Ulises de la Cruz Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Pleasing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastFife_Hibee Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 As long as Elle Youan passes him the ball and doesn't take it into a dead end, he'll score a barrow load of goals and we'll split the bigot brothers!! Exciting signing!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawford Bridge Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Good, the longer it went without being announced the more convinced I was that he was going elsewhere. He's either going to be brilliant or hopeless, no in between. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 42 minutes ago, Ulises de la Cruz said: Staunch ️ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insert Amusing Pseudonym Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 18 minutes ago, EastFife_Hibee said: As long as Elle Youan passes him the ball and doesn't take it into a dead end, he'll score a barrow load of goals and we'll split the bigot brothers!! Exciting signing!! This will not happen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zing. Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Lee Johnson has had ridiculously good backing this transfer window. Nowhere to hide for him now. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insert Amusing Pseudonym Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 1 hour ago, Zing. said: Lee Johnson has had ridiculously good backing this transfer window. Nowhere to hide for him now. The green pound has been comprehensively flexed. Seems a bit like giving Olly Reed your credit card in a bar, but who knows 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastFife_Hibee Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said: This will not happen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stylish Kid Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 This is an impressive amount of money being spent. Including that Boyle returned on favourable terms, plus Youann et al, it seems we've entered a new era of cash at ER. I have no idea about this lad, but he seems to have pedigree.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Insert Amusing Pseudonym said: The green pound has been comprehensively flexed. Seems a bit like giving Olly Reed your credit card in a bar, but who knows Sounds like a cracking night out - until he puts his cock in your pint glass................. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyQuinn Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 The Gordon family has seriously backed Johnson. They've made (on paper) some very solid signings and have got to be considered serious contenders for finishing third this season. I'm surmising here but Hibs would appear to have spent more on their side this summer than both Aberdeen and Hearts. Certainly on transfer fees. Fair play to them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser Fyvie Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 Youan/Vente/Boyle > your front 3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 8 hours ago, HarleyQuinn said: The Gordon family has seriously backed Johnson. They've made (on paper) some very solid signings and have got to be considered serious contenders for finishing third this season. I'm surmising here but Hibs would appear to have spent more on their side this summer than both Aberdeen and Hearts. Certainly on transfer fees. Fair play to them. If finishing 3rd was all about the forward line - maybe. However I think we are still pretty thin in defence (algthough Fish returning is a real plus) where we are still heavily reliant on Stevenson and Hanlon.......and the least said about Marshall the better. I also have some reservations in midfield, where we have good players, but not necessarily ones who can play well together. In summary, I suspect we will win some matches well, and lose matches to some of the better teams. tldr - No sure I feel we are serious contenders yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 9 minutes ago, Leith Green said: If finishing 3rd was all about the forward line - maybe. However I think we are still pretty thin in defence (algthough Fish returning is a real plus) where we are still heavily reliant on Stevenson and Hanlon.......and the least said about Marshall the better. I also have some reservations in midfield, where we have good players, but not necessarily ones who can play well together. In summary, I suspect we will win some matches well, and lose matches to some of the better teams. tldr - No sure I feel we are serious contenders yet. I think the defence is largely fine tbh. Not too confident at FB, will have to see about Obita and Miller, but could see McIntyre or Megwa getting brought through which is preferable to me than using up our wage budget on additional full backs. Wqhile they have their moments all of Hanlon, Fish and Rocky showed themselves to be solid enough for large stretches last year. And the addition of harbottle gives us more cover than previously as well. Confident Wollacot will be an upgrade on Marshall from the limited I've seen of him in the past For me it's the midfield and support for the wingers I'm worried about. I don't rate Jeggo and we don't have another DM, and if Boyle or Youan were out injured we're looking at melkerson or MacKay who I just don't think have it in them. If there's any budget left that's where I'd be looking to spend it. Think we'll have to wait till towards the end of the window and see if we can offload a few of Henderson, McKirdy, Dodge and Tavares before we see anyone else coming in now. On a side not it is the most Hibs thing in the world that we are giving a squad with this level of investment to Lee fucking Johnson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 31 minutes ago, GHF-23 said: is the most Hibs thing in the world that we are giving a squad with this level of investment to Lee fucking Johnson If LJ fucks it, we can then give these new quality players to a manager of undoubted pedigree, one who would be coveted throughout the footballing world................. Spoiler 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Leith Green said: If LJ fucks it, we can then give these new quality players to a manager of undoubted pedigree, one who would be coveted throughout the footballing world................. Hide contents Actually the last manager who springs to mind when I think of "very heavily backed in a single window".... ETA actually not as much as I thought, had it in my mind Bamba and Riordan came in that summer too but it was the January before I think Edited August 1, 2023 by GHF-23 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 14 minutes ago, GHF-23 said: Actually the last manager who springs to mind when I think of "very heavily backed in a single window".... ETA actually not as much as I thought, had it in my mind Bamba and Riordan came in that summer too but it was the January before I think Yogi lost Stokes on the last day of the transfer window and we have to get Alan Gow on loan. He was anything but backed. Bamba and Deeks were Mixu. Same with Nish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Hoose Rice said: Yogi lost Stokes on the last day of the transfer window and we have to get Alan Gow on loan. He was anything but backed. Bamba and Deeks were Mixu. Same with Nish. Alan Gow was signed the same season that Stokes played and, given their history, was almost certainly a Yogi signing. While we sold Fletcher for a fee we could never turn down, that summer he was allowed to add quality to a team which already had the likes of Bamba, Hanlon, Stevenson, Rankin, Zemmama, Benji, Nish and Riordan. He spent a part of his energy in terms of signings that year creating a "goalkeeping academy" or whatever the hell he called it. He can't really blame anyone else for that second half of the season collapse either. My sympathy for him is incredibly limited Edited August 1, 2023 by GHF-23 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 5 minutes ago, GHF-23 said: Alan Gow was signed the same season that Stokes played and, given their history, was almost certainly a Yogi signing. While we sold Fletcher for a fee we could never turn down, that summer he was allowed to add quality to a team which already had the likes of Bamba, Hanlon, Stevenson, Rankin, Zemmama, Benji, Nish and Riordan. He spent a part of his energy in terms of signings that year creating a "goalkeeping academy" or whatever the hell he called it. He can't really blame anyone else for that second half of the season collapse either. My sympathy for him is incredibly limited Sorry was Daryl Duffy that we got on loan to replace Stokes. He wasn't backed at all Yogi. The players you mention he brought none of them to the club. We sold Zemmama Bamba and Stokes in the same window, our two best players and replaced with jobbers. The sacked Yogi and brought in Coco the clown and his bag of sweets act. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 4 minutes ago, Hoose Rice said: Sorry was Daryl Duffy that we got on loan to replace Stokes. He wasn't backed at all Yogi. The players you mention he brought none of them to the club. We sold Zemmama Bamba and Stokes in the same window, our two best players and replaced with jobbers. The sacked Yogi and brought in Coco the clown and his bag of sweets act. No but Stokes and Miller, and others who were important players, were. They were added to an already relatively strong squad, thereby giving Yogi a significantly stronger squad than the previous year or, tbh looking back, any other team outside the OF that year. Fully agree that in that second season he wasn't backed but given the mess he'd made of the previous season I wouldn't have either. I understand your points but I find the number of Hibs fans who feel that he and Lennon were hard done by when both of them delivered nothing but half a season of good football with excellent squads is baffling to me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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