I made this point earlier. The club have placed a lot of emphasis on the failure of the summer widow being the key reason for our poor start to the league campaign.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
January is a notoriously difficult window to do good business so there is going to be an element of sticking plasters on a ruptured artery to it. I think that puts the manager in a very tricky position. If we bring in 2 or 3 and he still can't get a tune out of what he has available then the club will start to think about making changes, regardless of what they have said before.
I'd be stunned if we got dragged into any kind of relegation fight, even allowing for our alarming current form, but if it even looks like we could miss out on top 6 and all the short and medium term financial implications that go with that then again they will think about acting. We can't afford no European football AND a further collapse in ST sales, especially as so much of our business plan centres around the latter.
Jack Ross is arguably in his most critical phase since becoming our manager. He has to arrest the current slump before it becomes a crisis, he has to muddle along to January and find a way to pick up a few points with what we have, he has to inspire a performance in the cup final and he has to see a swift improvement post January. It's in everyone's best interests that most of those things happen and we move forward with the consistency and stability that brings, if he fails on multiple of those fronts then he won't be here come the start of next season.
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25-11-2021 08:01 AM #151PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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25-11-2021 08:19 AM #158
Ross won’t go anywhere before the cup final. Probably won’t after either, whether we win or lose. He clearly has the backing of the CEO and owner and is getting January to try and sort out the mess of a squad he’s got.
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25-11-2021 08:23 AM #159This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If last night was a game in isolation then I think you can point to bad 'luck'. However it's part of an ongoing pattern. Our last 5 league games have seen us lose all 5 , fail to score in 3 of them, score 3 in total and concede 10. That's not all down to some supernatural misfortune, it's down to something we are doing wrong as a collective. If it's fine margins then we really need to be assessing why those margins are consistently favouring our opposition.
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I apologize as I might have been a bit hasty when I woke up for work. There has definitely been a few more than two great results.
I was just a little pissed off as I thought last night was a chance to show everyone we are a good football team aswell as a good off the ball team.
I thought off the ball was much better last night than it has been in previous months but just not enough cutting edge unfortunately.
I still love Hibs!!
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25-11-2021 08:33 AM #163
We got 3rd last season not by playing great attacking football but by turning games last night into scrappy hard fought wins. We are an average half decent team with a couple of match winners, we got the fine margins last season but they are now going against us.
Only way to make sure fine margins don't come into play is get better players
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25-11-2021 08:36 AM #164
Comparing Sunday to last night is a bit disingenuous, rangers played an attacking game which allowed hibs to counter attack, Ross County played the counter attacking game, sitting in when they didn't have the ball.
We created a few chances in the first half but couldn't convert them. Had any one gone in the game changes. As it is, not scoring, and the longer the game went, it gave Ross County confidence.There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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What really sticks in my throat is that we finished 3rd last season by a considerable distance and got to the Scottish Cup final. It's an absolute scandal that we didn't build on that from a position of strength and improve the squad sufficiently in the summer transfer window. Especially when we knew we were going to be stretched with the extra European games. The prize for 3rd this season is huge and we're miles off it. Mathie has paid the price but it's unbelievable he has lost his job from the position we were in.
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I’m not suggesting we should be putting 4 or 5 past them, but I’d like to think that if we have serious aspirations about finishing in the top 4 then we should have enough of a cutting edge to be able to take a lead and then to be able to defend it thereafter. It doesn’t have to be easy but in Ross County we’re talking about a side who are having a poor season and we should at least be getting the job done.
At the moment I feel we are at a similar level to them - and that is not a good place to be at all.
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He's someone who is usually very diplomatic in his interviews but he made very barbed comments about our lack of depth on at least 2 occasions, most notably after the European exit. At a time when a lot of fans, myself included, were peddling the 'these things take time', 'don't panic, we'll get stuff over the line' cliches, the manager was actively calling out the club publicly.
I'm not sure what went wrong in the summer. Reading between the lines it seems the failure to sell at least one of our assets was an issue, it also seems our approach to recruitment has been a bit disorganised and almost scattergun previously. Whatever the reasons it's incredibly frustrating that we have regressed from the position we were in, particularly when you consider the rewards for a 3rd place finish this year.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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I think that potentially puts him in a position of having to be seen to deliver in January to get us out this mess and the next summer to really have us kick on. A couple of signings in the mould you suggest would be a good start.
A lot has been made about us being on the verge of something special, close to kicking on etc etc. I think the next 2 transfer windows will go a long way to getting the fans to really believe that.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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25-11-2021 09:53 AM #177
What's very frustrating is Sunday proves there's a performance in the group, yet they cannot make that the standard and produce it on a regular basis, as Keane would say "DO YOUR JOB".
Who would folk recruit in his place?
Dunfermline hadn't won a game since July until JH was appointed.
Look at the names of the Championship managers - plenty experience but couldn't be our market (JH the only one I would consider).
John Hughes
Dick Campbell
Ian McCall
John McGlynn
Tommy Wright
Billy Dodds
Jim Duffy
David Hopkin
Alan Johnston
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25-11-2021 09:55 AM #179
I do think that if a quality manager was to become available (and I do think Steve Kean is here for the youth development role so not him) and our league form was to continue then JR would have something to sweat about.
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