Les Cabbage

I suppose the difference between McGhee and other failures is McInnes was there for 8 years whereas the rest were there for a lot shorter periods. The reasoning for it was nothing other than boredom, they found the style of football so utterly boring they no longer watch the Scottish league, the national team or anyone football at all really, it just completely sucked away their enthusiasm.

Technically there’s no such thing as a permanent manager, unless of course your name is Dick Campbell and your club is Arbroath. Jesus though that list is grim, I hope that no one on it gets near the job. None more so than McInnes, I’ve got Aberdeen supporting pals that genuinely no longer care about football at all after 20+ years supporting the club prior due to that man sucking the soul out of their enjoyment for football, plus, a decent start to the season aside, he’s hardly set the heather alight at Killie. Hopefully it’s someone from abroad, Hearts & Aberdeen were linked with Cifuentes which would be interesting, would be okay with a Wilder type too. Voted Yogi though for the laughs.

I’m 26 years old and I’ve seen more European away wins than that, you’re also posting a defeat like it’s some form of win here which is pretty funny, back down to the championship where you belong next season sir.

The below is pretty much where I’m at, obviously before the game you had the “what if?” Excitement, but in reality anyone that expected anything different is on cloud cuckoo land. Was our defending utterly crap? Yes, did Youan, our star player have the worst game of his Hibs career? Yes. The two points really didn’t help us but even if we were at our best it would have probably been a similar scoreline. The reasons for this aren’t because of Lee Johnson and I’m not exactly his number 1 fan, they aren’t because of a “Hibsing,” it’s because of Sky Sports, the financial doping and the competitiveness being taken away from football. Some dreadful takes in this thread however none are worse than this one: A fan of *checks profile* St Johnstone. If the thought of a trip down to Birmingham with all your mates with probably another 5k+ of your fellow supporters to be spent in the pubs is to be pitied then you’re following the wrong sport. I suppose as a St Johnstone fan you’ve never had the opportunity to have such an experience so that may be a factor. Hopefully Villa play the kids and we can at least get a goal or something to celebrate to give us our moment. All in all it’s been a brilliant experience this season being in Europe, 6 matches, 2 more than expected and beating a team we were expected to lose to based on seedings and bookies odds. See you again next season @EuropaConferenceLeague.

Tickets sorted for next week ooh baby

As smashing as a result as that was on a personal note it feels pretty flat all things considered knowing I wasn’t there and I missed out on the night . Train booked for Birmingham already regardless, smashing result, huge boost to the club financially, some superb performances, I know he could have done better for the second but I thought Hanlon was utterly superb otherwise. Jeggo made a difference when he came on too.

St Johnstone fans furiously putting away their “beating Luzern isn’t for everyone” posts.

He’s no going anywhere while his best mate Kensell is still here eating up his kooshty salary doing f**k all. Johnson is not the answer but the reason for days like today is that absolute fool.

That’s 3 of the last 4 goals we’ve conceded due to individual errors from Will Fish. How many players is it that we’ve signed for a second spell after a successful loan that have been rotten second time around? Kamberi, MacLaren, McGivern the ones that come to mind, Fish may very well be the next for this list.

Draw would do me aswell, Thursday is far more important, we’ve got another 34 games to rack up enough points for Europe again next season after this month. Set up the glamour tie against Villa and it’s probably an extra £1m in the bank, the league is a marathon, not a sprint. Would rest Newell, Boyle & Vente.

Went along with the majority decision with my mates to not go to Switzerland and boy do I have FOMO now. What a performance in the second half, that was one to remember. I wrote off Le Fondre early doors, I was wrong. Lewis Miller sometimes looks good, as much as sometimes he looks like he’s playing the wrong sport, if he plays like the second half more we could get a tune out of him. I’ve hated Joe Newell for most of his career at Hibs due to his love of the Tory’s and him drink driving when the whole Hibs team was “isolating” due to covid after I’d made the trip all the way up to Dingwall for the game to be cancelled but jeezo, he’s making it very hard for me to keep up my dislike for him, been smashing the past few months and that performance tops the lot. Vente could be a great investment too. These nights are what it’s all about and why we all do it.

He’s actually correct in what he says, Fish was to blame for 2 of the goals on Sunday but he doesn’t need to come out with that in the press. The sad thing is because of his best mate Ben, we won’t be shot of him anytime soon. Kensell has got to be one of the worst appointments the club has made in a long time, utter charlatan.

Claros was one I always felt was underrated, if he hadn’t been surrounded by utter guff he’d have had a smashing career with us, used to love watching him play. I do recall a scout that got sacked when Butcher came in tweeting that Butcher had ripped up a pre-contract that we’d agreed with him and if true, one of the worst decisions the club made in that era and that is bloody well saying something .

Hibs have registered Johnson in the squad for our European game so I suspect he’ll be staying until the end of the month. Hopefully after that he’s able to go back to you and get game time, very high hopes for him and I’ve been very impressed when I’ve seen him. Is he likely to get a run of games or does Botteril seem to have the gloves?

