James Collins

**RedHibby** · 05-08-2017 08:02 PM

I see he got a hatrick today for Luton Town.

***Mantis Toboggan*** · 05-08-2017 08:04 PM

Why on a great day like today would you reintroduce the idea of James Collins to the board.

***Hibernia&Alba*** · 05-08-2017 08:07 PM

Nothing against the guy, and I'm glad he's found his level, but we could have done without flushing that £200,000 down the toilet.

***Greencore*** · 05-08-2017 08:09 PM

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Nothing against the guy, and I'm glad he's found his level, but we could have done without flushing that £200,000 down the toilet.

Didn't we get it back when we sold him?

***Mibbes Aye*** · 05-08-2017 08:10 PM

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Why on a great day like today would you reintroduce the idea of James Collins to the board.

Feel a bit sorry for Collins.

He didn't deliver for us, but not through lack of effort. It just didn't click.

He's consistently scored, very consistently, elsewhere at a rate of 1 in 3 or usually higher, so he knows how to find the net. One can compare the levels he is playing at but he's scored enough at different clubs to say he's a decent goalscorer.

Sometimes things don't work out. It just didn't work out for him at Hibs.

**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 05-08-2017 08:12 PM

If you put James Colins in this Hibs team, he probably would score goals. Not all the players we had over the past several years were utter guff, some were just surrounded by it.

**Famous Fiver** · 05-08-2017 08:12 PM

Sounds like he p*shed it!

**~~calumhibee1~~** · 05-08-2017 08:13 PM

Useless *******.

**DH1875** · 05-08-2017 08:15 PM

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If you put James Colins in this Hibs team, he probably would score goals. Not all the players we had over the past several years were utter guff, some were just surrounded by it.

He was pretty pish to be fair.

**high bee** · 05-08-2017 08:20 PM

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If you put James Colins in this Hibs team, he probably would score goals. Not all the players we had over the past several years were utter guff, some were just surrounded by it.

Definitely, he was still relatively young and got frustrated by the lack of goals and think it became a vicious cycle.

***Mantis Toboggan*** · 05-08-2017 08:20 PM

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He was pretty pish to be fair.

Was just too limited. The SPL is a much better standard than League 1 despite what people will try and tell you.

***Carheenlea*** · 05-08-2017 08:22 PM

Can remember thinking at at an away day to Ross County in the cup (the Ross Caldwell/Terry Butcher sub fracas) that we were seeing what James Collins was all about. He had pace, power and looked every bit the dangerous striker we hoped. Sadly that day proved to be a bit of a one off and it never really happened for him with us.

***tamig*** · 05-08-2017 08:29 PM

Andy Shinnie also got two assists for Luton today. I think James Collins gets a lot of unfair criticism on here. He was a player who tried his heart out at Hibs and his relatively poor goal return was pretty much down to poor service and tactics. Still, he did the business against hertz and that's never a bad thing.

**alihibs1** · 05-08-2017 08:29 PM

Shinnie assisting 2 of them aswell.

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**CorrieHibs** · 05-08-2017 08:36 PM

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I see he got a hatrick today for Luton Town.

Luton town in league 2 is his level.

Well done to the guy, but he wasn't good enough for the Scottish premier league

**~~My_Wife_Camille~~** · 05-08-2017 08:39 PM

Abysmal player best left in the past

**DavidDavidGray** · 05-08-2017 08:49 PM

James Collins was humpty, can't see why some people on here defend him. Dreadful player

**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 05-08-2017 08:50 PM

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He was pretty pish to be fair.

Stevenson and Hanlon were pretty pish during that time as well. But put some decent players around them and suddenly they don't look so bad.

**heretoday** · 05-08-2017 08:52 PM

Luton.

Blue Nun!

**Hillsidehibby** · 05-08-2017 08:54 PM

Luton. The arse wipe of the world.

**chrisski33** · 05-08-2017 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by RedHibby

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I see he got a hatrick today for Luton Town.

So what

Nameless · 05-08-2017 09:25 PM

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So what

So what, so what.

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***Northernhibee*** · 05-08-2017 09:26 PM

A decent if limited footballer who was surrounded by dross and let his confidence drop to rock bottom levels.

I'm sure he'd do well with us nowadays, funnily enough. Wish him well at Luton.

**DH1875** · 05-08-2017 09:29 PM

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Stevenson and Hanlon were pretty pish during that time as well. But put some decent players around them and suddenly they don't look so bad.

I actually don't agree with that at all

**~~calumhibee1~~** · 05-08-2017 09:30 PM

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Was just too limited. The SPL is a much better standard than League 1 despite what people will try and tell you.

Yup. Celtic would hose league one and probably the championship down there. Us Aberdeen and Rangers when not self imploding would easily hold our own in mid table in the Championship. And that's without the money they get. Players coming to the bigger clubs in Scotland from League One and below are making a step up.

***Not In The Know*** · 05-08-2017 09:36 PM

He is the perfect example of an over rated and over paid English player. Found his level of football now but gets paid more than he would prob ever get in Scotland.

**Borderhibbie76** · 06-08-2017 08:56 AM

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He is the perfect example of an over rated and over paid English player. Found his level of football now but gets paid more than he would prob ever get in Scotland.

Indeed he was humpty regardless of who player round him...it just probes English League 1 and 2 is well below Scots Prem standard...despite what the English media and Sky would have us believe

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***jacomo*** · 06-08-2017 09:16 AM

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Stevenson and Hanlon were pretty pish during that time as well. But put some decent players around them and suddenly they don't look so bad.

Both were young and still learning.

I remember both were the subject of endless threads on here - LS not good enough, PH too easily bullied etc.

Being charitable you could say the same for James Collins as he was only 21/22 when he joined Hibs. But he was the wrong player at the wrong time. We needed goals and he never looked like providing enough of them.

**MyJo** · 06-08-2017 09:01 PM

still hate him with a passion he was that bad for us.

signed for a fee, meant to have been our star striker and scored 6 goals in 36 games, no ****ing wonder we were relgated.