Christian doidge

[HIBS NUTS]

Really like the big fellow, and he has been a really good player for us, but he doesn’t look 100 percent yet.
We had a very similar Algerian centre forward called El Alagui, who played for us, he looked superb, and scored a fantastic goal under the lights at Easter Road, in a 2-1 win against the jambos.
Subsequently he picked up a bad Archjllas injury against Alloa, and was never the same player.
I am hoping all Christian needs is a goal, to be an asset for us again.

[MWHIBBIES]

Really like the big fellow, and he has been a really good player for us, but he doesn’t look 100 percent yet.
We had a very similar Algerian centre forward called El Alagui, who played for us, he looked superb, and scored a fantastic goal under the lights at Easter Road, in a 2-1 win against the jambos.
Subsequently he picked up a bad Archjllas injury against Alloa, and was never the same player.
I am hoping all Christian needs is a goal, to be an asset for us again.

Ah, do you mean French/Moroccan forward El Alagui, who scored a fantastic goal on a Sunday afternoon in a 2-0 win over the jambos? :greengrin

He picked up that injury about 6 months before that goal.

Doidge is toiling a bit right now, but is a very streaky player, I think if he gets 1, he'll get a few as you say. Achillies are very bad injuries tbh.

[Nicho87]

Too patchy for me

If better comes available in summer - best for both to call it a day

[Berwickhibby]

Looks like the donkey he was when he first arrived under Heckingbottom ….

[B.H.F.C]

Became a better player when he was out the team. He only scored half a dozen goals in the league last season and went months without a goal at one point, so the struggle for goals isn’t that surprising. He still looksnmiles away fitness wise though.

[HIBS NUTS]

Ah, do you mean French/Moroccan forward El Alagui, who scored a fantastic goal on a Sunday afternoon in a 2-0 win over the jambos? :greengrin

He picked up that injury about 6 months before that goal.

Doidge is toiling a bit right now, but is a very streaky player, I think if he gets 1, he'll get a few as you say. Achillies are very bad injuries tbh.
Aye your right, it was a cracking goal mind, a little chip over the keeper👍

[BS44]

Doidgehas a similar scoring rate to Nisbet - about one goal every three starts. Doidge has been playing his way back to fitness after a horrible injury. What is Nisbets excuse?

[hibby rae]

Covid and then an injury.

I had a similar experience in the summer and it took a terrible toll on me. I hired a PT to get back on it. Obvs not the same but I'm not needing to get back to the same level either.

Even if Doidge doesn't score he's still very valuable as defenders hate him.

[hibby rae]

Doidgehas a similar scoring rate to Nisbet - about one goal every three starts. Doidge has been playing his way back to fitness after a horrible injury. What is Nisbets excuse?

He needed a Doidge and a Magennis type player around him and he was had to play a role he didn't know how to do. Confidence went down.


Albeit, I think he should be doing better now.

[LancsHibs]

Clearly not good enough, like a large proportion of our squad which is lacking in quality. Maloney has a plan and I’m afraid if we are to stick with it and him it will mean pretty much writing off the rest of this season, possibly missing out on top 6 (hopefully a good cup run). There will be a complete overhaul of the squad this summer when we will have to move Doidge & co on. This summer we will see how good SM is as a manager and how ambitious the club are.

[MWHIBBIES]

Clearly not good enough, like a large proportion of our squad which is lacking in quality. Maloney has a plan and I’m afraid if we are to stick with it and him it will mean pretty much writing off the rest of this season, possibly missing out on top 6 (hopefully a good cup run). There will be a complete overhaul of the squad this summer when we will have to move Doidge & co on. This summer we will see how good SM is as a manager and how ambitious the club are.

Doidge is a quality player in a bad run.

So we overhaul the squad, getting rid of proven players like Doidge, to back an unproven manager, and only then we'll see if hes any good?

Cant wait...

[The Modfather]

Doidge is a quality player in a bad run.

So we overhaul the squad, getting rid of proven players like Doidge, to back an unproven manager, and only then we'll see if hes any good?

Cant wait...

Doidge is fine, and I’d be looking at the midfield before looking at upgrading him. He’s not prolific, 12, 7 & 2 league goals so far, but appreciate he contributes more than just goals. I think he has too many barren patches to build a team around. Not in any rush to move him on but if we sold him I’d not be overly disappointed.

[Key West]

Doidgehas a similar scoring rate to Nisbet - about one goal every three starts. Doidge has been playing his way back to fitness after a horrible injury. What is Nisbets excuse?

