Our collapses in big games have now trancended every manager of the last 20years and our current squad of players and the squad before that and the squad before that etc.
There are only two constants in all of these heartbreaks. One is the size of the club and the money available to buy/develop players of quality and winning mentality. The second is the supporter's bile, once confined to the terraces and pubs and now available in the digital age for anyone of any age or expereince or seniority within the club to read.
Such transparency should allow the club to know how the supporters feel and act accordingly shouldn't it? Well, apparently not.
Instead, it's more to do with self sabotage. So, no set of players we've had have been good enough to win the Scottish cup in any of our lifetimes and very rarely win anything else either.
Why is that?
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Thread: Our Bottle Merchant Ways
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25-03-2010 08:49 AM #1
Our Bottle Merchant Ways
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25-03-2010 09:03 AM #2
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The Old Firm have more or less dominated the Scottish Cup up here, we don`t have to go into the reasons as to why that is, unfortunately counting this campaign we`ve had three reasonably good chances to do the business.
Dunfermline were bottom of the league when they knocked us out, even though we lost the leagues top scorer in Killen we should have had enough to make the final, Riordan gave us the lead with 30 minutes to go against the Arabs, Glass got injured the midfield was disrupted, Mowbray threw on a debutant in Sproule, with the benefit of hindsight we could see maybe why he did this, alas it didn`t work that day, ironically our only other real effort in the last 4 decades was with one of our worst teams, when we were denied a penalty in the last minute against Rangers, enough said. The Cup is a lottery and an obsession i don`t share with other Hibs supporters, the league will always be a priority from week to week.
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25-03-2010 09:27 AM #4
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25-03-2010 09:35 AM #5
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I wonder howa .net board would have looked after Turnbull lost the Scottish Cup Final 1-6 to Celtic? still the memories of the way that team played over the years are still clear in my mind today and Eddie is still quoted now and then as saying he loves to watch the likes of Arsenal.
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25-03-2010 09:42 AM #6
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25-03-2010 02:52 PM #7
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25-03-2010 05:13 PM #8
I've been a supporter since 1963.
There's something about the culture of the club, IMHO. It's an intangible thing, I know, but we seem to be flaky at vital times. Even when the 70s team were at their best we tended to lose critical matches against the OF that we were more than capable of winning.
Just can't explain it really.
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25-03-2010 08:21 PM #9
Got to agree
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Over the years we should really have done better particularily in the 7o's but
never could grab the big opportunity.
Flaky,yep that is a good word for it.
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