Lead post on slating fish, ultra negative on every other thread and now this. You really need to day off here.
It's terrible right now. Yesterday is the worse I've seen, but the constant negativity is not good for you, this forum or the club.
Seriously mate, let's put this in perspective and take a deep breath.
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Thread: Lost the dressing room?
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04-02-2024 08:14 AM #31
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04-02-2024 08:16 AM #32
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Many will say it’s from yourself and that partly true but it also has to come from your leadership and mentors…
That’s 100% the Head Coach/Manager and his coaching team…. The desire to win is not being instilled into them by the Manager and there’s no fight.
We have another Manager who just stands on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets I’m afraid.
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04-02-2024 09:07 AM #34
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That isn’t any defence of Montgomery by the way but **** the players, their crap attitude and lack of desire.
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Courage isnt an absence of fear. Thats being psychotic. Courage is having the fear and doing it anyway.
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04-02-2024 09:19 AM #36
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I don’t think players deliberately go out to be crap. I do think there are millions of examples of them not going out and giving their all though.
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04-02-2024 09:33 AM #37
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It may be that the volume of new players coming in, the link up with Bournemouth has unsettled the team. Has foley coming into the fold changed the vision Montgomery had. Yesterday looked like, to me anyway, something had unsettled the team. One or two players being off it happens, yesterday looked like the whole team. Wouldn’t say he has lost the dressing room, to me it just looked like the whole team looked unfocused.
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I struggle to believe he’s ever really had the dressing room.
Imagine having someone stroll in the door who only knows one desperately basic way of playing who declares it’s the only way he’ll ever play. The players will have known from the off that this was never going to work, plenty fans knew it and called it months ago. It was clear as day he was going to be a failure at Hibs when he declared he was only going to play the way we do and he’d never change.
Throw in the fact he is probably the dullest manager I can remember at Hibs and you’ve not exactly got much incentive to believe in him if you’re a player, do you?
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04-02-2024 09:49 AM #41
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We have guys who think they're Pirlo or Pelè
They just got pumped by James Scott & Alex Gogic, coached by a manager who knows how to shut the back door (at one end of the pitch) while preying on the glaring weaknesses in our team.
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04-02-2024 10:05 AM #42
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As far as I can see Montgomery's plan is exactly the opposite of what you said Robinson's was being open at the back and playing to all our own weaknesses without ever working with our strengths. To me the players look beat before they get on the pitch, hard to see how that changes when there is precious little character on the pitch. There was a tiny glimmer in Monty's post match interview when at last he recognised that we weren't competing or fighting. To me that has been the case for weeks, Forfar being a prime example.
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04-02-2024 10:09 AM #43
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04-02-2024 10:13 AM #45
I posted that I think some players have been told their time is up in the summer and the performances reflect that.
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04-02-2024 10:49 AM #46
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I thought yesterday was a completely different type of ‘performance’ from some of them though. There were players there who didn’t give a **** yesterday.
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04-02-2024 11:32 AM #48This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-02-2024 11:39 AM #49
Youan is, let’s say, a confidence player. Someone who seems to struggle with consistency of performance. If you have a manager who routinely plays him out of position - and in a formation and with tactics that simply make him a redundant luxury - then days like yesterday from that player will happen more often than not.
Montgomery seems to be managing to make good players average, average players poor and poor players awful. To get this far into a season with your preferred style patently not working and have no plan b betrays a pretty threadbare managerial toolkit or a pig headed obstinacy that demands action from the club.
Unfortunately the club is led by dilettantes with little to no football knowledge or experience who are simply unable to understand, let alone address and remedy, the very serious serial football failings we are now lumbered with. Of course one reason why they may be reluctant to bring in a manager with a degree of football authority and seniority is that he would likely call it how it is in respect of the squad, the signings and how we go about our football business.
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I wonder too if the way the club's football operation is run is a significant barrier to appointing a tried and tested manager. People in football will have opinions and talk to each other. Guys like McInnes or Robinson, they're not going to want to just manage what they're given. Surely if Monty had any meaningful say in what comes in , he would have been targeting a different kind of player (like one who is actually able to make us better?).
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I know it happens, but I detest the thought of players not giving 100% for, club, themselves and especially the fans.
They also get bloody paid to do it too!Last edited by Joe6-2; 04-02-2024 at 01:29 PM.
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If you had Cadden and Penrice wide midfield that would make a considerable difference to our work rate in the midfield. Add them in with Marcondes, Amos or Moriah Welsh and it has a much improved balance
I saw Newell giving jair a talking to yesterday for not tracking a man which jair clearly had sort of excuse for
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04-02-2024 02:03 PM #58
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I tend to agree with you. These players may lack quality but they know the league and they've won enough games in the past to know what it takes. I suspect they just collectively went 'Yeah, we'll give it our best shot' when NM appeared, whilst proceeding with the almost certain knowledge it was doomed to failure. Yesterday the wheels fell off.
I don't even think it's about systems or players at this point, it's just NM's inability to coach at this level. It's certainly shown up the Aussie league for what it is if this guy could win it. He can't buy a win in his league.
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04-02-2024 03:33 PM #59
I recall not long after Monty arrived that Vente was full of praise for the new way Hibs were being asked to play and claiming we now had a proper system. I wonder if he feels that way now.
We also had plenty of praise from the fans after Monty's early games, saying how refreshing it was to see a team set up in an identifiable way and being clear about the way they were meant to play.
The speed at which all that has unravelled so spectacularly does possibly hint at something not clicking behind the scenes.
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