Hibernian FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Massive thumbs up to Hearts fans who want minute silence before their friendly this week too.

Top marks.

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Was Gary Deegan any good when he played for you last season? Probably not if he's ended up at Northampton. I know he only scored once but it was some goal!

Against Aberdeen in the Cup if not mistaken.

Was a cracker. I actually was disappointed to see him leave. Few Hibs fans would say the same. We will keep worse players I will put it that way.

Not sure why exactly he left though.

An away goal would have been nice. Hard to see us winning by 2 goals or more and not conceding.

Stranger things have happened I guess,

Embarrassing. I'm ashamed of this performance.

****ing livid here.

That 4th goal took the piss.

Never been this angry and by god I have seen them play ****.

im quite happy i didnt bother looking for a stream for that.. doesnt sound like theres football being played at all

He'll need a very good start to the season if he's to survive I'd imagine, he'll have a job building confidence before the season starts.

RoryMac wrote: »

He'll need a very good start to the season if he's to survive I'd imagine, he'll have a job building confidence before the season starts.

and the first few fixtures aren't exactly easy games.

blahfckingblah wrote: »

out of curiosity can football manager hibs win a domestic trophy??

With me only league cup.

The only club in FM with realistic mode haha.

Hibs defence is shocking. It's all down to the manager and who he brings in.About 4 or 5 League of Ireland sides have way better back lines than Hibs at this stage. For sugars sake Pat himself wouldn't manage a side with as bad a defence if he was back home.

I joined twitter last night just to let a few players know what I thought of them.

Call me what you like. I was one angry man last night after that.

At least when we got beat in cup final last year we could put blame on red for some of it.

But this was just so embarrassing. I be quite frank when I say a decent pub team would of given Hibs game last.

In the week when one of the clubs biggest legends and gentleman died from this club to go out and produce that type of display everyone of them should publically come out and apologise.

It was humiliation x1000

strong rumours has it that Fenlon offered to resign and Petrie told him to go home and reconsider.

I hope he is given more time, and decides to stay. But in the 4 biggest games of his tenure (2 SCF and a European tie) we have scored 1 and conceded 17. There is certainly improvement in the mentality of his teams overall, certainly compared to the Calderwood era, but we cannot have another season treading water.

The club has clearly looked at a couple of defenders and has failed to sign them, if we start the season with the current central defence we are humped. McManus would have been excellent and could be played alongside Forster, I dont want to see the bombscares Hanlon and McPake anywhere near the team this year.

Does Fenlon simply not believe it is necessary to link midfield with attack? We have signed two further defensive midfielders in the summer, while the one defensive fielder of our defensive midfielder academy who had an ounce of creativity, Claros, is not coming back. Liam Craig was supposed to be the long-missed attacking midfielder we required, given his success and goals in this role for St Johnstone. It baffles me why Fenlon chose to play him out wide left, where he could not link Thompson and Taiwo's "tidying up" with the forwards. I really hope this was just a once -off ploy, for reasons known only to Fenlon, that backfired and will not be attempted again. Continuously playing players out of position is really testing people's patience. He did the same with Cairney last season, (back when he resembled a footballer and before he became mysteriously obese overnight), and even played him on the right.