Mc Geuoch.

[Moody Blues]

Mc Geuoch.
Do you think we dodged a bullet with not bringing him back.

[The 90+2]

No. He would walk into our team. Him or Slivka? Decisions.

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Mc Geuoch.
Do you think we dodged a bullet with not bringing him back.

Aberdeen's style doesn't suit him. He should have realised that but maybe McInnes persuaded him he has plans to change the style, similar to how Motherwell have, and that McGeouch would be a big part of it.

[jgl07]

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Aberdeen's style doesn't suit him. He should have realised that but maybe McInnes persuaded him he has plans to change the style, similar to how Motherwell have, and that McGeouch would be a big part of it.

He continues to make bad decisions. The Sunderland move certainly made sense financially but a player like Dylan was never going to prosper in League One even without his dubious injury record.

Hibs have moved on. He will not be back.

[davhibby]

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He continues to make bad decisions. The Sunderland move certainly made sense financially but a player like Dylan was never going to prosper in League One even without his dubious injury record.

Hibs have moved on. He will not be back.

Yep, both moves have been awful career decisions. Gone to a league that wouldn’t suit him then to a team that spend the game bypassing the midfield. He’ll have done well financially out of them but it will shorten his career at this level

[FilipinoHibs]

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Yep, both moves have been awful career decisions. Gone to a league that wouldn’t suit him then to a team that spend the game bypassing the midfield. He’ll have done well financially out of them but it will shorten his career at this level

Yes lost his momentum and self belief. Next stop ST Mirren/Partick Thistle on £700 a week while trying to ride out his Aberdeen contract.

[DetroitHibs]

I think we did. I don’t think he’ll ever find the form he did when he was with us and on the fringes of the Scotland squad.

[Since452]

He's been dropped and heavily criticised by fans of his last two clubs. I think it's more than Aberdeen's style not suiting him. Lennon alluded to him having mental barriers in the past.

[Waxy]

Oh well we didnt get him anyway.Still a legend.

[Clarence]

We need to move on. If the Aberdeen move doesn’t work out for him, he could maybe start a YouTube channel for his stretching routines. He must be one of the country’s foremost experts in stretching by now.

[green day]

Dylan has got fantastic skill and can read and control a game fantastically well. Would walk into most teams in this division.

However that needs to be in a team with the right midfield and style - and Aberdeen is not it.

Aberdeen have a big budget, and have bagged themselves a lot of very good midfield players who are injured / cant get a game / are struggling in that formation (Ojo, Dylan, Craig Bryson to name 3).

[calumhibee1]

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Dylan has got fantastic skill and can read and control a game fantastically well. Would walk into most teams in this division.

However that needs to be in a team with the right midfield and style - and Aberdeen is not it.

Aberdeen have a big budget, and have bagged themselves a lot of very good midfield players who are injured / cant get a game / are struggling in that formation (Ojo, Dylan, Craig Bryson to name 3).

Forgot Bryson was even there. People thought he’d be a great signing but it seems he’s hardly played. Injured?

[green day]

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Forgot Bryson was even there. People thought he’d be a great signing but it seems he’s hardly played. Injured?

He arrived last summer with an injury, is now apparently fit !

Genuinely think McInnes is on borrowed time there, one win this calendar year in the league allied with spending a fortune and awful football.

[Hibernian Verse]

What the McGeouch transfer to Aberdeen shows is that we should trust our recruitment team. Especially when you look at who we brought in instead.

[Yorkshire HFC]

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He arrived last summer with an injury, is now apparently fit !

Genuinely think McInnes is on borrowed time there, one win this calendar year in the league allied with spending a fortune and awful football.

They've finished second in the league 4 out of the last 5 years - but you think that's not good enough for Aberdeen?

I wish we were as bad as Aberdeen!

[MWHIBBIES]

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What the McGeouch transfer to Aberdeen shows is that we should trust our recruitment team. Especially when you look at who we brought in instead.

Yeah, but we'll have to trust them again in the summer because they struggle to sign decent players for more than 6 months. Docherty and Omeonga are good players but those weren't really great deals for us because we have to replace both in the summer.

[Gloucester Hibs]

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They've finished second in the league 4 out of the last 5 years - but you think that's not good enough for Aberdeen?

I wish we were as bad as Aberdeen!

He’s become a victim of his own success. Now Sheep fans have unreasonable expectations. Also, their style of football probably doesn’t help him when results take a turn for the worse.

[Since452]

McInnes has been a revelation at Aberdeen. Their best manager since Ferguson but every manager has a shelf life at a club that size. Wonder who they would get in to replace him. With the new stadium, training ground and financial backing they're an attractive proposition. I have a feeling they would try and pinch Jack Ross

[Hibernian Verse]

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Yeah, but we'll have to trust them again in the summer because they struggle to sign decent players for more than 6 months. Docherty and Omeonga are good players but those weren't really great deals for us because we have to replace both in the summer.

