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Except if its Levitt.
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05-02-2024 07:14 AM #121
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05-02-2024 07:57 AM #122
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05-02-2024 08:00 AM #123
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05-02-2024 08:38 AM #125
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I'm not sure what game some of you guys were watching? Did you leave at 3-0? Joe was about the only player trying to drive us forward. Do you want him to win the game all by himself? Because to be fair he tried to do that too on a couple of occasions.
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05-02-2024 08:43 AM #126
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I think Newell is one of our better players and I don't have that much of a worry about him in the grand scheme of things as it stands. However if there was someone better out there in our budget etc (which there will be) then I've no issue with replacing him.
The argument that he's 'seen off' X amount of managers is quite a lazy one for me as it just looks for some correlation between failures. The same whenever Paul and Lewy get brought up but yet no one ever looks at how Lewy is the one common thread in our last 3 trophy wins. It doesn't really explain anything on its own so it's pointless really saying it.
Watching his post match interview at the weekend and I seen a guy who looks like he's either had it out with some of his teammates or was planning to. He said all the things I wanted to hear a captain say after such a rotten performance and I hope he's currently in HTC now saying his piece to some of those lads who were clearly phoning it in on Saturday because even if we do sack the manager in the next week or two the likes of Elie, Jair, and Levitt for example cannot be allowed to be as passive and piss poor as they have been before Saturday even came about.
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05-02-2024 08:50 AM #127This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-02-2024 09:20 AM #128This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-02-2024 09:21 AM #129
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And what about when he injured himself winning the ball in what was at best a 50-50? Not the actions of a Levitt, I'd suggest.
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05-02-2024 09:23 AM #130
He is far from perfect but he was basically trying to stop St Mirrens midfield on his own in the first half.
To start Levitt, Emiliano, Youan and Jair all at once is criminal and should never happen again.
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05-02-2024 09:23 AM #131This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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05-02-2024 09:26 AM #132
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05-02-2024 10:03 AM #133
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We’re determined to have a team full of footballers, it doesn’t work.
When our form picked up at the backend of last season, we had Cadden playing on the right of midfield with Egan-Riley behind him. Jeggo came in to the middle of the park and we basically had runners in there. But it gave a better balance and meant you could get away with someone like Youan not running back the way. He was able to do what he was good at and you knew you had a goalscorer up front in Nisbet.
The midfield we had out on Saturday was the most powderpuff midfield you’ll ever see in your life. With a bunch of young laddies behind them it was an absolute disaster waiting to happen.
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05-02-2024 10:13 AM #134
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Levitt has proven that he has zero ability to defend and cover properly at this level and should be no where near a midfield 2 or playing as a deeper player in a 3 for us again.
If I could pick the formation for now to the end of the season is I'd go 3-5-2 and have a combination of Newell/Amos/Welsh with Emiliano in a Scott Allan type role where he goes up and links with ALF/Elie and Vente with Cadden and Obita providing the width and whatever combination of three centre halves we can muster to defend the 6 yard box.
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05-02-2024 11:13 AM #135
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He's basically been doing that all season, a one man midfield. It's a criminal use of his talents. The guy loves it at Hibs, never lacks effort and is doing about three different jobs in that midfield. Levitt is a waste of a jersey, Youan is a showpony that doesn't track back, Jair is hit and miss and not really experienced enough to know when to go and when to stay. That leaves Joe as disruptor and creator and having to cover acres of space every week, and every team in the league knows it. It's completely unfair on him, no wonder he looks knackered most of the time. If I was emptying players then Joe would be last on my list to go, and I include Boyle in that.
I wonder if folk remember the games when he's not playing? He's the only person in our team that looks like he really knows what he's doing, he may not be the greatest, but he's the best player we have right now.
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05-02-2024 11:56 AM #136
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Joe Newell sums it up, if he's seen as one of our better players then we've a long way to go to as regards having a decent team.
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05-02-2024 12:08 PM #137
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05-02-2024 12:15 PM #138
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I think Levitt and Youan will drop out, possibly Jair as well.
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05-02-2024 12:19 PM #139This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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very well put and 100% accurate.
Its a simple league that doesn't need over elaborate ideas on how football should be played.
We've way way way too many football players on the pitch at one time. Jeggo may not have been " hibs class" but he was a simple effective player that performed a decent role in the side.
For all Youan and Tavares tear my hair out playing both of them wide left and wide right in the SPFL is asking for trouble. Yes Youans effort levels weren't great on Saturday but he really isn't a right midfielder he's an off the cuff forward or winger who can sparkle with moments of brilliance his game isn't built on running up and down the touchline biting at heels, winning second balls and being a pest.
I keep saying this to every hibs fan I meet that we have good players, the squad may be unbalanced but we have a good squad that's performing way below par. The players need to take a look at themselves but the set up is all wrong hence why we end up having threads about ( for me) one our most consistent performers.
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05-02-2024 02:53 PM #141
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07-02-2024 09:17 PM #144
Newell is a superb midfielder at our level. He proved that again tonight. He not only earns his spot in the starting XI, but he has earned the captain’s armband over the years here.
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07-02-2024 09:19 PM #145
He was awesome tonight. He was everywhere defensively and played some great stuff going forward.
His ball for Millers chance was fantastic."...when Hibs won the Scottish Cup final and that celebration, Sunshine on Leith? I don’t think there’s a better football celebration ever in the game.”
Sir Alex Ferguson
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07-02-2024 09:20 PM #147This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-02-2024 09:22 PM #149
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I think having MW in there helped Joe to show us how good he can be
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07-02-2024 09:23 PM #150
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He was brilliant tonight
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