ANOTHER ex player thread.....cummings

[Bleeds green]

Being sent back to forest in January....will defo be available on a loan perhaps even permanent. We know he can score goals in Scottish football and given our issues upfront as of late could he be a solution?

[Diclonius]

Yes, yes, yes. Get him over here.

[Forza Fred]

If he comes back to Scotland on loan, I think it will be with our friends at Tynecastle.

[Smartie]

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If he comes back to Scotland on loan, I think it will be with our friends at Tynecastle.

Fortunately he is everything Levein doesn't like in a player, and I'd be surprised to see them shell out a significant sum for a Hibs hero 5th choice striker who their manager probably doesn't rate.

[Barney McGrew]

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Fortunately he is everything Levein doesn't like in a player, and I'd be surprised to see them shell out a significant sum for a Hibs hero 5th choice striker who their manager probably doesn't rate.

You can guarantee that view will change in an instant if he thinks we’re interested and he can somehow get one over on us.

[Diclonius]

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You can guarantee that view will change in an instant if he thinks we’re interested and he can somehow get one over on us.

Nail on head.

If we're in for him Hearts will go all out to get him.

[Antifa Hibs]

He can score goals in the lower levels of Scottish football.

For the huns a hatrick against a pish Falkirk rooted to the foot of the championship and a goal against County away who were rooted to the bottom of the SPL plus maybe one or two others.

His scoring record, video of him smashing up his own house plus the fact the next team he goes to will be his fourth club in just over 1 year means i'll pass.

[makaveli1875]

No thanks

[jdships]

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No thanks

Agree

[BlackSheep]

Yes we have been burnt with past player returning (Stokes....) but Cummings would be a real asset, and his time down south will have added to his game and maturity (ewven just a little).

He and Kamberi would be an unstoppable force.

[stu in nottingham]

I really am not sure.

He seems to have lost his way at Peterborough of late. I think most of his goals there came early on then dried up a little before he lost his place. There is nothing at Forest for him I don't believe and Rangers don't appear to consider him good enough. I think the future for him is quite unpredictable.

[007]

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Yes we have been burnt with past player returning (Stokes....) but Cummings would be a real asset, and his time down south will have added to his game and maturity (ewven just a little).

He and Kamberi would be an unstoppable force.

Not sure they'd be unstoppable but definitely think they could compliment each other very well. Get him in for a trial and see how they get on.

[Diclonius]

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He can score goals in the lower levels of Scottish football.

These too.

[The 90+2]

Make it happen. Not on loan for 6 months tho to have a great loan period and **** off somewhere else. I don’t think his ego would allow him to return permanently though. He will end up at Hearts.

[Souter96Mac]

If we can get Scott Allan back, JC would score a ton of goals.

[One Day]

Probably best not, but you never know

[eastmainsmsh]

Cummings link up play is good plus goals would be good if we could get him

[EH54]

No brainer, if he's available and we aren't interested I'll be seriously annoyed to say the least.

[SirDavidsNapper]

Rose tinted specs springs to mind. It took a bollocking from Lennon to wake him up when he wasn't scoring against joiners and posties in the Championship. No better than what we have.

[B.H.F.C]

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Rose tinted specs springs to mind. It took a bollocking from Lennon to wake him up when he wasn't scoring against joiners and posties in the Championship. No better than what we have.

He’s different to what we have. Scores all different types of goal.

We could do worse. Good record against all the better sides we faced.

[calumhibee1]

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He’s different to what we have. Scores all different types of goal.

We could do worse. Good record against all the better sides we faced.

Agree. He’s dangerous from anywhere within 25 yards. We don’t really have a striker like that right now.

[Peevemor]

The Cummings who left us for Forest would get into our current team. OK we were in the second tier when he was here but he still scored against Hearts, Rangers & Aberdeen.

Part of our recent slump is due in part, I think, to a lack of gallousness and I reckon the loss of guys like SJM, Cummings, Fontain, Bartley (who hardly got a game before his injury) and even Holt has changed the mentality of the "group". Regardless of their level of skill (although there's obviously a lower limit) different players are good to have around for different reasons.

Part of me would like to see him back for this alone although, like others, I don't know if he's the same player/character now compared to when he left.

[blackpoolhibs]

My first instinct is no, i dont think he's good enough. He did score a lot of goals for us, and did score against a few Premiership teams, but i'm of the opinion he's just not good enough for the top league in Scotland.

Playing for Forrest then sevco and now Peterbourgh, he's not been good enough to force his way into any of those sides, and while he's scored a few for each club, his weaknesses which were there for all to see even at Hibs, have not been improved on.

If he came back, i'm sure he'd score the odd goal, but i'm not convinced he'd get in the side every week, but maybe he'd fill the job as our 3rd striker.

[G15 Hibs]

Is there any club that has the kind of relationship with its former players as Hibs does? The number who have come back after leaving over the years (often leaving in acrimonious circumstances) or the clamour amongst the support when an ex-player becomes available seems different than it does elsewhere. Maybe I'm wrong and its the same everywhere else. But the "once a Hibbie" thing really does seem to matter to both fans and players.

For the topic, we really do lack a goalscorer eh?

[Stuart93]

100% take him back, purely for the goals he scored v hearts

[Smartie]

Neil Lennon went all-out to get him to stay for another season and got the goals that got us promoted.

Lennon DID drop him, but iirc he bounced back from that a better player.

Funnily enough I wasn't always 100% convinced by him, but I would take him back. I'd be surprised if he's not better for the experiences he's had after leaving us.

[MrRobot]

No thanks. Lower level player IMO.

[BOB MARLEYS DUG]

Take him back in a heartbeat, the boy scores goals.

[Pretty Boy]

It's an area in which we are short so I'd take him.

I get the feeling he's the type that needs to be in the right environment and maybe he hasn't had that in a while. You can't really argue with his record at Hibs, yes many of his goals were at a lower level, but he banged them in against Aberdeen, Hearts and Rangers.

I've no idea if there are any politics preventing a deal happening but from a football perspective it's a bit of a no brainer.

[Smartie]

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It's an area in which we are short so I'd take him.

I get the feeling he's the type that needs to be in the right environment and maybe he hasn't had that in a while. You can't really argue with his record at Hibs, yes many of his goals were at a lower level, but he banged them in against Aberdeen, Hearts and Rangers.

I've no idea if there are any politics preventing a deal happening but from a football perspective it's a bit of a no brainer.

I think the main barrier to any move would be the fact that we think we're better than him and he thinks he's better than us.