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Maybe this is the year. We crushed Cowdenbeath 3 – 2 in the third round after all.
And yes, sigh, we know Buffalo Bill was still on stage in those days.
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Having thought about Calderwood’s signing of 31 year old “Junior” Agogo (he’s not THAT Junior at 31) for the Hibees I am wondering if it is worth a trip to Easter Road; if only to hear the Einstien Agogo riff when he scores.
I don’t think anything has put as much of a smile on my face , as a Hibby, for many a month. (Sorry; year.)
But you didn’t have to be an Einstien to work that out.
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Andy Murray in his "Hibs Green" shirt
I have refrained from blogging about Andy’s exploits for fear of jinxing him. All I can say is good luck. Scotland would be a very proud nation were he to succeed in the morning.
Filed under: football, Hibees, Rants | Tags: colin calderwood, Edinburgh, edinburgh finest, gibberish, Hibees, Hibernian, hibernian form, mark gorman, mark gorman gibberish, rod petrie, Scottish Football, SPL, the cabbage
After defeat to Motherwell yesterday this very odd man said…
“There are aspects of the game I enjoyed. Problems are there to be solved so that’s what I’m looking forward to doing.”
On Tuesday night after Hibs went out to a team two leagues below the odd bod Calderwood commented…
“We had so many good opportunities, the goalkeeper’s had a number of good saves, we’ve had efforts cleared from the line and I think they defended their goal excellently.
He has so far won 2 out of 15 games.
Being, at best, an armchair fan I have not seen him in action but I am told he stands impassively, hands in pockets, barely involving himself in games and certainly not leaping about like the madman Yogi Hughes had become.
It all just seems like he’s going through the motions.
Remarkably he claims to be “really enjoying it” at Easter Road.
Inevitably, the fans’ ire tends to turn to the manager or the Chairman in these sorts of situation. And Rod Petrie’s extended honeymoon is certainly looking to be over at this moment in time.
The sale of Stokes and Bamba appears to be hitting home now and our lack of action in the transfer market is becoming notable. I’m a great admirer of what Petrie has acheived at Easter Road but it feels like he has made an extraordinarily bad appointment in Colin Calderwood and his earlier reputation for canniness is in danger of becoming one for penny pinching (for which I am told he has a strong internal reputation.)
Lastly, of course, there’s the team itself; some say it is a shadow of its former self, one of the worst to have played for Hibs in many years (if not ever), but I saw Zemamma, Miller, Riordan, Wotherspoon, Murray, Stack and McBride (all in the squad yesterday) play Dundee Utd on 3rd October 2009 and destroy them before drawing 1 -1.
At that point the table looked like this…
A month later it looked even better…
And even by mid January Hibs (with this team) were in touch with the top, so my contention is not that it is the players themselves that are poor but the way in which they are applying themselves.
It feels to me that there is a cancer somewhere in Easter Road that is permeating the team and turning good players into bad. Yogi lost them, and Calderwood has never had them bar one freak night against Rangers.
It needs sorted, and quick.
Filed under: football, Hibees, humour, jokes, life, Rants, Scotland | Tags: FA Cup, fa cup 3rd rd, Hibs, Leicester city, leicester city v Manchester city, sol bamba, the cabbage
“Sol Bamba is playing a blinder on his debut for Leicester City. He’s really endearing himself to fans here.” (BBC Radio Five Live)
Bastard Bamba
He played a blinder for Dunfermline against Hibs in the cup semi before we bought him and now he’s doing the same in England. He has scored the opener in 30 seconds for Leicester in the third round of the FA cup against Manchester City!
In between times he was a fucking huddie.
Filed under: Hibees, humour, photography, Scotland, sports, stories, The Scotsman | Tags: europa cup, FC maribor, greg Macvean, Hibees, Hibernian FC, john hughes, the cabbage
Hibs result in Slovenia last night defies comment. Instead I will concentrate on the plus side.
This utter masterpiece of a sports photo of our inept moron of a manager, John Hughes captured like, well, an inept moron of a manager by Edinburgh photographer Greg Macvean.
Thank you Greg. Hope this wins the prizes it deserves.
