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A great 3pm KO Saturday. Met my mate and travelled on the bus from Kinross. Went to the battle cruiser and met up with his son and mine, and another couple of Hibee legends for a few beers. All good so far, it’s what Saturday is all about.
We started off with a high intensity which I think we have lacked, we moved the ball well and certainly had a lot more energy in the team as of late. But then we are 2 down, which from my seat seemed self inflicted. Top level fitba, does not allow basic errors, they will and were punished. I did think our goal on 43 minutes would level the luck out, and stupidly said to the boys around me, that we would go on to win the game.
The deluded fool which I am 🙄.
2nd half, we looked to be dangerous without creating much then I looked in amazement as he took our most dangerous player on the day ( Klidge) off, and I feared the worst. My fears were compounded. We then for the last 30 mins never looked like scoring in the old adage of a barrel of fannies. The game petered out to a damp squib.
The adage of you are a sum of your parts comes to mind. Because we have some decent players, but we have guys who would struggle to get a game for Arbroath or the the likes.
I will mention players who gave me positive vibes, let’s keep it at that. You get my drift 😝
Salinger is probably as best we can hope for just now, he is just above “okay” Ivezic I thought looked like a leader and composed, encouraging. Passlack is better than most players we have, and gives his all and demands it from others, I like him. Klidge, looked dangerous today, I have doubted him loads before, and when he got subbed today, my gunt sank for a few reasons.. Elding scored and seems desperate to have another decent player beside him, his workrate is fantastic. And on that note, I did think the players worked harder today than that have in the past, which is actual a negative on them. Shame on you boys 😥.
As for Mulligan, I think my young lad @tattie and gravy has said to me, it must the case that sometime soon we are going to learn that he has been carrying a groin or hamstring injury for months which actually needs operated on because he is not the player we seen last season, and I don’t doubt his attitude.
So, a defeat was painful, but I did see an intensity which has been missing for a long time. We just have to hope our luck changes and we turn a corner.
I would still have SDG as our manger, but he isn’t and I will carry on supporting the team I love, and through a tough day, I seen positives, but they were hard to find.
We will, however, put the gunts to bed in the semi. Trust me , I’m a doctor 😝
GBTH
 
I think it is safe to say at the minute we are in serious serious trouble.. The confidence has been sucked right out of the players.. Any attacking intent was also sucked out of them in favour of turning games into battles where fine margins as we heard from David Gray so many times in his post match interviews would determine the outcome..

Today in the first half especially I watched a bunch of players terrified of the football. Scared to give it away and the playing the simple pass at every single opportunity.. Safe option time and time again.. Some of those players are not good enough to play for Hibs, some have completely fallen off a cliff form wise and yet again this summer there will be another raft of players leaving and a raft coming in the front door...

As for the game itself it was a game of two halves performance wise.. The first period being poor but a lot better after the break and something to take into next week..
 
There is zero craft in this team, none. We must get Newell back in the midfield, despite all his faults, because he is the only one on the books who can slide a pass in to forward runners. Drop Chaiwa or Mulligan, does not matter which, perhaps even both because they are doing nothing for the team right now. Get some control in midfield through Newell although I would fine him for every unnecessary safe back pass that he is so fond of! He is captain, time to stand up and get this midfield working.
 
baggageandfibs said:
There is zero craft in this team, none. We must get Newell back in the midfield, despite all his faults, because he is the only one on the books who can slide a pass in to forward runners. Drop Chaiwa or Mulligan, does not matter which, perhaps even both because they are doing nothing for the team right now. Get some control in midfield through Newell although I would fine him for every unnecessary safe back pass that he is so fond of! He is captain, time to stand up and get this midfield working.
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Please not Newell.. He's been there , failed time after time, played his part in getting 7 managers the bullet.If he comes back in we are truly cooked.
 
