Thoughts on the manager

[He's here!]

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Don't see that being true tbh.

Why would we bother keeping him in charge for the rest of the season if that was the case? We would be as well putting Gray in charge. Not to mention the fact he was talking about rebuilding for next season just the other day.

Exactly. It's a nonsense rumour. NM and his family didn't make the decision to make such a huge move on a whim. He's a very ambitious guy.

[babahibs]

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Heard from a very good source today that Montgomery is leaving at the end of the season.

Rumours that he/his family have not settled are close to the mark. Ian Gordon & Kensell not working that hard to persuade Montgomery to stay.

I smell *****

[ScottB]

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Why can't you blame them?

Preferring living in Oz over Scotland / the UK? Seems pretty understandable really!

[ScottB]

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Exactly. It's a nonsense rumour. NM and his family didn't make the decision to make such a huge move on a whim. He's a very ambitious guy.

Sure, he arrived pretty strongly hinting at seeing his career take him to the EPL one day, so the move back to the UK made sense.

Given he’s not shown enough to even guarantee him another season with us, never mind a step up to a higher level, combined with the culture shock of trading Aussie life for here, I wouldn’t be shocked if they head back to Oz for a bigger job than he left.

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Preferring living in Oz over Scotland / the UK? Seems pretty understandable really!

Why?

[Since90+2]

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Don't see that being true tbh.

Why would we bother keeping him in charge for the rest of the season if that was the case? We would be as well putting Gray in charge. Not to mention the fact he was talking about rebuilding for next season just the other day.

To get rid of him now you'd have to pay off his contract, would cost the club money.

[Stubbsy90+2]

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Heard from a very good source today that Montgomery is leaving at the end of the season.

Rumours that he/his family have not settled are close to the mark. Ian Gordon & Kensell not working that hard to persuade Montgomery to stay.

This would be best case scenario imo.

We’re too late now to be sacking him but I’d be disappointed if he was here next season. If we can find a way to get rid without having to pay up his contract then that would be great.

[ekhibee]

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Why?

Why not?

[ScottB]

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Why?

Because the UK is a crumbling, cold ****hole of a country?

[Frazerbob]

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To get rid of him now you'd have to pay off his contract, would cost the club money.

Depends what his contract is. Could be an agreed severance if top 6 isn't achieved, could be 6 months notice regardless....could be anything really. The days of Hibs paying up a full contract when sacking a manager are long gone I'd imagine.

[jeffers]

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To get rid of him now you'd have to pay off his contract, would cost the club money.

We’d have agreed payoff terms when he was appointed. Not to say it won’t cost us but we wouldn’t be paying off his contract in full.

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Sure, he arrived pretty strongly hinting at seeing his career take him to the EPL one day, so the move back to the UK made sense.

Given he’s not shown enough to even guarantee him another season with us, never mind a step up to a higher level, combined with the culture shock of trading Aussie life for here, I wouldn’t be shocked if they head back to Oz for a bigger job than he left.

He's lived most of his life in the UK so there's no culture shock. Yes, big ask for his kids to uproot their lives but unless he feels there's no chance of them settling he'll not want to give up on things so readily.

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Depends what his contract is. Could be an agreed severance if top 6 isn't achieved, could be 6 months notice regardless....could be anything really. The days of Hibs paying up a full contract when sacking a manager are long gone I'd imagine.

Surely, suits both sides, especially if he just wants to go back to Oz, to mutually part ways, ideally having secured top 6.

[Hibees1973]

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To get rid of him now you'd have to pay off his contract, would cost the club money.

For a long time Hibs have negotiated a 3-6 month full pay severence package for managers.

Kind of makes sense and with our penchant for sacking managers a necessity.

[JimBHibees]

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Heard from a very good source today that Montgomery is leaving at the end of the season.

Rumours that he/his family have not settled are close to the mark. Ian Gordon & Kensell not working that hard to persuade Montgomery to stay.

Nonsense

[Since452]

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Heard from a very good source today that Montgomery is leaving at the end of the season.

Rumours that he/his family have not settled are close to the mark. Ian Gordon & Kensell not working that hard to persuade Montgomery to stay.

Maybe back to Australia would be best for him.

[JimBHibees]

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I smell *****

So do I. Never has a good word

[Alfred E Newman]

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Why can't you blame them?

The weather for a start!

[Hiber-nation]

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Preferring living in Oz over Scotland / the UK? Seems pretty understandable really!

He should move to North Berwick, seems to be one of the top places to live in the UK! Haddington maybe not so.

[J-C]

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He's lived most of his life in the UK so there's no culture shock. Yes, big ask for his kids to uproot their lives but unless he feels there's no chance of them settling he'll not want to give up on things so readily.

He's spent the last 12 years in Australia where his kids have grown up, they're at an age where they're more Australian than British.

[Forza Fred]

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Why?

How long you got?

[Forza Fred]

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Heard from a very good source today that Montgomery is leaving at the end of the season.

Rumours that he/his family have not settled are close to the mark. Ian Gordon & Kensell not working that hard to persuade Montgomery to stay.

Mischief making, and not for the first time.

[TelaStella]

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Why?

HAHA


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Because the UK is a crumbling, cold ****hole of a country?

A great many people seem prepared to risk their lives to come and live here.

Australia might seem the sunnier option but it has one of the world's harshest migration policies.

[Callum_62]

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A great many people seem prepared to risk their lives to come and live here.

Australia might seem the sunnier option but it has one of the world's harshest migration policies.

We make people risk there life by getting into small boats as we provide very few legal ways to apply

Not sure we can be classed as open and welcoming (from a govt standpoint)

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[WeeRussell]

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We make people risk there life by getting into small boats as we provide very few legal ways to apply

Not sure we can be classed as open and welcoming (from a govt standpoint)

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Yep - and what either country’s migration policies have to do with not blaming Monty’s kids if they preferred living in Australia is anyone’s guess.

[TelaStella]

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A great many people seem prepared to risk their lives to come and live here.

Australia might seem the sunnier option but it has one of the world's harshest migration policies.

The Australian government’s home affairs policies has what baring to Nick Montgomery and his tenure at Hibernian Football Club ?


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[Smartie]

To be fair - a football manager’s family living on the salary such a job will pay will be somewhat protected from the harshest extremes of Brexit Britain.

He’ll have fancied his chances of succeeding and making it back to the riches involved in football down South but even so - I think swapping Central Coast for Scotland is a weird choice when you’ve got a family to take into consideration.

[Iain G]

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A great many people seem prepared to risk their lives to come and live here.

Australia might seem the sunnier option but it has one of the world's harshest migration policies.

What the hell are you on about? This place gets more fantasist and unreal by the hour 🤣 has NM risked his life to come to Hibs?

[Glory Lurker]

Sharks, spiders, snakes and crocs though.