One Day Soon
31-10-2013, 04:06 PM
1. Fenlon gone within 48 hours
2. Petrie either out or making an unequivocal statement acknowledging his and the Board's failures and setting out clearly what they are going to do about it.
3. The appointment of an experienced manager.
4. A ban on all "We're going to make it right" pi5hy interviews by players in the EN and elsewhere. STFU and do your talking on the park or not at all.
5. A ban on all players using social media at least until they've earned the right by showing marked improvement on the park.
6. STF to make some kind of statement indicating an interest in how the club is run and to what purpose beyond the platitudes of 'Rod is great'.
7. A declared objective from the Board to be either regularly winning games by whatever means or to be playing the kind of attractive attacking football we expect - even if losing - within months of the new manager being appointed. We need one or the other - two years to achieve neither is a dereliction of duty - but preferably both please
8. A fan observer to the Board appointed to give us some kind of realistic version of what is going on at Hibs - not the Easter Road version of Pravda that they have gotten used to fobbing us off with.
9. A clear statement on the targets for the new manager and the strategic and timetabled targets for the club.
10. A clear and unequivocal explanation of who is responsible for the day to day running of the club as a football entity. That needs to be someone who does that job - and only that job - every day. We are not someone's hobby or sideline, we need to be someone's professional obsession.
And finally, we need dialogue with the club on our terms. Not patronising, evasive guff designed to keep us quiet and let the anger die down. Straight talking and straight answers, otherwise there is no relationship there in which case we are not obligated in any way to prop up a self-interested group of distant and disengaged figures.
If they think the boardroom and the directors are the club they are badly mistaken. The fans are the club and without us the club is just a zombie body with a brand name. If we are driven to withdraw our labour either immediately en masse or gradually by indifference (as has been happening) they will quickly find where the spirit of Hibernian football club is really owned.
Directors, players and owners come and go. The fans are forever - which is why the power, though hard to mobilise and wield, is really in our hands.
2. Petrie either out or making an unequivocal statement acknowledging his and the Board's failures and setting out clearly what they are going to do about it.
3. The appointment of an experienced manager.
4. A ban on all "We're going to make it right" pi5hy interviews by players in the EN and elsewhere. STFU and do your talking on the park or not at all.
5. A ban on all players using social media at least until they've earned the right by showing marked improvement on the park.
6. STF to make some kind of statement indicating an interest in how the club is run and to what purpose beyond the platitudes of 'Rod is great'.
7. A declared objective from the Board to be either regularly winning games by whatever means or to be playing the kind of attractive attacking football we expect - even if losing - within months of the new manager being appointed. We need one or the other - two years to achieve neither is a dereliction of duty - but preferably both please
8. A fan observer to the Board appointed to give us some kind of realistic version of what is going on at Hibs - not the Easter Road version of Pravda that they have gotten used to fobbing us off with.
9. A clear statement on the targets for the new manager and the strategic and timetabled targets for the club.
10. A clear and unequivocal explanation of who is responsible for the day to day running of the club as a football entity. That needs to be someone who does that job - and only that job - every day. We are not someone's hobby or sideline, we need to be someone's professional obsession.
And finally, we need dialogue with the club on our terms. Not patronising, evasive guff designed to keep us quiet and let the anger die down. Straight talking and straight answers, otherwise there is no relationship there in which case we are not obligated in any way to prop up a self-interested group of distant and disengaged figures.
If they think the boardroom and the directors are the club they are badly mistaken. The fans are the club and without us the club is just a zombie body with a brand name. If we are driven to withdraw our labour either immediately en masse or gradually by indifference (as has been happening) they will quickly find where the spirit of Hibernian football club is really owned.
Directors, players and owners come and go. The fans are forever - which is why the power, though hard to mobilise and wield, is really in our hands.