Ratatouille said:
Please not Newell.. He's been there , failed time after time, played his part in getting 7 managers the bullet.If he comes back in we are truly cooked.
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I am not suggesting he is a long term solution and I am not a fan, don't get me wrong, but this team needs someone in the middle who has the technical ability to not panic when in possession. No one else in our midfield can do this. Devaney is out injured, I don't see that he has any other options.
 
baggageandfibs said:
I am not suggesting he is a long term solution and I am not a fan, don't get me wrong, but this team needs someone in the middle who has the technical ability to not panic when in possession. No one else in our midfield can do this. Devaney is out injured, I don't see that he has any other options.
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Sure I read somewhere that Ivezic has played defensive mid, maybe that's an option?
 
Thanks for the JB.

From my seat on the sofa I thought our biggest sin was the time spent fannying about on the ball. From the start Falkirk set out to press and harry and pretty quickly our game went to pieces. We should be the team dictating the tempo especially at home.

The other thing I noticed is too often we allowed ourselves to get corralled when playing up the wing. ER is a wide pitch, we should use it.
 
Again, I felt the tempo and energy was elevated for most of the match but Falkirk were at the same level or better, constantly pressing and forcing errors. As usual, the final pass not good enough and giving away possession far too often. We didn’t create many decent scoring opportunities. Falkirk didn’t create much either so we did the work for them! Kerr is worse than a man short, everything stops when he gets on the ball.

Get rid of McKay now! Don’t give him another shot at the next transfer window.
 
Thanks for the JB

There’s a lot of hyperbole around David Gray; and the group of players; who were 6 minutes away from qualifying for the Euro Conference Group stage.

I think we our first choice 11 when fit are solid, but scratch below the surface and it’s a shallow squad without balance.

Spot on about Mulligan, he’s a different player this season.
 
“The important bit is that the green and navy have very similar brightness. The main difference between them is hue rather than light versus dark.”

A helpful explanation which makes sense to me
 
Purple & Green said:
“The important bit is that the green and navy have very similar brightness. The main difference between them is hue rather than light versus dark.”

A helpful explanation which makes sense to me
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Yes, I agree it's a helpful explanation, but in practice it's difficult when you're red-green colour blind like me - an ex-amateur ref!
 
baggageandfibs said:
I am not suggesting he is a long term solution and I am not a fan, don't get me wrong, but this team needs someone in the middle who has the technical ability to not panic when in possession. No one else in our midfield can do this. Devaney is out injured, I don't see that he has any other options.
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He isn't the answer short term let alone long term If he starts playing again then we are in even bigger trouble and that's practically impossible at the minute. We have enough guys going missing during games right now , we do not need another..
 
BurbankHibee said:
Again, I felt the tempo and energy was elevated for most of the match but Falkirk were at the same level or better, constantly pressing and forcing errors. As usual, the final pass not good enough and giving away possession far too often. We didn’t create many decent scoring opportunities. Falkirk didn’t create much either so we did the work for them! Kerr is worse than a man short, everything stops when he gets on the ball.

Get rid of McKay now! Don’t give him another shot at the next transfer window.
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baldy foghorn said:
Anyone else struggle with the shirts today, too similar?
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Judging by some of the passing, Hibs’ players struggled too!
 
Elding gets a pass mark. No one else does. All 4 defenders were fucking rank. Incapable of doing the basics. Mulligan is a waste of a jersey. Etc.

David Gray left this squad bereft of self confidence, backbone and ideas. He is solely responsible for our early season demise. Mackay's random recruitment strategy is useless too.

Fuck knows how Marink will dig us out of the hole we're in. We're in a relegation dogfight and need to approach every game with aggression and determination not the feeble shitshows we've seen all season.

Sooner Rocky is back the better as Kerr is a fucking liability.

Hope the alarm bells are ringing loud and clear if we're to get out of this mess.
 
The worrying thing is that there is not another team in the league who we are better than. We dont have a Livingston who will sit bottom for the whole season. We are in for a hard struggle ahead
 
baggageandfibs said:
I am not suggesting he is a long term solution and I am not a fan, don't get me wrong, but this team needs someone in the middle who has the technical ability to not panic when in possession. No one else in our midfield can do this. Devaney is out injured, I don't see that he has any other options.
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Deveney is suspended and back next week?
 
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