[HerefordBull]

I certainly didn't get a calmer afternoon, but all the nervous tension was worth it in the last minutes. Cummings should try to be more two-footed as he's becoming a one-trick pony and Keatings had a poor game. Hibs lacked sparkle and commitment for most of the game. MOM Liam Fontaine ran the show for Hibs but that should be a midfielder's job. We could have been two or three ahead at half-time and one of these days the lack of first half goals will be our undoing.

However this match and last week's gave us four points. Arguably last year, and certainly the previous year, we would have lost them both, so it's top marks to Stubbs' substitutions and the never-say-die attitude.

The crowd was less than 10,000 but sounded like 15,000+ towards the end of the game.

Aye Ritchie, Cummings now is like Stevenson when he attacks , the opposition know that he is looking to use only one foot and good defenders can easily deal with that. They know that they both will cut back onto their stronger foot at some time. I see today he has been linked with various English Clubs including Bournmouth.....he certainly is not ready for that standard. He needs to stay at Hibs and keep developing.

GGTTH

[0762]

I commented a few months ago that Hibs could never depend on a misfiring Cummings winning the Championship and that is indeed the case. He's a young player who is developing very well and he's contributing to our charge on the Championship title but I think Alan Stubbs has become a cute manager by ensuring there are lotsa Hibs players in his line up who can score goals and, in tight games, one of these players will crop up and score the crucial goal(s) that will give us the three points and esp when our defence is not conceding many goals these days - gelling impressively as the season drags on!

[St Charles Owl]

Huns pumped, soapys pumped, hibs win. If ever there was a carlsberg weekend this is right up there. GGTTH

Ok I have to show my ignorance and ask where does soapys come from??  I assume you are referring to Celtic but I haven't heard that before. 

[HerefordBull]

....the great unwashed....

[Paigntonhibby]

Soap dodging f#cks

[ritchiebaby]

Re the hoo-hah with the dropped ball that led to Hibs goal. It happened right in front of me, but the BBC highlights didn't show that the QOTS player (Miller, I think) had kicked the ball away and Fontaine had to go and bring it back. It's up to the competing players to be ready for the dropped ball and QOTS were caught out and paid a big price for being so unprofessional. A lot of time-wasting from them and it looked as though Russell spent more time on the ground "fouled" or "injured" than on his feet.

[0762]

Hutton was another QOS player with the same mindset re feigning injury and time-wasting! We'll see more of this kinda activity as the season progresses to it's conclusion.

[HerefordBull]

Re the hoo-hah with the dropped ball that led to Hibs goal. It happened right in front of me, but the BBC highlights didn't show that the QOTS player (Miller, I think) had kicked the ball away and Fontaine had to go and bring it back. It's up to the competing players to be ready for the dropped ball and QOTS were caught out and paid a big price for being so unprofessional. A lot of time-wasting from them and it looked as though Russell spent more time on the ground "fouled" or "injured" than on his feet.

Whilst I agree whole hearted with you Ritchie and Hibs actually did nothing wrong this falls into the "sporting" behaviour category just as does time wasting, diving etc.

I've mentioned this on another forum and have had mixed responses. In hospitality afterwards Fontaine said the ref shouted he was intending to drop the ball and then took the ball off him and dropped it at his feet. Fontaine said thanks very much and had time to come forward and find McGinn  with no queens player in front of him.

My point is that in the modern game you rarely see a contested drop ball with 2 players going for it. Ironically last week it was a contested drop ball that led to our goal against Falkirk. ( perhaps we should ask for a drop ball in the 90th minute at all games.)  It seems to be that nowadays both sides decide at a drop ball who is going to have it and give a pass back to the opposition. In this case I'm sure Queens thought after a quick word their player would take the drop ball and pass it back to Oxley. I don't think it was that Queens weren't switched on it was they were expecting what the normal is in the modern game with a  "sporting" restart. 

It was a lesson for them to play to the rules first.

It doesn't break the rules and if it happened to us next week at Ibrox I can imagine the forum threads but is it in the spirit of the game ?...........discuss.   

We may see now more contested drop balls, balls not being put out of play for an injured player on the opposition, and throws being kept after the ball has been put out for injury etc  Obviously if there wasn't so much time wasting by all sides it wouldn't be such an issue.

GGTTH

[hibeejim21]

Hutton was another QOS player with the same mindset re feigning injury and time-wasting! We'll see more of this kinda activity as the season progresses to it's conclusion.

He is a horrible wee hun dick.

[ritchiebaby]

Exeter, in reply to your point about sporting behaviour, I'd say that diving and time-wasting are against the rules of the game and can result in a booking/sending-off. It's not the same with giving the ball back to your opponent. The referee can be seen quite clearly pointing to his watch twice while waving the physio and player away, clearly feeling that time was being deliberately wasted, just as Miller did when he kicked the ball away.

Miller, if he had been savvy enough, could quite easily have stood between Fontaine and McGinn and still not contested the dropped ball, forcing the pass-back to Oxley. McGinn still had to beat his man, which he did, Anier still had to beat his man, which he did, and Gray had to beat his man, which he did. Malonga, not exactly famous for winning headers, did the rest.

If Rangers score against us on Monday by the same means, I will be most annoyed and disgusted - not with Rangers, but with Hibs for letting it happen.