Don't get over it...get even with it! It's going to be a tough season coming up for JR and the boys with expectations lifted...:hibees
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Don't get over it...get even with it! It's going to be a tough season coming up for JR and the boys with expectations lifted...:hibees
I made it quite clear I also felt that we’d missed an opportunity we should have taken so not sure why you’re saying that.
I’m as gutted as anyone else - I bet there’s nobody more gutted. Just because I’m not throwing a tantrum demanding everyone gets sacked doesn’t mean my ‘perspective’ on what happened at Hampden is any different to yours.
Not sure why you left out the rest of my post given that was the majority of my point? I guess the difference from my reading your post is you feel we will continue on an upward trajectory, whereas I'm yet to be convinced that's the case. I've not followed Hibs as long as some on here but my dad has been supporting them for 50+ years and as another poster alluded to a bit earlier, mentioned to me that this was about the 20th "we're on the verge of success" that he's seen.
If anything, history shows its much more likely we'll see the first team dismantled and have to rebuild again. Personally I just can't let go of last season just yet and look to next year with the same optimism.
In terms of your last comment not sure if that's a dig or not as I don't think I've "thrown a tantrum" at any point, and don't want Ross sacked. I've just lost confidence in him and don't look forward to next season as things stand. I think he deserves a chance but also don't believe he will deliver us a trophy.
As clearly pointed out, it hurts because there's truth in it. Eight Hampden appearances since the cup win and one victory? That is a poor record by any standard, especially as only three of the games were against the Old Firm. We've lost to Hearts Aberdeen, St Johnstone (twice) and beaten Dundee Utd.
As for the not accepting mediocrity banter, which was ridiculed. One way fans show their disapproval/approval of the direction the team is going in is via season ticket sales. For a range of reasons, including our cup capitulations, I fear our sales will be down several thousand from last season. Win that cup and the mood would have been buoyant. I'm in that boat exactly myself. As it stands so are a few of my former season ticket holding buddies.
I don't have to laugh it off. It no longer resonates for me after 2016. That was the big huge massive proverbial monkey off the back.
For goodness sake anyone using the now defunct hibsed it only has to be reminded that we lifted the cup in what was a glorious victory and reminded of Brora Rangers, the penalties v Celtic, being relegated in the most shambolic way when a draw at St Mirren would have sufficed and of course 60 years without lifting the League Cup.
2016 destroyed hibsed it and it now means absolutely zilch in my opinion.
Being beaten by St Johnstone was down to poor management of tactics and player performances. Hibsed it no longer resonates with me after 2016, I'm surprised at others who continue to think its somehow still a thing.
If Hibs and Hearts seasons were reversed then you could maybe say that we'd Hibsed it. Bottling penalties against a Celitc side in free fall. Knocked out the Scottish cup by part time Brora Rangers who'd only trained for a week after three months off, knocked out the other cup by part time Alloa Athletic, repeatedly losing to the likes of Queen of the South and Raith Rovers etc. If finishing 3rd, just missing our record points total, qualifying for Europe, a semi final and a final is Hibsing it then i hope we Hibs it every season.
It shouldn't be ignored either though. We've won trophies more often than we've finished 3rd over the last 40 years so it's an achievement. We lost a final against a team that has our number. Similar to Chelsea and Man City. They finished further ahead of Chelsea than we did St Johnstone and still continually lose to them, even in a final. It happens.
Yes, obviously it happens. It happens far too often.
I’m not blind to the fact that our league campaign was helped enormously by an absence of Hearts and Aberdeen basically chucking it.
The best result of the season was probably that stuffy 1-0 win v the Dons to get third place in the bag. This is hardly vintage stuff.
https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/hibs/hibs-address-cup-disappointment-as-jack-ross-credited-for-meeting-four-out-of-five-targets-3257847
Hibs sporting director Graeme Mathie has offered a stout defence of manager Jack Ross and the team that secured the club’s first top three finish in 16 years and challenged in the latter stages of the cup competitions.
What were the targets???
Did you read the article?
That's 4 and the 5th would have been to win a cup.Quote:
One, to have the team competing at the top end of the league, meaning European qualification, two, to bring in players who could add some value for the club, three, bring through young players from the academy and create value by developing them, then another thing was to play an attack-minded style. I know that has been questioned at times but if you look at the number of goals we have scored and chances we have created in games then we’ve played an attack-minded style.
Maybe one of those....
“One, to have the team competing at the top end of the league, meaning European qualification, two, to bring in players who could add some value for the club, three, bring through young players from the academy and create value by developing them, then another thing was to play an attack-minded style. I know that has been questioned at times but if you look at the number of goals we have scored and chances we have created in games then we’ve played an attack-minded style.
Mathie thinks we play an attack minded style???
Has anyone really said that third place last season wasn't a worthy achievement?
Pointing out that this coming season is likely to be more challenging isn't undermining the improvement we saw in our league form. If people were saying we got third with one of the lowest points tallies of the past decade or so, then I could see your point.
As it stands most people seem to recognise that we earned the best of the rest last season, whilst acknowledging that the league will probably be more challenging for us this coming season. I think that's OK.