Les Cabbage

Of course there is, like I say, the place is full of people that would defend the club if they increased ticket prices to £126 per game.

Jack Ross will be the Hibs manager by the end of the season as long as Hibs are in the top 8 or 9. Ron Gordon somehow saw that shitshow in May and decided he wanted more of this. And honestly I’m not totally sure what good sacking him now would do, the squad is rotten and I’m not sure what someone else could get out of them, he’s taking us nowhere and he’s not the man to move us forward mind you. Fed up of the folk on social media with comments such as “we can’t change manager every year,” Jack Ross is the 4th longest serving manager in the top flight, he’s been in charge for 2 years, longer than Alan Stubbs, Yogi Hughes, John Collins etc etc. As much as I was at home watching Peep Show instead of bothering with the second half; comments also about how “we were good in the second half” it really doesn’t count if the opposition have won the game and are chilling with the cigars out. I’m not sure what the answer is but I really don’t like where it’s going, the summer window totally crucified us, would have happily have taken the £3m for Nisbet at the time and that could have helped add a decent footballer or two, I suppose my answer would have been to simply not have extended his contract in the summer and be in a position where if we let him go now he only has another 6 months or so to run. Although Hibs fans will just defend the club no matter what we do, if we announced a partnership with the Nazi Party, you’d get “dazmcgregorlegend1875” commenting about how it’s good to build our networks with organisations overseas. Despite all this negative moaning shite, I fully expect us to beat Ross County on Saturday, they’re on a high, we’re on a low, it’s Scottish Football, you learn to expect the unexpected.

Out of the club please Mr Ross. Left at 3-0 and heard the Hibs goal the minute I sat down in my flat, I think in all honesty I would rather we got humped 7 or 8 than a spirited 3-2 defeat because we’re honestly going nowhere under Ross and it’d just make the situation worse.

Suspect the jobsworth transport police will be there in force given the fact we’ll have a few hundred travelling up on the train. Hopefully we get similar ticket inspector that give 0 fucks and not big Richard that thinks he works as a bomb disposal expert and any bottles of Carribean Twist will detonate if they are present when we reach South Queensferry.

Our first Saturday away game where fans have been allowed in since…..March 2020 when we played……Aberdeen away, quite fitting really. I’ve no bothered with an away game this season because I’m capitalisms bitch and I’ve no been able to face a hungover Monday and with the Scotrail strikes it’s been pretty difficult too. Anyone with any experience with loopholes in the Scotrail alcohol ban? Thinking a couple of litre bottles of lucozade filled with vino blanc, train gets in before midday so plenty of time for pints. Saturday was the first game of the season I’ve left early, wonder if the same will happen again. I reckon though a pretty frustrating 1-1 with everyone in the stadium fucking fuming by full time. Oh and this thread to be absolutely tedious with the likes of Bob Mahelp to ruin it for all us good guys on both sides.

Just finished series 2. Enjoyed it but I do feel slightly lost tbh, feel like there’s still a lot of loose ends to be tied up, will need to watch it again. Surely will be a series 3.

Dundee Utd were brilliant, as were the travelling support, fair play to the folk that came down, would have been a class day out for them. Was actually quite pleased when the 3rd went in, it meant I could leave and get a beer earlier, woke up today with a brutal hangover after a nice evening in Leith Walk pubs. We are a fucking gang btw, if Nathan Wood is a “future England international” then I wouldn’t worry about England winning anything anytime soon. Not one player with passmarks, kind of wishing now that we’d sold Nisbet and Doig, wonder if that’s part of the reason Mathie got punted.

Definitely, that pretty much sums it up. Look, I’m not making out like he’s the second coming of Maradona but he would without a doubt be in the squad and a brilliant option to change a game for us. Obviously even in 2018 when McLeish told him to pick Australia no one could have imagined him turning out this good but it was still a failing from McLeish (one of many) to show a total lack of foresight. I think his reasoning was that we had a dearth of attacking options which sums it up.

About 5 years ago it would pace and pace only. I’m not sure if it’s been coached or a penny is dropped but he doesn’t even really have much of a weakness, he was pretty much a less strong Oli Burke beforehand. Nowadays, he obviously still has the electric pace but his dribbling and ability to beat a man is probably the best I’ve ever seen at Hibs, his finishing is really strong, he’s a good crosser of the ball and he’s even added a knack of getting into the position to score rebounds and tap ins quite a lot. He’s also added an element of diving and just in general being a b*****d on the pitch which everyone else hates but it’s tremendous if he’s playing for your team. If it hadn’t been for the fact him and his wife both play for Hibs and the fact they’re settled with children in Edinburgh, I have absolutely no doubt he’d be playing for a low level English premier league or high level championship club, I know Huddersfield and Stoke were interested a year or so ago.

