The thing that I have found most difficult to stomach about the defeat yesterday is that it was totally preventable. As has been stated on other threads it was glaringly obvious that a) Robertson was having a poor game and was a red card waiting to happen and b) Stanton is not on his game and is clearly short of confidence at the minute and probably should not have started the match let alone made it to 80 minutes.
Stubbs is new to management and I am not going to have a go at him at such an early stage of his Hibs career when he has done a lot of good work already. What I have a problem with however is that the club have made a big thing about the high standard of coaching staff we have recruited, so surely one of Doolan or Holden should have been able to recognise the weak areas on the pitch and communicate that to Stubbs. I fully believe if we had brought on Allan & Kennedy 10/15 minutes earlier we could have won the game, or at least given Hearts enough to think about to stop them attacking us full tilt like they did.
Hopefully a lesson learnt by the management team yesterday. The ability to make these decisions at the right time can often dictate whether a match is won, lost or drawn. Hearts made positive changes: Hearts won the match. Hibs waited until it was too late: Hibs lost the match.
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18-08-2014 08:00 PM #1
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18-08-2014 08:07 PM #2
I don't think it was down to in expirience, I've never been a manager and I thought he should have changed things. I think he's trying to show the players he trusts them.
United we stand here....
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18-08-2014 08:14 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The same could have been said for that Prince boy for them as well I suppose, I thought Neilson played a dangerous game by keeping him on the park but it paid off for him, wasn't to be for Stubbs though.
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18-08-2014 08:18 PM #4
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Hindsight management is the easiest game in town ...the game was starting to be stretched ...no team had been creating chances and then Nicholson fires in a worldy ....that's football...it could have as easily been us that got a little break and took the lead ...we will learn from it
We are already a better side than last season , we won't be far away at the end of the season, so let's see how we get on.
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18-08-2014 08:26 PM #5
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Stanton was virtually a passenger and his lack of attacking threat allowed Hearts to commit players forward down their right hand side, where the opening goal came from. If Kennedy had been brought on to run at the full back and give them something to think about, things may have turned out differently.
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18-08-2014 08:36 PM #7
Complete hindsight, another day Nicholson's shot hits row z. Great strike but out of keeping with the game. We lost the game we move on. The endless slating of players and manager's is a joke. We need more players however he is at least trying to get us to play the game in the right way.
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18-08-2014 08:39 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Bye the way, this is not an attack on Sam. We all want to see him playing well, but it just isn't happening just now for some reason.
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18-08-2014 08:51 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Ggtth
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18-08-2014 09:13 PM #11
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19-08-2014 06:06 AM #13
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Stanton should be in the centre of the park.
It is unfortunately an area in which we're actually quite well covered but that either means we rotate him with others or he sticks his hand up and becomes undroppable.
We have options wide with Kennedy and the possibility of Craig playing Left Mid where he played for St Johnstone with Harris moving to the right.
Personally prefer Harris on the left but we need to make the best of what we have.
Would be surprised if Kennedy doesn't start on Saturday and I'd have it down to whether Allan is match fit enough for a central start or whether we move Stanton in to replace Robertson.
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19-08-2014 07:28 AM #15
I've been saying since pre-season that Sam is no wide player. Stubbs seems determined to accommodate him but that must surely be central. Why does he not play him in the Handling role?
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