Yesterday’s Scottish Cup final was head and shoulders above the insipid FA Cup final at Wembley. Newco scored two excellent goals, including one from our ex-play, Kenny Miller. But it was our current, on-loan, player, Anthony Stokes who decided the encounter.
What should we do with Anthony? His attitude yesterday was magnificent. He decided he was leaving Hampden with a winners medal, and he had the skill, strength and capacity to ensure no one could stop him.
For the first goal he collected on the wing, made a beeline for goal before slotting the ball into the far corner, although he was assisted by the most generous defending since Jersey in June 1940. [Can you believe two defenders stood off him?] Scoring with a header from a corner when your team is a goal down with 10 minutes remaining takes character and determination.
Brendan Rodgers would have been impressed, but it remains to be seen if that attitude can be tapped into day-in, day-out at Lennoxtown.
I watched Motherwell fans invade the Fir Park pitch the Premiership Play-off final last year. On that occasion their actions went beyond mere celebrations, fans were deep into opposition territory, taunting Newco fans behind the goal. To their credit, Newco fans took it on the chin and left the stadium without retaliating.
I can’t imagine what possesses fans of a losing team to invade a field already populated by thousands of celebrating fans. Whatever it is, it’s primitive and unlikely to be a considered reaction. As a result, Newco will be dragged into a disciplinary situation which would otherwise only have effected Hibernian.
What’s worse, the one perennial get out of jail card football clubs often use when fans let them down: “We always criticise and warn fans about this sort of thing”, was fatally undermined by a hasty press release in the minutes after the final whistle.
While every Hibernian person interviewed acknowledged the role of their fans and need for improvement, Newco issued an adversarial statement. Compliant friends in the media were urged to drop the role of their fans on the field. Adversarial statements create adversaries, football administrators know this. Getting strategy wrong isn’t worth a few hours PR.
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i tried several times to post on the red mercedes, it times out.
black arts in play
Pog:-)
Pogmathonyahun…..
Maybe found a goats head at the bottom of his bed?
Entertainment from 4.30 on the Celtic Way tomorrow & the Unveiling of Brendan Rodgers as manager at 6pm should be quite a an event don’t miss it . Just another manic Monday :)
MurdochAuldandHay, sounds like another cracking day at CP.
tom english was a scared fraud tonight.
publish and be damned
coward
Apologies if already posted, …….
http://www.scotzine.com/2016/05/rangersitis-strikes-again-as-club-ignore-their-own-fans-thuggery/?
i should have taken my dog with me,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV1_7R_3cXA
Bob Loblaw.
I heard Tom English on both programmes. His performance tonight was directed to Jabba as a ” clarification” of his earlier statement. He backed away from his criticism of the Zombies.
When you consider the veiled threat implicit in the Zombie press release it’s perhaps not a surprise that Tom English has back peddalled before the bullets in the post arrive.
Job done by Jabba.
The Onlooker
Honestly think the Brendan Rogers signing has sent them over the edge.
To everyone going,have a happy St Brendans Day .
Wish I could be there.
Did not see Tom English obviously…
But his twitter feed appears to have done a hand brake turn into a shitter feed.
Interesting Times as ever…
But the stakes sure are being ramped up to new levels.
Going to bed last night after Friday’s appointment and Saturday’s outcome I was elated.
This evening reading the Sevco (Level 5?) statement I’m euphoric.
A wise boss once told me after I had written an angry email to our support unit, that I should write it, then save it and return to it after at least an hour.
Jabba should have done likewise.
Emergency facilities will be at full stretch tomorrow as countless victims of split sides seek treatment and Doctor surgeries are overrun with requests to have their wide grins surgically removed.
This must be a diversion from their war chest woes.
And of course the compliant MSM are in full lockstep.
Show me the pictures of Sevco players being assaulted and running off the pitch in fear.
If Jabba wrote that statement one can only conclude that he had some fine wine after realizing his balloon had popped.
Thoughtless reactions like that suggest they are in panic mode.
Roll on the next chapters and the denouement.
Evening/morning all. We desperately need a streetwise PR guy at the moment cos this is only going to escalate. The Thems are running scared of Res12/Offshore Report, and JabbaLevel5 will keep the lies coming. Bernie Ponsonby,maybe? He`s certainly not afraid of Them.
Congratulations Hibernian fc on winning the Scottish for the first time in 114 years..
Sunshine on Leith
HH
AT – Congrats to Sevco for being the first team to lose in a SC Final to Hibs in 113 years! HH
Didnae mean to take anything away from Hibs there. Great performance and the best Sunshine on Leith ever. Shed a few tears when I listened to it.
Slightly different perspective from a journalist Hibs fan.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/brian-monteith-cup-final-marred-by-thugs-and-security-failures-1-4135027
Scotsman.
“while former Rangers player Alex MacDonald, who was at Hampden, said last night that Hibs should be prevented from competing in next season’s Europa League as a form of punishment.”
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I remember him as being a provocative little ” chap ” on the playing field .
Seemingly nothing has changed
Aburntoutcase
Hibs have won more Scottih cups than Ther angers ;-)
Ther angers seem to be squintastically one sided
Their earlier statement should have read
We at cheat fc dont do insight.
