What the hell is going on?

[CropleyWasGod]

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We are fed the same lines every year about waiting for the 'right' signings and not to 'panic'. Yet every year we end up with the dross, start the season badly and claim the players need time to 'bed in'. I can't believe people are so relaxed about this again we cannot afford to start slowly

Have we been fed the same lines this year?

[Ronniekirk]

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Which players are these then?

The nameless ones ,until they are officially announced.It helps build up the excitement as not a lot else happening .

[jacomo]

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We are not getting promoted this season so there probably is no need to panic.

Oh yes we are!

Failure to reach the play offs at least would be failure. I am sure our new leaders won't tolerate that.

[PeterboroHibee]

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I go by actions, no annoucements have been made so to me the squad rebuild has not yet started.

As frustrated as I am by the lack of transfer activity, I dont think you can say that is true. Stubb's will have put his own style on the team and I imagine his ideas and way of working are hugely different to Butchers, and hes already had a chance to assess some of the younger guys. Only time will tell if that ultimately delivers on the pitch, but its all part of the 'rebuilding' process. I fully expect us to make 4-5 signings this week, which I imagine will be around half the players we end up bringing in. With around 4 weeks to go until the league season starts, Id say thats a good number to work with initially.

[Corstorphine Hibby]

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Maybe nobody has told the board that 3rd place isn't the target this year

I thought it was ?

[silverhibee]

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I'm not willing to say. All will be revealed soon enough.

Are the players contracted to clubs or are they pre contracts or a bit of both.

[R'Albin]

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I'm not willing to say. All will be revealed soon enough.

Any chance you could tell us how many players?

[Brooster]

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Are the players contracted to clubs or are they pre contracts or a bit of both.

The ones I know are both.

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Panic on the streets of Carlton,
Panic on the streets of sunnyside
and I wonder to myself...
Could life ever be the same?

[robinp]

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The big kick off is 4 weeks on Saturday and the club is no further forward from this time last week. I understand we now have an assistant in but that means nothing with the squad we have. Every other teams are signing players.

I accept people are going to reply and see give them a chance but this is serious.

A team needs to be in place now to train and get gelled plus play pre season games etc. Is this another year of rubbish ahead? Are players turning Hibs down on wages?

Hibs fans are paying the highest prices in the league so this needs to get sorted straight away.

[GreenCastle]

The one hope I do have is both Stubbs and Doolan have contacts down south.

The hard part is getting players from down south to come and live up here.

Doolan I also hear is a good coach so will probably get more out of what we had last season.

I am hoping we bring in a x2 GK's

A RB, CB, LB

Wide player, ACM, playmaker (who can run games and can pick a final pass)

Strikers x 2 or ideally 3

Also leadership - a decent signing / club captain would help - though can't see this happening.

Lot's needed - will we go for it ? or just bring in a few to supplement what we had ?

[calder45a]

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I'm not willing to say. All will be revealed soon enough.

Are you impressed with the signings?

[truehibernian]

Have we 'signed' a new goalkeeping coach ? Just got a text saying we have a new one as of now ??

[Aldo]

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Have we 'signed' a new goalkeeping coach ? Just got a text saying we have a new one as of now ??

Scott Thomson returned from his exile in Cowdenbeath maybe??

[TRC]

I'd much rather we kept quiet till the first game of the season, then they just walk out and its a guess who game!

[Charnley 4]

Feels a bit like what it would be like to be 10 years old, on the 20th December... having being adopted by new parents and knowing you have a bunch of christmas presents but no idea what you are going to get.

[Lucius Apuleius]

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Can't believe so many are relaxed about this...how come it takes us longer than other teams every year? ? And this quality we keep hearing about...well ill believe it when I see it as quality tends to get snapped up early doors in transfer windows...not at tail end. We are so far behind yams, huns and even Falkirk just now in prep its frightening! ! New manager and chief exec but same old Hibs!! And we are asked to pay 400 quid for a ST to watch who exactly???

