Summer 2019 transfer thread

[PatHead]

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I'm not sure that kilmarnock are better squad wise than they were last season? Jury is out on Aberdeen

Killie have lost a few players.

[Vault Boy]

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Killie have lost a few players.

Killie have a small squad anyway, so the loss of Jones and to a lesser extent Boyd will hurt them.

Clarke is obviously the biggest loss of all.

[southsider]

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Killie have lost a few players.

Just been put out of Europe by a Welsh pub team.

[Barman Stanton]

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today feels like a big day for PH

he's signed a whole load of lower league english journeymen (shades of 2012)

arbroath destroyed stirling 6-1

yet the journeymen drew 1-1 with stirling and were lucky to do so

it's getting to time we saw something from these guys that shows they are at Hibs level

WTF did I just read!

[Spudster]

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As I said, no idea if we go 442, 443, or 4231.

Would be delighted if we got away with a 443 all season!

[Shanksaidno]

Still maintain Hecky has been telling players to go easy, build up fitness no injuries etc

Will be a different team come St Midden game

We will then have a consolidated team by Christmas when we will add a couple of players to fill any perceived weaknesess

Be Happy

[The Leith Dutch]

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Still maintain Hecky has been telling players to go easy, build up fitness no injuries etc

Will be a different team come St Midden game

We will then have a consolidated team by Christmas when we will add a couple of players to fill any perceived weaknesess

Be Happy

I sincerely hope that after stating the players "downed tools" at the end of last season he isn't telling them to go easy at the start of this one. That would be disappointing.

[Shanksaidno]

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I sincerely hope that after stating the players "downed tools" at the end of last season he isn't telling them to go easy at the start of this one. That would be disappointing.

Different situation ..... players doing off their own back v Hecky telling them to

[Springbank]

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WTF did I just read!

The reality. Not complacency.

Bad result today and we are out the cup. Reality.

Arbroath 6 Stirling 1

Hibs 1 Stirling 1

Reality.

We need these new boys to show up today

That is what you just read.

Happy to help & hope we get back to winning ways today.

[Wilson]

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today feels like a big day for PH

he's signed a whole load of lower league english journeymen (shades of 2012)

arbroath destroyed stirling 6-1

yet the journeymen drew 1-1 with stirling and were lucky to do so

it's getting to time we saw something from these guys that shows they are at Hibs level

I too would like to see a good performance - from the whole team not just the new lads.

I get that it is early days but at our level, compared to the teams we're playing, we have to be ready to go. Certainly we have to be ready to give a reaction to a somewhat negative previous result.

It isn't going to define our season so it isn't big in those terms. It just feels like a good game for us to show something - as the poster was saying.

Here is hoping.

[hibs#1]

I think Killie will be poor this season, think they will drop out the top 6 and Motherwell will finish in the top 6, think they have signed quite well so far.

[The 90+2]

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The reality. Not complacency.

Bad result today and we are out the cup. Reality.

Arbroath 6 Stirling 1

Hibs 1 Stirling 1

Reality.

We need these new boys to show up today

That is what you just read.

Happy to help & hope we get back to winning ways today.

It will click today and we will win very comfortably.

[HFC93]

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The reality. Not complacency.

Bad result today and we are out the cup. Reality.

Arbroath 6 Stirling 1

Hibs 1 Stirling 1

Reality.

We need these new boys to show up today

That is what you just read.

Happy to help & hope we get back to winning ways today.

Would we 100% be out with a bad result today?

[The 90+2]

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Would we 100% be out with a bad result today?

Probably.

[The Leith Dutch]

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Different situation ..... players doing off their own back v Hecky telling them to

Yes in the sense of it not being a managerial instruction but No in the sense of players taking it easy (OPs words) in an actual competitive game.

FWIW I highly doubt PH has told them to take it easy - I'd be disappointed if he had.
I suspect the closest it would come to that is him being not upset after they game if they had eased off in the second half having established a 3 goal cushion in the first.

Not having a pop at you or anyone else for that matter but it worries me that these LC games would be taken lightly or as an exercise in gaining match fitness either by fans, manager or players.
a) it's a trophy we can win b) it's momentum - we don't get anything for thumping teams in this 6-0 but it puts confidence throughout the team.

A slow start and downing tools at the end are not the way to challenge for top 4 and Europe.

