At the risk of being labelled an arse licker again, I’m interested to know if the signings of Cadden, Irvine, Nisbet and Magennis, as well as the re-signing of Boyle, are sufficient evidence of the club showing ambition or not?
Tonight we sit in third place with another cup semi final to look ahead to
At what point do we acknowledge that things are actually going pretty well?
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Thread: Ambition
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16-01-2021 04:48 PM #1
Ambition
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16-01-2021 04:51 PM #3
Can't be disputed that the club is showing ambition. To be honest, we have for years. It's just a buzz word people like to through about after a bad result.
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16-01-2021 04:52 PM #4
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16-01-2021 04:53 PM #6
Ambition and actualisation are very much separate things that often get conflated when things aren't going well. I think you're right that we've been showing ambition for a good while, it just hasn't been a perfectly upward trajectory.
Sitting 3rd and 5 points off Celtic, in a semi final, having signed Cadden and Irvine - it's a position we'd have taken before the season started. That's for damn sure.
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16-01-2021 04:56 PM #8
It might have been Blackpool on the match thread who made the point though - for having a lot of good players we aren’t half hard to watch at times.
Nobody can criticise the standard of player being signed. Results are very much on the correct side of acceptable.
I’d say I just about enjoyed the game today. I liked that we were a bit more streetwise than in recent weeks, I thought we stood up well in a battle and it was interesting from a tactical perspective.
We did get lucky on occasion though, and I’m not going to argue with anyone who says they’re not absolutely loving the football we play right now.
Cracking 3 points though, putting us in a good place going into a semi-final. It gets so, so much worse than this.
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16-01-2021 04:57 PM #9
I think there is no doubt that there is ambition shown by the club over the recent transfer windows. Great to see and obviously what Ron wants for the club is improvement. But aye, you are an arse licker 😃
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16-01-2021 04:57 PM #10
It makes me wonder what we'd be doing if there was normal money coming in. Ron's certainly put his money where his mouth is and I can't wait to see what he does when we eventually get back to normality.
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16-01-2021 05:01 PM #15
I don't anyone could argue we have lacked ambition with the signings we have made and expect to be taken seriously.
Discussions around the performance levels in some games are valid, both as individual entities and as part of a bigger picture (that's neither a positive or negative comment, just an observation). However beating the club with the 'lack of ambition' stick is just a nonsense at the moment.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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16-01-2021 05:02 PM #16
I would say the club have shown ambition since we got relegated and Dempster took charge.
Just because not every signing works out doesn’t show a lack of ambition, all managers since then have been backed and backed well might I add. Plenty have came with a good reputation, for a few or been a big name.
Since we got relegated we’ve signed guys like;
Ofir Maricano
Adam Bogdan
Efe Ambrose
Ryan Gauld
Stephane Omeonga
Scott Allan
Fraser Fyvie
Dylan McGeough
John McGinn
Joe Newell
Christian Doidge
Tom James
Jackson Irvine
Greg Docherty
Kevin Nisbet
Stephen Mallan
Darryl Horgan
Kyle Magennis
Chris Cadden
Mark Milligan
Miquel Nelom
Mark McNulty
Jamie Murphy
Josh Vela
Flo Kamberi
Jamie Maclaren
Brandon Barker
Emerson Hyndman
Vykintas Slivka
All of those guys came with a fee, good reputation or decent pedigree - the board can’t tell how each one will perform.
The board is not the issue.
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That’s not to say I’m unhappy with how things are going although it can be a hard watch at times.
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16-01-2021 05:06 PM #19
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3rd not good enough. We should be 2nd. 😂
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The thread’s not asking about comments in performance, i think even the most blinkered of us would acknowledge we’ve not been hitting the levels of performance we’d want to see. I think those criticisms are mostly fair (some are way over the top and some don’t stand up to scrutiny, but in the main I agree with a lot of the gripes about how we’ve played at times).Follow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
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During the summer we trimmed the squad but also paid transfer fees (the fee paid for Nisbet probably equates to another player for a season or two).
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16-01-2021 05:09 PM #22
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Club had ambitions to finish best of the rest.. As others have said, you wonder if the team has performed to its true capabilities tho. We are boring to watch and sh?t the bed in our biggest game of the season.
But we beat Killie 2 0 at home so all is good just now. Imagine how happy we’d be if we’d taken care of Ross County and Livi.
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16-01-2021 05:10 PM #23
Since Dempster arrived I don’t think we’ve lacked ambition. We’ve fully backed all managers, made marquee signings and paid fees. Post Stubbs and up until the last couple of windows I’d question how effective we’ve been in making the most of that ambition. Like others I also think there’s a separate debate to be had about our current style and are we getting the most out of the attacking talent we have.
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In reference to point 2, when we begin to deliver consistent league positions (top 3 or 4) qualifying us for EUROPA as per our clubs stated objectives...
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I think we are using our funds towards the team, something I didn’t always feel we did in previous years. My point was I don’t think RG is putting any more in, but what he is doing is sanctioning the spending of the money we do have available.
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16-01-2021 05:20 PM #27
We are where we are now which is good but Ross himself hit the nail on the head in his interview last night. We’re a window or so away from being as consistent as he would like.
Definitely showing ambition and growing the quality in the squad.
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16-01-2021 05:34 PM #28
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Remember the January window when we unveiled Soares, Claros, Kujabi and O'Donovan? Makes me want to vomit. Seems like a lifetime ago now thankfully.
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16-01-2021 05:36 PM #29
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