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That's unfair mate, this guy has just had an opinion piece published on the major news website in NZ where he's highly critical of the coach of a professional football team despite never having played at that level himself.  Isn't it fair enough to ask what qualifies him to make those criticisms?

 

Now, hang on Whitby.  James isn't saying that about posting on here, rather being given column inches in a major daily newspaper.  There is a fundamental difference here, and an important one considering how ill-informed about football many of the readers of the DomPost would be.

But it's not a discussion is it ?  It's you and Stevo (mainly) completely bombarding the forum with your views that are against everyone elses.  At no point do you acknowledge or remotely take on others views or even consider that majority may have a fair point.

I love a discussion, but this isn't a discussion.  Since 19:00 Sunday, this and up to 4 other threads have been the same posts over and over and over and over and over again.  I'd love a good discussion about who might replace Ifill and how they will fit in to our current highly creative flowing style of play but that's not going to happen because despite all the evidence to the contrary we keep being assured by a minority that we don't play like that.

Instead there will be four more days of people claiming that the solution to our problems are to add another man up front when every single statistic and statement makes it clear that the problem isn't a problem that needs another man up front to solve it.

It needs a simple thing.  Players to finish chances.  You can play 6 men up front but if those 6 don't put the ball in the back of the net you'll still finish with no goals.  We're creating as many chances as any other side in the league with our current formatuion, and despite what Marius claims to be seeing are playing the best looking and most attacking football that the club has in it's existence yet we have more posts complaining about it than we ever have before.... not more people, just more posts.

I will say this now, if Ifill is 100% fit (unlikely) on Sunday and we play the style and formation we have played for the last few weeks and we convert 1 in 5 of our chance we will beat the Mariners by 3, much the same as if we had taken a fraction of our chances against Brisbane, Adelaide and Mebourne we would have beaten them by the same margin.

1 up front, 2 up front, 3 up front, if you don't finish, you don't win, the formation means nothing.

just wondering if you ever bought that season ticket Steve-O after whinging about it for a couple of months?

irnbru4,thats a great post. A straight swap for this weekend would be good and a chance to see how caceres does. I see where you're coming from,I really do,but i do think the subs bench limits options somewhat in regards to radical tactical changes during a game. but yeah,the subs RH names can justifiably come under scrutiny,and perhaps its something he should look to address.

There isn't one, of any value.

Funnily enough, I just went over to look on hibs.net messageboard and way over on the other side of the world, almost the EXACT same debate re: formation is going on, it's uncanny really!!

Is Hibs second to last too?

are they 6 points from the top or 3 points from a top 4 spot?

Must be a scottish thing haha.

British players and fans do tend to have an in built bias towards 4-4-2 beacuse most of their sides have traditionally played that way.  It's not the ONLY way to line up a football team though!!

Yeah, though I noticed Fowler seemed to have a strike partner, as did the two big blokes that Adelaide had up front, playing a more conventional 2 prong strikeforce.

I'm not the least surprised though Steve, ever since your first day on here the majority of your posts are not happy about something, if you are a snapshot of a typical Hibernian fan then it is no wonder that place is like that.

Perhaps taking a chance to acknowledge that you no longer live a 'trainspotting' existence and in fact live in Wellington and get to watch a fledgling team in a fledgling league spreading it's wings and playing good football on a sunny Sunday afternoon will help you get over 100 years of ingrained unhappiness at your football team.

You could take on the sunny disposition the majority of Phoenix fans have and you might just see the glimmer of hope and the inspirational football the Phoenix have played for a majority of the season.

Have a crack Steve-O, you never know, you might like it.

Oh, and you'll have to excuse Auskiwi, he at least has been consistant and irrationally hated Ricki since before he was appointed...and Zephyr he turned up whining before the first ball was kicked as well, irnbru seems to be knew to the band although obviously a cannae scot like yourself... flatmates? ...anyway irrelevant, but he might like to try this prescription as well, and when/if it works you tell folks Dr. Baiter sent you.

I'm not the least surprised though Steve, ever since your first day on here the majority of your posts are not happy about something, if you are a snapshot of a typical Hibernian fan then it is no wonder that place is like that.

Perhaps taking a chance to acknowledge that you no longer live a 'trainspotting' existence and in fact live in Wellington and get to watch a fledgling team in a fledgling league spreading it's wings and playing good football on a sunny Sunday afternoon will help you get over 100 years of ingrained unhappiness at your football team.

You could take on the sunny disposition the majority of Phoenix fans have and you might just see the glimmer of hope and the inspirational football the Phoenix have played for a majority of the season.

Have a crack Steve-O, you never know, you might like it.

Oh, and you'll have to excuse Auskiwi, he at least has been consistant and irrationally hated Ricki since before he was appointed...and Zephyr he turned up whining before the first ball was kicked as well, irnbru seems to be knew to the band although obviously a cannae scot like yourself... flatmates? ...anyway irrelevant, but he might like to try this prescription as well, and when/if it works you tell folks Dr. Baiter sent you.

I'm not the least surprised though Steve, ever since your first day on here the majority of your posts are not happy about something, if you are a snapshot of a typical Hibernian fan then it is no wonder that place is like that.

Perhaps taking a chance to acknowledge that you no longer live a 'trainspotting' existence and in fact live in Wellington and get to watch a fledgling team in a fledgling league spreading it's wings and playing good football on a sunny Sunday afternoon will help you get over 100 years of ingrained unhappiness at your football team.

You could take on the sunny disposition the majority of Phoenix fans have and you might just see the glimmer of hope and the inspirational football the Phoenix have played for a majority of the season.

Have a crack Steve-O, you never know, you might like it.

Oh, and you'll have to excuse Auskiwi, he at least has been consistant and irrationally hated Ricki since before he was appointed...and Zephyr he turned up whining before the first ball was kicked as well, irnbru seems to be knew to the band although obviously a cannae scot like yourself... flatmates? ...anyway irrelevant, but he might like to try this prescription as well, and when/if it works you tell folks Dr. Baiter sent you.