Agree, he’s trying to build up match sharpness, he’s a much better player than he is showing at the moment.

[pollution]

He looks the part but he is hugely frustrating.

His positioning is good but he seems to be lacking confidence which is essential for a fast moving player.

I wouldn't give up if I were him as a few goals can bring out the best in a striker.

[Coco Bryce]

Our team is going to be fantastic when all our players currently just going through a bad spell start performing.

Can't wait.

[MWHIBBIES]

Our team is going to be fantastic when all our players currently just going through a bad spell start performing.

Can't wait.

You don't think Doidge has done enough to be considered at least a good player?

[hibby rae]

He looks the part but he is hugely frustrating.

His positioning is good but he seems to be lacking confidence which is essential for a fast moving player.

I wouldn't give up if I were him as a few goals can bring out the best in a striker.

Doidge is the kind of player that won't score for 4 months and then bag 10 in a row. If he wasn't he'd be playing at a higher level than us.


Great for us and the league we're in but not so much other clubs will come sniffing.

[Coco Bryce]

You don't think Doidge has done enough to be considered at least a good player?

Yes. He's not performing just now though is he. The only real aerial threat up front for us and is nowhere near any of the crosses.

[ekhibee]

Doidge is alright, not a bad player but nothing special. I suppose if I was being cynical I would call him the poor man's Craig Brewster, although I thought Brewster was much more skillful. I like how Doidge annoys defenders, for that reason alone I'd keep him, but I wouldn't call him a quality player, that's just my opinion though. At the moment he's not really contributing much, and we need to be scoring goals which he isn't doing.

[Unseen work]

Love Doidgey but he’s still finding his feet imo.

The injury he had was a horrible one and I’m sure he’ll still get bother with it now and again.

I think something that is notable for me is we use him less during a game. Under Ross he was the go to man in order to get Boyle on the ball, whether that him peeling onto the full back and winning the flick on for Boyle or it goes to his feet, laid off and then wide.

Now it’s more triangles down the side or a big switch and he doesn’t see as much of the ball. However when he does he needs to do better.

I’ve no doubt he’ll start scoring again and I hope he plays against rangers as they really struggle with him imo.

Unfortunately I’m not sure how much Maloney will like him as he’s painfully slow and can’t beat a man etc

[James70]

An 18yr old scored for Liverpool today after coming back from serious injury. Should we maybe be giving one of our U18 strikers a chance in the first team. Can't be any worse than our current strikers and if they are good enough then they're old enough.

[Alfred E Newman]

An 18yr old scored for Liverpool today after coming back from serious injury. Should we maybe be giving one of our U18 strikers a chance in the first team. Can't be any worse than our current strikers and if they are good enough then they're old enough.

No. We have to keep them in the development squad until they are 21 and then loan them out to Raith.

[The 90+2]

Thing is with Doidge he was actually getting himself into good positions and missing sitters under Hecky. Now he looks completely different albeit that the style we are trying to play doesn't reply on him to get himself stuck in as much and win flick ons.

[WeeRussell]

Doidgehas a similar scoring rate to Nisbet - about one goal every three starts. Doidge has been playing his way back to fitness after a horrible injury. What is Nisbets excuse?

You’d be better checking the Nisbet thread if it’s him you want to argue about.

Doidge is good player, he’s never going to be a great player.

But we could really do with him getting back to good again. Match sharpness and a goal could be very significant in that sense.

[Stairway 2 7]

Such an enigma. When on fire better than hibs . Just now worse than Spartans

[500miles]

There's was a lot of clamour to get him back in to the team because he was training. He's clearly not there yet, but the feeling may be he won't get properly sharp until he actually plays.

[Hibiza]

Hands on hips today Christian - not good .

[Borderhibbie76]

Looks like the donkey he was when he first arrived under Heckingbottom ….

Dearie me

[JohnM1875]

Should've had an assist yesterday with a nice wee quick flick through to Mueller in the first half. Unfortunately Mueller couldn't get his feet sorted quick enough in the box

[RoslinInstHibby]

Doesn't look right at the moment, hope it's just fitness as I see him as a key player for us in both boxes

[Highwayman]

I like Christian Doidge and sympathise and support him in his current search for a return to form.

However if yesterday was the first time I saw him,my reaction would be what are the other strikers like if this lad is getting a game.

