Summer transfer thread 2025

[Paulie Walnuts]

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It’s not “revisionism in the extreme” to hold the opinion that Porteous was our best defender that season. It’s probably akin to someone having the opinion that Rocky had a better season than Iredale this year or vice versa, it’s simply a subjective opinion. The whole defence was excellent that season and he was major part of it. Revisionism would be trying to play down any of their contributions to what was one of our best seasons defensively in our history.

It is when it really wasn’t the reality. It’s only being trotted out now to try and make a case for signing him.

https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?352427-Player-of-the-year

The thread from that time has only one mention of Ryan Porteous on it.. and that mention is to point out how well Paul McGinn has done considering he has Porteous playing inside him.

There’s also these threads from the end of that season, it’s hardly gushing with praise with an almost unanimous feeling that he shouldn’t have been starting in the biggest game of the season such were his performance levels.

https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?351958-Ryan-porteous

https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?352061-Porteous-or-Daz

https://www.hibs.net/showthread.php?352306-Porteous

Josh Doig was also part of that defence and won our YPOTY and YPOTY for the whole league, an award that Porteous was eligible for.

Ryan Porteous was part of a very good defence that year. That’s all he was though, a part, along with numerous others, a good few of which had better seasons. Claiming he was the main man, completely ignoring Doig when listing who he played alongside and claiming Hanlon, who was better than him and was playing so well he got called up for his first full Scotland cap during the season was an “ageing” centre half as if he was carrying him along absolutely is revisionism.