Has Jack spoken about tonights game yet & wjhat would your question to him be?

[one day maybe...]

Anyone know what Jack has had to say about tonight's game?
BT said they hoped to talk to him before the end of the show, however he was still locked in the dressing room with the team.

Like to know his thoughts on that tackle and the starting formation tonight.

What would you like to ask him, if you were conducting the interview.

[ScottB]

BBC ended the live feed before he spoke also.

[Sammy7nil]

Do you really think Mallan and Allan can play in the same team especially with Boyle and two up front against the second best team in Scotland.

[one day maybe...]

BBC ended the live feed before he spoke also.

Bet they would have hung around all night to get a quote from Lennon or Gerrard though

[Frazerbob]

Bet they would have around all night to get a quote from Lennon or Gerrard though

Not Gerrard for now but I get your point.

[Lancs Harp]

Do you really think Mallan and Allan can play in the same team especially with Boyle and two up front against the second best team in Scotland.

I'd say right now they are better than Hearts. :wink:

[ScottB]

Bet they would have hung around all night to get a quote from Lennon or Gerrard though

Already had to listen to a pundit referring to Rangers as ‘we’ during the game...

[Smartie]

How long will it take you to realise that whilst Mallan clearly has his strengths as a player, his weaknesses and inconsistency brought a huge amount of pressure on your predecessors, and that your success at Hibs will depend largely on your actions in this area?

[hibbysam]

Do you really think Mallan and Allan can play in the same team especially with Boyle and two up front against the second best team in Scotland.

Not even just the second best side, but a side who pride themselves on their wide play, two wingers, two full backs very high, not going back to front when we had times we were 2 v 2. Playing a narrow, attacking midfield 4 with 2 strikers was asking for bother and meant the midfield couldn’t press as it should’ve.

[Unseen work]

I personally think his hands are tied with what he can do at the moment.

We’ve played well, winning and been scoring goals since he’s came in with this formation. We battered Aberdeen 3-0 with it too.

I think he’s realised we have next to no defensive minded players in the middle of the park and opted for attack being the best form of defence.

Unfortunately that’s not paid off for him, it doesn’t help when your keeper passes it to the other teams striker within the opening minutes.

If we sat back with the players we have we would have got run over regardless, why not try something different.

Once he gets his own players in and some of the current team out - We will see a much different team, set up and performance.

Players need to take a lot of responsibility aswell.

Flo and Allan couldn’t keep the ball for the life of themselves, against better opposition this is vital.

Marciano? What is he doing, he’s one of the worst iv seen with a ball at his feet.

Porteous? He’s lost his way a bit imo, he’s making a lot of mistakes at the moment by thinking he is Efe Ambrose and the next making rash, idiotic tackles. He’s got a hell of a lot of potential but he needs to get these mistakes out of his game quickly.

[norhfc]

What went through your mind when 5 Rangers staff including their manager stormed the Hibs bench ?

[Clarence]

It was like Jason Statham vs Morrissey in midfield tonight.

[Keith_M]

Are you looking forward to the January Transfer window?

[Jim44]

Do you really think Mallan and Allan can play in the same team especially with Boyle and two up front against the second best team in Scotland.

Apparently not, but I think we can do ok with that formation against the other teams in the league.

[GreenCastle]

Did you watch the 6-0 game?
Why didn’t we make a tackle till about 15 mins into the game ?
Are we unfit ?
Why didn’t we take Mallan off earlier ?
Mallan and Allan can’t play in same team - so why you trying it?
Where is Maxwell and Newell ?

[The 90+2]

It was like Jason Statham vs Morrissey in midfield tonight.

And people on here say Ryan Jack is ***** as well. He would automatically be our best player and most important by miles.

[Smartie]

And people on here say Ryan Jack is ***** as well. He would automatically be our best player and most important by miles.

Ryan Jack is exactly what we lack.

(To the tune of Betty Boo, doin’ the do - in case anyone’s asking).

[Speedway]

Hibernian head coach Jack Ross: "We were a long way short of where we needed to be. The start of the game makes it very difficult for us, particularly against one of the top two sides in the league.

"It made it a long and difficult evening, but we need to be better in the basic part of the game to produce a better result."

[RoxburghHibs]

Did you watch the 6-0 game?
Why didn’t we make a tackle till about 15 mins into the game ?
Are we unfit ?
Why didn’t we take Mallan off earlier ?
Mallan and Allan can’t play in same team - so why you trying it?
Where is Maxwell and Newell ?


What 6-0 game?
Shocking start agreed
No
Should have been hooked at HT
Worked before?
Dropped and injured?

[greenlex]

Hibernian head coach Jack Ross: "We were a long way short of where we needed to be. The start of the game makes it very difficult for us, particularly against one of the top two sides in the league.

"It made it a long and difficult evening, but we need to be better in the basic part of the game to produce a better result."
and he’s no wrang.

[one day maybe...]