A previous post stated that defenders hate him because of his physicality.Not at the moment they’re not.The days when he got into defenders faces and wasn’t slow in giving them an elbow when needed are not here any more.

He was so far of the pace yesterday,that it was an act of mercy that Maloney subbed him at half time.

However his decision to bring on Ewan Henderson rather than James Scott just stressed Hibs lack of choice for striker

Hibs should have sent Scott back down to Hull long before now and told them not to send any more of their rubbish out on loan.Because of the lack of strikers he’s lucky to get a place on the bench.

[MWHIBBIES]

I like Christian Doidge and sympathise and support him in his current search for a return to form.

However if yesterday was the first time I saw him,my reaction would be what are the other strikers like if this lad is getting a game.

A previous post stated that defenders hate him because of his physicality.Not at the moment they’re not.The days when he got into defenders faces and wasn’t slow in giving them an elbow when needed are not here any more.

He was so far of the pace yesterday,that it was an act of mercy that Maloney subbed him at half time.

However his decision to bring on Ewan Henderson rather than James Scott just stressed Hibs lack of choice for striker

Hibs should have sent Scott back down to Hull long before now and told them not to send any more of their rubbish out on loan.Because of the lack of strikers he’s lucky to get a place on the bench.

Henderson was a brilliant sub. Totally changed the game in our favour. Then we conceded and game was over.

[Carheenlea]

Doesn't look right at the moment, hope it's just fitness as I see him as a key player for us in both boxes

I think we’re past the time of him being a key player for us. Striking options right now require major surgery.

[Jones28]

He’s having a bad run, so we just get rid of everyone who does that now?

He came good after PH left, he will again if given the chance.

I don’t think he will be though, Maloney wants a more technical striker.

[MrSmith]

Send for Leigh!

[greenlex]

He was never blessed with speed. He’s had enough game time to be much sharper than he is. It does however look like the injury has robbed him of a yard and he doesn’t need that. . Looks like his career at this level is over. Real shame. I liked him. I liked him a lot.

[Leith Green]

When fully fit and in form , doidge is one of our best players.. Read some ***** on here at times , really silly stuff..

The guy has been out injured for ages , he is struggling to get back to his best , it will come and shut some people up.

[Just Alf]

When fully fit and in form , doidge is one of our best players.. Read some ***** on here at times , really silly stuff..

The guy has been out injured for ages , he is struggling to get back to his best , it will come and shut some people up.This

[B.H.F.C]

When fully fit and in form , doidge is one of our best players.. Read some ***** on here at times , really silly stuff..

The guy has been out injured for ages , he is struggling to get back to his best , it will come and shut some people up.

I know it can sometimes be hard for players to get going after and injury, but how long do we blame his form on his injury?

He was out for three months and he’s now been back for the best part of three months. He’s had a decent amount of time on the pitch in the last few weeks but there aren’t really any signs of him getting any sharper. He could barely move yesterday.

[007]

He was never blessed with speed. He’s had enough game time to be much sharper than he is. It does however look like the injury has robbed him of a yard and he doesn’t need that. . Looks like his career at this level is over. Real shame. I liked him. I liked him a lot.

You don't sound like someone who liked/likes him, to be able to write him off so readily.

[Danderhall Hibs]

An 18yr old scored for Liverpool today after coming back from serious injury. Should we maybe be giving one of our U18 strikers a chance in the first team. Can't be any worse than our current strikers and if they are good enough then they're old enough.

How many league goals have these boys scored? Only league goals, discount the cup goals cos that’s what we’re doing on this thread.

[hibsquaker]

Doidge has earned some patience. He's had a serious injury which hopefully he'll come back stronger from. Hopefully next season he'll be back to his best (if not before)

[Callum_62]

Career over at this level?

****ing hell

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[BeansOnToast]

Folk saying cut our losses with doidge, has he not recently signed a long term deal?!.

[James70]

How many league goals have these boys scored? Only league goals, discount the cup goals cos that’s what we’re doing on this thread.

They haven't scored any league goals yet as they have never been tried in the 1st team.
As someone else said we will probably just send them out on loan then release them without even giving them a chance. No way can they be as good as our prolific main strikers of course.

[LaMotta]

Juat play Doidge and stop giving him bit parts in games. He needs minutes on the pitch and once he gets a goal he will go on a run and score regularly.

Noone else is scoring so there's nothing to lose by playing him. And he's useful defensively at set pieces.

