Allan performed for half a season at Dundee United and one and a half season's at Hibs. At West Brom, Celtic and Rotherham he has done zero. He's not a young prospect in footballing terms anymore, and has wasted most of his career on benches, in reserves and chatting on phones to pretty awful agents or whatever other cretins have been advising him.
I can't see him fulfilling anything like his potential now, which is a shame because he's some player. The return Hibs have got on Allan's sale is probably one of the great bargains in Scottish football, and we'd be pushing our luck to think we'd get a similar one in a second spell.
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11-01-2017 06:05 PM #31
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11-01-2017 06:09 PM #32This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Of the two there is absolutely no doubt in my mind as is to who is more deserving of our support.
I find the Scott Allan love in a bit strange in general terms.
His history points to him being nothing but trouble for the majority of his career.
Rather than viewing his troubles before and after Hibs as the aberration, it would probably be more representative to view his time at Hibs as the aberration from the norm.
On that basis I wouldn't have him back
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11-01-2017 06:11 PM #33
Scott Allan is a great player and one I would love see play for us again.
I won't hold it against him that he left Dundee United for West Brom, who were in the premier league at the time.
Nor will I hold against him that he wanted to sign for the club he has supported since he was a boy and play with his best mate (Halliday).
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11-01-2017 06:12 PM #34
I'd have him back.
He's no a Hibs fan, never was, so while I was disappointed he wanted to leave, I didn't hate him for it. He's a footballer, he's entitled to try to better himself, but it's no worked out for him.
He was our best player for a year. I'd happily have a player like that back in the team.
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11-01-2017 06:13 PM #35This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Give me a team of players that play for each other every time.
He'll probably get his 'dream move' at long last.
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11-01-2017 06:13 PM #36
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11-01-2017 06:15 PM #37
He can rot as far as I'm concerned. Anyone not prepared to devote 100% to Hibs shouldn't be considered. He had his chance here and became a fans favourite fairly quickly, then he decided we weren't good enough for him and if that was the case then it's the case now.
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11-01-2017 06:17 PM #39
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Off topic but imagine in some kind of disturbed universe Allan having the game of his life beside his pal "****ed it up" Halliday and us losing the final. No henderson there to deliver, no Stokes on 🔥. Thank god our board and Leanne Dempster held firm and told they ********s to bolt.
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11-01-2017 06:17 PM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The squad should of been professional enough to deal with it and to blame it all on Allan is people not taking responsibility.
He never started the game against Rangers, which was the first game iirc and after that he was sold?
When he played for us after the request he never lacked effort
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11-01-2017 06:18 PM #41
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11-01-2017 06:20 PM #42
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11-01-2017 06:31 PM #46
Wouldn't want him back, the way he acted on the pitch when we played Sevco, given the hype at the time, was a real kick in the teeth. He is not good enough to sell our soul for.
We were a better team once he left and I have no appetite for watching the Scott Allan show again. It consists of him ignoring all the easy passes to attempt the World Cup ball that either doesn't work or his team mates aren't good enough to read. It works from time to time then there is mass hysteria about how good he is.
No denying he is a good player when he is in form but how many games in his career has he actually performed in and what would it be this time? He wants to leave on the eve of a cup final or God forbid if we end up in the play offs, his concern will always be personal progression regardless of the timing or effect on his club.
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11-01-2017 06:32 PM #47This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Glory Glory
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11-01-2017 06:33 PM #48
It never fails to amuse me how fans see/remember what they want to.
If they dislike a person it is irrelevant how they perform, they will always judge them based on their disliking towards them.
Scott Allan was fantastic for us, absolutely fantastic.
https://youtu.be/0FuwqSVXLn4
For anyone who forgot what he was like.
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11-01-2017 06:33 PM #49This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Last edited by Scouse Hibee; 11-01-2017 at 06:35 PM.
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11-01-2017 06:33 PM #50This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Stubbs was wrong, signing Allan for Rotherham was a mistake, the kind of mistake he made a bit too often in his 2 months or so at that club.Last edited by Smartie; 11-01-2017 at 06:35 PM.
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But anybody who thinks we'd get the same player back, playing to the same level, is seriously deluding themselves. Allan is one of those players for whom every circumstance has to be just right before he performs effectively. Him, Stubbs and Hibs were a perfect fit, and he was too silly and lacked the self-awareness to see that, and now he's burned his boats with probably both those parties.
He has no future at Celtic under Rogers, who will probably get him off the payroll. The Huns might swallow their pride, but I doubt it, and I could see him back at Dundee United.
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11-01-2017 06:37 PM #55
He's a luxury we don't need at the moment, talented player but he doesn't seem to have playing as his absolute priority.
We have a pretty settled dressing room just now and I don't think what he brought to us at the time he was desperate to get to Ibrox particularly helped us so a no from me. Good player though when he wants or gets a chance.
"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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11-01-2017 06:38 PM #57
It's mental how players seem to split our support these days.
Lewis Stevenson, Dominique Malonga, Andrew Shinnie, Grant Holt.
Everyone is indeed entitled to their opinion but I'm surprised to see how many folk weren't that mad on Scott Allan.
I mean, I like Stevenson and Holt but I can understand why some don't. But Scott Allan was quality.
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11-01-2017 06:39 PM #58This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Wee 'Scotty' Allan can rot''It's always been just part of the culture. Growing up, for most working-class kids, is all about football, music or clothes. You might not have much money, but whatever you have got, you're going to look good.'' - Paul Weller
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11-01-2017 06:40 PM #59This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You think he would've been killing himself like Fyvie and Henderson at 2-1 down in the cup final? No chance.
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11-01-2017 06:40 PM #60
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