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It's nice that Nish got a hattrick. But this will be his memory of it.
You sit down to watch probably the poorest match of the season (The Sky commentators were not exactly overwhelming in their early minutes enthusiasm) and then…BBBBAAAAANNNGGGG. The match of the season unfolds.
OK. Good for you. Glad you liked it. Glad we could entertain you. You can fuck off now. This is for the brothers.
Now. Let’s get down to basics.
If you are a Hibs fan , couch (like me) or terracing (like Will) you have to feel that this performance on top of the last 17 is more than unacceptable. Played out, as it was, on national TV we we looked like schoolboys, playing, it must be said, schoolboys.
Our team managed by the enthusiastic young goon that heads PE and theirs by the enduring old git, the Heedie.
The hare trapped well, the wise old tortoise caught up.
Yuk.
Really, this game was one of the most embarrassing advertisements for Scottish football that I think I have ever seen.
If Thicot (thicko) made one pass count I’d be surprised. Every single shot seemed to go in. Hibs were denied two stone wall penalties and Motherwell even missed one.
It was inept (from both sides) from start to finish.
I despair of our game, and especially my team, because this is not a pretty sight.
Goals? Sure. Quality? Aye right.
Celtic and Rangers are very poor football teams and yet they STILL dominate our game.
We, the scrappers, in a huge game, had to play in a sandpit and act like kids.
Barf.
Utterly scunnering.
I have to say Yogi’s naive enthusiasm is endearing. But 2 wins in 17 at the business end of the season?
One more chance. One only.
Well, you can take that fucking smile off yir face eh?
Filed under: football, humour, sports, stories | Tags: celtic v hibs, Hibees, Hibs, smash and grab, the cabbage
Hibs go to Parkhead.
We get a caning.
Celtic have 95% possesion. (Or so you’d believe listening to the commentary; when in actual fact they have 52%)
They have 16 corners.
We have 2.
They have endless chances. We have next to none (or so you’d believe listening to the commentary; when in actual fact they have only a few more than us. Well, 9.)
They go one up in 4 minutes then miss and miss and miss.
We break away and score.
We break away and score (again)
In the 92nd minute.
We win.
(The Jambos get murdered 3 – 0 at home.)
Thank you for that.
Filed under: football, Hibees, humour, Scotland, sports | Tags: cabbage and ribs, Hibees, Hibs, scottiszh premier league, SPL, the cabbage
Bring on the Jambos. Managed from hell.
Gradually Petrie is being vindicated, as I have mostly supported. (He’s had some amazing transfer deals – Whittaker, Brown and Fletcher in particular.)
Intake of breath…we have a team. Have you seen Liam Miller? Wotherspoon? Zemmama (on form)?
It’s actually quite exciting.
Filed under: football, Hibees, jokes, life, Scotland, sports | Tags: Hearts, Hibees, Hibs, the cabbage
I was just talking to Lee, my Hearts fan colleague, about how nice it was to see Hibs joint top of the league and Hearts joint bottom and he went and got all upset, libelous about Yogi and basically acted like you’d expect a Hearts fan to act when his team is £30 odd million in debt and joint bottom of the league.
He had to revert to boasting about the fact that they were top of the crap teams last year. And then he had the audacity to slag Hibs for being one down at half time against St Mirren. As if it mattered what the score was at half time. I don’t actually ever recall points being awarded for first half performances do you?
Filed under: football, Scotland, sports, stories | Tags: Hibernian, john hughes, Scottish Football, SPL, the cabbage, yogi
It’s a good day at Easter Road.
It seems we have hired who I have long thought might be Hibs follow up to Mozza (Tony Mowbray).
A manger who cares and who has a football brain. I now expect a much better season from Hibs but the absolute key must be about holding focus against the lower teams. Yogi needs to teach Hibs that although beating Celtic, Rangers and Hearts is good, beating Hamilton, St Mirren, Motherwell, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, et al is much, much more important.
Only one problem. In seeking decent images of Yogi Onliner…this was the only good one I could find.
Ach well, we set them up anyway.