[basehibby]

Doidgehas a similar scoring rate to Nisbet - about one goal every three starts. Doidge has been playing his way back to fitness after a horrible injury. What is Nisbets excuse?

There is already another thread to vent your spleen about Nisbet - no need!

Re Doidge - we know what he can do already. He's coming back from a bad injury and into a team playing a different style. I hope he learns to slot into it quickly - as well as goals we need the workrate and nuisance factor he offers against opposition defences. He has been a real asset to us over the last couple of seasons though and I feel sure he'll find his mojo again.

[Danderhall Hibs]

They haven't scored any league goals yet as they have never been tried in the 1st team.
As someone else said we will probably just send them out on loan then release them without even giving them a chance. No way can they be as good as our prolific main strikers of course.

Do the boys team not play in a league anymore?

[RIP]

Has nobody else noticed that the vast majority of our balls into the box are along the ground rather than in the air where Doidge is at his best?

[greenlex]

There is already another thread to vent your spleen about Nisbet - no need!

Re Doidge - we know what he can do already. He's coming back from a bad injury and into a team playing a different style. I hope he learns to slot into it quickly - as well as goals we need the workrate and nuisance factor he offers against opposition defences. He has been a real asset to us over the last couple of seasons though and I feel sure he'll find his mojo again.
His work rate and nuisance factor are the biggest miss. He’s not even winning his fair share of headers at the moment. It’s all down to the injury imo. I’m being laughed at for it but think he is struggling at this level now and given that he is back playing a good few games he should be further on than he is. A ruptured Achilles is an awful injury.

[The 90+2]

Has nobody else noticed that the vast majority of our balls into the box are along the ground rather than in the air where Doidge is at his best?

Yeah I said that earlier on in the thread - or at least tried to :greengrin

[GreenCastle]

Unless you have had a full rupture of the Achilles’ tendon you won’t understand how it takes time to build up strength in the leg and sharpness again.

It’s quite remarkable Souttar has done this x3 and still playing (well injured just now but not related).

Doidge does need time - he still has quality. He will admit coming back from the injury has been a challenge. Don’t think it’s helped the team not playing that well and the change of style. Odd thing is though we are putting more crosses in than ever but remember Doidge also likes the slip passes in behind teams and the midfield aren’t doing that.

[Ronniekirk]

I like Christian Doidge and sympathise and support him in his current search for a return to form.

However if yesterday was the first time I saw him,my reaction would be what are the other strikers like if this lad is getting a game.

A previous post stated that defenders hate him because of his physicality.Not at the moment they’re not.The days when he got into defenders faces and wasn’t slow in giving them an elbow when needed are not here any more.

He was so far of the pace yesterday,that it was an act of mercy that Maloney subbed him at half time.

However his decision to bring on Ewan Henderson rather than James Scott just stressed Hibs lack of choice for striker

Hibs should have sent Scott back down to Hull long before now and told them not to send any more of their rubbish out on loan.Because of the lack of strikers he’s lucky to get a place on the bench.

You would be better giving a young hungry striker game time From the bench than Scott could they really not do at least the same as him and possibly better if they come on each week even if just for twenty minutes Also let’s Maloney see who might.be able to step up next season


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[Since452]

The only way to get him up to speed is to keep on playing him. Doidge is capible of barren spells we all know that but when he hits form he is unplayable.

[Lago]

He’s having a bad run, so we just get rid of everyone who does that now?

He came good after PH left, he will again if given the chance.

I don’t think he will be though, Maloney wants a more technical striker.
Not the player he was before his injury.

[The 90+2]

He's our big Vegan goalscorer. Only one way to get him back on form.

Get him a tin of spinach.

[truehibernian]

I love the big fella but can't help thinking Maloney wants a target man who has more pace about him - feel he's also maybe been rushed back due to results and lack of goals. Looks well off the pace since coming back which is understandable.

[Is It On....]

Ah, do you mean French/Moroccan forward El Alagui, who scored a fantastic goal on a Sunday afternoon in a 2-0 win over the jambos? :greengrin

He picked up that injury about 6 months before that goal.

Doidge is toiling a bit right now, but is a very streaky player, I think if he gets 1, he'll get a few as you say. Achillies are very bad injuries tbh.

The thing I remember about that game, apart from the result, was the interview with Farid and JC. The multi lingual Farid just looked at JC like he was from another planet when he started speaking. 😂

[CentreLine]

He's our big Vegan goalscorer. Only one way to get him back on form.

Get him a tin of spinach.

