Taking the knee

[ShadesLongThrow]

I’ve not seen any comment on this so I’m wondering if I imagined it but I’m pretty sure neither team took the knee before the game yesterday.

[dphibs]

I thought the same. One of the Hamilton players went to do it as the game kicked off. Thought I’d imagined it.

[CropleyWasGod]

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I thought the same. One of the Hamilton players went to do it as the game kicked off. Thought I’d imagined it.

He was a bit late in taking the knee, so went for Boyle's a wee while later.

[CMurdoch]

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He was a bit late in taking the knee, so went for Boyle's a wee while later.

[hibee-boys]

If they’ve pulled it then I’m glad. Football, like the rest of society, has role to play with being proactive in tackling racism and intolerance, time to consider how better they/we can help better achieve that. Taking the knee was a powerful symbol at that time, lost that impact long ago.

[G B Young]

I read that some English clubs have stopped doing it, not sure if that's the case here too.

[JimBHibees]

Pretty sure both teams did do it. Think there was a delay to kick off for some reason.

[Brightside]

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Pretty sure both teams did do it. Think there was a delay to kick off for some reason.

That was due to the lino coming out late.

[Argylehibby]

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That was due to the lino coming out late.

Aye the one with COVID turned up late.

[Greenbeard]

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That was due to the lino coming out late.

Looked sheepish enough to suggest he was maybe late with lightening his load pre-match.

[Ardenttwo]

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I read that some English clubs have stopped doing it, not sure if that's the case here too.

Bournemouth have stopped it. They say taking the knee has run its course and no longer has any effect

[G B Young]

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Bournemouth have stopped it. They say taking the knee has run its course and no longer has any effect

Think QPR stopped it last year and I know Brentford also have. Palace striker Wilfried Zaha says he's not doing it any more as he finds it 'degrading'.

[Andy74]

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Think QPR stopped it last year and I know Brentford also have. Palace striker Wilfried Zaha says he's not doing it any more as he finds it 'degrading'.

I was branded as being part of the problem not long ago for suggesting that it was becoming meaningless and that action now was more important than gestures.

[blackpoolhibs]

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I was branded as being part of the problem not long ago for suggesting that it was becoming meaningless and that action now was more important than gestures.

Statements like this always have a time frame, and sometimes becomes counter productive in my opinion.

[jacomo]

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I was branded as being part of the problem not long ago for suggesting that it was becoming meaningless and that action now was more important than gestures.

Thankfully you’re here to remind us what’s really important.

[StevesFamau5]

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I was branded as being part of the problem not long ago for suggesting that it was becoming meaningless and that action now was more important than gestures.

Would you like your Nobel peace prize for this?

You are right about action however, I am interested to see what the SPFL and the EPL are going to do next. Some of the recent abuse directed at players via social media is absolutely disgusting.

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[Wigson13]

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I’ve not seen any comment on this so I’m wondering if I imagined it but I’m pretty sure neither team took the knee before the game yesterday.

Never paid any attention at the time but did notice that Sportscene didn't show on the highlights and thought that was very unusual because for some reason they always show the taking of the knee in every game they show. Always wondered why they deemed it necessary to show it on the highlights as its nothing to do with the football.

[Since452]

I don't even notice it anymore. If i hadn't seen this thread I'd have been none the wiser. Definitely run its course.

[The 90+2]

Les Ferdinand summed it up perfectly.

[heretoday]

We should take the knee in Scotland against sectarian hatred.

[Dashing Bob S]

An important poignant and bold gesture at the start, now a pointless, even counterproductive bore.

Way to tear the backside out of something.

As useful to football and society in general now as another international tournament.

[matty_f]

For all it's apparently run its course etc, here we are still discussing racism and still discussing how to solve it. It's keeping it on the agenda, that's a good thing.

[Cat Stanton]

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For all it's apparently run its course etc, here we are still discussing racism and still discussing how to solve it. It's keeping it on the agenda, that's a good thing.

This was exactly Marvin Bartley's point on the news last night.

[Carheenlea]

Hibs players will now stand rather than kneel

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/hibs-racism

[Seveno]

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Hibs players will now stand rather than kneel

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/hibs-racism

If by ‘standing up against racism’ means that they will walk off the pitch if one of their team mates is racially abused then I would be proud of them. Assuming that I knew what was happening then I would stand up and applaud.

This is what is needed for the football authorities to act.

[Caversham Green]

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If by ‘standing up against racism’ means that they will walk off the pitch if one of their team mates is racially abused then I would be proud of them. Assuming that I knew what was happening then I would stand up and applaud.

This is what is needed for the football authorities to act.

Maybe that would be the time to take the knee. If they hear racist abuse, rather than walk off the entire team takes the knee for maybe 10 seconds delaying but not ending the game. It would make it absolutely clear what had happened.

[.Sean.]

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Hibs players will now stand rather than kneel

https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/article/hibs-racism

Good. But proof is in the pudding and I Hibs are as pro active in calling out the Old Firm when they’ve got 4000 knuckledraggers belting out pish for 90 minutes at Easter Road

[blackpoolhibs]

I think the current racism problem in Scotland has come at a handy time for the bigot brothers. It has been completely ignored as usual, over something I think is nowhere near as big a problem in Scotland as sectarianism.
Both are terrible, but both need eradicated, yet one gets much more solidarity than the other.

[H18 SFR]

As the husband of someone who is racially abused routinely at times throughout the year (mostly at work I’d add), the whole take a knee / take a stand thing makes me laugh.

It’s a pathetic attempt to pretend that football is ‘doing something’ about racism.

[loanheadhibby]

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As the husband of someone who is racially abused routinely at times throughout the year (mostly at work I’d add), the whole take a knee / take a stand thing makes me laugh.

It’s a pathetic attempt to pretend that football is ‘doing something’ about racism.

Agreed. It’s tokenism. A bit like the T shirt efforts of the international teams re Qatar.