We have no rational sense of self since her majesty shutizzdoon avoiding her taxes.
Stoap laughin at is.it annoyin
:-)
HH
Mars in opposition tonight is highly visible.
The nearly full moon looks suspiciously like Jabba.
However, it is shedding light on the subject while Jabba is obfuscating.
Macjay – How are ye? Who was it that battered that wee Hun bassa in an O** F**m game? Stuck wan on him. Bertie? AT – “squintastically” That one`s going in the book!
As per these wee innocent shareholders will be hit hard by the sfa.
I only hope they knoe someone on the inside track of the sfa.
Its all bound to come out in a public enquiry.
https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/hampden-park
Just wonderin :-)
HH
ABURNTOUTCASE on 23RD MAY 2016 3:00 AM
I`m great , mate.
A marvellous couple of days for us and for once we`re not involved . We`re able to sit on the sidelines and wallow in the hun angst.
Can`t remember that specific incident . Will try to find out.
We are now seeing the fallout of the SFA approving the Shameless liar as fit and proper. They need to be stopped before their hatred actually kills someone, seriously. We had a chance over the last 4 years to clean up the game. Instead Mcoist, Walter smith, King, brown etc have been allowed a free role increating a poisonous dangerous animal!
Remember
This new club has a convicted criminal on it board
This new club has no access to money from capital markets
The new clubs narrative is particularly hazatdous considering they are skint.
They resign from Ashley contracts, king is skint and there are loans to be paid.
Is the emperor tryin on new clothes? :-)
HH
Stebhoy – Don`t forget Challs Green. Mind he talked about getting back at those who “stabbed us in the back”. Totally aimed at the the worst low-lifes we have in society. As if they need any encouragement to go out and hurt innocent people. Still,it made him a few quid. And the SMSM helped in any way they could. Oh, how I despise those f**kers.
If, and it is a very big IF, Hibs’ place in Europe was removed it would have to go to Hearts not the huns as the huns have not won anything to merit a European place. This is just a zombie smokescreen. The SFA could not possibly sanction such a thing without MAJOR recriminations from member clubs. The proper punishment is a fine for both Hibs and the huns and the huns being charged with bringing the game into disrepute with theirs and their chairman’s crass statements. There should also be a charge levelled at the huns for their fans singing sectarian songs and pyro displays – end of!
BFSDJ – Wants Easter Road closed for Scottish Cup ties!
BFSDJ – Should take a step back and realize that, ibrokes
might no belang tae “The Rangers” by the time the SC starts
next season LOL :)))))
Just think of the animal-driven-violence that ‘he has’ witnessed
from the huns over the years that has been swept under the carpet
by the coven of witches that run Scotland.
Got a wee inkling that – The magic hat will walk oot oan thum then, they’ll
get McInnes and, big Yogi will go to the Dons.
Guid luck to Brendan today and – remember – when yer talking about the
evil-waans and all they’re antics, as a Celtic supporter ‘you’ can never be
paranoid enough!
Joost think how they must feel…..
2 Hundump riots and, 2wice they were chased aff the pitch by the fenians.
No askin for too much but, I think the magic hat will chuck it before Brendan
gets paraded today.
Btw, when Willie Wilson’s inaugural meeting of the – Save Our Celts – took place
at the Shettleston Halls in 1991, only 3 SMSM journalists were there….
Jim Delahunt – STV
James Traynor – Glasgow Herald
Kevin McCarra – The Scotsman(I think?)
BFSDJ – GIRFUY
Tony(auld fenian eeejit:) Donnelly 67 – CSC
…..oot……
Good morning friends from a dry, calm, sun kissed, very bright and extremely opTIMistic East Kilbride.
KEVJUNGLE on 23RD MAY 2016 6:20 AM
David Weir would be in the frame.
That would not be good.
Looks like Barton signing for Sevco today. Must be an age thing. I’m of the same opinion, at my age I can’t be bothered travelling around Europe either.
I suspect Level 5 will have briefed subservient “journalists” to seek to disrupt Brendan’s press conference this afternoon by asking “leading” or inane questions. This in order to further deflect and reinforce Jabba’s demagoguery.
Hope our effete PR people are prepared to slap down any questions from the press pack unrelated to the appointment of our new manager, eg “Brendan, have you asked Mark Warburton for any advice before taking this job?
On another point , cretinous cowardice by people like Tom English et al to change his viewpoint within the space of 12 hours. HH
The Rangers brought out their new orange strip yet??
Good news ahead Hunnies
An Teach Solais,
Tom English was subjected to some severe hatred on twitter yesterday as far as I am aware, he was specifically named together with Stuart Cosgrove in that inane ‘statement’ last night. These guys are in the main, ordinary guys trying to make a living, the peepul have a long history of threats and intimidation. They will stop at nothing including putting folks addresses and phone numbers, etc online. Their club has made Tom English a target, quite deliberately, this should be a matter for the Police and other governing authorities.
I don’t think we should be too hard on the likes of TE until we know what he has endured in the past 24 hours.
Morning all.
Happy St Brendan’s day!
HH!!