I have read all the threads since the Raith game and have a few observations to make:
Wonderful we took 2700 to the game, which is a great effort and hopefully not lost on the players. I am sure they appreciated the backing. And I feel really sorry for our fans, trudging away after a defeat.
I feel it is the frustration we feel, as a support, that is sometimes getting the better of us. It is not a case of are you positive or negative about the next match or our club? It is how do you deal with the position we are in (in terms of league) and the nature of football...win some, lose some. Yes we are a premier league team, battling to get back there from the murky depths of the Championship, but we may take 3 years to do it rather than one, in previous times. It may be this year - hopefully.
Stubbs has always said 'promotion is the priority', but if you do well enough to get into 2 cup finals, then that is an achievement. Perhaps at the expense of the league campaign. Is he supposed to say...lads please don't beat this premier league Hearts team tonight in the cup, as I want you rested and focussed for the Alloa game? I think not.
From what I can see, as a club, we are night and day from the awful stuff we had when we got relegated. That hurt us all. However, Hibs have re-grouped, sharpened up and had some fantastic moments, and some good runs, under Lee-Anne and Stubbsy. Who would want the job after Butcher? Give him credit for building a very good team. Sure we have off days, this is football, and wasn't he the 'man of the moment' - especially on these forums - when we were going so well earlier in the season?
I guess I am saying, accept the frustration, but always support the team. Hard I know. We are in the Scottish Cup Final FFS, and people are calling for our managers head? May is the month of judgement for this season. If Hibs win the cup and get promoted then it will be our finest year. Do one and this is a good year. Do neither then that is football.
The only constant in May, will be my, and yours hopefully, belief we can do anything in football...beating Rangers/Celtic. We shall fight to be promoted - my prediction 3 - 0 Hibs on Saturday - and we will win the Scottish Cup! The grail fellow Hibees. We are in with a decent shout of winning. This is a time to not let frustration get the better of us. Continue, as you do, supporting our Club in exciting and dramatic times.
Always proud to be a Hibs fan.
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05-05-2016 09:03 AM #1
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Getting to two cup finals is meaningless if you lose them both. Actually have to win one of them for it to mean something.
When Butcher got us relegated, should we have just said "oh well, that's football" and kept him on? Course not. So, if we don't go up, why should a manager who has been brought in to get us out this league be kept on having failed to do it twice?
The results are poor, the performances aren't actually good and he has no idea his best team/formation yet and we're over 45 games into this season.
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If Hibs supporters don't believe we can get promotion or win the cup, then why should the players? I believe in both, have moved on from the disappointment of Raith and look forward to a much happier next 6 games. I have a gut feeling Hibs will come through on all fronts...I may be biased, I may be disappointed...but whatever happens....a Hibs fan
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These are strange times for Scottish football. Dundee United relegated, Ross County in the Premier League! Who would have predicted that 15 years ago? But we must face reality. We are fighting to get out of the Championship, which is probably harder than getting 6/7th in the premier league in some ways. I have been impressed with Stubbs as our manager, and don't think he deserves a lot of the criticism he is getting. He knows his team and capabilities better than any one of us. He may get it wrong sometimes, but we are human. I have faith in him as we enter this crucial phase. He at least deserves a chance, after resurrecting us from the ashes of the Butcher era.
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2nd last year, 3rd this year.
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05-05-2016 10:29 AM #9
Easy for the OP to post all that without having to suffer the frustration of attending all these defeats against pishy teams.
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I expect hibs to beat raith and falkirk, I will be at the games willing it to happen. I was also at various other games expecting us to win and getting behind the team and we didn't. You can't expect everyone to watch their team lose to lesser clubs and not get some negativity from that experience. Maybe they aren't lesser clubs maybe they are our level now. depressing.
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Keep up the positive attitude. It's not a crime to show loyalty in hard times.
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We are down, but very much in the mix for play off. And we are in the Scottish Cup Final! Let no man write off the mighty Hibernian FC. In Alan Stubbs we trust. In our team we must believe.
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