The two edinburgh clubs have two different styles of play “traditionally”. Hibs are known as the side who like to play football. Hearts meanwhile are more physical and go back to front.
My question to you guys as fans - If your winning do you care about the style? When I say winning I don’t mean a one off game. Would you be happy with a Sam allerdyce style of play all season if it meant consistently finishing in the top 1/2 places in league and doing well in the cups?
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Thread: Style of play - does it matter?
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09-08-2019 11:56 AM #1
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Style of play - does it matter?
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09-08-2019 11:56 AM #2
I'd give up football if I had to watch Hearts every week, if that helps?
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09-08-2019 11:59 AM #3
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09-08-2019 11:59 AM #4
If we won every single game I doubt it would matter, yes we want to see nice slick attacking play but results are what matter
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09-08-2019 12:00 PM #6
Perhaps these "traditional" characteristics apply in recent years but oldsters will recall Hearts teams that played fast attacking football and some of our lot who were crap.
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09-08-2019 12:00 PM #7
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Winning is everything. If you can play good football along the way it's a nice bonus. However if we're going to be up one week and down the next, I'd prefer it to be whilst playing easy-on-the-eye attacking football.
I don't believe anyone for a second when they claim they wouldn't swap places with Aberdeen in the league (recent years) if it meant playing closer to their style of football. (Especially as we haven't actually played brilliant free-flowing football at ER for a long time).
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09-08-2019 12:05 PM #10
If we were winning every week and challenging for the league, we'd need to build a bigger stadium, no matter how we played.
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Therefore style of football does matter if we did well 3 - 4th in the league and consitently in cup finals fans would stick with it for 2 maybe 3 years. But look at Aberdeen the most consitent team behind Celtic for years you could not pay me to watch them week after week it is just dire stuff get a goal in fron no matter how then kick anything that moves.
So in summary short tem I think Hibs fans will go along with it longer term withouit a trophy year on year thay wont.
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09-08-2019 12:19 PM #14
If the winning goal on 21st May had come from a 60 yard lump up the pitch I wouldn't have cared.
I want Hibs to win.
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09-08-2019 12:21 PM #15
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It depends if it’s winning football or not. If it’s ***** play like hearts do and losing like we did under Williamson or Fenlon it’s brutal.
If we bore teams off the park playing one up top finish third, make Hampden and stuff hearts while doing so I won’t mind.
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09-08-2019 12:36 PM #17
Good thread and good question.
I understand where people are coming from when they say that they wouldn't care about our style of play if we were winning every week and it's hard to disagree but imo there's a reason why teams that adopt the 'Sam Allardyce' style of play don't consistently finish in the top 2 and do well in the cups.
For me, style is hugely important but not just on a superficial level. Imo a team that plays good football will generally be more successful than those who don't over the long term.
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09-08-2019 12:42 PM #18
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We beat St Mirren on Saturday, but if we were to play like that every game I suspect I would slowly lose interest. It is meant to be entertainment after all.
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09-08-2019 12:43 PM #19
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If Hibs, dominated Hertz for the next 20 years, constantly being many points ahead of them in the league and challenging for (and winning) the league and cups, then no the style of play doesn't matter to me.
The fact that the above doesn't happen then I'd be more concerned about the style of play. We need to be entertained if we are to continue to purchase season tickets.
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09-08-2019 12:51 PM #21
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I pay £400 odd for ST so I like to be entertained. Ideally it’s good to play good football and also being able to mix it up and win ugly when the pretty football isn’t paying off. However I’d always like any Hibs manager to first and foremost try play an entertaining style. Because we are one of many clubs who are outsiders to win anything each year it’s nice to be able to go watch your team knowing there’s a good chance you will be entertained at the very least
Hopefully we ‘have a go’ on Sunday but I’m not sure we will.
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09-08-2019 12:53 PM #22
In my 46 years of watching Hibs I have probably seen perhaps 10 seasons of decent, attacking, football. Seen 2 league cup wins and of course the greatest day ever in 2016. I have also seen 3 relegations and dozens of let downs in cup semis and finals. I also had to watch Bertie Aulds team, Alex Miller's team (who admittedly have us a cup win and maybe 2/3 decent years), Williamson's team, Fenlons team, Butchers team. Would I like to see us winning 1-0 every week, bore teams into submission and win the league and a few more cups, you better ****ing believe I would. Remember 1-0 to the Arsenal? Yeah I bet their fans were gutted with the league and cup wins.
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09-08-2019 12:57 PM #24
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09-08-2019 12:59 PM #25
The best teams play good football. There is definitely a much lower ceiling on hoofball.
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09-08-2019 12:59 PM #26
If we play drab, boring football and still get beat then that puts pressure on the manager and rightly so. In recent times when we've beaten the old firm it wasn't because we played negative football. Obviously I hope I'm totally wrong but I think we will be easily beaten by Sevco tomorrow if we play the same way we did against St Mirren. As far as I'm concerned, Hibs fans have every right to expect an entertaining brand of football, I'm just concerned that apart from Scott Allen and occasionally Mallan and Horgan we don't seem to have any flair players that can really get the crowd going. That's just my opinion though.
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09-08-2019 01:04 PM #27
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Brought up on Turnbull's Tornadoes and I can still remember doing my paper-round on a Sat-lunchtime in approx 1 hour when Mon-Fri it took 2-2.5 hours - the excitement and anticipation of being virtually guaranteed to see top-quality, entertaining, exciting football spurred me on !
So preferably (and greedily !) it's flair/class & 3 points for me !
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Yep, Hearts haven't always been into the more industrial style of play, but some of their managers in the last 30 odd years definitely have, e.g. Alex McDonald and Craig Levein.
They've also played some very good football at times, but I wouldn't like to watch their current team every week.
Also, as people have pointed out, it's a fallacy that Hibs have always tried to play attractive football. From Bertie Auld to Alex Millar (but not his mid 90s team), we've watched some negative football as well.
Winning first, attractive football second. Though I'm not sure I'd like to watch us if we played every game like Aberdeen.
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United we stand here....
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09-08-2019 01:21 PM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Sadly many of the players we had then left at the end of that season. We didn't see much of that free flowing football under Lennon in the fhe first half of last season.
I genuinely believe Lennon wanted us to continue playing that way but it just didn't work with the likes of McGinn, Allan and McGeough gone.
I think our current coach has a different approach to the game and we'll just have to wait and see how it pans out.
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