The Wiiiide Piiiiiiiiitch

[Emerald]

What a waste! We now have a pitch thats suits wingers, pacey midfielders, fast forwards, players who can run at defences with pace and cause problems against slow SPL defenders. What have we got??? Is there no planning regarding this? We will get ripped by a team with fast wingers/forwards. Southampton and the Dell spring to mind, remember them?

As for tonight, If it were the first leg the first 20 minutes would have been acceptable but its a long long way from beating Liverpool 1 - 0 on a European night at Easter Road. That sadly will be a memory not to be repeated. Beating Hamilton will be good now!

:bitchy:

[Emerald]

What a waste! We now have a pitch thats suits wingers, pacey midfielders, fast forwards, players who can run at defences with pace and cause problems against slow SPL defenders. What have we got??? Is there no planning regarding this? We will get ripped by a team with fast wingers/forwards. Southampton and the Dell spring to mind, remember them?

As for tonight, If it were the first leg the first 20 minutes would have been acceptable but its a long long way from beating Liverpool 1 - 0 on a European night at Easter Road. That sadly will be a memory not to be repeated. Beating Hamilton will be good now!

:bitchy:Your talking mince , but your opinion is important to us/me!!

[Emerald]

Sorry but I cant believe no one is replying to this thread. Easter Raod is now one of the biggest pitches in Scotland and we, Hibs, have no width or pace. discuss!!

[CropleyWasGod]

Sorry but I cant believe no one is replying to this thread. Easter Raod is now one of the biggest pitches in Scotland and we, Hibs, have no width or pace. discuss!!

Doesn't the fact that no-one is replying tell its own story?

[Emerald]

Doesn't the fact that no-one is replying tell its own story?
Right. thats it, Im jumping.............:confused:

[CropleyWasGod]

Right. thats it, Im jumping.............:confused:

Please do. At least you won't hold the traffic up for long...:wink:

[Emerald]

OOOhhhhhhhhhhh I was held up last night in the traffice but I'm sure you were being light hearted. I'm trying to be the same about the current team. In the face of it.its just fitba. :wink:

[Spike Mandela]

Imagine what a Whittaker and Murphy full back pairing could have done on that pitch. Ivan or Mickey Weir hmmm even better.

Just need to find new wide men for this team.

[number9dream]

I hope it's not too late to prevent Mr Emerald doing something rash.

I'll just add that I think it is a very good point.

Our full-backs were reluctant to get forward and had nothing in front of them, particulary Hart, and there is a frightening lack of speed in the side.

Bamba, the guy who missed all the training, and De Graaf were the only players to look nearly fit enough last night.

As for McBride and Miller - has there ever been a softer, slower central midfield pairing?

Widening the pitch then playing a narrow formation at a snail's pace. Yogi - dafter than your average bear...

[heretoday]

What a waste! We now have a pitch thats suits wingers, pacey midfielders, fast forwards, players who can run at defences with pace and cause problems against slow SPL defenders. What have we got??? Is there no planning regarding this? We will get ripped by a team with fast wingers/forwards. Southampton and the Dell spring to mind, remember them?

As for tonight, If it were the first leg the first 20 minutes would have been acceptable but its a long long way from beating Liverpool 1 - 0 on a European night at Easter Road. That sadly will be a memory not to be repeated. Beating Hamilton will be good now!

:bitchy:

Good point about the wingers.

[CabbageFan]

....................Brown......................... ..
Hart......Bamba.......Stephens......Murray
Spoony.......De Graff......Miller......Galbraith
.............Stokes.........Riordan..............

There is your team for a wide pitch. Why cant Yogi see that?:grr:

[lyonhibs]

Imagine what a Whittaker and Murphy full back pairing could have done on that pitch. Ivan or Mickey Weir hmmm even better.

Just need to find new wide men for this team.

Just imagine what the wide men we CURRENTLY have at the club might have been able to achieve on this nice, shiny, wide pitch.

LM - Galbraith
RM - Wotherspoon

Sadly, we can only imagine, as these 2 players have seemingly been chopped thanks to Stage 2 in the "Yogi Revolution" :rolleyes:

Re: the post above mine - that's THE team we should be playing at home against almost all opposition. Except Yogi needs to get s specialist LB in pronto, cos if Murray - at LB - was a horse, he'd have been sent to the glue factory by now.

His legs are - sadly - gone.

[M11BMO]

I have to say this was exactly what I was thinking last night. We are far too one dimensional, (Long ball from Hogg to Nish.)

Galbraith needs a decent chance in the team...

Everything we do comes through the middle... a Sunday pub team could defend against it.

[Sprouleflyer]

....................Brown......................... ..
Hart......Bamba.......Stephens......Murray
Spoony.......De Graff......Miller......Galbraith
.............Stokes.........Riordan..............

There is your team for a wide pitch. Why cant Yogi see that?:grr:

That team is pretty much what I said last night after the game to try and get some width into Hibs.

We lacked players who were willing to take on the Maribor players last night, for all of the first half and most of the 2nd half, all we did was turn back on ourselves and play either square or back passes.

Spoony and Galbraith gave us more width in the 2nd half, but both are not wing backs.

[Brummie_Hibs]

We have played ONE game on a new wide pitch - a pitch that is probably going to be that wide for the next 50 years or so, and people are complaining that we have no pacey wingers.

It'll take more than ONE game for Hibs to adapt to the new pitch dimensions and build a team accordingly. Whether that will be with Yogi, or the next manager or whoever in 50 years time, it will take more than ONE game.

Some fans need to get a sense of reality (which most fans don't have). Just because we have a Training Academy, which was opened less than a year ago, a new stand and a '...Wiiiide Piiiiiiiitch...', doesn't make us world beaters. Assess the merits of all the investment in 5-10 years time, where we may have developed a truck load of young pacey wingers at the Academy, who learnt their trade on a wide ER pitch in front of a packed East Stand. Not after ONE game and less that a year.

[lyonhibs]

We have played ONE game on a new wide pitch - a pitch that is probably going to be that wide for the next 50 years or so, and people are complaining that we have no pacey wingers.

It'll take more than ONE game for Hibs to adapt to the new pitch dimensions and build a team accordingly. Whether that will be with Yogi, or the next manager or whoever in 50 years time, it will take more than ONE game.

Some fans need to get a sense of reality (which most fans don't have). Just because we have a Training Academy, which was opened less than a year ago, a new stand and a '...Wiiiide Piiiiiiiitch...', doesn't make us world beaters. Assess the merits of all the investment in 5-10 years time, where we may have developed a truck load of young pacey wingers at the Academy, who learnt their trade on a wide ER pitch in front of a packed East Stand. Not after ONE game and less that a year.

Hughes hasn't started with a team that's set up to fully utilise the width of the pitch - any pitch - at any point in his tenure (AFAIK). By utilise the width, I mean pacy wide men playing on the left and right of midfield.

Never mind giving him time to "get used to the new dimensions" or any such rubbish, playing with width does not seem to - currently - be aprt of the Yogi Hughes tactical guidebook, or footballing philosophy.

Much better, apparently, to play keep ball between your back 4 and central midfielders, before thumping the ball from CB to CF, and have it come right back down your throat. Again and again and again.

It's not unrealistic for Hibs fans to expect better than that surely??