Deserves credit in all of this. I'm more concerned with losing her than I am Stubbs. Basically because I believe she probably has contingency plans should he go, but don't believe the same for Petrie if she leaves. (Didn't mean to turn this into an anti-Petrie thread, but you know how it goes...)
I think it starts with her, and if we keep her then we have continuity, as she appoints another Stubbs figure (also a modern long-range planner) rather than go back to the old boom-bust mode.
It chills me now to think that it wasn't so long ago people were touting 'experienced old hands' like Jimmy Calderwood as an answer to Hibs problems. Avoid those fossils like the plague.
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08-11-2015 12:24 AM #1
Dempster
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08-11-2015 12:40 AM #2
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I concur.. She deserves a lot of credit with date I say it Petrie for appointing her..
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08-11-2015 12:45 AM #3
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Fwiw, I don't think she deserves much praise for the on the pitch, but off the pitch we seem much better and for that I'm happy!
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08-11-2015 12:53 AM #4
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Agree. Really hope we keep club together through promotion.
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08-11-2015 08:12 AM #6
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I agree on LD but Jimmy Calderwood would have been a better appointment than TB, CC, & PF
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08-11-2015 08:26 AM #7
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From what I understand The Butcher didn't buy into Leeanns philosophy and was sacked.
I don't think there there was much difference of opinion when Leeann and AS had a similar conversation at the time of his recruitment.
Credit one, credit the other, why not credit them both!Space to let
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08-11-2015 08:36 AM #8
Dempster is in my opinion the driving force behind everything good that has happened at Hibs in the last 18 months. She has a progressive forward thinking attitude and feel for the fans that Petrie never had, no matter how much flesh he pressed in 'Behind the Goals'.
I also think that she recognises that there is a correlation between success on the pitch and the club making money, something which didn't appear to be to the fore in the thinking of Rod Petrie or STF ..... who by accident or design seemed to see the team on the park as part of what the club was about, instead of realising that that is what its all about.
In a country of this size where money from fans is by far the biggest single source of income for any club, getting bums on seats has to be treated almost like a religious calling by clubs. If you have success on the park everything follows from it ....... bigger crowds, more TV money, better sponsorship deals, bigger prize money and, hell why not, even a bit of silverware to admire in the boardroom.
Before she is headhunted by a much bigger fish than us LD has 4 objectives:
1) Stabilize the club
2) Get the fans to feel positive about the club again, after years of negativity
3) See the club safely back to the Premiership
4) Win something, qualify for Europe ..... hopefully both
The club has made massive strides towards the first two objectives in the last year ... From what we have seen on the park lately we are at least going in the right direction when it comes to 3 and 4.
Would that be the case without LD ? ...... Perhaps, but I'm inclined to doubt it.Last edited by NAE NOOKIE; 08-11-2015 at 08:40 AM.
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Last edited by marinello59; 08-11-2015 at 08:46 AM.
Every gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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08-11-2015 09:17 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But as Stubbs said in his post match interview re Cummings yesterday ,let's just keep doing what we are doing and cross that Bridge when we come to it .
Why can't we as a support just organically enjoy watching the club as it evolves and not worry about who is going where when ,it will happen at some point ,But just
Feel the Karma Bob and stay in the moment and enjoy being a Hibee during this winning run .
For the record The Sun Tan man may have been better than Butcher but he wasn't what we needed.It s clear we now have what we need and although I wanted Petrie out , but even he must be sitting back admiring Ms Dempsters work and enjoying the end Product.
And for all we know Ms Dempster may already have her eye on her successor .The blue print is there to be followed its making sure the right people are in the right jobs , Sucsession Planning .
Final ps ,I had the pleasure of bumping into Suzy from Leith Links at the game yesterday .She was with a youngster who was throughly enjoying his day out watching the Hibees winning ,he couldn't keep the smile off his face and long may that continue .
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Even if we did miss both of Keat's goals as someone wanted a juice...
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08-11-2015 11:05 AM #12
I think we need to see things through a bit more to determine whether we have the right blue print. It's certainly a better one if indeed there was a blue print at all previously
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08-11-2015 11:43 AM #13
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I only ever get aroused in the usual way. I feels as if I'm missing out.
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08-11-2015 01:27 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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