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Originally Posted by SlovSam
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Mixu might be missing something in the middle but you hope it isn't between his lugs
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because the Mixu philosophy of footballl is utterly different to that of 'Tony' and JC.

All the dictates of modern succesful teams rely on strong central defenders, pacy attacking full backs and most of all midfield players who pass and move and move and pass and then move and pass some more in order to create chances and play in at least one very mobile often smallish centre forward.

It's of course totally unrealistic to expect Hibs with their limited resourses to have all these facets of a succesful team but Mixu seems to like his central defenders to be big and strong, his full backs to be big and strong and his attackers to be big and strong.
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In midfield rather than passers of the ball, Mixu prefers the tricky individualist type of player backed up by a sitting midfielder (big and strong if possible
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) as well as a box to box strong runner.

Mixu has a point though because so far his system has worked and he has achieved very decent results
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but you can't help but think such a philosophy will only take Hibs so far and that other teams and managers will soon be able to counter such a tactical formation.

I wonder what next season will bring
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but you don't see Mixu hammering home the message of 'pass and move and football on the ground' philosphy that made JC and Tony so succesful.

This isn't a great problem as 2003 - 2007 were exceptional times by modern Hibs standards but you have to hope Mixu has got a bit more in his locker in a tactical sense..
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Pretty much sums up how I feel about the current squad/tactics as well. I've got a lot of time for Mixu the bloke, but i'm not enjoying the football we're playing under him at the moment tbh. I'm hopeful and realistic in that I know the ship needed steadied and we may change style when players arebrought in over the Summer. At the moment I see low risk, percentage football being the order of the day tho'..that might not be how others see it but i can't say it floats my boat i'm afraid. Obviously our player budget and I think the willingness of other clubs to take players off us to make space in our squad will dictate which approach we follow next season. I'd like to see more of an emphasis on passing again and less on getting the ball forward at the first opportunity.