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.

[Phil D. Rolls]

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

So was I!

[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..!!

[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]

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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.

[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.

[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

[basehibby]

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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.

Agreed - it was a bit too much to expect for Franck to just take to the management game like a fish to water. HOWEVER, he had no shortage of support from the fans and I can only remember a feeling of despair and devastation upon hearing he'd been given the boot - I was in Sydney at the time but no amount of sunshine or beach babes could have raised my mood - it was a sad sad day for all Hibees.

We'll never know if he would have really cut it as a manager but a dream died that day. I still think the board were too trigger happy on that occasion - I think he would have garnered the necessary points to stay up and we would then have seen the true cut of his managerial jib with a close season and summer transfer window behind him. Alex McLeish managed to bring some good players to Hibs partly on the strength of his international reputation - that is one strength that I'm sure Franck would have had no trouble emulating.

[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.

[Onceinawhile]

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

Derek townsley assist. If I remember correctly.


The problem with Frank being manager was we lost our best player and our captain.

[7 Hills]

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Derek townsley assist. If I remember correctly.


The problem with Frank being manager was we lost our best player and our captain.

Nail on head. His biggest mistake was retiring his best player.

[HibbyAndy]

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Derek townsley assist. If I remember correctly.


The problem with Frank being manager was we lost our best player and our captain.

Spot on


By the way,,Just after we recovered from celebrating Oneil's goal ( And we went radge BTW!!)....Townsley found himself one on one deep into injury time but put it wide..If that went in i firmly believe the stand in the hibs end would have blew away!!...Had a chance to do what these hearts c unts do to us time and time again, And thats get played off the park and still manage to come away with 3 points.

That goal tho by Oneil ensured Sauzee has never lost a derby as player or manager!...A fact Hearts fans simply cannot get there head around.