I'm taking a look at our past recruitment history and one thing stands out. Most of our signings are players that can't get a game for there current clubs. This for me is the biggest problem. I watched a video last year that showed George Craig identifying players via online videos. At the time I thought this was not the way we should be finding players, and it's even more evident now. Here's a list of our more recent signings that were on the fringes and couldn't get a game for there current clubs.
Mallan
Maclaren
Flo
Horgan
Hyndman
Agyepong
Slivka
Matulevicious
Whittaker
Milligan
You start going back further and names like Dagnall, Carmichael and Thomson appear. Where we have had success with players, are young up and coming players like McGinn, McGeouch, Henderson and Barker. Also signing players that get a game for there clubs has worked out better for us. Bartley, McGregor, Efe. I'm not saying we shouldn't sign players that don't play for there clubs, or just because they do (Swanson) they are guaranteed to work out. What I do think we need to do is flip flop the way we find players around. Rather than mostly sign players that are not on form and playing for there clubs, we should be looking to find players that are in form and playing regularly.
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Thread: Recruitment
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06-12-2018 04:56 AM #1
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06-12-2018 05:21 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Ambrose hadn't played for how long before coming here?
McGregor had just been freed
Bartley had reached the end of his contract
Classic making the "facts" fit your arguments
How do you think players are or become available?
They are either available as they have chosen to let their contracts run down (Bartley & McGinn) Aren't good enough to get a game for their parent club (McGeouch & Henderson) or are out of favour like the rest and their current club is prepared to do a deal.
It must have escaped your attention that we aren't Man City who can go and buy players at the top of their game for mega millions from their current clubs who are reluctant to lose their best players.
This is the pool that the vast bulk of Scottish Football teams fish in and like it or not you have to kiss an awful lot of frogs before you find a prince.
Hibs were awful again last night and there are plenty reasons to be concerned, but ill thought out tripe like this helps no-one.
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06-12-2018 05:44 AM #3
We need to look at the Scandinavian market and other parts of Europe, too many obvious looking players from a pool everyone knows. I thought 2-3 Molde players looked very good.
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06-12-2018 05:47 AM #4
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Our main issue isn't recruitment at the moment. We were doing absolutely fine until Lennon started messing about with the team causing us to lose confidence.
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06-12-2018 06:34 AM #7
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I don't really understand how you can make that point then include Kamberi, Mallan and Slivka on your first list, who were all around 21 when they signed for us.
You've then got Henderson, McGeouch and Barker on the other list of the kind of players we should be getting but none of them got a game for their clubs - that's why they've joined Hibs!
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06-12-2018 06:42 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You cannot beat the experienced eyes of top scouts .
Yes its good to use modern technology but we are bringing in some bang average players.
The on loan guys are all injured or not playing most of the time .so i think your being a tad harsh to the poster
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06-12-2018 07:13 AM #10
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dylan made us tick. Linked play from defence to midfield then into your number 10. Who was recruited to do that ?
mcginn was a ball carrier. Got us up the pitch . Same question as above
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06-12-2018 07:36 AM #12
We're lacking someone who takes responsibility from the middle of the pitch forward, rather than outright ability. McGinn, Mcgeouch, Allan all demanded the ball. Even a reasonable spfl standard player who does that would improve the players around him a hell of a lot.
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06-12-2018 08:44 AM #17
I genuinely don't think we've signed poor quality, I think we might have signed poor characters.
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06-12-2018 10:34 AM #19
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Or it was all nasty Celtic's fault that transfer didn't happen?
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06-12-2018 11:07 AM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Not every team and player, like here there's only a couple bigish clubs, we have to throw our net a bit further or relying on certain agent offering their clients, we need to start unearthing some gems like other teams seem to do.
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06-12-2018 11:27 AM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I would think, though, that the board - having sanctioned (with Lennon's consent/blessing etc along with the recruitment team and so on) Mallan, Hyndman, Horgan, Agyepong, and Milligan, might have considered that Allan was a stretch too far - after all, the board will know exactly what we have to spend (I would think).
Do you know how far apart Hibs and Celtic were in their valuation of Allan?
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06-12-2018 11:46 AM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Also fees were payed for Mallen, Horgan and Kamberi.
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06-12-2018 11:48 AM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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06-12-2018 12:28 PM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Short of the chief exec scouting every player what more are they to do?
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