Is the Rochdale player the same guy we had on loan?
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26-01-2015 07:05 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis is how it feels
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26-01-2015 07:11 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-01-2015 07:15 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis is how it feels
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26-01-2015 07:20 PM #8
Another player to flourish elsewhere.
Not really sure what I'm getting at, but I've seen him a couple of times for Rochdale and he looks a completely different player.
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26-01-2015 07:21 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-01-2015 07:22 PM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Don't think it was anything to do with most of these players, the club was rotten to the core and needed what's happened to us to get it sorted unfortunately.
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26-01-2015 07:23 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-01-2015 07:41 PM #12
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26-01-2015 07:54 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-01-2015 08:06 PM #15
One thing is for sure, Rochdale is an awful place.
Done has improved.Cougars!!!
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26-01-2015 08:23 PM #16
Maybe it's just a crap standard he's playing at?
If it was reversed you can guarantee the Rochdale fans would be laughing at how bad Scottish football is.
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26-01-2015 08:31 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That doesn't mean I think the league we are currently in is of a better standard, as the scottish championship is full of poor teams. But League One and League Two in England is minging as well. On the odd occasion I watch english championship football it's not that great either. It's played in front of large crowds in decent stadiums but the football's archaic at times.
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26-01-2015 08:48 PM #18
He was signed as a winger and therefore played out of position. Hopefully, those days are gone.
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26-01-2015 08:51 PM #19
Done played seven games for us, scored one goal and didn't make very much of an impression after that, struggling to impose himself in games. He arrived at a pretty bad time, looked like a player bereft of confidence, and came into a Hibs team that was going through a rocky run of form (Scottish Cup aside).
He may well have improved, it's hard to say, but he's certainly having a good season and I wish him well. Always amusing on here when posters think that players enter a state of stasis after they leave Hibs, and that it's impossible for them to either improve, develop, or simply thrive in an environment that is more suited to them, for whatever reason.
Many posters on here are happy to make definitive statements about players and managers always being crap, where in reality, most people who have had a career in the game will have spells of success and failure.
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26-01-2015 08:55 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Bradford and Sheffield United's recent cup runs have shown that League One is a good standard.
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26-01-2015 09:16 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Sheffield United signed two young boys from Livi that went pretty much straight in to their side. Also, Jamie Murphy is probably their best player from what i've seen, so again not sure they're that good a side.
Again, i'm not trying to say that the premiership or championship in Scotland is any better, as it's not. I just think some people see the big stadiums and the big crowds in the leagues in england and presume the football must be better as a result. I don't think it is as they pay absolute donkeys over inflated wages.
Anyway, good luck to Matt Done, Eoin Doyle and James Collins. I have no reason to believe they gave anything less than 100% when playing for us so I wish them all the best.
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26-01-2015 09:17 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThis is how it feels
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26-01-2015 09:22 PM #23
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26-01-2015 09:27 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The fact that two Livingston players went into the Sheffield United team surely just shows that they are good players. And as for Morais, McArdle etc - players not doing well for one team does not preclude them from improving and/or doing well elsewhere. Some players fit in well in certain teams, and under some managers, not so much elsewhere. There are a huge number of variables in football that can make it brilliant and unpredictable.
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26-01-2015 09:29 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-01-2015 10:05 PM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Nice avatar soul brother!
GGTTH
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27-01-2015 07:53 AM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Did you venture into the centre?Cougars!!!
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27-01-2015 08:20 AM #28
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Accuse me of delusions of grandeur but I feel that at clubs like Hibs (and Hearts and Aberdeen as well of course), we exist in a weird bubble where the pressure of performing is extremely high compared to a Rochdale or even a St Johnstone say, and the intensity and expectancy here appears to take some players by surprise. Look at the way outsiders tend to come in to Hibs and make comments suggesting the media is out to get us - they are surprised by the scrutiny and feel the pressure.
Expectations aren't necessarily proportionate to the level of football so I can see how a player would struggle to cope at Hibs but might flourish in the English lower leagues (big/small fish and ponds etc). A lot of these guys come up here young (Donaldson, Collins etc) and it must be a bit of a culture shock going from teams that scrap around in those huge, often meaningless leagues down south, to a club where the fans generally expect you to play great football, qualify for Europe, play in four extremely intense Edinburgh derbies each season, oh and also win that Scottish Cup for once!
We should mention that Allan and Gray, to name two, have so far done really well up here after struggling down South. Edit - but I guess they are Scottish and have a better understanding of the context up here.Last edited by patlowe; 27-01-2015 at 08:37 AM.
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27-01-2015 09:34 AM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Also true to say that players can develop, go through good and bad patches of form etc... but no doubt that the culture at Hibs was far from ideal for a good few seasons. Thankfully, those days now seem like they are in the past.
Everton supporters have a reputation for being a fairly demanding / unforgiving crowd, playing for Celtc brings its own pressures, so our Head Coach will know all about performing under the spotlight. He seems to be very good at creating the right environment for our players to perform.
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27-01-2015 09:45 AM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I think that's why he's looking for players with a certain type of mentality as has been reported.
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