Filed under: advertising, Arts, Hibees, humour, jokes, life, Scotland, sports | Tags: 118 118, 1902, Hibees, Hibernian, Hibs, Hibs Scottish Cup, Scottish Cup, shirt sponsors, the cabbage
Starting in 2020. 118 years since Hibs last won the Scottish Cup.
It seems that Hibs have done a deal with 118 118, the telephone directory people, for them to sponsor our shirt.
The deal is certain to kick in in ten years time.
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It's 107 years since this bastard graced the Easter Road Trophy room.
As I sit here 35 minutes from the most anticipated match in a long time (Hibs v Hearts in the 4th Round of The Homecoming Scottish Cup) I can’t help feeling dread. The last time the cabbage played the Jambo scum in the cup we got turned over, a doing, absolutely banjaxed. 4 – 0 it was at Hampden and it was a total embarrasement.
I have to say that I am not in the least bit confident. I don’t feel Mixu has really imposed himself on the club and the team is totally unpredictable.
That said Hearts don’t like Easter Road, just as we don’t ike Tynie.
However my prediction is for a 1 – 1 draw today and for them to win the replay 3 – 1.
Then they can sing about it being 108 years since we won the cup.
Which is also a major embarrassment.
Half Time Update . We’re down to ten men, We’re one down, the goalie is crocked, but he did, yet again gift the Jambos a goal. My prediction now looks WILDLY optimistic. And what makes matters worse is that Hearts are pure pish like. we only play well against better teams and Hearts are not a better team.
So, we’re out. 2 -0. I predict.
Filed under: business, football, Hibees, humour, jokes, life, politics, Rants, Scotland, sports | Tags: andy driver, Birmingham City, Boydy, Dundee Utd, football, Hearts, Hibs, Kris Boyd, Rangers, Scottish Football, the cabbage
Don't cry for me argy bargy.
It makes me laugh till I spew reading the angst emanating from Ibrox about Kris Boyd being sold. What? The family jewels sold off to a bigger and richer club, (Birmingham City) just when they were doing well.
Well, now you know how it feels!
Thomson, Miller, Whittaker, Murray and, over the fence, Caldwell, Killen, Riordan, Brown and that’s probably not all of them that have been ripped out of Easter Road in the last few years and it’s no different at Hearts or Dundee Utd.
Shadenfruede?
You bet.
(Oh and I believe they’re after Andy Driver at Hearts. Bloody hypocrites.)
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Messi; very, very Messi.
Not a particularly good European campaign for the Hibees this summer. Three defeats, no goals scored, a veritable humping from a merely warming up Barcelona under the inspired leadership of Messi. Yes, it was, very Messi indeed.
Mixu was at least honest enough to admit that Hibs were given a real lesson. I wonder if we are about to see the start of the implications of selling 11 or so internationals over the last three years.
Anyway at least the Jambo scum were happy. Gives them five minutes free from contemplation about how their team can survive until the end of the season.
I pity them, I really do.
At least we just got humped. They got raped.
Filed under: football, Hibees, humour, jokes, life, Rants, Scotland | Tags: 106 years, 106 years of failure, Hibees, Hibs, Scottish Cup, Scottish FA Cup, the cabbage
Although it pains me to say so. This is very funny.
Click here.
Filed under: football, humour, jokes, life, Scotland, sports, stories | Tags: Cardiff, Cardiff City, Champions League, diddy league, Dumfries, Eufa Cup, European football, FA Cup, Hibees, Queen of the south, Rangers, Scottish Cup, Scottish Football, the cabbage
The Cabbage could get into Europe.
Hearts could win the Diddy League. (Although, if memory serves me correctly Mr Romanov predicted that they should be, about now, in the Semi Finals of the Champion’s League defending last year’s title)
Carlisle United look like getting promoted two years’ running.
Queen of the South, yes, Queen of the South are in tomorrow’s Scottish Cup Final. If they win they’ll be dancing in the streets of Queen of the South (in fact by all accounts they already are.
Cardiff City are in the English FA Cup Final and they’re not even English.
Rangers are in the EUFA Cup Semi Final.
I blame it on global warming.
