According to the Edinburgh Evening News today Hibs stars (stars? how many of them actually qualify as stars?) have been holding "clear the air" talks following their dismal pre season.
A sign of a group players taking responsibility for their collective incompetence? Or a sign that problems do exist at Easter Road?
I'm thinking the latter. I wonder just what role Rob Jones has as club captain...
Do friendlies mean anything at all? Most managers would say they're a valuable way of gauging a team's readiness for the season ahead. If they win. If they lose they'll write them off as merely a fitness excercise.
So who knows if they do mean anything.
But three events in Scottish football show that friendlies can have a far from positive impact.
Example 1
Peterhead 4, Aberdeen 0
A full...
The whole sorry search for a keeper at Easter Road continues. After Phil Imray, recently of the mighty Wellington in New Zealand, did little to impress against Raith he has joined young Ivorian Lamine Meite in being shown the exit door.
Neither triallist impressed Mixu Paatelainen more than what he's already got. What he's already got is calamity prone Yves Makalambay, gaffe prone Andy McNeill...
Up on the roof. Two intrepid souls find a new way to watch Hibs and Rangers in a not so very scintallating no score draw.Apparently they left at half time to get a carry out. Which, if nothing else, probably made them the envy of the fans inside the ground.Seriously guys there must be 100 pubs within a mile of the roof that were showing the game on TV.Still I bet Rod Petrie is trying to track...
There appears to be something in the water in Edinburgh – and it's not coming from the burst sewage pipe at Seafield. A season of smug satisfaction for Hibs fans looked like it might get even better. One cup was already locked in the trophy cabinet. Kevin Thomson was dumped and Scott Brown returned to equilibrium. European football – and a shot at the Scottish Cup – lay only 90 minutes...
In
Scott Brown,
John Collins,
Hibernian,
Dunfermline,
Scottish Cup,
CIS Cup,
Steven Whittaker,
David Murphy,
Chris Killen,
Hibs,
Rod Petrie
The runners and riders in Scottish football over the last seven days:
Well Done You!
Until this afternoon Kilmarnock were going to get this for performance of the week. But Falkirk made a late charge and came through on the inside after putting Rangers to the sword.
A special mention to Scott Brown. After building up a reputation as the player other teams love to hate he’s achieved a double...
