Over the 2 games, were we not good enough, or should we be aggrieved over the incompetent decisions of officials?
1st leg: 1st goal, a wicked deflection. Could've went anywhere. Ends up in our net. We then get a foothold in the game, and gradually improve. Totally dominating the second half. Get ourselves in front, and then are denied a stonewall penalty, which could/should've resulted in us going 2 goals up against 10 men. We then don't deal with an aimless punt into our box, by not defending properly & a goalkeeping blunder.
Verdict? Referee probably cost us the game, but poor defending gave them a draw.
2nd leg: Falkirk started better. Fair enough. Lewis steps out for no apparent reason and let's the striker get goal side. Defensive blunder. We get back into the game with a nice move for the penalty. Stonewall, given. But it's a clear last man/goal scoring opportunity. Red card not given. Amazingly not even a yellow!! 😡
We take the lead with a good goal, then seem quite comfortable. Falkirk send a big striker & long thrower on. Should we have countered with bringing Gunnarson or Fontaine on? An aimless ball to back post. Gray just needs to see it out of play, but chooses to head it aimlessly away. Great strike, but very poor clearance. Defensive error.
We then hit the bar twice in the last 2 minutes. No luck, then as always happens to us, we concede another soft goal through another aimless ball thrown into the box that we don't deal with. Poor defending.
Overall verdict?
Poor defending proved to be very costly, along with poor finishing. Falkirk certainly had the rub of the green, but also, proper refereeing decisions, and we more than likely win both legs. But we can't control what the officials do, only what we do, and so ultimately, our defensive lapses lost us the tie! 😡
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Thread: Tonight On reflection! 😡
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13-05-2016 10:28 PM #1
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Tonight On reflection! 😡
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13-05-2016 10:32 PM #2
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Another reason why we should be complaining to SFA right throughout the season. Houston has dined out on one decision going against him all season and it has worked as refs were afraid to make the big calls they should have. We just seem to meekly accept whatever goes against us and are surprised when we lose out again!
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13-05-2016 10:33 PM #3
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13-05-2016 10:35 PM #4
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That's what cost us.
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13-05-2016 10:35 PM #5
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11 players tonight should have got absolutely torn in about them - they didn't - took the lead, dropped off - no desire to finish teams off.
Can't blame refs or officials - have to 100% blame manager and players. Hibs should have waltzed this round.
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13-05-2016 10:40 PM #6
The penalty turned the game for us, but has happened so often this season we couldn't finish them off. I wonder when or if we would have started playing if we didn't get that pen. Just not good enough all over the park in such a huge game for us.
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I actually think the team believes it was better than Falkirk, but our lot don't have a fraction of the charater and work ethic they do.
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13-05-2016 10:45 PM #8
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Stubbs has learned nothing. The last three games against Falkirk they have scored 5 goals in the last 10 minutes. No team of any worth should let this happen. It was so obvious what Houston would do to chase the game yet Stubbs chose not to strengthen the defence and upfront this continually trying to walk the ball into the net has cost us dear, our goals scored from shots on goal is pathetic....
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13-05-2016 10:48 PM #9
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Ultimately, it was our poor finishing & soft defending that cost us dear.
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13-05-2016 10:48 PM #10
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13-05-2016 10:58 PM #15
Bull ! They had three shots on target and scored three goals . Straight red every time but the cheat doesn't even book him . We were desperately unlucky not to score a third . But go ahead and rip into Stubbs and the players before the Scottish cup final ! Hibs fans ? Pfft really .
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13-05-2016 11:05 PM #17
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Falkirk made their intentions crystal clear with the double sub.
They were no threat whatsoever and were hoping to get a break of the ball in the box. Stubbs could've put height in the box to counter their substitutions immediately, but for some strande reason doesn't see the need to react to their changes.
Poor game management imo.
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The cups irrelevant. Promotion was the most important goal.
Nobody's "ripping" into anyone. It's a discussion about how we managed to once again throw a game away.
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Very poor management decisions.
Why keep stokes on and take of keatings?
Why not go 1 up front and shut up shop with 10 mins to go?
Naive and basic stuff. Stokes has been a disaster - I hope doesn't play him next week
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[QUOTE=erin go bragh;4684847]Bull ! They had three shots on target and scored three goals . Straight red every time but the cheat doesn't even book him . We were desperately unlucky not to score a third . But go ahead and rip into Stubbs and the players before the Scottish cup final ! Hibs fans ? Pfft really .
GGTTH[/QUOTE Agree with this . At 2-1 3-1 always looked more likely than 2-2 and at 2-2 we were the team looking to win in 90 minutes . Falkirk obviously have something since they did something similar against Rangers recently but I find it hard to criticise Hibs players much tonight since we were the better team and deserved to win .
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I think when a large number of fans query tactics and misuse of subs over the last few months there has to be something in it. Most of us have watched and /or played the game and in some cases many years. There have only been a few times this season when it was like the old days attacking down the slope and we had that for 30 mins in second half against Falkirk. The passion has gone from our support.
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