That was garbage, we were well beaten by 'well. Once again Jack Ross is out thought and leaves it too late to fix it. I suggested yesterday that we needed Gogic in, instead we watched Newell and Irvine out muscled all first half, Jamie Murphy wake up for 15 minutes after half an hour and Christian Doidge continue to kid on he is a striker.
We started well enough, Cadden in particular looking decent. It didnae last long, Motherwell soon worked out Joe is no defensive midfielder, Paul McGinn is poor in a three, Murphy is a lazy player who hides and generally Hibs are a soft touch, especially without the toughness and cover from Gogic. We could all see that, Jack Ross couldn't and frankly he is as much to blame for that poor effort as any player.
Credit to Motherwell, a good team who play open attacking football and defend well, just like Hibs of the last couple of weeks. How they are so low down the league is beyond me, but then how we are so far up the league is beyond me too as that first half team was fucking rotten.
Hibs TV went down at half time, it then went down for me on 82 minutes and I missed Alexander getting sent off what happened?
The Team
Rocky, not to blame, Neither wonder he is not signing a new contract with that shower of shite in front of you.
Paul McGinn has been rotten for weeks. What happened? My guess, he disnae enjoy his back three position, although he did improve second half.
Daz had a real battle with Watt, not sure he won it?
Hanlon, well I thought he was poor at the second goal?
Newell was as poor as he has been this season, he is no Alex Gogic
Irvine done very little other than one wonder pass. His pairing with Newell didnae work against a good opposition midfield. He improved a bit when Gogic came on.
Cadden, I thought he played well and was one of few who got pass marks.
Stevenson is no Josh Doig and whilst he put some good balls in, I feel he slows the game down nowadays?
Murphy is a lazy bastard, 5 or 10 minutes effort is not acceptable.
Boyler never stopped trying as was the one Hibs player who looked like he wanted to win.
Doidge is hopeless. Those that say he does a lot of hidden work are right, its so well hidden, I never fucking see it. Misses too many chances, never scores, yet keeps our top scorer out of the team, should have been dropped weeks ago.
Subs
We go 2-0 down and Jack Ross wakes up and realises his team have been shite. We saw Nissy, Gogic and Porto all come on a few minutes into the second half. It did improve us but whilst that fucking huddy Doidge is playing we are not going to score are we?
Porto for Daz, Porto did fine.
Nissy for Murphy, well Murph needed taking off, not sure Kevin did much more but them look who you are playing beside.
Gogic for Lewis, which made us much more solid and freed up Joe Newell to make an arse of things further up the pitch.
Scottie came on late for Irvine with 10 to go and tried to change it, not sure 10 minutes is enough to perform a miracle?
Jack Ross
I never heard his interview. What excuse did he come up with?
Motherwell
I though they played very well, Cole is a player, Lamie stopped Boyler, and I wouldnae mind O'Donnell in reflection, he is a far better and cleverer player than McGinn. Thoroughly deserved their win, might have been more.
The Referee was fine, I had no problem with him.
Hibs TV, I like Cliff and was pleased he was back, Tam's heavy breathing and tuts and sighs are a great gauge of how HIbs are playing, Bastard Face and Super Tortolano were good too. The match cameraman and producer are pretty hopeless right enough.
Hibs man of the match, well that isnae easy, how about the ones that scored more than five out of ten which was Boyler, Cadden and Rocky from the starters and Porto and Gogic from the subs. Best of that lot was Martin Boyle, he gives a shit.
Next up we have three away games in a row, we are better on the road but will have to be as we are away to St Johnstone, Ross County and Livingston. I wouldnae be digging your passports out yet!
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