Hibernian head coach Jack Ross: "We were a long way short of where we needed to be. The start of the game makes it very difficult for us, particularly against one of the top two sides in the league.

"It made it a long and difficult evening, but we need to be better in the basic part of the game to produce a better result."

The early mistake from Marciano didn't do us any favours or the dreadful lack of desire to win the ball at the second goal.
0-2 down at home after 8 mins gave us a mountain to climb.

He is right, we are a long way short of where a club of Hibs stature need to be.
Fixing that though is a long term goal and this manager needs to be given time to rebuild over the next two seasons.
Our development team also need to start contributing to that rebuild.

[Shrekko]

And people on here say Ryan Jack is ***** as well. He would automatically be our best player and most important by miles.

He’s arguably the best player in the league at the moment. I realise that doesn’t say a lot for the league, but the folk who say he’s rubbish - dearie me.

[GreenCastle]

What 6-0 game?
Shocking start agreed
No
Should have been hooked at HT
Worked before?
Dropped and injured?

Sorry 6-1 going on 20 game
Shocking start yes
Unfit yes - linked to Hecky and recruitment- linked to couldn’t get close to huns.
Allan and mallan worked against an awful Aberdeen - give me more examples?

Has anyone actually found out what is wrong with Newell ?? Haven’t seen it reported anywhere??

[Crab apple]

This is the result of a poor summer transfer window which has left us with an unbalanced squad with no DMs. Noticeable that Doidge was the only one of Secondbottom’s summer signings that started. Vela and James not even in the squad.

[Borderhibbie76]

How long will it take you to realise that whilst Mallan clearly has his strengths as a player, his weaknesses and inconsistency brought a huge amount of pressure on your predecessors, and that your success at Hibs will depend largely on your actions in this area?

This he was an absolute liability in the 1st half last night...brings practically nothing to the table in these big matches. He really is a pretty poor player

[Springbank]

You need your derby team to be

Bogdan (if fit)

Naismith
McGregor
Hanlon
Stevenson

Boyle
Hallberg
Slivka
Allan-or-Mallan
Horgan

Flo-or-doidge

433 when Boyle & horgan support the striker
But 451 with a more competitive core in the middle
And dont you dare stand 10yds off hearts like every one of them stood off Rangers.

[EVENTUALLY]

Please, please please coach the team and midfielders in particular to start tackling.

[Heisenberg]

Please, please please coach the team and midfielders in particular to start tackling.

There’s only so much a manager can do. Mallan, Allan, Slivka, Hallberg are not ball winners. Why we decided to go into the season with those midfield options is baffling. Astonished folk are so keen to wish PH well after shambles of a summer he had. Recruitment team as well.

[hibbyfraelibby]

You need your derby team to be

Bogdan (if fit)

Naismith
McGregor
Hanlon
Stevenson

Boyle
Hallberg
Slivka
Allan-or-Mallan
Horgan

Flo-or-doidge

433 when Boyle & horgan support the striker
But 451 with a more competitive core in the middle
And dont you dare stand 10yds off hearts like every one of them stood off Rangers.

Bogdan on bench last night so must be fit.

Allan v Mallan... no contest. There is no M in Allan

[Aldo]

You need your derby team to be

Bogdan (if fit)

Naismith
McGregor
Hanlon
Stevenson

Boyle
Hallberg
Slivka
Allan-or-Mallan
Horgan

Flo-or-doidge

433 when Boyle & horgan support the striker
But 451 with a more competitive core in the middle
And dont you dare stand 10yds off hearts like every one of them stood off Rangers.

We need to play 2 up top imho. 1 up top for me makes it too easy for Hallket and Berra who both can be exposed.




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[GreenCastle]

You need your derby team to be

Bogdan (if fit)

Naismith
McGregor
Hanlon
Stevenson

Boyle
Hallberg
Slivka
Allan-or-Mallan
Horgan

Flo-or-doidge

433 when Boyle & horgan support the striker
But 451 with a more competitive core in the middle
And dont you dare stand 10yds off hearts like every one of them stood off Rangers.

Really important team selection coming up.

We know 1 up front against the yams rarely works.

We also know our midfield is soft and rarely makes tackles.

Is Bogdan match fit?

McGregor also doesn’t have many minutes behind him recently but has experience of these games.

I just hope he’s studied previous derbies and doesn’t make same mistakes like route 1 towards Berra’s head.

[SMAXXA]

You need your derby team to be

Bogdan (if fit)

Naismith
McGregor
Hanlon
Stevenson

Boyle
Hallberg
Slivka
Allan-or-Mallan
Horgan

Flo-or-doidge

433 when Boyle & horgan support the striker
But 451 with a more competitive core in the middle
And dont you dare stand 10yds off hearts like every one of them stood off Rangers.

352 for me

Bogdan

Mcgregor Jackson hanlon

Boyle slivka Hallberg Allan Horgan

Kamberi Doidge

[Fergos]

There’s only so much a manager can do. Mallan, Allan, Slivka, Hallberg are not ball winners. Why we decided to go into the season with those midfield options is baffling. Astonished folk are so keen to wish PH well after shambles of a summer he had. Recruitment team as well.

