Ok, hands up. I've been a Happy Clapper for years - check my posts. I've always supported Rodders, I stuck with Mixu and Collins to the bitter end, and, in fact, I am still optimistic about where Hibs are going. However.......
I got really angry today.
At a fair estimate, it probably cost each Hibee who was at Hamilton today around £60 -70, and for some , that would have been a fair percentage of their disposable cash for the week. OK, nobody forces them to go, but they are supporters and they rely on the Cabbage to bring a bit of joy to their week.
I get well paid in my job and so I can afford to go to away games without too much financial pain, but all I ask is to retain pride in my team - win or lose. To be honest, I was struggling with that today.
What we got was a performance from a Hibs team that contains a number of players who clearly don't care - certainly not for the fans, but, more tellingly, for their own professional pride. They failed to put in challenges, pulled out of tackles and followed no game plan. The only bright moments today were when a player like Bamba or Murray, obviously sick of the lack of effort, went on a mazy - real playground stuff.
Of today's team, I think Murray cares for Hibs and is always honest, never hides; I think Rankin is an honest if limited professional, I think Thicot has ability but lacks direction. Bamba put in a good shift as well. The rest seemed to be there to pick up appearance money, and it doesn't really need Steve Cowan to report laughing and joking in the warm down to make that clear.
It is screamingly obvious that something has happened in the dressing room. While third or even fourth place was at stake, I wouldn't have expected any news on that. However, Hibs are now clearly headed for 6th place. That being the case, I would like the club to make some kind of statement - not details clearly, but an explanation that things have gone wrong and what will be done about it. As a committed fan, that would mean something to me, rather than 'listening groups' about peripheral matters.
I love Hibs and I will support them through thick and thin, but I don't like being taken for a fool. The players have obviously given up, and I think the thousands of pounds I've given Hibs over the past fifty years entitles me to more than the anodyne statements that the manager issues after each match.
I know that our current position is far from disastrous, but, equally, the team has been grievously underperfoming for the past three months. What's going on at Easter Rd, and what's going to be done about it?
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10-04-2010 10:23 PM #1
Happy Clapper pauses for thought
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10-04-2010 10:33 PM #2
Mate, what a fantastic post. Sums up the situation perfectly, particularly for the longer suffering members of the Hibs support. We don't expect Hibs to win The Champions League, but, what the Donald Duck is going on?
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10-04-2010 10:40 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hibernian, pull yer ****ing finger out ( Again )
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10-04-2010 10:57 PM #5
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Brilliant post"Play for the name on the front of the jersey and the supporters will remember the name on the back"
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10-04-2010 11:00 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Well said.
There is a huge amount of work needing to be done between now and the start of next season.Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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10-04-2010 11:14 PM #8
first class post Aubenas. sums it up,regarding the fans like you and me that have been through dissapointments throughout the years,and just as importantly for the younger fans,who go home and away expecting Hibernian to put in an effort to get some reward. it does now seem that summit aint right ,in the background and the fans wont take much more of this. I think the club are are in real danger of losing a lot of supporters for ever,and I take no pleasure in saying that. this season has been the most dissapointing in many a year,and has happened over a short period of 3 months
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10-04-2010 11:17 PM #9
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This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"Play for the name on the front of the jersey and the supporters will remember the name on the back"
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10-04-2010 11:25 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Aye, it would be a nice change if the club/yogi treated the fans with a bit more honesty and respect and were more open about the problems we're facing. But I suspect it will be all kept behind closed doors and any problems will be shown the door/allowed to leave in the summer.
It would also be good to hear a statement from the club with regard to the ethos and culture required within the club and what is expected from the players of all age groups. Success usually requires sacrifice.
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11-04-2010 01:34 AM #12
Great post agree with all of it.
At 14 i havnt been supporting hibs as long as other people on hear and havnt seen some of the worst times here but surely our recent run and performances are some of the worst for a long time.
It is very obvious there is something wrong as we are just giving up in games where as at the start of the season even if we were not playing great we would try and try for 90 mins and we would draw games that we would lose now and were winning games that we would draw now.
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11-04-2010 03:22 AM #14
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Spot on, absolutely right on the money.
Unfortunately results like this should not be acceptable in the makeup of this club. We have become too apathetic in our support and this kind of result should never come to fruition.
My worst fears regarding Yogi have been realised and he should do the honourable thing. In my view of course.
But if you were actually there today there is no way you could defend that.
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11-04-2010 04:25 AM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Of course you are and like the rest of us are not willing to accept pash poor excuses for the sort of performances we have had to put up with!
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11-04-2010 04:36 AM #16
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Seen Darren Mccormack out tonight.
Mate if i'd just been PUMPED by hamilton i wouldnt have been out never mind joking around as he was.
I hate garmo.
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11-04-2010 05:50 AM #17
But urm, eh , what aboot, mind when, umm , eh.....
Aye! Top post mate, absolutely spot on.
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11-04-2010 06:33 AM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
GGTTH
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11-04-2010 07:45 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm an East Terrace season ticket holder of about twenty years. I help run a supporters club and from time to time have assisted Hibs on the odd matter on an ad hoc basis. The point being that I'm not a casual supporter and neither are the guys I go to the games with. So what disturbs me most is the incremental milking of all enthusiasm and passion out of the support first under Mixu and now under Yogi.
With Mixu it appeared to be poor tactics, poor formations and poor football with at least real effort. Now it seems to be much of the same but with a 'couldn't give a 5h1t' attitude from many of the players thrown in on top. And that is what is coming across so clearly to the support. That is what is fuelling so much of the entirely understandable anger on here.
In the middle of all this the manager is the lightning conductor for people's rage over how poorly we are playing and over our final league positioning in prospect. Its partly because this standard just isn't good enough by a very long way, partly that we see how poor most of the rest of the league is and know that a team firing on all cylinders should be tucking many of these games away easily and partly that we know the quality of the squad while needing improved should still be producing much better performances than it does.
So to cut to the chase, what is wrong? If any of you know then share it. If it is one or two (or more) players with an attitude problem then name them and tell us within the limits of libel what the issues are. If it is something else then tell us.
The players read these borads and so do the media. Until we start talking about what the actual issues are rather than just being abusive about Hughes, midget midfields or whatever then we are not naming the problem(s) for what they are and forcing them to be confronted.
We don't need speculation about what any of us think the problem might be. We need some facts so that we as fans can at least unite and be clear about what needs to happen next, either now or in the close season.
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11-04-2010 08:00 AM #21
I can't make my mind up if Yogi is *issed off with the players or the players are *issed off with Yogi.
I do know for certain however that I am seriously *issed off with both Yogi and the players.
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