That’s just not true sir, he’s played up front pretty much all season and alot of last season. He also plays there for Australia. And Nisbet got his first cap for Scotland in March, Boyle was capped by Australia in 2018.

This is nonsense, if Nisbet has nearly 10 caps then Boyle would most certainly have that and possibly more, a far superior player.

They could announce their main feature as a free bag of cheesy wotsits with the game and I would still buy it tbh. Possibly says more about me than anything else. I don’t even like cheesy wotsits btw

It wasn’t a last ditch tackle though , nor can I recall him making one for probably about 18 months or so. You clearly don’t watch him and just enjoy articles written by the likes of The Fourth Official.

Find me a last ditch lunge Ryan Porteous has made this season then

You obviously don’t watch him at all on the 2nd point. Honestly with Porteous, I do get some of the negativity towards his rashness at times, but comparing to McPake just isn’t it. They both do like a tackle and are happy leaving one on an opponent but the similarities end there. Porteous’ biggest attribute for me is in the way he carries the ball out of defence and carries the team up the pitch, his passes that break the lines from centre half to our strikers is what begins the majority of our attacks. As much as I liked him as a character and a captain during his time at Hibs, he was never that.

That’s not what I said Scotlands uniqueness is based around its spontaneity, the SPFL launched a “Thats not football, this is football” promotion when all the Super League stuff came out as a swipe at the clubs for wanting to change it. Every business has a USP, your wee bacon roll shop round the corner has a USP, that doesn’t mean people come from Buenos Aires to sample it, it’s the reasons for people to get their fix from your business instead of the big companies just like the reasons people watch Scottish football instead of the EPL/Champions League. It really isn’t that difficult.

And Scottish football is about to lose its’ USP that makes us different to all those leagues if we follow suit. No chance I’ll ever be buying a season ticket again for a league which has VAR. Rather go and watch the lower leagues where they still have some remaining soul.

Boyle without a shadow of a doubt, would take him on crutches over Nisbet.

The crux of it is that Ukraine and Romania can’t catch us, they’ll be unseeded along with the 2 nations league winners. That leaves 2 more countries that can end up unseeded. Norway and Czech Republic are below us currently but are likely to both pick us 3 points each in their games against Latvia and Belarus, if we lose to Denmark this would likely take them above us on goal difference. Although the Czechs could still lose 2nd place if Wales pick up anything against Belgium (that would put them on 15 pts). Poland are also 3 behind us but with a superior goal difference and Andorra & Hungary to play that leaves them likely to overtake us. Croatia and Spain are behind also but they’re both likely to overtake Russia & Sweden in their own groups to win them. Assuming Russia beat Cyprus they’d be on 16 and Sweden are already on 16 with Georgia to play. If we lose to Denmark it’s very unlikely we’ll be seeded, a point should take us above Norway and the Czechs.

There was no indication there was a VAR check going on until the referee ran over to the screen, the play was just stopped without anyone having any idea what was going on.

I forgot that was how football worked, if a goal hadn’t gone in the game would have played out in completely the same way. The way the game was going if Dykes’ goal was disallowed I feel like we’d have still equalised before the 2nd went in, it’s something that’s impossible to actually know and you could say the same about the penalty in Vienna. These things even themselves out, we’ve had a couple go for us, we’ll soon have a couple go against us no doubt and whether they’re for us or against us, I would honestly rather just be able to enjoy the game.

Because it’s presence completely fucking ruined my enjoyment of a 94th minute winner. And also after the 2nd goal no one in the ground had a fucking clue what was going on the whole time, I’m assuming you don’t go to games and only watch on telly because it was a fucking shambles.

Projected play offs based on some computer somewhere: With North Macedonia and Albania dropping off it suddenly looks a bit more scary. Romania definitely the most appealing. Norway and Haaland give me the fear, I don’t want to play the Czechs again and Wales always beat us.

Shite, looked like a child in a mans team, played mainly off the bench when we were in the championship, missed a few sitters, looked like a rabbit in the headlights tbh.

Yup, in the ground I was paranoid he was either offside or there had been a foul somewhere, I didn’t relax in the fact it was a goal for a good bit after. Still went apeshit mind you.