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poetic justice?
Topic Started: May 25 2014, 05:58 PM (719 Views)
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At last jason scotland gets revenge for the all hibs legends panel who said he wasnt goof enough for the SPL...

Bye bye hibees...
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Very deserved, both to him and Hamilton.

Few good players in that Hamilton team.

Not sure butcher will survive.
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This surely marks the end of the media love bombing of Butcher. I thought even he couldn't stop Hibs winning that tie after the first leg, but he managed it in the worst possible way for the Hibs fans. On any rational basis he is toast.
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Don't really see it as being karma as I'm not aware of anyone at Hibs currently who was involved in that decision.

I'll miss the opportunity for a day out in Reekie at a United game. Very surprised that Butcher of all people took them down - maybe miscalculated how much he could alienate the overpaid players before the season was out and he could get rid of them. I'm not sure where hostility to Butcher comes from - he's always seemed like an honest guy with some interesting opinions.
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There must be some decent hibs players we can pick up, a few been released. While of course they got relegated, hibs do seem to have a habit of ruining or not appreciating players.

We've done well with Rankin, St johnstone with Wotherspoon for example after they were no longer wanted at hibs.

Scott Robertson anyone?
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vvhatsthatonyourback
May 26 2014, 12:47 PM
Don't really see it as being karma as I'm not aware of anyone at Hibs currently who was involved in that decision.
The Record publishes, for the first time as far as I'm aware, the the (nearly) whole panel.

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Pat Stanton, Tony Higgins, Murdo MacLeod, Peter Cormack and Tommy McIntyre


A poop on all their windshields, needless to say. No malice against Hibs though, nor Butcher.
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Setenza
May 26 2014, 02:53 PM
There must be some decent hibs players we can pick up, a few been released. While of course they got relegated, hibs do seem to have a habit of ruining or not appreciating players.

We've done well with Rankin, St johnstone with Wotherspoon for example after they were no longer wanted at hibs.

Scott Robertson anyone?
Scotty is still under contract to 2016 so would have to be bought out- not the Petrie way I suspect though they'll probably ask him to take a wage cut.

Wonder about McPake- we need cover at CB and maybe Ben Williams at GK.
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Naebody
May 26 2014, 03:44 PM
vvhatsthatonyourback
May 26 2014, 12:47 PM
Don't really see it as being karma as I'm not aware of anyone at Hibs currently who was involved in that decision.
The Record publishes, for the first time as far as I'm aware, the the (nearly) whole panel.

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Pat Stanton, Tony Higgins, Murdo MacLeod, Peter Cormack and Tommy McIntyre


A poop on all their windshields, needless to say. No malice against Hibs though, nor Butcher.
Do you not remember the feckin' feckers not giving the ball back after an injury in stoppage time at the end of 2000, proceding to score, Alan Combe headbutts the linesman and is banned for 150 years or something, all at a point when United had one win from 20 games? Mattias Jack, if my petty, vindictive memory serves me correctly.

Relegation's too good for 'em.
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I seem to encounter Tony Higgins every time I venture outdoors these days. Blighted by him, so I am. He must live near me. Or he's another of my stalkers.
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vvhatsthatonyourback
May 27 2014, 10:36 AM
I seem to encounter Tony Higgins every time I venture outdoors these days. Blighted by him, so I am. He must live near me. Or he's another of my stalkers.
Maybe's he's your real Dad and is trying to summon the courage to talk to you? That's what happened to me with Drew Busby, although it was in a dream right enough.
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Conan the Destroyer
May 27 2014, 09:46 AM
Do you not remember the feckin' feckers not giving the ball back after an injury in stoppage time at the end of 2000, proceding to score, Alan Combe headbutts the linesman and is banned for 150 years or something, all at a point when United had one win from 20 games? Mattias Jack, if my petty, vindictive memory serves me correctly.

Relegation's too good for 'em.
No, I don't remember that. Combe headbutting someone rings a very faint bell, but it's a bell in a void.

It's a bit odd that I spend so many hours thinking about football but seem to remember none of it.
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Murdo's in the Sun today, explaining detailing why his mistake wasn't a mistake.

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"I’m comfortable with the decision we came to. We were told he wasn’t guaranteed to play every week, that he was being signed as an impact player who’d be on the bench.

"It was fairly straightforward.When a player is looking to come into the country to join a team — and he’s not likely to play — it works against him.

"It had been reported at the time he’d lost his international status because of something ridiculous. I think the story had something to do with him not getting a haircut.

"But then the manager of the national team said it was because he wasn’t good enough.

"Because everyone on the panel had an ex-Hibs background, fingers were pointed. There was a real conspiracy theory.

"It still makes me smile when I hear people going on about it. It was cut and dried. Any panel looking at it would have come to the same conclusion.

"Hindsight is a great thing. But at that time he didn’t justify a work permit and it was the correct decision.

"I know United supporters weren’t happy about it and they blamed everyone on the panel for having an agenda against them. But it was all nonsense.

"He definitely didn’t qualify at that time. End of story.

"It wasn’t one I’d look back on and think: ‘We could have viewed it differently.’

"It wasn’t even a case that we felt he wasn’t good enough. At no point did we take that view.

"It had nothing to do with his ability. It was all to do with his background with the inter-national team and whether he would actually play games for Dundee United."


I'm reminded that Murdo campaigns on behalf of the Conservative Party.
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SO Murdo it was nothing to do with the fact he scored a cracking goal at Hampden v Hibs in a cup semi final for DUFC and the fact he went on to play in the EPL you still think you and your Hibbie mates mate the right decision ??

"That's nice."
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