Greenmachine
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....are diminishing every year admittedly, but for me anyway, they depend entirely on getting to as many finals as we can and playing against a team in the final whom we are either on a level with in terms of ability, or better than. The two consecutive Scottish Cup Finals we have just reached show that we are at long last a decent cup side and Pat Fenlon seems to have the ability as a manager to get us through awkward cup-ties, with the exception of the Queen of the South League Cup tie which he just used to give fringe players a run out. Last year, by fair means or foul, we were up against a superior side who showed on the day they were a superior side, just as they had done in the derbies throughout that season. Yes, they had cheated and many of those players and their manager they couldn't afford, but there they were and there we were. We were a team made up of cast-offs, loanees, and losers and we had just escaped relegation by a ba'hair. For me, we were never going to win that game. This year we were up against Celtic who never lose Scottish Cup Finals at Hampden and bossed that game completely yesterday intimidating our young players and showing all their big-match experience. I didn't think Hibs played badly at all yesterday, we played as well as we were allowed to play IMO but the game was over when Celtic scored the first goal within 7 minutes.
Not for us it would appear the luck of the likes of Hearts and Dundee United, playing teams like Gretna and Ross County in the Scottish Cup Final, or even Kilmarnock a few years ago playing Falkirk. Whenever Hibs reach a Scottish Cup Final, and we have only reached 5 in my 42 years of being a Hibs fan, we almost always end up playing an Old Firm team, or last year when we were a poor team up against a fired up gunts side with better players than us. We just have to strive now to keep improving the team year after year and keep on trying to get to more Scottish Cup Finals, and who knows we may end up getting to another Scottish Cup Final soon hopefully against a team we have a realistic chance of beating. If we did that, i'm sure we would win.
Not for us it would appear the luck of the likes of Hearts and Dundee United, playing teams like Gretna and Ross County in the Scottish Cup Final, or even Kilmarnock a few years ago playing Falkirk. Whenever Hibs reach a Scottish Cup Final, and we have only reached 5 in my 42 years of being a Hibs fan, we almost always end up playing an Old Firm team, or last year when we were a poor team up against a fired up gunts side with better players than us. We just have to strive now to keep improving the team year after year and keep on trying to get to more Scottish Cup Finals, and who knows we may end up getting to another Scottish Cup Final soon hopefully against a team we have a realistic chance of beating. If we did that, i'm sure we would win.
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