Just to set my head at peace, apart from Boyd and Miller to the hun (who despite their age I reckon will score a few) could you give me a list of who else has been bought by the teams that will be our main competitors (hopefully) next season? Ones that you feel we should have signed.

[Keith_M]

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Feels a bit like what it would be like to be 10 years old, on the 20th December... having being adopted by new parents and knowing you have a bunch of christmas presents but no idea what you are going to get.

Why did you have to bring back THAT memory?

[scoopyboy]

Brooster knows.

Heard the new goalkeeping coach may well be the chap from Falkirk. He was in the press today as he had dealings with Tim Krul.

George Craig would have knowledge of him.

[scoopyboy]

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I go by actions, no annoucements have been made so to me the squad rebuild has not yet started.

Actions are ongoing however.

In an earlier post you said we were no further forward than a week ago, that is simply wrong.

You are implying nobody is bothering their backside, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Brooster knows.

Heard the new goalkeeping coach may well be the chap from Falkirk. He was in the press today as he had dealings with Tim Krul.

George Craig would have knowledge of him.

Does he?

It appears that wanting to know what exactly might be happening at the club is out of order.

"Father knows best and pay up now for your ST like a good little Hibby."

[Viva_Palmeiras]

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This.

Psychology? Maybe it's about earning the contract AND performling in training before Alan announces you've arrived - it's more than signing on the line.

[Borderhibbie76]

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Just to set my head at peace, apart from Boyd and Miller to the hun (who despite their age I reckon will score a few) could you give me a list of who else has been bought by the teams that will be our main competitors (hopefully) next season? Ones that you feel we should have signed.

Ive not got the time nor the inclination to list them for you mate and regardless of what you think of the quality of these signings, these teams have their signings bedded in early and featuring in pre season games. Off top of my head, both Darren McGregor (der hun) and Neil Alexander (yams) are better than what we currently have imo...

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Psychology? Maybe it's about earning the contract AND performling in training before Alan announces you've arrived - it's more than signing on the line.

That would be devious even for Hibs, surely.

If you sign a player, you tell the supporters you've done so. What possible reasonable reason can there be for signing players but not telling anyone?

(Except Brooster, that is. )

[TowerHibs]

The obsession of posters who must know what is going on at the club is rather strange. And if they don't know, this equates to nothing is happening. Weirdos!!!

I'll go with what Stubbs said on Saturday after VoL match. Plenty of players available and want to come. He is desperate not to make any mistakes in getting the wrong players in. Why not let the guy get his job done.

Bed wetters everywhere - do you act like this in your every day life???

[BOB MARLEYS DUG]

Stop hassling Brooster ffs, if he doesn't want to say wha he knows then he doesn't have to. He's only trying to clear things up for us and let us know what's happening without giving too much away.

All will revealed sooner than you think.

[FranckSuzy]

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Stop hassling Brooster ffs, if he doesn't want to say wha he knows then he doesn't have to. He's only trying to clear things up for us and let us know what's happening without giving too much away.

All will revealed sooner than you think.

As an ITK poster, can you not give us a few clues?

[hfc rd]

I'm sure their will be a couple of new signings made. But I don't know when and who they are going to be?

[hibs0666]

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Ive not got the time nor the inclination to list them for you mate and regardless of what you think of the quality of these signings, these teams have their signings bedded in early and featuring in pre season games. Off top of my head, both Darren McGregor (der hun) and Neil Alexander (yams) are better than what we currently have imo...

All the more reason to make sure that we do everything we can get the right players in surely?

[scoopyboy]

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Does he?

It appears that wanting to know what exactly might be happening at the club is out of order.

"Father knows best and pay up now for your ST like a good little Hibby."

Yip, he sure does.

We are all interested in who we are signing, I am no different.

As I'm sure you know Hibs have signed players previously and waited to announce them.

My take is they want to announce a group at once, for maximum effect. Personally I would announce them at a gap of two day intervals.

Falkirk announced five signings one day last week, does all the doubters on here believe that they all happened to sign at exactly the same time?