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HWG! 04/08

DO THE PLAYERS REALLY WANT 3RD SPOT
AND UEFA CUP QUALIFICATION?
Its bad enough getting beat, its even
worse playing crap and getting beat but
when the team shoots itself in the foot like
it did against Dundee Utd and Aberdeen it
really pisses me off.
We had a glorious chance to take 3rd spot
knowing as we did the Motherwell V Dun
Utd result only to blow it because of Hibs
handed 2 goals to Aberdeen on a plate.
Even then in my Hibby optimism I thought
we could at least pull a goal back.
There was a lot of discussion in the
various chat rooms about the merits of Ref
Stuart Dougal BUT I firmly put the blame
on the 2 players sent off. I feel they badly
let the team and supporters who pay
through the nose to put up with this shit ,
down.
As far as I am concerned Gatheussi should
never wear the Hibs green again. If Big
Mixu did have a word with him after the
Arabs game then he obviously did not
listen.
I’m a bit more lenient towards Nish as he
is a far better player but he still has a
tendency to fall foul of the refs.
Hibs pathetic performance against
Motherwell in the last game while not
totally unexpected was a real pisser. The
reckoning is it cost the club 150,000
pounds by dropping down from 4th to 6th
spot.
I seem to remember the same feeling last
year.
The clear out has started at ER but I
reckon big Mixu is getting rid of the wrong
players. I thought there were high hopes
for the youngsters Keegan Ayre and
Dermot McCaffrey. No arguments here
about Noubisse, Zurabi, Curier. But we
just need to add O’Brien, Gatheussi, Kerr
and Morais to the list.
Looks like we could be losing Boozy to the
championship league, Coventry are said to
be interested in him.
Mowbray wanted to take him to WBA in
January but I doubt if he would want him
now, I don’t think he is Premier league
standard. I don’t think he has been the
same player for the last couple of years,
plus he seems injury prone to me.
We have signed David Van Zanten from St
Mirren, looked at Joe Dunbar a junior
player from Newtongrange, and have first
dibs on Fabien Yantorno from Gretna. So
some big name there…..

Dear Mr. The Editor,

It was good as always to receive my copy
of HWG! this month.
It was very disappointing that Mr Stanton
was unable to come out to Australia, but
these things happen.
Trying to think of another legend to invite
that people agree on will be very difficult,
as Peter mentioned in HWG!
Just what makes a legend is something
different to every Hibs supporter.
Peter mentioned that the young fans might
regard Franck Sauzee as a legend. Well
as one of the younger fans (compared to
Peter, Fred, Tom et al!)
I’d suggest Franck Sauzee was a cult
figure rather than a legend. He didn’t
actually win anything with Hibs (except
promotion from Div 1), and didn’t gain any
caps while at Hibs.
Yes he was a standout in the team he
played in, but remember a lot of the dross
that was around then. (Yes Latapy, Mixu
Zitelle ED) He also conducted himself very
well in public and the time I chatted with
him as we watched Hibs play East Fife, he
was very open and humble, and even put
up with my shocking French.
But is he up there with Mr O’ Rourke and
Mr Stanton?
I think unfortunately times have changed
as Peter pointed
out, in that players
do not stay with a team
like Hibs long enough
to be afforded legend
status, so we have to
look to history, and sadly many of the true
legends are no longer with us, or possibly
too old to travel.
Names like Lawrie Reilly, Eddie Turnbull
seem most readily to fit the bill, however I
don’t think they’d make it.
There are of course the Alex’s Cropley and
Edwards, but legends? Keith Wright?
Jimmi Boco? Tough call.
I’d like to suggest one player who’s career
spanned the Tornados, into more modern
times, and was part of some of Hibs
legendary successes and big matches.
Arthur Duncan played 610 times for Hibs
between 1969 and 1984 (Peter’s 30th and
45th birthdays coincidentally), played in
the league Cup winning team, 6 Scotland
caps, scored 110 Hibs goals and scored
the winning goal in the 1979 Scottish Cup
Final.
Also if he moves to New Zealand, it would
be a whole lot cheaper! But as I said,
everyone will have a different idea.
If anyone suggests
Gordon Durie though,
I’ll find where you live!!
I would also like to point
out that the number of
spelling mistakes and
grammatical errors in
the most recent issues of HWG! has been
atrocious. It hus almost sank to the heights
of jamboness wrighting. I would like to
suggest that the committee consider
investing some of the left over Legends
money to buy Peter a dictionary
Also the teams John Linn and I play for
have been drawn together in the same
division this year, so if anyone wants him
kicked drop me a line.
yours
Outraged of Ormond.