[BSEJVT]

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Having been a Hibs fan for 50+ years, I have seen my share of highs and lows, and there have been many lows. I just want to see a steady progression and hopefully the new regime will allow that to happen. I just feel we have not been bringing in better (even a little better) than we had last term. We are still at least 2 good players away from challenging for top 4.

Like you, I have been a Hibs fan for over 50 years and at no time in that period did I see steady progression and don't expect to.

Other than the OF. our peers over that period Aberdeen, Hearts & Dundee United like us have all seen their fair share of boom or bust.

That's the nature of the game in Scotland.

The possible exception being Aberdeen of late but they have won nothing, bottle out at every final hurdle and I would rather stick knitting needles in my eyes than watch them week in week out.

IMO you are having a pop for having a pop's sake and trying to justify doing so after the event.

Come back to me after the first round of SPL fixtures and let's see where we are.

Right now everything is worthless speculation.

Maybe there will be some superstars waiting to bud or more likely the sum of the whole will be greater than its individual components.

I seriously doubt folk questioning what we done so far in the market is going to cause any sort of revision in our plans for the rest of the window.

[NAE NOOKIE]

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Not aimed at you, NAE NOOKIE but it's a bit early for anyone to be deciding if any of the new guys will become legends. Be honest, did anyone think David Gray would become our winning goal scoring captain in a Scottish Cup final when we signed him from Burton Albion? When he signed I bet most of us on here were bumping our gums about how we'd never heard of him and he must be crap because he'd been playing for Burton.

People need to have a bit patience and give the newbies a chance to bed in before making snap decisions on their ability or lack of it!

I was using the term legend with a bit of poetic licence mate

My point was simply that after a few games now I haven't seen anybody say anything along the lines of ... 'wow, that ( insert name ) looks a real player' The best I can recall is 'aye he did ok' stuff like that.

Unfortunately I wont be there today, one of about 5 home games I will have missed in 20 years or more, but I'm hoping we will put in a cohesive and dominating performance with signs that we are on the way to clicking as a team.

[Sir David Gray]

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Would we 100% be out with a bad result today?

If we lose today we'll almost certainly be out. If we then went on to win our last two matches, 8 points would be unlikely to be enough if we finish 2nd so we would need to somehow try and top the group in order to qualify and with 8 points we would be pushing it.

[Barman Stanton]

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The reality. Not complacency.

Bad result today and we are out the cup. Reality.

Arbroath 6 Stirling 1

Hibs 1 Stirling 1

Reality.

We need these new boys to show up today

That is what you just read.

Happy to help & hope we get back to winning ways today.

More the case you have no idea what a journeyman is.

[04Sauzee]

Eamonn Brophy linked with a 1M move to Cardiff

[Since452]

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Killie have a small squad anyway, so the loss of Jones and to a lesser extent Boyd will hurt them.

Clarke is obviously the biggest loss of all.

They were always going to have a dip losing a manager like Clarke with the absolute miracles he worked there. Add in the players they've lost and the rookie Italian manager i think they'll be in trouble this season.

[weecounty hibby]

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Eamonn Brophy linked with a 1M move to Cardiff

Nuts if they don't take that. I would have him but not at 1m. He's probably worth a 1/4 of that

[Greencore]

Canny mind brophy with us...
Apprently he was.

[ahibby]

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Would be delighted if we got away with a 443 all season!

Goalie plaing CF maybe?

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

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They were always going to have a dip losing a manager like Clarke with the absolute miracles he worked there. Add in the players they've lost and the rookie Italian manager i think they'll be in trouble this season.

Not sure there is a book open already for first manager to get punted but the Killie manager may be a good bet. I was talking to someone who's company has a sponsorship deal with them and he was saying the players are far from happy with things and a Stubbs like exit could be in the cards.

[Speedway]

Although I can’t see it, does anyone think that we might be in for Stevie May?

[Unseen work]

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Although I can’t see it, does anyone think that we might be in for Stevie May?

I bloody hope not, he’s garbage.

Would much rather Oli Shaw

[matty_f]

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Although I can’t see it, does anyone think that we might be in for Stevie May?

I think I saw something about him joining Dundee United.

[04Sauzee]

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Although I can’t see it, does anyone think that we might be in for Stevie May?

Been linked with Killie today but that's just the newspapers and they have made up plenty nonsense about Hibs this window

[Diclonius]

Stevie May hasn't had the best of times with Aberdeen but the quality is there and he could easily step up again with us.