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Probably quite well from the stand
Any Hibs fan that wants Neil Lennon, a soon-to-be Championship (and potentially Scottish Cup) winning Hibs manager to resign/be sacked in the summer is a damn fool.
Yeah we all know that, but the performance of referees and linesman in this league is absolutely shocking, which doesn't help. We constantly get kicked off the park without repercussion, but the first dubious challenge by one of our players results in a booking.
Couple that with the penalty shouts we've had ignored and we could have been further ahead.
He is superb and exactly what we needed big ups all involved in selling us to him and getting him on board and fek me he is on board:thumbsup::flag:Winner and fighter and you do not get one without the other:cb
Did anyone else notice the referee left the ball on the pitch at full time ? Couldn't even get that right.
I find it very hard to believe someone who goes every week could honestly think we've played dreadful football all season. It has not been pretty at times, that is for sure, but we have also played some brilliant stuff and scored some excellent goals. We're much harder to beat than we have been since I've started watching Hibs. 3 home games to go, a semi final and 2 big away trips. Get right behind Lennon and his team, this season could end very well indeed.
Lennon will get us up - no doubt. But we have been very poor in far too many games this season. He was the perfect manager for the job at hand. But make no mistake we are playing so bloody awful football that is ignored as we are winning a poor league.
Thank god a manager saying it as it is. Ref was utter pish today and not just for us. If these are the refs for the future then bring back the Maltese guys (were they from Malta?).
The ref was poor but Stevenson was a good deal more than a yard away in the pen incident from what I saw and I thought we were relatively poor in the first half albeit the better side.
I couldn't make the game today for family reasons but from what I've read the match officials were rank rotten. I like the fact Lenny says it as it is and how he took on the press after the Morton game. Fair play to Lenny for his honest approach. I'd love him to stay next year post promotion.
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How do you prove or disprove a possibility? :confused:
Somebody else mentioned an ''anti-Lennon bandwagon'', people ''wanting him sacked'' etc, I'm not aware of ANYONE calling for him to be sacked, there is no bandwagon, no ''Lennon-haters''.
Closing down debate by applying such labels as 'anti-Lennon' etc doesn't serve much purpose to me.
Mcgeoch booking aside I didn't think the ref was too bad today. If the boot was on the other foot we'd all be screaming for a pen too - ball was basically fired at Stevenson's face but his hands wee raised.
Got a lot of time for Lennon as our manager, sticks up for the club and clearly has the passion. There is no getting away from the fact that we have played pretty crap football for the majority of the season though.
Your right to an extent but every decision that the ref or linesman makes impacts on the game. Ie: if a centre half gets away with holding a forward stopping them from jumping or moving, early on they do it all the time it stops the forward from influencing the game, likewise if everytime a midfielder breaks with the ball and gets pulled back or brought down it stops the flow of the move, disrupts the game and influences the game, these things are happening week in and week out and refs are doing nothing about it ..today was no different and if you add the fact that almost any co tact with a Hibs player making a challenge and he gave them free kicks ..not so keen when it was on our players. If the challenge on Cummings had been at any other time that was a penalty !!
Having said all of that he didn't influence thee sitter Graham missed nor the fact Cummings didn't stick his foot in to knock in the cut back by Graham, or our players missed great heading chances, or Lewis did his usual and in a fantastic position ballooned a cross to the corner flag. The penalty he eventually gave, epitomised his totally inept and poor decision making performance so like in every other game, where they absolutely do make a difference in the game, especially with ourselves as we seem to get targeted by teams who will do anything to disrupt us from playing.
I am not naive enough to blame refs for some woeful performances from is but think we suffer more than anyone from bad decision-making and just very poor refereeing and linesman decisions or non decisions.
Judge him on style? Are you on drugs or what? Style points are for ice dancing or in the diving pool. Judgement for Hibs this season confined to winning the league. Nowt else.
And another thing, how do you define 'outperforming a budget'? If you mean Celtic should win the league, the huns second, hertz third, we're fourth etc etc etc, what the point of playing the games? All you'd need to do is count up the money at the start of the season and hand out the trophy to the team with the most cash. In those circumstances there would be no outperforming a budget. So, if Hibs finished third would we be outperforming or would hertz be under-performing?