10 years ago today....

[Billy Whizz]

Our beloved Franck Sauzee was sacked. Anyone remember where they were when they heard the news!

[.Sean.]

Found out when I got home fronm school and I remember crying my eyes out!

[easty]

I was at work at RBS, they sacked me about 6 months later so I felt his pain...

[steakbake]

I was in a book depository in Lochend, next to the grassy knoll.

[Wilson]

Probably on here calling for his head.

[calumhibee1]

Got home from school and found out. Was devastated to hear that my first and last footballing hero was not going to be at our club anymore.

[Wyatt.S.Earp]

have we moved on since then.............nope still the same rubbish being played ..still the same prospects...did those in high places learn anything......NO..!!

[Filled Rolls]

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I was in a book depository in Lochend, next to the grassy knoll.

So was I!

[iwasthere1972]

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Our beloved Franck Sauzee was sacked. Anyone remember where they were when they heard the news!

Shovelling two feet of snow off our three quarters of a mile path in order to get out.

[hibee_girl]

I was in Cyprus on holiday and found out from my Grandad who broke the news to me in a text! Didn't believe him so had to phone him to find out what was going on!

[blackpoolhibs]

At home, i was devastated, then angry.

When you think how long they have given some of the clowns we've had masquerading as managers recently, it still makes my blood boil.

[Gatecrasher]

i would have loved to see hime succeed however this IMO says it all

[makaveli_619]

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i would have loved to see hime succeed however this IMO says it all

It hardly says anything. He came in at a time when McLeish had deserted us and left an unbalanced, overpaid squad. Sauzée was the easy option for the board at the time and to bring him under such circumstances then not even give him a close season to sort things out still sickens me.

69 days in the middle of a season. If we'd lost every game it still would have been too early.

Alan Gordon put it better than I could:
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/fans_condemn_disgraceful_treatment_of_sauzee_1_604 100

[BEEJ]

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i would have loved to see hime succeed however this IMO says it all

Quite a good record by recent standards.

I remember dragging my daughter to the cup game down in Stranraer - a dreary 0-0 draw. And then the two of us attending that wretched cup semi against Ayr at Hampden. Dreadful night.

As for ten years ago today - at work, informed by text, checked internet in disbelief, grieved for a week or more.

[makaveli_619]

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Quite a good record by recent standards.

I remember dragging my daughter to the cup game down in Stranraer - a dreary 0-0 draw. And then the two of us attending that wretched cup semi against Ayr at Hampden. Dreadful night.

As for ten years ago today - at work, informed by text, checked internet in disbelief, grieved for a week or more.

You're actually not far wrong...

Franck got 5 points from 11 games.

Fenlon has 5 points from 10 games.

[Steve20]

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i would have loved to see hime succeed however this IMO says it all

Is Fenlon's record that much better?

[BroxburnHibee]

Give it a rest guys eh?

[blackpoolhibs]

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I've tried!!!! No more name calling eh BH.

Better not, just been warned.

[Gatecrasher]

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It hardly says anything. He came in at a time when McLeish had deserted us and left an unbalanced, overpaid squad. Sauzée was the easy option for the board at the time and to bring him under such circumstances then not even give him a close season to sort things out still sickens me.

69 days in the middle of a season. If we'd lost every game it still would have been too early.

Alan Gordon put it better than I could:
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/fans_condemn_disgraceful_treatment_of_sauzee_1_604 100

He had a bigger budget and a better squad than fenlon and only just match him, I personally don't care about the circumstances in which he was brought in all I know is that he wasn't improving things,

[hibsbollah]

'Disgrace' is a much over-used word in football. Losing five nil at home to Celtc, for example, is not a disgrace (despite many hysterical posts to the contrary).

Sacking our modern day hero and a genuine legend after 69 days, however, was. The only time i considered turning my back on the club.

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Was no one in the changing room in the club shop when they heard?

[ballengeich]

He had no management experience and no coaching qualifications so the board should not have appointed him. I'd have been delighted to see him given a coaching role at the club to start his management career, but making him manager was imo doomed to failure as people need to serve an apprenticeship before taking control of a club at Hibs' level.

[HibbyAndy]

Cant for the life of me remember where i was when Sauzee got sacked, But i do remember being absolute devastated upon hearing the great man had been sacked.

He really didnt get anytime to turn it around. Only one Sauzee.

[Famous5forever]

A Sad day in our clubs History

[makaveli_619]

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He had a bigger budget and a better squad than fenlon and only just match him, I personally don't care about the circumstances in which he was brought in all I know is that he wasn't improving things,

Fine, so only judge/compare them by pure statistics. Both began with worse runs than their predecessors ended with. Their fixtures were pretty similar - both had the OF at home - but Sauzée's derby was away and we got a point. If we lose tomorrow (I expect a win though... 19/5 looks nice) he won't have "just matched" Fenlon's early record but beaten it. I don't expect Fenlon to be sacked on Thursday if that's the case.

I really like Fenlon and know he'll do well. To call for his head at this stage, even when relegation looms closer than it has since '98, would be insane. For me this just highlights how shoddily the board treated Franck.

[Pretty Boy]

I wad at a bus stop when a guy I vaguely knew because he sat near me at ER came up and told me. Phoned about 3 people hoping it wasn't true.

It still angers me that there were a few members of that squad who barely tried a leg under Sauzee for whatever reason.

He deserved far better treatment from the club and its little wonder he wants nothing to do with us. The board made a total knee jerk reaction despite St Johnstone still being quite a fair bit behind us. For all his faults I've always thought it says a lot for Rod Petrie that he was the solitary figure in the board room who wanted to stand by Sauzee.

[easty]

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He deserved far better treatment from the club and its little wonder he wants nothing to do with us.

Exactly that.

[blackpoolhibs]

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Exactly that.

Sad to say but i also agree with that.

[Pretty Boy]

Am I right in thinking it was Sauzee who gave Derek Riordan his debut?

[HibbyAndy]

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Am I right in thinking it was Sauzee who gave Derek Riordan his debut?

At Tynie yeah. Pretty sure of it..the 1-1 game where John Oneil scored at the hibs end in the last minute.