Right, I want all the Hibees views on this. Alex Miller was manager for 10 years and he was not liked by the majority of the Hibs support (maybe me too). He was branded a negative manager at the time, who never strayed from 4-4-2. I wasnt a fan or enemy of him, but we are miles away from the excitement of some of his teams (labelled boring) could achieve. Just asking all who were there at the time, would you like to go back to AM days??
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19-11-2011 11:29 PM #1
Alex Miller Era
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19-11-2011 11:32 PM #2
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19-11-2011 11:35 PM #4
Yes.
It was poor at times, and great at others.
A cup win - some great players.
He got lambasted for 22 games - my recollection is we outplayed them but carried nae luck time and time again, and they undeservedly won/drew again and again.
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19-11-2011 11:51 PM #6
Some of my favourite players growing up played under him harper jackson o'neill crunchie mcginlay I thought we were brilliant then but I was about 12
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20-11-2011 12:06 AM #10
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When I met him two weeks ago (to be exact)
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20-11-2011 12:15 AM #13
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It wisnae over 400 quid a year then either.Last edited by Saorsa; 20-11-2011 at 02:26 AM.
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20-11-2011 12:17 AM #14
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My question to Hibs fans would be, if people of the calibre of Alex are still hungry to manage or oversee Hibs, what does the likes of Scott and Fyfe bring to Hibs ? I only ask as a discussion point, not because I am against them.
I think Hibs suffer (and can gain in this football climate) from having purely football people in these positions, who have decades of experience in better leagues.
As Arthur Montford would say.....discuss ?
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20-11-2011 12:18 AM #15
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That should have read I think we would benefit, not suffer, from having football people at the helm.
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20-11-2011 12:19 AM #17
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20-11-2011 12:31 AM #18
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This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteLast edited by Saorsa; 20-11-2011 at 01:13 AM.
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20-11-2011 12:36 AM #20
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After that he went on to put some more than decent sides together - interspersed by some spells of utter mediocrity as emerging stars were sold on (sounds familiar?)
On the down side, the flip side to a meticulous approach was that he could be an overly cautious manager - while I remember some great seasons with exciting signings I also remember some football that would make your eyes bleed! By the time he left hibs he'd definately taken us as far as he could and I was glad to see him go.
Since then I've seen a lot of managers come and go and if I'm fair to Auld Lexo there are few that I'd say were an improvement - McLeish, Mowbray and maybe Collins. Most of the rest couldn't hold a candle to him - he managed hibs through some difficult times but still managed to take the club forwards on the whole IMO.
So the question is would I like to go back to the Alex Miller days? The answer is NO - although a great technical manager he lacked flamboyance and imagination IMO. I've seen better since and, though undoubtably we could do a lot worse, I'd like to see better again.
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20-11-2011 12:47 AM #21
Think that Miller was keen on stodgy formations and if you read Budgies auto, there is quite a bit of negativity thrown his way. IMO that team had too many individually talented players that couldn't be suppressed. Videoton away is the finest performance I have ever seen from a Hibs team.
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20-11-2011 01:09 AM #22
No thanks! Been there, seen that, done it and definitely not going back! Those were dark days! Some good teams, great players, momentous occasions but when it came to scoring goals or coming from behind ... no way, no effin way!
Roughie said in his biography that AM had the most unfortunate personality and was the worst manger he ever worked with.
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20-11-2011 01:32 AM #23
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saw keith wright being interviewed a while ago and he talked up lexo's influence on him and the team but said that he wasn't a great man manager which seems to be a common theme with the players who have talked about him. not sure but I think his last manager role in Sweden came to a halt because players found him hard work. I would love to see him back in an assistant role good enough for liverpool so good enough for us IMHO.
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Answer is no for me purely based on the derby record. Thanks for the skol cup but overstayed welcome got stale and ran out of steam. Oh and did I mention the derby record?
Surely this is not true!? Even in the team that wouldn't die he still reckoned there was a dislike cause of rangers connections - have a word Alex " dour"
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Spot on
Back in the day i think i was at every single one of those 22 in a row games, We would batter them from pillar to post and still not beat them, I left many a game shaking my heid in utter disbelief how the hell we never won that game, One game that sticks out is a 0-0 game at Easter rd where Brian Hamilton missed a penalty, If that was a boxing match it would have been stopped, Absolute battered them that day and still couldn't beat them.
All these years later one thing has never changed, Hearts are still the luckiest *******s in the world .Last edited by HibbyAndy; 20-11-2011 at 07:39 AM.
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20-11-2011 08:12 AM #29
Hindsights a great thing but given the period Miller had to steer us through, what he got out of the squad, the quality of some of the players he brought in plus the cup after Mercergate I have nothing but respect for the guy (and Murdo). Not saying it was like the Turnbull era but compared to recent history he was certainly one of our better modern day managers.
He was definitely more of a technical manager as one of the posters has said but look where the alternatives to that we have seen recently have got us, one mute scowler and one blethering skate later we are where we are...................Imagine having someone that knows how to work with the resources he's got, stabilise a club that was in a real crisis, does tactics, keeps us up and wins a cup. Be ecstatic if we achieved all that any time soon and the non playing set up is better.
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20-11-2011 08:19 AM #30
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Miller was allowed to spend money each season to bring us a bit of quality - hence the reason we ended up with the likes of Keith, DJ, Crunchie, MON, Goram, McGinlay etc.
We've not got that kind of buying power anymore.
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