Teabag

I'm starting to get excited & nervous. This time tomorrow I will be preparing to go to Hibs biggest game of the season so far, the CIS cup semi final against St Johnstone. On the face of it, the stage is set for a Hibs win. On our day we can play the best football in the country, St Johnstone are a lower division team and what better way to get to a final than to play the semi at the home of our biggest rivals. All this should add up to a great night.
However (and this is a big however) Hibs and cups just don't go together. Out last cup win was the Skol Cup in 1991, I won't even go into details on the holy grail of the Scottish Cup. Whenever it looks like Hibs may actually win a trophy then we do our best to mess it up. Witness 2004. 40,000 Hibs fans make the trip to Glasgow full of expectations of a glorious cup win. After all we had beaten both Rangers & Celtic on our way to the final and all that stood in out way were little Livingston who were having severe financial differences. Easy right? Wrong, Hibs never really turned up and were well beaten. Cue 40,000 depressed Hibs fans on journey home along the M8.
I've lost count of the similar number of semi & final depressing experiences I've had following Hibs. As a pointer to tomorrow's game, we played lower league Ayr Utd in the semi final a few years ago. It was probably the worst performance I have ever seen and we were beaten 1-0 after extra time. It's the only time I have left a game before the final whistle. As such I am taking nothing for granted about tomorrow's game. I really hope we can win but who knows what Hibs will do. They don't like to make it easy and it can be a bit of a torturous life as a Hibby. Wouldn't change it though, will always support them through thick and thin (the bobby years, first time thin has been used beside bobby)
If Collins can get the team motivated then we should win. We are frustratingly inconsistent though, even within the same game. At the end of the day there isn't much I can do but to sit there and try and sing the team to victory.
All together now:
"We hate Glasgow Rangers, We hate Celtic too....."