponent is your derby rival. It's getting to the stage where Hibs fans are finding it harder and harder to accept or forgive this ever growing list of defeats to Hearts in big games and that was reflected in the turnout yesterday, with yet another outcome that enabled those who deserted their club for such a huge game to say 'see bloody told you so'

So yeh, in the end it doesn't matter a stuff how much of a fist Hibs made of it or how much better our fans were than theirs, the bottom line is that yet again we lost, yet again Hibs let the fans who did stick with them down ....... it has to stop because in all honesty folk are getting sick of hearing about new attitudes at the club and how it's going to turn all this around, it seems the more things change the more they stay the same at this club and increasingly it makes meaningless pish like 'this is our city' coming from the club look like a bad bloody joke and worse than that a joke at the expense of its own supporters.

Carheenlea
17-04-2022, 04:00 PM
I doubt there was a Hibs fan there yesterday who didn't turn up expecting us to lose given how the last 3 months have gone, to be fair to the players they put up far more of a fight than I expected, especially with 10 men, in all honesty at times you would have thought Hearts were the team a man down.

But as others have alluded to, if you want to win stuff no amount of 'pride in defeat' puts silverware in the trophy cabinet and the fact is it was just another Hampden let down to add to the too many others that have gone before. Getting to semi finals and finals isn't success if you continually lose them and we lose far too many, it also can't be stressed enough that at this point Hibernian FC owes its supporters a massive apology and a massive result somewhere down the line, sooner rather than later.

No Hibs manager should ever find a positive in defeat to Hearts, all that matters in cup matches is the result, all the more so when your opponent is your derby rival. It's getting to the stage where Hibs fans are finding it harder and harder to accept or forgive this ever growing list of defeats to Hearts in big games and that was reflected in the turnout yesterday, with yet another outcome that enabled those who deserted their club for such a huge game to say 'see bloody told you so'

So yeh, in the end it doesn't matter a stuff how much of a fist Hibs made of it or how much better our fans were than theirs, the bottom line is that yet again we lost, yet again Hibs let the fans who did stick with them down ....... it has to stop because in all honesty folk are getting sick of hearing about new attitudes at the club and how it's going to turn all this around, it seems the more things change the more they stay the same at this club and increasingly it makes meaningless pish like 'this is our city' coming from the club look like a bad bloody joke and worse than that a joke at the expense of its own supporters.

I didn’t turn up expecting us to lose.

Not In The Know
17-04-2022, 04:47 PM
Effort is the least we should expect from anyone that pulls on the shirt. I find it hard to take any solace from the fact we competed well. We should.

We did nothing that surprised them and never threatened to deliver an unexpected win.

So in the end it is just another defeat. Another missed opportunity.

This is exactly how I feel. The fact people are taking some sort of solace in we tried hard is grim. That’s the basics we can expect. Passages of play in the final third were next to non existent. I’m struggling to see any progress from maloney after nearly half a seasons worth of games.

All this proud of the players is BS. They lost twice in a week to thier major rivals on the back of ending up in the bottom 6. Yesterday’s loss basically gave our rivals 3mill. It was a ***in disaster and if they walked out of that stadium with words of praise from their manger then we are doomed. they met the bare minimum expected yesterday nothing more.

hibeerealist
17-04-2022, 04:54 PM
Subs as well. Far too late getting them on yesterday again.


I think that just showed up his lack of experience once again Coco, cant see why we would keep him but again, we cant afford to keep binning managers.

Correct decision to bin Ross, bad decision to appoint Maloney.

Mrimbetween
17-04-2022, 04:58 PM
SM is clinging on to his job. To me it was like a Dunkirk moment yesterday

He ****s up the bottom 6 pish then that will be that me thinks

Glad to be wrong

StockholmHibs
17-04-2022, 05:04 PM
I didn’t turn up expecting us to lose.

