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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Jabba and McNee were both banned out of ibrokes by Souness.
Souness called Jabba a ‘little socialist’….he joost hated McNee’s
hunskelping columns….guid.
DIGNITY
Sums up petition to get HIBS thrown out Europe
and
Bonkers statment
I thought the hun statement was ultimately restrained – I fully expected to read “wee arra peepul” and FTP in it’s conclusion…
Sevco…have no option but to ‘Endure’ it.
They are hated, and no amount of greetin will change that.
Sad idiots.
HH
Don’t be surprised to hear big Petrie coming away with something about the huns being the same club.
Hibs have goat a bus wi nae back seat!
That latest statement from The Rangers website is quite frankly ridiculous.
The calling out and naming of individuals is bad enough.
But to condone the hooligans who invaded the pitch looking for a fight as somehow the protectors of justice and the righters of wrong is dangerous in the extreme.
Hail Hail
PETEC Ar La
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God Bless ye.
KELVINBHOY
I got that as well but when u go to checkout the £5 charge should be gone
Level Skive and their masters at Ibrox spent that much time in the last couple of weeks writing about the Magic Hat jetting across the Atlantic to sign players and Joey Barton that they forgot that they had a final to play…(trying to shift season books).
Maybe having had everything their way with the SFA they forgot that they needed to win to get to Europe.
Fair play also to Ronny for the twist in the tail by sending the two bhoys to Hibs (on loan) to send Sevco into a panic over the summer.
Hibs’ win will have done our Season Book sales no harm at all:))
Offski
I would hope to God that Celtic FC would never issue a statement like those emanating from Ibrox or Level 5 and any Celtic supporter who thinks that the club should, IMHO, way, way off the beam.
Yes, the club should,when required, issued statements but better none than the bilge from them. HH
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 22ND MAY 2016 7:48 PM
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Keep the rebel flag flying high n proud
on the ole Jungle roof.
Hail Hail
A mob of two-bob bigot chancers trying to call the shots.
Deluded morons.
They have it coming, thats for sure.
Reptiles.
HH
…phone-call….laters….
Thought they didn’t care what others thought about them and they were the peepul? New club right enough and very sensitive in to the bargain. Very childish statement.
The really funny thing is no matter how many rules the sfa have broke and continue to break for them , They are still so quick to boot the sfa in the knackers.
Magic!
KLV
I read yesterday that “they are feert” and you know what your right, Yesterday proved that a poor hibs team put them to the sword and to think they were going to stroll the spl next season after they beat us on pens, They are in for a long long season next year and I think yesterday that hit home, Hence the two daft statements.
Brickingit.csc
KLV
GFTB. & ERnie Lynch
I reply to the two of you if you don’t mind. My comments about this Sevco statement are genuine: I truly believe that James Traynor, an educated and practised journalist would draft this statement. I do not carry his colours or wish to sound too reasonable however I would be stunned if he had any part in this.
This sounds , as Ernie alluded too, like a cry for help from a wounded beast. I think DK knows the game is up and will go for the administration route in August, stay in the SPL and play the victim card for the next 6 months to keep the mono brow mob onside.
Happy days….
KevJ
Hail Hail my fellow hunskelper.
Every tear they shed, makes me smile:)
Thems have got it coming….big style.
Brendan will annihilate them.
And if we are lucky.
They will be subject to Hell and Damnation, while the Rebel Fenian Army keep the Green Flag Flying High.
Their fear…..is our strength:)
HH
Chairbhoy
I was astonished to read that statement condone the actions of the orc thugs fighting on the pitch. Very dangerous statement indeed!
GERIHATRIC on 22ND MAY 2016 7:49 PM
Cheers – still there and now asking to complete purchase so worried it may take the charge if I press button. I’ll try again later and see what happens.
Ernie Lynch,
It wasn’t a rumour. Celtic fans in Airdrie who worked at Philips assured me he was a Tic fan.
DD
They are like Frankenstein’s Monster out of control.
Like a mad dug biting anything in its path.
The blackest hearts and most poison minds at work.
An embarrassment.
They hate everything that moves, themselves most of all.
Sad, pathetic idiots.
HH
The tribute act to the cadaver club is drowning and clutching at emotional straws.
The statement is as dangerous as it is juvenile and absurd.
Ideally they will be relegated if they survive till next year.
Honestly, that statement takes the breath away.
http://thecelticblog.com/2016/05/blogs/sevcos-latest-statement-is-appalling-inflammatory-and-brings-the-game-into-disrepute
CLOGHER CELT on 22ND MAY 2016 7:49
Almost ironic that RD should have the last laugh now he has departed by loaning Hibs Henderson and Stokes.
KELVINBHOY
Odd the charge came up for me but disappeared when I got to finish and pay I think, I’ll check with my brother he did his online last night
The zombies are having a meltdown.
Seems like they were banking on winning that cup final for whatever reason or another.
I predict that Sevco entity will be dead before the new season is finished.
The desperation from King and Co. is obvious.
They are like a squad of daleks that have encountered a flight of stairs.
HH.
KLV
I work beside a Motherwell fan, he says he hates both of us (by the way he is a decent guy) but also gives us credit when we play well, he can’t wait for next season, all the other teams know they are there for the taking, would pee my pants when they don’t make the top 6, their futile statements are like Charlie Green giving them cups of tea ….. They want the ST money I wonder what ever happened to Ticketus ? Maybe they just wrote the £20m off as a bad debt
So ‘players and staff were assaulted’ yesterday becomes ‘physically and verbally assaulted’ today but still light on detail.
Ridiculous statement that only panders to the base instincts of their lunatic core support.
They must be sick of being chased all over Hampden.
TGM
Their only hun defenders on that pitch yesterday, were the ones ‘allegedly’ defending the terrified hun women and children in the stands after full time. Aye right!
Come on now lads….the magic hat is broken doon…. That explains the drivel…
Big smiley thing….ma turban is torn!
Braw
There will be no money from Europe, I suspect Season tickets sales are not what they anticipated, and the magic hat is about to jump ship and return South. Implosion is just around the corner.
Tonight’s statement reads like Glibby getting the excuses in early, and looks more likely to have come from the one day director than Jabba.
jmccormick
Trainers last ever article in the DR was a CV request for Sevco…. Trust me he is a Hun with no Tic connection
If there was any evidence needed that they are rattled, tonight’s ridiculous statement provides it.
I also agree with some, despite my dislike of the man I seriously doubt even Traynor would write that.
GERIHATRIC on 22ND MAY 2016 8:01 PM
Cheers mate!
I’ve been sitting with an old guy for a part of the afternoon. He told me that tomorrow he’ll “Walk 2 miles and pass 5 packie shops to get his papers”.
When I asked why he replied that he won’t buy from ‘them’. I don’t really know the man so asked what his surname was.
“Gallagher” he answered.
Dearie me.
DD
Their stupidity is beyond the realms of absurdity.
Drooling fools and idiots, and the worst cheats and bigots in world football.
Im glad im a Tim.
Thank my lucky stars.
They make me sick, revolting bigots.
But i must say, i love their pain and outrage, its good for the soul, a tonic:)
HH
I agree that Tinfoil heed has prob written the statement, Jabba for all his faults really isny that illiterate.