The way forward
All of the calls for getting rid of Paul Heckingbottom, understandable as they are, are rather missing the point. The guy is doing his very best but just doesn't have the necessary skills to have the team near the top of this league.
Paul Heckingbottom II is not what we need.
The club has now returned to its default setting after a brief, but enjoyable, flurry under Stubbs and Lennon.
During the fiasco over Lennon's sacking, there were many fools jubilantly posting about how things were just going to get better and better. But the wiser heads were filled with foreboding as the board brought a brief era of 'football first' at Hibs to an end.
Those who slated Lennon back then, rubbishing his record against Hearts have now had their greatest wish come true - albeit with a caveat. We are now in fierce competition with our city rivals after all - but in a race to the bottom.
Where now are the voices which screamed about our 'lowly' 8th position in the league? Now that we are 10th, and with little hope of improvement, Lennon's little tantrums and eccentricities pale into insignificance compared to the football which we witnessed back then.
Hibs threw out the baby and kept the bathwater and the fans should have been up in arms and in revolt concerning that fiasco. There was no revolt. Just talk of how LD would have us moving 'onwards and upwards'. What bloody nonsense.
It's time to get rid of LD and the rest of the dead wood in the club. She did her job for a couple of years but now it's time for change.
On the 4th February 2019, while being shouted down on this forum by members of the LD fan club, I said the following:
"I am predicting that we will have five new 'head coaches' within the next four years. I would be happy to be proved wrong on this - but nothing short of an upheaval will change that."
Let's see if this club has the guts to push through the upheaval necessary.
Paul Heckingbottom II is not what we need.
The club has now returned to its default setting after a brief, but enjoyable, flurry under Stubbs and Lennon.
During the fiasco over Lennon's sacking, there were many fools jubilantly posting about how things were just going to get better and better. But the wiser heads were filled with foreboding as the board brought a brief era of 'football first' at Hibs to an end.
Those who slated Lennon back then, rubbishing his record against Hearts have now had their greatest wish come true - albeit with a caveat. We are now in fierce competition with our city rivals after all - but in a race to the bottom.
Where now are the voices which screamed about our 'lowly' 8th position in the league? Now that we are 10th, and with little hope of improvement, Lennon's little tantrums and eccentricities pale into insignificance compared to the football which we witnessed back then.
Hibs threw out the baby and kept the bathwater and the fans should have been up in arms and in revolt concerning that fiasco. There was no revolt. Just talk of how LD would have us moving 'onwards and upwards'. What bloody nonsense.
It's time to get rid of LD and the rest of the dead wood in the club. She did her job for a couple of years but now it's time for change.
On the 4th February 2019, while being shouted down on this forum by members of the LD fan club, I said the following:
"I am predicting that we will have five new 'head coaches' within the next four years. I would be happy to be proved wrong on this - but nothing short of an upheaval will change that."
Let's see if this club has the guts to push through the upheaval necessary.