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The 'Race for 3rd'


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1 hour ago, aberdeen1970 said:

I see they have brought through an 18 year old left back who looks promising.  

Why are other clubs able to develop their own left backs and we seem unable? 

Doig did look good last night and only 18 they nicked him from Hearts. DABs also took on a 17 Year old centre half last night who did ok

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24 minutes ago, eddiec said:

Winning the cup would be better than being 3rd or 4th as it would get us into the Europa League not the new competition so theoretically we could finish anywhere below 2nd (although obviously that would be better)

Winning the cup would be better than finishing 3rd or4th because football is about winning things, getting into Europe is a bonus.

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Hibs have undoubtedly had a great start to the season however its very much early days. We've played one match against The Rangers. I'm anticipating Hibs to lose momentum before the end of this month. Premature but I'm predicting 4th place for Hibs. They've only added two decent players (they lost Kamberi) this window and their defence isn't nearly as strong as ours. Remember they finished bottom six last season.

Our final position in the league will be determined by the injuries we sustain throughout the season. Already we've been hit badly with Main and Cosgrove out + currently we have 6 players out through quarantine. Hopefully Edmondson can fill the void up front.

I present a controversial opinion here but I'd argue that had we been more fortunate with injuries and certain ref decisions the past two seasons we'd have finished third (we also advanced further in both the cups and played extra fixtures in Europe comparative to Motherwell and Killie). We'd have finished third last season had the season not ended early.

The fact is its a sad indictment of Scottish Football that the best we and everyone else outside the OF can hope for is 3rd place (And potentially a cup final).

Edit: We'll finish 3rd this season

 

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2 minutes ago, CalgaryDon said:

Hibs have undoubtedly had a great start to the season however its very much early days. We've played one match against The Rangers. I'm anticipating Hibs to lose momentum before the end of this month. Premature but I'm predicting 4th place for Hibs. They've only added two decent players (they lost Kamberi) this window and their defence isn't nearly as strong as ours. Remember they finished bottom six last season.

Our final position in the league will be determined by the injuries we sustain throughout the season. Already we've been hit badly with Main and Cosgrove out + currently we have 6 players out through quarantine. Hopefully Edmondson can fill the void up front.

I present a controversial opinion here but I'd argue that had we been more fortunate with injuries and certain ref decisions the past two seasons we'd have finished third (we also advanced further in both the cups and played extra fixtures in Europe comparative to Motherwell and Killie). We'd have finished third last season had the season not ended early.

The fact is its a sad indictment of Scottish Football that the best we and everyone else outside the OF can hope for is 3rd place (And potentially a cup final).

Edit: We'll finish 3rd this season

 

I'm not getting carried away with Hibs either. 

But remember they were down with Hearts as a laughing stock before Ross came in.  Their form after that was pretty good to even get themselves in the argument for top half.  That momentum is still with them just now. 

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19 minutes ago, WesthillWanderersFC said:

“Achieving” 3rd may have just got a bit harder.

Edmondson injured & apparently out for weeks.

FFS things are going well. 

Are you basing that on the Leeds forum post last week? After which, Edmondson has done a red TV interview claiming his excitement about playing in the Europa League qualifier? 

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10 hours ago, CalgaryDon said:

Hibs have undoubtedly had a great start to the season however its very much early days. We've played one match against The Rangers. I'm anticipating Hibs to lose momentum before the end of this month. Premature but I'm predicting 4th place for Hibs. They've only added two decent players (they lost Kamberi) this window and their defence isn't nearly as strong as ours. Remember they finished bottom six last season.

Our final position in the league will be determined by the injuries we sustain throughout the season. Already we've been hit badly with Main and Cosgrove out + currently we have 6 players out through quarantine. Hopefully Edmondson can fill the void up front.

I present a controversial opinion here but I'd argue that had we been more fortunate with injuries and certain ref decisions the past two seasons we'd have finished third (we also advanced further in both the cups and played extra fixtures in Europe comparative to Motherwell and Killie). We'd have finished third last season had the season not ended early.

The fact is its a sad indictment of Scottish Football that the best we and everyone else outside the OF can hope for is 3rd place (And potentially a cup final).

Edit: We'll finish 3rd this season

 

Could also be argued that if we had played a better standard of football - like attacking - we would have had several more points. But our manager is a shitebag who seems to think keeping it tight and playing a long ball is the way to go...

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I have a real nagging concern we could be looking at a similar season to what Hearts had last season. Maybe not relegation, but think we might be bottom six.

 

We have the players capable of fighting it out at the right end of the table, it's unfortunate our manager goes into every game worrying about the opposition rather than concentrating on our strengths and playing to them. 

 

The longer McInnes stays the bigger clean up job for the next manager. 

 

Hibs will finish 3rd without a shadow of doubt. 

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Goodness me thats a bit too pessimistic for my liking.

Weve finished fourth for two seasons and in the top three the previous five seasons.

We'll be safe enough for something similar and although Hibs have started well I'd only be worried about them cleary being third if they had a 7-8 point cushion after 11 games.

Top 5 for europe this season and I'm certainly not thinking we are outwith that

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Can we have an intervention on what we achieved more than 2 seasons ago ? If my results had taken a downturn in 2 years I probably wouldn't still be in my job... He won a cup... 6 years ago, in what is known as the dullest cup final in forever... 

We will finish 4th or worse if DMc is still here this season... A new guy in charge...? Might be a better outcome.

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