There are many musings and theories as to why netball has not been included as part of an Olympic programme before. Some people suggest that perhaps it does not have a large enough global footprint, or that it does not have the same level of participation from a men's and mixed perspective in every country that it is played. "As a club, we had a number of long and intense discussions with the SPFL fighting for an even split of tickets with Celtic for the League Cup Final at Hampden Park, knowing our history of selling out tickets for cup finals and for sporting integrity," Hibs said in a statement. "With us, the most talented ones were able to jump straight into the first team because they had that protection. Kovacic skipped the U19 team and went into the first team at the age of 17. Alen Halilovic started at 16. Sime Vrsaljko was a regular at 18." "But just imagine how hard it was for him to go from Barcelona to Dinamo Zagreb. How can you even compare?"