Aye keep taking the drugs mate. Our Hampden aggregat score against them was 2-11 after 3 games. It's now 3- 13 after 4.
What would possibly make you think we would win?

hibeerealist
17-04-2022, 05:10 PM
I doubt there was a Hibs fan there yesterday who didn't turn up expecting us to lose given how the last 3 months have gone, to be fair to the players they put up far more of a fight than I expected, especially with 10 men, in all honesty at times you would have thought Hearts were the team a man down.

But as others have alluded to, if you want to win stuff no amount of 'pride in defeat' puts silverware in the trophy cabinet and the fact is it was just another Hampden let down to add to the too many others that have gone before. Getting to semi finals and finals isn't success if you continually lose them and we lose far too many, it also can't be stressed enough that at this point Hibernian FC owes its supporters a massive apology and a massive result somewhere down the line, sooner rather than later.

No Hibs manager should ever find a positive in defeat to Hearts, all that matters in cup matches is the result, all the more so when your opponent is your derby rival. It's getting to the stage where Hibs fans are finding it harder and harder to accept or forgive this ever growing list of defeats to Hearts in big games and that was reflected in the turnout yesterday, with yet another outcome that enabled those who deserted their club for such a huge game to say 'see bloody told you so'

So yeh, in the end it doesn't matter a stuff how much of a fist Hibs made of it or how much better our fans were than theirs, the bottom line is that yet again we lost, yet again Hibs let the fans who did stick with them down ....... it has to stop because in all honesty folk are getting sick of hearing about new attitudes at the club and how it's going to turn all this around, it seems the more things change the more they stay the same at this club and increasingly it makes meaningless pish like 'this is our city' coming from the club look like a bad bloody joke and worse than that a joke at the expense of its own supporters.


Spot on NN, this love in with the team cos they tried is a complete loser mentality.

I was no fan of Ross as he made some mess of the team before he was binned but the decision making from the club since then has been appalling.

Season ticket sales will let the board know just how much they got it wrong. Fans have once again been taken for a ride on promises of better to come.

This season has been a complete f uc k up.

IberianHibernian
17-04-2022, 05:14 PM
Aye keep taking the drugs mate. Our Hampden aggregat score against them was 2-11 after 3 games. It's now 3- 13 after 4.
What would possibly make you think we would win?Almost all the total is based on matches 16 and 10 years ago . We`ve knocked them out the SC 3 times in the last 10 years .

GreenCastle
17-04-2022, 05:16 PM
I doubt there was a Hibs fan there yesterday who didn't turn up expecting us to lose given how the last 3 months have gone, to be fair to the players they put up far more of a fight than I expected, especially with 10 men, in all honesty at times you would have thought Hearts were the team a man down.

But as others have alluded to, if you want to win stuff no amount of 'pride in defeat' puts silverware in the trophy cabinet and the fact is it was just another Hampden let down to add to the too many others that have gone before. Getting to semi finals and finals isn't success if you continually lose them and we lose far too many, it also can't be stressed enough that at this point Hibernian FC owes its supporters a massive apology and a massive result somewhere down the line, sooner rather than later.

No Hibs manager should ever find a positive in defeat to Hearts, all that matters in cup matches is the result, all the more so when your opponent is your derby rival. It's getting to the stage where Hibs fans are finding it harder and harder to accept or forgive this ever growing list of defeats to Hearts in big games and that was reflected in the turnout yesterday, with yet another outcome that enabled those who deserted their club for such a huge game to say 'see bloody told you so'

So yeh, in the end it doesn't matter a stuff how much of a fist Hibs made of it or how much better our fans were than theirs, the bottom line is that yet again we lost, yet again Hibs let the fans who did stick with them down ....... it has to stop because in all honesty folk are getting sick of hearing about new attitudes at the club and how it's going to turn all this around, it seems the more things change the more they stay the same at this club and increasingly it makes meaningless pish like 'this is our city' coming from the club look like a bad bloody joke and worse than that a joke at the expense of its own supporters.

Good post.

Many fans have a tipping point - that includes many die hards.

