Regardless of their playing ability are there Hibs players you didn't much like?

[heretoday]

I didn't like Brian Welsh much.

[Since452]

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Kevin McAllister, happier talking about Falkirk than Hibs.

Dyed in the wool Bairn. Used to ask for the Falkirk score at full time. They're his team. Can't really complain. Especially when he still produced the goods for us.

[WoreTheGreen]

Ross “the pointer “ Chisholm

[BILLYHIBS]

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Now you know I’m going to defend Mr Riordan here, finished top goal scorer the season he joined, from a position out wide on the left, sure there was a couple of POTM awards as well, and I’m sure he got a call up to Scotland squad 2nd season, his then manager was full of praise for him and couldn’t believe Levein didn’t pick him for international duty, I think in the last 3 seasons he was with Hibs he was top goal scorer twice and behind Stokes the other season, plenty assists in these 3 seasons as well and was made club captain.

Yeah he threw his arm in the air at times through frustration but to say he never tried a leg is pushing it, I would go even further and say he worked harder in his 2nd spell than his 1st.

Scored 40 goals in 114 appearances his second spell

[Iggy Pope]

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Now you know I’m going to defend Mr Riordan here, finished top goal scorer the season he joined, from a position out wide on the left, sure there was a couple of POTM awards as well, and I’m sure he got a call up to Scotland squad 2nd season, his then manager was full of praise for him and couldn’t believe Levein didn’t pick him for international duty, I think in the last 3 seasons he was with Hibs he was top goal scorer twice and behind Stokes the other season, plenty assists in these 3 seasons as well and was made club captain.

Yeah he threw his arm in the air at times through frustration but to say he never tried a leg is pushing it, I would go even further and say he worked harder in his 2nd spell than his 1st.

In the 2nd game of his return, away to Hamilton, (I had missed his first game back due to holidays), he struck a beautiful curling effort right in front of us, top bin. The stand went mental and I couldn’t stop myself from crying. Mrs Iggy called me a radge. I didn’t care. Still don’t. A brilliant player that I couldn’t ever stop much liking, as it were.

Has anyone mentioned Ray Wilkins yet?

[BILLYHIBS]

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In the 2nd game of his return, away to Hamilton, (I had missed his first game back due to holidays), he struck a beautiful curling effort right in front of us, top bin. The stand went mental and I couldn’t stop myself from crying. Mrs Iggy called me a radge. I didn’t care. Still don’t. A brilliant player that I couldn’t ever stop much liking, as it were.

Has anyone mentioned Ray Wilkins yet?

Loved his goal in the ‘Casper’ game when the maroon balloons gave us no chance at Tiny

[Kato]

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Wee Kev was a brilliant player. Like Latapy, I think Falkirk got the best out of him.

Strange take.

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[McD]

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Now you know I’m going to defend Mr Riordan here, finished top goal scorer the season he joined, from a position out wide on the left, sure there was a couple of POTM awards as well, and I’m sure he got a call up to Scotland squad 2nd season, his then manager was full of praise for him and couldn’t believe Levein didn’t pick him for international duty, I think in the last 3 seasons he was with Hibs he was top goal scorer twice and behind Stokes the other season, plenty assists in these 3 seasons as well and was made club captain.

Yeah he threw his arm in the air at times through frustration but to say he never tried a leg is pushing it, I would go even further and say he worked harder in his 2nd spell than his 1st.

biggest problem with Derek’s second spell was the poorer team around him

[Pretty Boy]

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biggest problem with Derek’s second spell was the poorer team around him

Yep his frustration was obvious. He went from one of our best teams in recent decades under Mowbray to one of our worst under Calderwood.

I've always liked DR. I'm probably in a minority but I actually don't think he was quite good enough to have made it at a higher level. He just lacked that yard of pace and was a bit too slight to have really hacked it in England imo. Technically brilliant and a fantastic player at this level, one of my all time Hibs favourites but I don't buy the wasted talent that some people trot out.

[Eyrie]

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Latapy he was brilliant at Hibs

Only when he was below par.

Most of the time he was better than brilliant.

[Peevemor]

I'm not trying to impose any rules, but there seem to be people that haven't understood this thread.

I don't think the intention was to simply list players that were crap for us or ended up crap. We could easily run to hundreds of pages if that's the case.

There are players that are easy to like - nothing to do with how they play but how they come across in interviews. Newell, Doidge, Boyle & Stevenson immediately spring to mind for me and there are others. Chris Cadden in his interviews when coming back from injury came across as the most enthusiastic, smiliest, nicest guy on earth (after Lewis of course) which makes you really root for him. Daz is another...

Then there are players where you have no opinion of them as people and you judge them purely on their ability. Deek is one of those for me. He had well publicised trouble off the pitch but that didn't stop him being one of my favourite ever Hibs players. We don't get to see skill like that very often. Griffiths in his prime was another one. I could never see myself being his mate but I didn't dislike him either. I definitely wanted him at Hibs though.

The thread is meant to be about Hibs players that you don't or didn't take to as people, regardless of how they played.

[brianmc]

Dave Beaumont.
History will show him as a Cup winner with us. I just remember him having a face you'd never get tired of punching. He didn't play that much though when he did he was bang average I thought.

Then we have THAT game 😱.
Just foul him you Muppet!!!!

Retired early from football to join the polis. Meh.

[Pretty Boy]

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Dave Beaumont.
History will show him as a Cup winner with us. I just remember him having a face you'd never get tired of punching. He didn't play that much though when he did he was bang average I thought.

