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04-02-2024 09:38 PM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-02-2024 09:49 PM #63
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04-02-2024 10:57 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What is exciting about Foley is the promise of additional investment going forward, effectively money to bring in higher value players. This additional investment won't be in exchange for shares - it will be for players he can take to Bournemouth, Lorient or elsewhere.....or it may be for the profit on a sale. It could be £1m a year or it could be £10m.....it may very well dictated by our performance on the pitch. If we are playing in Europe it would certainly provide more confidence for larger investment.
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05-02-2024 12:42 AM #66
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05-02-2024 03:50 AM #67
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Any new 20% investor will seek assurances that their money will be used wisely and affectively, before they hand over a penny. Part of that will be looking at those that spend and use it. To date, Monty's been given very little to spend, which historically is a measure of how highly a manager is held at Hibs.
IMO Monty is under scrutiny until the end of the season. His performance working with what he has will determine if he's going to get a bean to spend on new players, or if we Strat again. Tough, but fair.
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05-02-2024 05:19 AM #68
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Why wouldn't he be sacked if we fail to reach the top six? Maloney was after a less amount of time, Boyle sold in the January window and a ***** heap of a squad bar Nisbet?
ICT beat us next week, and there's a real possibility it will happen based on what I seen with my own eyes in Forfar he should be gone.
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05-02-2024 05:36 AM #69This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-02-2024 05:39 AM #70This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As had been well discussed on here, the 4-4-2 of that night is a different style to the 4-4-2 of Montgomery. We did not have a rigid philosophy we had to abide by that night, we didn't have one of the strikers dropping into midfield all the time and we could be direct when required. Our centre miss also didn't play on the toes of the centre halves and we played players in their correct positions.
We also had the flexibility to change the approach for the away leg, which gave us more solidity in the middle of the park and made us dangerous on the break.
Any competent manager could get better results than Montgomery with the pre January squad. If anything, there's been some incredibly poor debuts from the new guys and very little to suggest we've anything special, apart from maybe marcondes. Early days and I'm by no means writing these guys off but none of the new guys look ready to hit the ground running.
Last season we should have finished Third, we just couldn't finish our chances first half of the season then got much better when nisbet was available. We've totally changed that approach, despite replacing nisbet with a strike with an excellent goal scoring record and we've, imo, regressed significantly. It's not all on the players although they need to take some responsibility but the manager should be able to get more out of them.Last edited by Johnny_Leith; 05-02-2024 at 06:20 AM.
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05-02-2024 09:16 AM #71This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Last edited by J-C; 06-02-2024 at 08:32 AM.
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05-02-2024 09:19 AM #72
Black Knight can't interfere as such but their share will still mean they have a strong voice on things moving forward, especially if they intend to invest more in the future.
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05-02-2024 09:45 AM #73
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I am curious why the players seems so disinterested at times. I feel we have gone backwards under NM, are the players so fed up with the same old system and tactics failing and just sticking to it?
Are they being turned into robots being so rigid?
The players , manager and football side of the club is a mess.
I cannot see NM recovering this at all. I’d bin him today.
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05-02-2024 07:35 PM #74
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05-02-2024 07:40 PM #75
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06-02-2024 08:33 AM #76This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-02-2024 10:46 AM #77
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There's absolutely no question that Montgomery is on trial - if not by the board then certainly by the fans. He came in on a wave of optimism and has turned that to dust with a succession of dreadful performances, awful team selections and inadequate tactics.
As it is, he has all but lost the support from the stands. Saturday's atmosphere was as toxic as any I have seen at Easter Road and that usually signals that a manager's tenure is coming to an end. I'd say he has a very small window of opportunity to turn that around. While we may not hold out much hope for Wednesday's game against Celtic, we'd expect to progress in the cup against Inverness on Saturday. If we see pitiful performances in both games, then I can't see him being in charge for the trip to Aberdeen.
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06-02-2024 11:26 AM #78
Currently Hibs sit on a 26% win rate in the league. If we don’t win on Wed or Sat this will fall to 24%. The standard of the league isn’t great this season and to be sitting on 26% is criminal. A massive game for Monty on Sat if he doesn’t win, jotters for me.
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06-02-2024 11:35 AM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Any sort of win in the cup, Celtic game out of the way, regroup and try to salvage what we can out of the rest of the season.
Meanwhile - I'd expect our recruitment team to be getting a few ducks in a row regarding out of contract players who might be able to join up with us next season in time for pre season training starting.
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06-02-2024 11:56 AM #80
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06-02-2024 12:21 PM #81This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It might be that they're doing an excellent job of delivering exactly what and who they are expected to, both by the football department and those above them (BK? The board? IG?)
The summer activity was presumably delivered to play the way LJ wanted to play. He was hoofed with a week of the transfer window to go. Just because those players don't necessary fit under Monty doesn't mean that the recruitment team hasn't done it's job.
That the whole football operation in general is a shambles isn't up for debate - just who is most culpable, whether it is those setting the expectations and hiring/firing managers, the recruitment team, or the present managerial incumbent.
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06-02-2024 12:43 PM #82
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