Agreed, the poor and unbalanced squad he has left, especially in midfield, is the core reason why we are not where we need to be.

GGTTH

[Crab apple]

There’s only so much a manager can do. Mallan, Allan, Slivka, Hallberg are not ball winners. Why we decided to go into the season with those midfield options is baffling. Astonished folk are so keen to wish PH well after shambles of a summer he had. Recruitment team as well.

Spot on. PH’s legacy is an unbalanced squad with no strength in midfield. The fact Vela and James don’t even get in the squad says it all about his summer transfer business. We’re well shot of him but it will take a couple of windows before JR puts right PH’s mess.

[hibbysam]

Spot on. PH’s legacy is an unbalanced squad with no strength in midfield. The fact Vela and James don’t even get in the squad says it all about his summer transfer business. We’re well shot of him but it will take a couple of windows before JR puts right PH’s mess.

Which is fair enough, but doesn’t excuse getting his tactics horribly wrong two games on the trot.

[Cataplana]

Does Stevie Mallan really believe nobody can see him when he runs away from tackles?

[hibbysam]

Does Stevie Mallan really believe nobody can see him when he runs away from tackles?

Frustrating as ****, as he has more ability in his two feet than most. Utterly useless if he can’t put his foot in and get on the ball and do the basics first though. That cross field pass across our box was just mind numbing, what the **** he was trying I’ve no idea.

[wookie70]

The early mistake from Marciano didn't do us any favours or the dreadful lack of desire to win the ball at the second goal.
0-2 down at home after 8 mins gave us a mountain to climb.

He is right, we are a long way short of where a club of Hibs stature need to be.
Fixing that though is a long term goal and this manager needs to be given time to rebuild over the next two seasons.
Our development team also need to start contributing to that rebuild.

I agree that we are a project. Heck got one window and many were on his back after that first cup loss to Celtc. For me we need to look at our recruitment principles. When Leeann came in I think she got it spot on. 3 players for each position, young players brought in with sell on potential and a football system that went through the club with round pegs brought in to fill round holes. For some reason that all completely changed under Lennon and seemed to continue under Heck. I cut Heck more slack than most as teh squad he inherited was shambolic and the players left from our Cup Win were mostly coming to the end of their careers and becoming injury prone or slowing down.

The new boss needs far more support. A single window won't sort this and we need a plan to make the transition from the established team to a new team. If Allan is going to start every week then we need to work out how he fits in. That means a team with runners to allow him to find those killer balls but also a team that knows it will defend with 10 men as he is a man short when we don't have the ball. There is a reason he hasn't don't well anywhere else and that is he is very inconsistent and is a man short off the ball. I'd give Mallan a few games in his position instead of constantly playing him out of position.

The system used last night might be the attacking formation that fans crave against the big two and attacking them was fine with McGinn and Dylan etc. We are not in a position to do that with this squad and we have to set up to frustrate and play on the break. Jack has made a similar start to the one Heck did. We need to give him time to sort this as we should have done with Heck imo.

[Heisenberg]

Which is fair enough, but doesn’t excuse getting his tactics horribly wrong two games on the trot.

Right, so under PH we just wanted the team to have a go. Get at them. Attack. Ross has set us up to do that in the last two games and we’ve lost both. What this highlights is we don’t have the players to play attacking against Celtc or Rangers and we also don’t have the players to sit back and defend.

We played too narrow last night, he’ll learn from that. I’d suggest even if we’d played wide players we still would’ve been pumped. The players looked **** scared, they didn’t press, didn’t tackle and didn’t run. Utter mess of a squad been left by PH.

[hibee_girl]

Does Stevie Mallan really believe nobody can see him when he runs away from tackles?

Why is Mallan even in the starting 11?

[hibbysam]

Right, so under PH we just wanted the team to have a go. Get at them. Attack. Ross has set us up to do that in the last two games and we’ve lost both. What this highlights is we don’t have the players to play attacking against Celtc or Rangers and we also don’t have the players to sit back and defend.

We played too narrow last night, he’ll learn from that. I’d suggest even if we’d played wide players we still would’ve been pumped. The players looked **** scared, they didn’t press, didn’t tackle and didn’t run. Utter mess of a squad been left by PH.

Just because we play a 4-4-2 diamond in the middle instead of 5 across the middle doesn’t mean we are more or less attacking. Did you see much attacking last night? Pointless going two up front if we are so overrun that we don’t see the ball and can’t use them. We would probably have lost, that much is true, however we gave them zero to think about and let them attack at will, sending 8 bodies forward, first ten minutes of the second half showed that, we pinned the two full backs back, Boyle and Horgan were running at them, and we created our only two chances.

The players also didn’t press as it was about 7 vs 4 in the middle with the two strikers stood up front, which meant they could just play the ball around us.