Then we have THAT game 😱.
Just foul him you Muppet!!!!

Retired early from football to join the polis. Meh.

If I seen Dave Beaumont now I think I'd struggle not to boot him from behind and scream 'that's what you should have done to Foster'.

I was 7 when that happened, I'm 35 now and it still annoys me.

[brianmc]

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If I seen Dave Beaumont now I think I'd struggle not to boot him from behind and scream 'that's what you should have done to Foster'.

I was 7 when that happened, I'm 35 now and it still annoys me.

😡😡😡 I don't think about that non challenge much these days.... But every time i do it brings out a level of hatred for one of our own players that's probably not healthy!

[BILLYHIBS]

The sights you see when you don’t have a gun

[Squealing pig]

Lyndon Andrews, earl Jean, Chris Jackson

[Broken Gnome]

Once he got past his initial early peak, Paul Cairney had some awfy irritating traits.

[Broken Gnome]

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Lyndon Andrews, earl Jean, Chris Jackson

How did those first two play anywhere near enough to be disliked?

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Dyed in the wool Bairn. Used to ask for the Falkirk score at full time. They're his team. Can't really complain. Especially when he still produced the goods for us.

I was just responding to the thread title.

[Frazerbob]

Scott Brown. Great player but don’t like the guy.

[hibbydog]

Garry O Connor

Decent player, and should have made a much better career, but lack of effort/ decency ruined it. Countless episodes of despicable behaviour and ended up in a mess.

[MWHIBBIES]

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Now you know I’m going to defend Mr Riordan here, finished top goal scorer the season he joined, from a position out wide on the left, sure there was a couple of POTM awards as well, and I’m sure he got a call up to Scotland squad 2nd season, his then manager was full of praise for him and couldn’t believe Levein didn’t pick him for international duty, I think in the last 3 seasons he was with Hibs he was top goal scorer twice and behind Stokes the other season, plenty assists in these 3 seasons as well and was made club captain.

Yeah he threw his arm in the air at times through frustration but to say he never tried a leg is pushing it, I would go even further and say he worked harder in his 2nd spell than his 1st.

Yep. Riordan was always one of our best players in his second spell. Scored so many vital goals.

His mate Gary was the one who desperately let us down 2nd time round.

[BILLYHIBS]

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Only when he was below par.

Most of the time he was better than brilliant.

Struggling to think of any games where he failed to turn up tbh apart from the Scottish Cup Final 😃

[Mon Dieu4]

Darren Jackson, based on my age when he played for us and how good he actually was he should have been one of my heroes but I never liked him at all and can't explain why

[Smartie]

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If I seen Dave Beaumont now I think I'd struggle not to boot him from behind and scream 'that's what you should have done to Foster'.

I was 7 when that happened, I'm 35 now and it still annoys me.

To this day that remains the derby defeat that has hurt me the most.

I still wince thinking about it,

F’ing torture.

[CentreLine]

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Darren Jackson, based on my age when he played for us and how good he actually was he should have been one of my heroes but I never liked him at all and can't explain why

He was very good at hiding out wide when he couldn’t be arsed. At least that is how it looked to me. When he could be, however, he was brilliant, it seemed too often when selection for Scotland squads was on the horizon.

[BILLYHIBS]

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Darren Jackson, based on my age when he played for us and how good he actually was he should have been one of my heroes but I never liked him at all and can't explain why

Darren Jackson was one of those niggly players when he played against you you hated him but if he was in your team you loved him

Remember going up to Tannadice in the Scottish Cup 1990 Hibs took a huge support he scored the only goal hooking the ball over his shoulder while backing into our defenders using his elbows then he was across to us giving it large

I was delighted when he signed

[Franck Stanton]

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Michael Stewart.


He used to be a Jambo, then he was alright, then he was a Jambo again, then he's supposed to be a pundit we agree with.


Jeez, you just never knew where you were with that guy!

Surprised it took so many posts before this to mention him. Hated him during his spell at Hibs.

[silverhibee]

Craig Brewster, met him a few times and just couldn’t take to him.

[The Modfather]

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Yep his frustration was obvious. He went from one of our best teams in recent decades under Mowbray to one of our worst under Calderwood.

I've always liked DR. I'm probably in a minority but I actually don't think he was quite good enough to have made it at a higher level. He just lacked that yard of pace and was a bit too slight to have really hacked it in England imo. Technically brilliant and a fantastic player at this level, one of my all time Hibs favourites but I don't buy the wasted talent that some people trot out.

While it’s been done before and not a particularly important debate I definitely don’t think he had the career his ability merited. He won two titles and a Scottish Cup at Celtc, and scored over 100 goals for Hibs so had a better career than most. However he played 16 league games, scoring 4, and then 8 league games scoring 1 for those titles. He also played 3 Scottish Cup games and didn’t get in the park in the final. You can’t take the medals away from him, but he didn’t play a particularly big part in winning them IMO. He was also 28 when he left us after his second spell and was all but retired at that point.

I agree he probably wasn’t ever good enough for the biggest clubs. However I think Darren Fletcher isn’t an unfair comparison. Both similar physiques. Riordan was head and shoulders above Fletcher in terms of natural talent, and Fletcher was a talented player himself not just a workhorse/spoiler. Fletcher got every ounce out of his potential and more, Riordan didn’t look after himself and was on a downward trajectory from his mid 20s IMO.

He didn’t have a bad career, but 2 league titles, one Scottish Cup, 100 goals for Hibs and 3 Scotland caps doesn’t match his natural ability IMO.