Heckingbottom sacked...

Which reinforces the theory that .......
Some people just look at the score sheet.
While others have a much deeper interest and look at what is happening behind the scenes.

 

It would be a yes from me but there is no chance that it will happen.

 

Given that he knows that our policy of signing promising players and the selling them on
viz: a continuation of the regime of the one he previously worked under and ultimately criticised,
it begs the question, would he want to come back. ? I don't think he would.

 

I'd rather impale myself on the Shard than look at his negative bitter cheerless fizzog again.

 

Either he was good at his job or Lee Johnson was.

Or they both were.

 

Is he really in a position to turn down a job? Perpetual failure doesn’t tend to attract a wave of interest.

 

See a pattern there?

 

That season they both were imo.

 

He inherited a very good group of players, and we had the best set piece taker I've seen. As soon as the genius assister was gone, it all went very Pete Tong and he had no answer. He made a complete pigs ear of things at Leeds and actually lasted longer than people thought... and the same at Hibs.

So aside from about 10-11 months, the rest of his first team coaching/managing career has been an abject failure.

His joylessness, bitterness and dour negativity has nothing to do with his record though. That stands on its own completely.

 

First half of the season Lee Johnson was utter tripe.

But he's a streak win/lose guy.

After that we were flying.

Anyway, someone deserves some credit for getting us to 7th in the Championship, before we sold our reason for believing.

 

So it was Lee Johnson who created the platform for our success then.

Welcome aboard the carriageless train.

 

It could be argued that the core had played in the same team for a good amount of time and knew how each other played. We scored a lot of goals from set pieces too, which is a massive help in the Championship.

Credit that we kept a consistency and didn't really tinker. But from January onwards, the year that followed was pretty dreadful and I think that squad was better than this one (where it is on its development cycle). Just my opinion of course.

 

I think Johnson played a crucial part in getting Hourihane to know his game. And seeing as Hourihane created or scored around 70% of our goals... there may be something in that.... just maybe?

The more players play, the more they develop and understand their games. Hence why we're crying out for experience right now!

 

Interestingly one of the main criticisms from Hibs fans seems to be that he plays Stevie Mallan too much who apparently isn’t good enough for that league.

Can’t see him coming back here whilst the current owners are in place, in the future maybe who knows.

I’ll be honest I don’t pay barely any attention to the Scottish leagues but I know there’s a couple on here that do so what was the situation with Neil Lennon? He had a worse record than Heckingbottom at Hibs yet managed to bag the Celtic job, was that just down to him been a Celtic legend? Did both do bad jobs? Or are Hibs expectations too high? Bit of both? Bad signings?

Seem a bit of a strange club, they get decent crowds & had a great opportunity to take advantage of Rangers & Hearts plights a few years ago but ended up making a mess of things themselves & getting relegated. Guess they’ll always be attractive to managers been in Edinburgh

 

Looks like Tommy Wright was the reason our young lads played so well back then

 

Realistically who is going to want to take him on in a head coach capacity now? I'd be very surprised if any club above L2 would look at him to lead from the front. He's going to have to be very careful because if he quickly jumps into another role and fails again then he's pretty much finished.
Perhaps he will revert back to an assistant coaching role somewhere initially.

I've admitted on here I was too critical of him at times during his final few months at Oakwell when considering what he had to put up with but that still doesn't fully explain how an outgoing, positive person turned so negative and dour, a trait he seemingly took to Leeds and Hibs...

 

I just can't see it. I would imagine the board wouldn't approach him, and I think he's intelligent enough to know he's on a hiding to nothing if he were to take it. Another role may give him the opportunity to salvage his career - like Silkstone has said another failure would finish him so can't see him taking this poisoned chalice.

 

Very surprised he didn’t make a success of it there.

 

Bless.
That's almost on a par with "goalscoring is not a strikers best attribute".

I support the team, not the spreadsheet. Of course I look at the score sheet ya gert nugget.

 

What do you win for being 7th in january?