Unless we sign them.

And that 6 months comment is completely untrue. Doidge, Newell, Allan, Jackson just recently. We have to sign real quality players on 6 month loans because we are small fry and that's the reality. Surely they could be commended for getting these players in when, frankly, we can't afford guys like McNulty when their clubs are being bellends.

[MWHIBBIES]

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Unless we sign them.

And that 6 months comment is completely untrue. Doidge, Newell, Allan, Jackson just recently. We have to sign real quality players on 6 month loans because we are small fry and that's the reality. Surely they could be commended for getting these players in when, frankly, we can't afford guys like McNulty when their clubs are being bellends.

It's not completely untrue because there are many, many examples. We might well sign them (very slim chance) but we also might not and be back to square one.

Obviously we've got some good players on long deals but we've been relying on 6 month January deals far too much.

[scoopyboy]

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Mc Geuoch.
Do you think we dodged a bullet with not bringing him back.

I would have taken him back personally but happy enough that Hibs didn't make a move for him.

Your question won't go down well with many.

A helluva lot of Hibs fans reckon we should sign back any ex Hibs player that is up for transfer and if another club sign said player then we missed out on a target or we have slipped up badly not signing him.

[Hibernian Verse]

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It's not completely untrue because there are many, many examples. We might well sign them (very slim chance) but we also might not and be back to square one.

Obviously we've got some good players on long deals but we've been relying on 6 month January deals far too much.

But do you not think that's just the market we now operate in? We can't sign these players on long deals as it stands so we would be signing a worse player instead on a 3 year deal for the sake of it?

Even Rangers took two 6 month loans in Jan and they are streets ahead of us financially.

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[Pretty Boy]

I don't think going to Sunderland was a bad decision by DM at all.

If a player gets the chance to go and play in England at a big club and earn themselves a significant wage increase safe in the knowledge that if it doesn't work out there would still be suitors in Scotland then it seems like an absolute no brainer to me.

As I said on the thread about Efe the whole debate about whether we should or shouldn't sign players is fine. There seems to be a few people who love to specialise in revisionism about what players offered. McGeouch was a very good player for us, his peers recognised that at the time, and to suggest otherwise is just nonsense. We made the decision not to bring him back and that's fine, it's possible to support that decision without dismissing a players previous contribution.

[Pretty Boy]

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He's been dropped and heavily criticised by fans of his last two clubs. I think it's more than Aberdeen's style not suiting him. Lennon alluded to him having mental barriers in the past.

Which was pretty callous of Lennon considering finally arranging a visit to a physical specialist saw DM play a full season largely injury free. He has a physical issue that requires treatment and management.

[FilipinoHibs]

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I don't think going to Sunderland was a bad decision by DM at all.

If a player gets the chance to go and play in England at a big club and earn themselves a significant wage increase safe in the knowledge that if it doesn't work out there would still be suitors in Scotland then it seems like an absolute no brainer to me.

As I said on the thread about Efe the whole debate about whether we should or shouldn't sign players is fine. There seems to be a few people who love to specialise in revisionism about what players offered. McGeouch was a very good player for us, his peers recognised that at the time, and to suggest otherwise is just nonsense. We made the decision not to bring him back and that's fine, it's possible to support that decision without dismissing a players previous contribution.

I think the points people are making are;

He has not been that good since he left Hibs:

He had one season where he played consistently, which coincided with his contract expiring; and

Good when he played but several periods a season out injured and frequently pulled up in matches.

Given all this and the fact JR managed him for over a season , it is no surprise we did not pursue him.

[Golden Bear]

Personally I think this topic has already been discussed in countless threads already. I've nothing further to add other than its well and truly time to move on.

[easty]

I don't think Dylan McGeough fluked a season where he was great at Hibs, he just performed as he's capable of performing. The fact it didn't work out at Sunderland, and isn't going great at Aberdeen, doesn't change the fact that we saw what he was capable of.

Good player, and if we had him he'd improve our team.

[J-C]

His 2 best spells for us was when he had legs in midfield doing the graft, Fyvie and then McGinn but tends to struggle when he doesn't have that luxury, he reads the game well and does the basics very well but I still question his mental desire to succeed, unlike McGinn who wanted to be the best he could.

[Lago]

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Mc Geuoch.
Do you think we dodged a bullet with not bringing him back.

Is this not a re run of at least 2 previous threads, boring.

[MWHIBBIES]

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But do you not think that's just the market we now operate in? We can't sign these players on long deals as it stands so we would be signing a worse player instead on a 3 year deal for the sake of it?

Even Rangers took two 6 month loans in Jan and they are streets ahead of us financially.

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But a quality player like Mcgeouch was available on a long term deal. They are definitely out there, we've signed them before.