Hibs' European place shock and how the continental picture looks now
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00:00The Scottish Cup final ramifications, well expected that Celtic would beat Aberdeen
00:04and that would obviously be plentiful for Hibs and scoop them at an automatic league
00:09face spot in either the Europa League or the Conference League.
00:13Aberdeen won in pretty dramatic circumstances at Hampden.
00:17How do you view it from a Hibs point of view?
00:19Because it's obviously out with Hibs' control to a certain extent, yet it still feels like
00:25a totally devastating blow that they probably weren't expecting.
00:28Yeah, I just think anyone would have really expected it if you looked at all the odds
00:32and every prediction was that as a pure football contest, Celtic, who should have taken Aberdeen
00:40apart, it doesn't happen that way, that's why we play the games.
00:43I know a lot of Hibs fans are, not suddenly, but are returning to the idea of, well, it's
00:48a lot harder to finish third than it is to win the Scottish Cup, so why should UEFA, you
00:54know, seed it in such a way that your third place team gets the easier ride and the guaranteed
01:00European football, while a team that's outperformed them all season effectively and finished third?
01:05Doesn't, it's a very clear UEFA trying to protect the domestic Cups.
01:10In other leagues over the years, teams just not bothering about the Cup because it's all
01:14important if they've got a top three or four, they get into the Champions League, that's
01:17the most important thing, most important thing.
01:19So you could have imagined it if it was, if there wasn't this place for the Cup, at some
01:24point in the season would Aberdeen have just, knowing they were in a battle with Hibs for
01:28third, they could have just chucked a team of kids out in the semi-final or quarter-final,
01:32whatever it is, and that's what UEFA are trying to avoid.
01:36Mercifully, we've ditched the almost forgotten practice of awarding the Cup winner's place
01:44to the Cup runners-up, which was always a real bugbear.
01:50And we had some wacky European teams because of that, teams that got themselves through to
01:56a Cup final, were taken apart by Celtic or Rangers or whoever it was.
02:00The good news is, the Hibs, they would have expected it, but they weren't banking on it.
02:06That's just the way they are.
02:07You know what David Gray's like, he's not going to get carried away.
02:10He's Mr. Control the Controllables, he would have had a plan A and a plan B, and knowing
02:16him as plan A was probably Aberdeen winning the Cup.
02:19And we're back in pre-season for this, and we're in this round, and we're in that round.
02:24Everyone knew what it was like at the start of the season, everyone knew the rules.
02:28You just wouldn't have put money on Aberdeen winning the trophy, you know, for the first
02:35time in 35 years, which kind of puts it in perspective.
02:49I mean, thank you.
02:53Gotta take care about that!
02:54You guard it.
02:56You're just looking for it.
02:57You are just looking for it.
02:58It's just looking for a sign.
02:59I mean, it's just looking for a sign
03:00and I know it's still looking for appear, you know, I know.
03:02You just janitored!
03:03We're like, oh wait, wait.
03:04You justAbove the support there.
03:05You're just looking for it, and don't need a bit.
03:06Instead, you look at Man on Basically.
03:07And already know more.
03:08Sometimes you don't want to be more.