I hate to break it to you, but if you drop below Hibs/Hearts/Aberdeen, every teams signings are made up of loans and free’s buy and large, the odd £100k handed over here and there but otherwise it’s basement bucket, the teams I’ve compared Kilmarnock to are shopping in the same shops. If you want to put it that way and compare it to previous clubs, Johnson has a decent record at clubs he’s managed at before, that doesn’t make him the right man for the job just like McInnes isn’t, like I say, ask any Aberdeen fan what they thought of McInnes’ era, he was sacked after a run of around 10 games without a goal, and that’s suddenly the silver bullet all because of a 1-0 win against Rangers. On that next point about beating Hearts, once again, McInnes was a manager renound at Aberdeen for losing in big matches, St Johnstone, Dundee Utd, Motherwell & Hearts all beating them comfortably in quarter/semi finals in his spell and you’re going to expect this guy to not bottle derbys, his record against the old firm was actually worse than Lee Johnson’s, the majority of his 2nd & 3rd place finishes were without Rangers, Hibs & Hearts in the league. Now, this conversation is finished and the overdue use of the ignore feature will be selected, please do not interact with me again.

Kilmarnock have a bigger budget than Livingston, Ross County, St Johnstone, probably St Mirren and Motherwell yet finished 10th, he wasn’t exactly flavour of the month at Kilmarnock last season and they looked a shoe in to go down until towards the end, yet one result against Rangers and he’s Jurgen Klopp, short termism at its finest. No one’s claiming Johnson is the answer, but McInnes isn’t either so no idea what your point is. If you think Johnson’s football is hit and hope Jesus Christ, speak to any Aberdeen fan that suffered the McInnes era. If you don’t want to be called out for chatting shite, simply stop chatting shite.

And still had a budget greater than most of the league, if a Hibs team amassed 5 points away from home all season you’d be delighted? I did watch that game, I also watched them limp to the championship title being pushed until the last day of the season by a part time team and watched them lose 4 goals to Celtic in 20 minutes, what is it with supporters and recency bias, I would genuinely rather keep Johnson than being in that utter bore, we’d be no better off Ah yes, it’s possible right enough just to cancel a season ticket because that’s how things work. Clearly an individual that’s never had a season ticket and doesn’t know how these things work. You make it so incredibly difficult to like you with the utter nonsense you post on here, almost make Lee Johnson and Ben Kensell sound like they know what they’re talking about.

McInnes comes in my season ticket goes in the bin. Jack Ross without the dress sense.

Did you watch them last season? They only got out of the relegation play offs on the last day of the season and amassed a grand total of 5 points away from home.

Quick look at Hibs.net is absolutely jarring reading. Folk clamouring for Lennon and McInnes, jeezo. Neil Lennon had an exceptional 6-8 month period from January 2018-August 2018. Is everyone forgetting us limping to the championship title despite no competition with what felt like us drawing every week, an average at best start to the following season, improvement after January recruits (Allan, MacLaren, Kamberi etc) then an utterly dismal campaign where we were sitting 8th when he was punted. And as for McInnes, if you thought Jack Ross’ football was boring and 2/3 of his seasons being absolute failure then I hope you enjoyed that because McInnes would be the same. I have mates that support Aberdeen that completely stopped going due to being bored to tears under him. Hearts & Aberdeens job vacancies came up and they were linked with exciting names like Chris Wilder, Marti Cifuentes & others who don’t have the history of failure in this country and our fans want those two clowns in, we truly get what we deserve.

I’ll carry him up to Perth on my back if you want. Why we persist with him is absolutely beyond me, can’t pass, can’t tackle, no goal threat, just an utterly pointless footballer. File under Melker Hallberg, Vykintas Slivka, Emerson Hyndman, Tom Taiwo (although he did learn to tackle after leaving us), Matt Thornhill & Joe Keenan. Truly fed up of this Hibs team, all my patience for the players and manager has gone. Andorra away was the straw that broke the camels back, yesterday the camel lost a leg aswell. Got my season ticket renewed and the Luzern ticket bought but after they put us out Hibs won’t be getting a single penny from me until Johnson is away, totally and utterly fed up of it.

I did recognise Meyer’s name when I was on their Wikipedia. Like you say with Boyle, I think we’re all hopeful we’ll have our new striker we’ve just bought for £700k in between him and Youan and that should cause problems. If we can go over there with a lead we have a decent chance I think, nothing to fear anyway.

Think we’re giving Luzern a miss which is a shame, gambled on a £33 flight to Sweden early on unfortunately didn’t pay off. £250 odd as an absolute minimum to get to Switzerland plus £8 pints and a likely £200 for a hotel, unfortunately not viable given I’m doing Cyprus & Georgia away with Scotland plus two short breaks with the mrs. Praying we get through another round and I can squeeze a cheaper trip in before Cyprus. No idea if anyone knows any better but I think we probably have a 50/50 or maybe slightly lower chance of progressing. Caught the last 25 mins of Luzern Djurgardens after the game, Djurgardens were obviously dominating but Luzern looked good on the break however utterly terrified of crossed balls into the box. In terms of our game; Boruc did well, a lot better than he did for the U20s in the challenge cup the night before where he looked very suspect. Defence was probably the weakest part of the team, Fish looked a bit shaky but he’ll be fine. Newell is really making it hard for me to complain about him, he’s an absolute arsehole but a smashing footballer and he was superb, right idea to sub him to keep him fresh for Sunday given his injury. Boyle and Youan are going to be an absolute nightmare to play against this season if they can both stay fit, could see us scoring a lot of goals but also probably conceding a lot too. Delighted for Doidge, a thoroughly good egg, would much rather have him than Le Fondre, Melkersen or McKirdy when he returns.