If they don’t see anything positive or action from the club they will vote with their feet not attending / buying tickets.

Will we hear anything from the club this week? Or will it just be business as usual and see how Maloney does against the other bottom 6 teams. 4 out of 5 teams he hasn’t beaten yet. Aberdeen win was one of Glass last games.

StockholmHibs
17-04-2022, 05:32 PM
Almost all the total is based on matches 16 and 10 years ago . We`ve knocked them out the SC 3 times in the last 10 years .

Yes true, but even our current form would suggest we would lose that game.

Carheenlea
17-04-2022, 05:33 PM
Aye keep taking the drugs mate. Our Hampden aggregat score against them was 2-11 after 3 games. It's now 3- 13 after 4.
What would possibly make you think we would win?

What kind of drugs are folk taking if they went to Hampden and payed 30 odd quid if they expected Hibs to lose?

B.H.F.C
17-04-2022, 05:38 PM
Good post.

Many fans have a tipping point - that includes many die hards.

If they don’t see anything positive or action from the club they will vote with their feet not attending / buying tickets.

Will we hear anything from the club this week? Or will it just be business as usual and see how Maloney does against the other bottom 6 teams. 4 out of 5 teams he hasn’t beaten yet. Aberdeen win was one of Glass last games.

I don’t think Maloney is going to get the sack just now so I don’t think we’ll hear anything from the club until such time as we’re mathematically safe from the possibility of being dragged towards the playoff spot. Either that, or once the season is finished. Gordon and/or Kensell are going to need to come out and give clarity after that though. If they do intend to stick with him they’ll need to explain why because it’s not going to be a particularly popular decision.

LewysGot2
17-04-2022, 05:39 PM
What kind of drugs are folk taking if they went to Hampden and payed 30 odd quid if they expected Hibs to lose?

Stockholm Syndrome? 👀😂

StockholmHibs
17-04-2022, 05:41 PM
What kind of drugs are folk taking if they went to Hampden and payed 30 odd quid if they expected Hibs to lose?

So were you at Hampden then?
If so did you expect the team to win?

StockholmHibs
17-04-2022, 05:46 PM
What kind of drugs are folk taking if they went to Hampden and payed 30 odd quid if they expected Hibs to lose?
Expecting hibs to lose has never stopped me from buying a ticket.

TelaStella
17-04-2022, 05:51 PM
I’m over it and got over it unusually quickly yesterday. Not expecting a great deal before hand certainly helped with that.


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Carheenlea
17-04-2022, 05:52 PM
So were you at Hampden then?
If so did you expect the team to win?

It’s obviously not as black and white as saying you either expect to win or not.

It’s a game of football and nothing is ever as certain as expectation.

I was at Hampden, and I was also at Tynecastle the week before. I didn’t expect to win both games but thought we could win both. Despite the bad run and bad performance the previous week I hoped we could see a response and thought we would rally and win the tie.

Wasn’t to be, but if I genuinely didn’t think we would win I would have stayed at home, not even watch the thing on TV and went for a walk with my kids or something else.

If it’s expectation you want to pin the argument down on, I’ve supported Hibs long enough to learn to expect the unexpected when it comes to anything Hibs!

Baldy Foghorn
17-04-2022, 05:53 PM
So were you at Hampden then?
If so did you expect the team to win?

I was at Hampden, paid £35 and thought we'd win. Your comment to Carheenlea, about taking the drugs was in poor taste, apology required I think. Some of us did think we'd win, hardly the surprise it sounds, is it?

Carheenlea
17-04-2022, 05:56 PM
Expecting hibs to lose has never stopped me from buying a ticket.

Do you listen to The Smiths on the car stereo on the way through to those games?

NAE NOOKIE
17-04-2022, 06:27 PM
What kind of drugs are folk taking if they went to Hampden and payed 30 odd quid if they expected Hibs to lose?

