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Why ruin a really well written, balanced post, with this frightener? I dunno if it's different in Orlando, but Halloween isn't for another four days here. Stephen Robinson would be an awful choice. It would be us getting spooked, abandoning everything the club apparently identified in this review they did two years ago, and just hoping Robinson can have the same impact McInnes as had at Hearts without any forward thinking. Like I said in the Hibs match thread - if Thelin is deemed not to be the man to continue it, then you search for someone who can. Stephen Robinson is Jim Goodwin all over again. He does not fit the model. The players we have don't fit his style of football. I'm also not sure what is appealing about him at the moment anyway. St Mirren have won just two of nine league games this season. Getting to the cup semi has masked a poor season (not unheard of).

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Armstrong has been decent on the ball, generally speaking. However, it struck me when watching Hibs (and when we signed him, in reality it is fucking obvious), that he would do a good job in the role McGrath was playing. Let's just do that for Killie. Edit: obviously, I'd normally pick Clarkson ahead of Nilsen, but I'm saving him for the second half when we're two down.

I keep thinking back to the fact that our season fell on its arse last year around the same time that our attacking coach left to go back to Sweden (Bajrami). Before you all scream "hemmin, correlation disnae imply causation!" at me, if we are loathe to bin Thelin (and I understand why), should we be looking at changing up (or adding to) his support and counsel instead?

Yeah my thinking is Thelin can change things, and he did so with the change to a back three which has - albeit only a handful of games - looked like getting the best out of Jack Milne, and appeared to suit Gyamfi when he was fit. Now he needs to change the midfield, but to do that does he abandon his deep striker with two inside forwards / two number 10s, which has been his staple at Elfsborg? Kilmarnock is huge, but not in terms of the result (we'll say it is, but if we lose the world will still spin and Thelin will likely still be manager on Thursday). But it's huge in that we need to start seeing what Thelin's reaction is now. Is it just a wee refresh of the line-up and same again, or is he fixing the problems? I want him to show evidence he can turn this around. To be honest, I'd be surprised if he couldn't.

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Not that I could see. Some players looked a bit wearied after Athens but I didn't see any signs of lack of effort or not really caring.

With new director of football being appointed and not starting role for another month I would assume that manger will now get a least until turn of the year to allow the new man time to review everything.

That was probably me mate, I've done a lot of digging on his first few seasons at Elfsborg. It really wasn't until the second half of the second season that they started to put together results and a huge swathe of the fanbase wanted him gone by the year and half mark. There are plenty of valid comparisons to be drawn and it's the reason I still have hope for Thelin and a desire for him to get the chance to see it out. Yeah, not your finest hour OD

I suspect I'm fairly solitary on the board with this opinion but I would still give him the season and that's not going to change unless I genuinely start fearing relegation could be a thing. That said I think it was Panda that said yesterday that this was the first time his faith had been shaken in the manager which I can understand. Cormack has a big decision to make though and imo if he's going to stick he needs to make that comprehensively known so the support backs off a bit. Given the lack of news from the club so far it would seem he's going to get the Killie game at least. After that we have a week off (much needed imo) then November is Larnaca away, motherwell, hearts and noah at home then livi away. Plenty winnable games there. I said a few months ago I thought the first half of the season was going to be tough so for me this isn't overly unexpected. I do still think we will have a very strong second half of the season if we keep Thelin though.

That average Hibs team has lost about 2 league games in the year since the 3-3 Regardless, take away the flukey cup semi/final and it's quite clear Thelin doesn't have a scoob

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Aye, that was gash again. I suspect that the last two minutes has saved JT's job. Had we lost 3-0 then he'd have been done. The European pish is an absolute disaster for us. We're nowhere near being ready for the extra games and today showed it. Several players looked knackered today, and we don't even have a settled first eleven, never mind a rotatable squad. We don't seem to be able to attack without leaving gaping holes in defence. The second half especially, when Devlin (probably the only one with pass marks, Lazetic aside) spent the entire time upfield. Dorrington and Milne were poor, with Knoester only marginally better. Karlsson very quick to berate Keskinen (which helped nobody), but didn't do a whole lot himself and gave the ball away too often. Armstrong was okay, but takes too long to shoot, and gives the ball away far too often. For all the shite Shinnie gets with the "legs have gone" pish, he covers 80 times more ground than Palaversa, who was absolutely dogshite. Clarkson was good when he came on and should be starting. Jensen pish and once again Nisbet is a waste of a shirt without a partner (which should have been obvious before signing). Milanovic probably had his best game today, positionally he was really good, working well with Devlin. Unfortunately he was terrible anytime he actually got the ball. I'm assuming Bilalovic is dead or something? Anyway, it's the shite squad building in the summer that has fucked us. Get the DOF in and put a proper plan in place and force JT to stay and get it done. Need to take a hard call on guys like Palaversa, Polvara etc and get them shifted.