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Post by hiblog on Mar 24, 2010 1:09:21 GMT
But look on the bright side - we have saved ourselves the embarassment of getting hosed on by the shittest Celtc team in years.
No, it's still total fucking bollocks.
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Post by Stu on Mar 24, 2010 14:42:15 GMT
Certainly is Fraser. I feel sorry for some of the fans who made the long midweek journey to Dingwall and they're certainly entitled a moan.
What I'm finding worse though is some of the fans absolutely throwing their toys out of the pram. We're all disappointed - bitterly so, but stuff like, 'Hibs GTF', 'Not going back' and the various demolition jobs done on practically every player plus the manager and his assistant - the same people that they were adoring and claiming were going to break the Old firm duopoly just a few short weeks ago is even more pathetic than some of Hibs' performances of late.
It's probably unlikely to happen right now but two or three wins and the bipolar views will rotate back again. Hell, we could even be third again by Saturday evening...
GGTTH
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Post by hiblog on Mar 24, 2010 20:43:38 GMT
Very true Stu, it's not as though we haven't been here before. A derby loss and an embarassing cup exit in successive matches was bound to bring out the 'Yogi must go' pish. Although Yogi has been quoted as saying he doesn't plan much signing activity for next season I think that message will now change. He wasn't going to give a public vote of no confidence in his current squad while we were still in the cup and chasing Europe and I expect there'll be the usual amount of movement in the summer. I take back what I said about getting pumped by Celtic though. I hear a rumour that Mowbray is planning to take Chris Hogg to Parkhead. If Hogg is as rank as many have been saying this season then it is further evidence that Mowbray is still a Hibby at heart
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Post by Stu on Mar 25, 2010 17:49:59 GMT
Too late Fraser! THAT Celtic result last night was bound to do for Mowbray and it has. Cue the pish to bring him back to Easter Road no doubt.
I think you're bang on actually. There will be different messages coming out of ER after the cup departure.
In general I have rarely heard as much testicles coming from Hibs fans as I have at this time. It seems clear that John Hughes is making some mistakes but the attitude towards this man who has been in the job for just ten months is absolutely hysterical. Just how long DOES a manager get to prove himself these days?
Maybe part of the problem was his early progress. It seems like some fans just cannot bear that Hibs haven't been able to sustain that progress under his tutelage over the past two months .
I see that he now 'a clown', clueless', 'thick', 'a conman' and so on according to some. I can't confess that I wanted John Hughes in the job originally, when the huge clamour for his appointment was growing, but I still think he proved my assessment of his suitability wrong. He is much more of a manager than I believed he was.
It seems clear to me that hounding yet another manager out of Easter Road is not the answer here. I'm sure that the team is shorn of confidence after a few bad results and far from a lack of effort suggested ad nauseam (and very predictably) by a vociferous section, it's fear of making mistakes that is causing their performances to be hamstrung.
I believe Hibs and John Hughes will fight through this bad patch and prove their critics wrong in the longer term.
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Post by hiblog on Mar 25, 2010 21:43:32 GMT
Totally agree Stu - how long was he at Falkirk? And where were they when he left relative to when he started?
He doesn't become a crap manager overnight, nor do some of the players become crap overnight because of a poor run of half a dozen matches.
There do appear to be some tactical questions to be asked however. It does sound as though we lack width and have for a long time had a shortage of dedicated full backs on both sides of the pitch.
While consistency of selection has always been, for me, an important goal for any manager, you do wonder if things need more shaking up when players seem to go off the boil for whatever reason.
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Post by hiblog on Apr 12, 2010 22:19:17 GMT
Celtc must be spewing that we didn't beat Ross County. We must be the only team in the country that the Unwashed could beat right now.
This season has gone right down the pan in fine style. I can't remember an implosion as complete as this since the days of Duff Jimmy. If the wheels had fallen off our season before Christmas instead of at the beginning of February we would probably be relegation fodder.
Over the first 26 games of the season in all comps we lost 5. In the last 13 we have won only two. I don't think there is any doubt that we rode our luck early on and fed off the confidence that a good run brought. The gubbing by St Johnstone seems to have holed us below the waterline and we can't bail fast enough to stop sinking. Frankly the end of the season can't come fast enough. Fuck qualifying for Europe - it would be just another humiliation we don't need right now.
Having said all that I am not looking for a change of manager. But it does sound like we need a change of personnel here and there, a change in tactics, and a distinct change in attitude. But how long have we been saying that?
Ross County for the Cup. Come on ye teuchters!
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