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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All of this, this weekend AND we still have Brendan’s official appointment at Paradise tomorrow to look forward to.
A busy, long weekend for the CQN team. Lots of familiar monikers returning to the blog over the last few days, and reports of season books flying off the shelves.
Amazing what a statement of intent will do. Keep it coming Desmond.
Robert
Indeed.
There’s quite a few of them ( supposed CFC supporters) now working in media, who I’d like to see taken fora long drive.
SOAL
Ya walloper! I’m trying to make this boatle last…don’t rush me.hh
Bet the media are regretting that they left their deflection till after the game.
The defensive efforts of the hun players were laughable.
Rumors that Stokes asked where Moses was after his first?
On the second the Roberto Carlos of the huns immediately asked for foul to be given.
And the goalie was later than a hun paying taxes on the third.
Article just published by the daily rectum: zombies launch petition to get Hibs thrown out of Europe.
Didnae see that wan coming!
Interesting comments on Anthony Stokes.
Ironically enough, I looked on Stokesy’s performance yesterday as his fine Celtic swansong.
Even if we ignore the hearsay regarding behaviour and commitment, you have to question where AS fits into a BR squad.
We saw Deila getting a performance from the young team on the last day of the Season that was slick and professional. Now we know that BR and RD share a similar Footballing philosophy.
But I look at some of those gifted bhoys and wonder how they are going to match up, pace and physicality wise to Brendan’s idea of a forward going player. I believe most will struggle.
So from that perspective, I find it difficult to see Anton’s exculpation.
Hail Hail
What to do with Anto? Simples really we can not afford to offload players with his ability. The Hoops / Anto striking partnership was the best we have had since the days of Henke & Sutton. Bring back Stokes and give Brendan a while to see if he can get him to perform as we know he can on a regular basis.
Just back from Paradise in the sun. Took my kids down for a wee walk. Wee boys first time and he was in awe, walked right into lamppost. Got a bump as a souvenir.
KLV
Mad internet Killie fan shown the door.
KILLIE FAN TOSSED OUT!!!
Steinreigns.
Daschuund went tonto.
Still laughing!, quality.
The baldy killie fan being ejected, is that no the ranting radge oan YouTube! ?.
He going tonto anaw.
What the cameras didn’t show
3-0 game over
KEVINLASVEGAS on 22ND MAY 2016 4:15 PM
Just back from Paradise in the sun. Took my kids down for a wee walk. Wee boys first time and he was in awe, walked right into lamppost. Got a bump as a souvenir.
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That’s a shame mhate……I know a good (?) lawyer……I also know good social worker..
you should be keepin an eye oan the whean :O) hh
SEAN THORNTON……..that is the bam!!
KLV
PITY THE CUP WISNAE THERE BUT THE BIG WAN IS!!!
Huns = Desperate = Hunnery = Desperation = Dummy Spat = Victim Played = Repeat for Centuries = Do Not Iron = Wash = Tumble Dry.
Huns it does what it says on the packet
4-0
KLV
Hope the wee man is ok, coming from ML6 the lamppost is probably worse off :-)
Nye Bevans even though I didn’t want Kilie to win a few sheckels on Killie with both teams scoring
Quite like Lee Clark’s celebrations
The hun weekend picks up, they’ll have 12 easy
point’s next season, 9 if Killie make the top 6:)
GERRYFAETHEBRIG…….I’m in agreement about Lee
Clark seems a decent sort and a pal of hunskelper
Alan Thompson.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 22ND MAY 2016 3:47 PM
The common denominator with problematic pitch invasions in Scotland is?
Was thinking much the same myself.
Biggest scandal yesterday was that we could not beat that lot in semi.
What about
Stokes shat in my hat
Dislike Kille immensely…
My mum taught me never to say hate.
HH
Quonno
At the time of the semi final defeat, it felt like one of the lowest points in our history.
A short time later, it has resulted in us appointing a top class manager, promise of funding, and a totally United support ( well almost totally)
Them losing the final was icing on cake for us.
Roll on 2016/17.
BSR
Your post on the first page of this thread deserved more praise than mine!
Great post!
Disnae matter whit hun team wins playoffs.
But huns should take note at how handily the lower division teams have been skelped by spl kiddies the last two seasons.
Falkirk who won two and lost two to the huns are been easily dismissed by a crap Killie.
It’s great to see the Blog so happy!
Great to be a Tim!
As it always was!
Quonno
They beat us in penalty shoot out can happen to any team HH
Nye
Totally agree, any friend of Thommo the hunskelper should be a friends of ours, his fall out with Neil is something that shouldn’t have happened, never heard Thommo bad mouthing the Cellic unlike many others
Roy C….. Ma wee maw used to chastise me when I used the word hate, I now find myself saying to the wee yin “hate is not a nice word, use dislike”
As for the Huns….. I dislike them very much
weeman67 think this is the winner
https://twitter.com/lequipe21/status/734049251987193856
whatbecomesofthebrokenhatted ……brilliant
if the late great Tommy Cooper was their coach it wid be ;ma fez is fecked;
or ifToulouse la trekkie wis their manager it wid be ; ma beret is bolloxed;
or witaboot ;ma tammy,s beeen tampered we;
or ma Kepi is Kaputt…..
hahahaha the hat door is open….jump through….
hahahahaha
whit a braw braw timtime….
TC45 and ACGR …..braw
Braw
VP
Maybe time to open the bottle now
XX
i’m calling this a podium
Riot at Kilmarnock.
what a great header that was
Fans on park, everyone shitting themselves.
Terrible………………so it is.