Give him a sausage, a good helping of bratwurst, that what he needs.

No euphemism intended by the way.

[The 90+2]

Give him a sausage, a good helping of bratwurst, that what he needs.

No euphemism intended by the way.

As long as you're not asking me to take one for the team then it's all good either way :greengrin

[loanheadhibby]

The only way to get him up to speed is to keep on playing him. Doidge is capible of barren spells we all know that but when he hits form he is unplayable.
Are you being serious?
Christian Doidge on form is unplayable.
Against who?

[erin go bragh]

An 18yr old scored for Liverpool today after coming back from serious injury. Should we maybe be giving one of our U18 strikers a chance in the first team. Can't be any worse than our current strikers and if they are good enough then they're old enough.

I’d like us to play the 19 year old striker we paid 400k for .

[Since452]

Are you being serious?
Christian Doidge on form is unplayable.
Against who?

Against pretty much every team in the league.

[loanheadhibby]

Against pretty much every team in the league.
You're kidding yourself on if you believe that.

[Kato]

Whatever the form of the strikers is at the moment there are a lot of really good cross balls into dangerous areas of the box going a-begging. Last two or three games far more crosses going in than shots on target. They need to sharpen up.

[ekhibee]

Whatever the form of the strikers is at the moment there are a lot of really good cross balls into dangerous areas of the box going a-begging. Last two or three games far more crosses going in than shots on target. They need to sharpen up.

Totally agree.

[BILLYHIBS]

Whatever the form of the strikers is at the moment there are a lot of really good cross balls into dangerous areas of the box going a-begging. Last two or three games far more crosses going in than shots on target. They need to sharpen up.
Need to gamble more and be there

[CentreLine]

Need to gamble more and be there

Absolutely. The number of times decent balls are delivered in to the box and nobody there to take advantage is painful to watch. Whatever happened to the days where there was always four or five players bursting a gut to get there.

[CentreLine]

As long as you're not asking me to take one for the team then it's all good either way :greengrin

🤣

[WeeRussell]

Such an enigma. When on fire better than hibs . Just now worse than Spartans

As much as I’ve really enjoyed some of his performances for us, last season in particular, I’ve never thought he’s looked a better level than hibs, and don’t think he ever will be.

Back to being good enough for hibs is all we need right now though.

[Tarrahib]

As much as I’ve really enjoyed some of his performances for us, last season in particular, I’ve never thought he’s looked a better level than hibs, and don’t think he ever will be.

Back to being good enough for hibs is all we need right now though.
He was never the fastest player in our team but at the moment he looks to be playing with a pair of deep sea diver’s boots on.Hope he can get his fitness and sharpness back soon.
ggtth

[Ronniekirk]

On top of his serious injury he had an undisclosed health issue when he was trying to get fit so not surprisingly he hasn’t yet managed to get back to the levels he was performing at
The problem fir us will be if he doesn’t get back to that level
But think he has hit the post twice with headers
But his game was never about running into the box to get on the end of fast balls flashed across the face of the goal



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[J-C]

Whatever the form of the strikers is at the moment there are a lot of really good cross balls into dangerous areas of the box going a-begging. Last two or three games far more crosses going in than shots on target. They need to sharpen up.

Doidge is very slow nowadays, was never the quickest but he's lost a good yard of pace and isn't sharp enough to get into position, Nisbet just jogs in on a straight line, easy for defenders. Nisbet was sitting deeper in the 1st half, if that's the case get Nisbet up top and an attacking mid behind him. In essence 2 strikers nowhere for crosses and nothing from midfield.

[Onion]

Really want him to get back to the player he was pre-injury, as we don't have anyone like him at the club. Even when he wasn't scoring goals he was a menace to defenders and gave us 100% every game. A confident Nisbet and fit Doidge would transform our front line.

[Saint Hibee]

I’d like us to play the 19 year old striker we paid 400k for .

This. Surely he's got back in shape by now?

[Jones28]

This. Surely he's got back in shape by now?

Is he not still recovering from the injury he got in the bounce game?

[Coco Bryce]

Really want him to get back to the player he was pre-injury, as we don't have anyone like him at the club. Even when he wasn't scoring goals he was a menace to defenders and gave us 100% every game. A confident Nisbet and fit Doidge would transform our front line.

He's lost a least a yard since he came back from his bad injury.

He wasn't the fastest before, he now seems so far off the pace now. It's a worry.

[Hibiza]

Get yir finger out Christian and stop the hands on hips craic.