The same thing that makes any fan back their team in a game they think it will lose, the hope that it will buck the odds and pull off a surprise. The other thing being a passion for their team that means they feel they should be there to back it even if it looks like being in a losing cause.

Is this where we are now in the world of football? A world where the time honoured marks of the good supporter like loyalty to 'your club' and sticking with it even in the worst of times have been replaced with derision even from fellow supporters if you suggest the fact that you claim to support a club should be reason enough to back it from the stands.
That the many many people like me who turned up at Hampden yesterday with little confidence that the team could win aren't good supporters worthy of respect for sticking by their club, but mugs who could have spent their £30 on a month pass for SKY sports where they could have watched any number of teams who win practically every game they play in from the comfort of their living room.

No wonder we now have owners, CEOs and club directors referring to fans as 'customers' a term that not too long ago would have filled any football supporter with rage, when we have supposed fans of the game who apparently agree that the only reason for sticking by a club is if the product on the park is to your satisfaction as if their club was a bloomin' supermarket chain or made cheese crackers.

It's the very fact that fans have never seen their clubs as simply another form of entertainment like the cinema or theatre but rather something to stick with through thick and thin, and even see themselves as part of, that has enabled club after club to survive the last hundred years or so to still be for want of a better word 'trading' when any other business simply relying on 'customers' would have folded years ago.

That mate is why folk who thought Hibs were long odds yesterday still paid £30 to go and 'support' them and those that did made a bloody fine job of it.

Carheenlea
17-04-2022, 06:36 PM
The same thing that makes any fan back their team in a game they think it will lose, the hope that it will buck the odds and pull off a surprise. The other thing being a passion for their team that means they feel they should be there to back it even if it looks like being in a losing cause.

Is this where we are now in the world of football? A world where the time honoured marks of the good supporter like loyalty to 'your club' and sticking with it even in the worst of times have been replaced with derision even from fellow supporters if you suggest the fact that you claim to support a club should be reason enough to back it from the stands.
That the many many people like me who turned up at Hampden yesterday with little confidence that the team could win aren't good supporters worthy of respect for sticking by their club, but mugs who could have spent their £30 on a month pass for SKY sports where they could have watched any number of teams who win practically every game they play in from the comfort of their living room.

No wonder we now have owners, CEOs and club directors referring to fans as 'customers' a term that not too long ago would have filled any football supporter with rage, when we have supposed fans of the game who apparently agree that the only reason for sticking by a club is if the product on the park is to your satisfaction as if their club was a bloomin' supermarket chain or made cheese crackers.

It's the very fact that fans have never seen their clubs as simply another form of entertainment like the cinema or theatre but rather something to stick with through thick and thin, and even see themselves as part of, that has enabled club after club to survive the last hundred years or so to still be for want of a better word 'trading' when any other business simply relying on 'customers' would have folded years ago.

That mate is why folk who thought Hibs were long odds yesterday still paid £30 to go and 'support' them and those that did made a bloody fine job of it.

Your overthinking it a bit here are you not! You thought we’d lose, I thought we’d win. You were right I was wrong.

JamesHFC
17-04-2022, 06:40 PM
I was a lot more disappointed and annoyed when we lost to them in the semi final last time round. Gutted we don’t have another final to look forward to but we go again next season. Excited for a bit of a rebuild this summer.

StockholmHibs
17-04-2022, 06:48 PM
Do you listen to The Smiths on the car stereo on the way through to those games?

Sadly i don't get to so many games given my location. It's the Ipad these days.
Hope you weren't offended with my comments.? Apologies.
I'm still bitterly disappointed with recent results.

Carheenlea
17-04-2022, 06:54 PM
Sadly i don't get to so many games given my location. It's the Ipad these days.
Hope you weren't offended with my comments.? Apologies.
I'm still bitterly disappointed with recent results.

If you can’t have a frank exchange of views on here then where can you? If you believe what you say you don’t need to apologise!

Everyone’s disappointed and trying to get over what has been a difficult 7/8days.