Just returned from 5
weeks in Leith.
Thanks for your monthly input in HWG.
My Hibs tour only managed 3 matches this
time. The first Saturday was very bad
planning, no game!
In Dundee met up with mates from The
Windsor in Leith Walk for the United (game?).
Was disgusted and least said there the better.
Gladly I missed the Aberdeen implosion
visiting grandchildren in Linlithgow, a more
rewarding experience.
The following Sunday I was in Glasgow and
joined the sea of light blue on the M8 heading
for the Rangers game, heaven on a stick, Hibs
playing exciting stuff and me standing in the
east stand listening to fans giving the players
pelters. If what they say is true BF and KT
have a very bad habit and shall be blind in no
time. There is no doubting the chants directed
at Darcheville …. you’re just a fat
Eddie Murphy, fat Eddy Mu……… are true!
My last Wednesday found me at Easter Road
watching the U/19’s beat Hearts 3-2 in the East
of Scotland Shield. Met an old schoolmate
from the fifties, JimWelsh, he seems to know
a few lads in the club out here.
The day before returning there was a major
rearranged family function in Dundee, the
afternoon of the Celtic game. There was I
wearing my colours, (dressed up totally in
black!) in a public bar in Craigie leaving all in
no doubt that WE were the first to wear the
green and that I was more bigoted than anyone
there, “I don’t even like Forfar”!
Peter, You asked about my lack of contribution
to the Scotsman of late. Got fed up with same,
same nature of the Scatsmon site, if you don’t
get in, in the first 3 or so common sense gets
lost. Having said that in quiet moments I may
have a wee dig or stir! The paper is crap and
this was confirmed in my recent visit. If I want
the sensationalist side I’ll read the likes of the
Scotsman, Record, etc., for a more level view
of Scottish football I look for The Times and
the Glasgow Herald albeit the ‘west’ bias does
poke through in the Herald and, for what is
happening with your team over here, meet up
with the lads when the match is on Setanta
occasionally, too occasionally.
Regarding the “legend” tour.
There is something else to be taken into
account, whether they are
able to take on, or suitable in, the role as guest
and speaker?
I know of one member of the 7-0 team that
can’t even remember when and where he
scored certain goals!
Another member has been embarrassing the
club and himself in more ways than one in the
ex-players box of the Famous Five stand.
Sad as it may be, I think the correct decision
was made at the correct time regarding Paddy
coming out.
Also it would help the situation maybe if the
“legend” reference was quietly dropped.
Does it have to be an ex player anyway? There
are celebrity Hibs supporters and Hibs
supporting sports writers. The pulling power
should not be sacrificed for obvious reasons.
With all due respect would Alex Cropley,
Arthur Duncan or Alan Gordon have the same
pulling power as Paddy? Invite Sauzee, he may
have a more international pulling power, but
please drop the “legend” in his case definitely!!
The 2-year cycle is sensible and, judging by
the reaction to the last event at the Joondalup,
would be well supported by wives and non
Hibs fans alike. A scaled down version could
be organised by sourcing local identities
willing to talk Hibs in alternate years.
Reg Reid
gg2th

1st UKFest Football Supporters
Club (Australia) Penalty Shootout
Competition.
As part of UK Fest to be staged at
Peninsula Community Theatre in
Mornington, Victoria on Queens
Birthday Eve (Sunday June we are
proud to be staging in association
with World of Soccer the 1st UKFest
Football Supporters Club (Australia)
Penalty Shootout Competition.
We are sending out Official
Notification to the following Australian
based Football Supporters Clubs
(that we are aware of) to take part in
this Competition.
Arsenal, Cardiff City, Celtic, Chelsea,
Everton, Hearts, Hibernian, Liverpool,
Manchester United, Newcastle
United, Rangers, Spurs, Tartan Army,
West Ham.
You need 5 players to take 1 penalty
kick each.
The Goal will have holes with every
successful goal scoring points.
The Team with the most points is
declared the winner and will take out
the Trophy plus Free Beer and some
other prizes.
We want UK Fest to be a huge
success for all ex pat Brits so we
welcome you coming down on the
day in your football tops, we even
have a huge mesh fence to display
Football Union Jack Banners. (Why
would we want that?)
Anyone interested contact John Linn.

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