(11-01-2021, 15:35)newhavenhibby Wrote: Agreed Scottish footie will get suspended sooner rather than later.
As for tonight.........just the game Hibs should win but won't as we all have seen many many times before.
Julienne, Barkas, Hazard, Taylor, Ralston, Henderson, Johnson, Ajeti, Broon, El Hamed, Rogic, Biton, Klimala all self-isolating with their manager, Neil Lennon. However, note there are still good players available foe Celtic.
Re Hibs response to tonight's match? Well I'll change my previous view re "one up top"! We have a vg away record. Therefore I expect JR's strategy to be similar in previous successful away matches. It has to be "two up top" and lets try to play an expansive attacking game against them. I notice Soros is not in that list. So one of my immediate ploys would be to stifle him with a man-marking tactic - absolutely mark him out of this match!!
Hibs should win this game tonight with a "bit to spare" but I still heed what Bouncinghibees and lotsa Sunderland fans have previously said about Jack Ross - HE DOESN'T WIN BIG MATCHES!!
So could we see a team of Hibs players embarrassing us and the footie club even further tonight v a scratch Celtic side??? Not if they apply themselves in the way that I would certainly be doing it as an ex captain of footie clubs!! Should Hanlon be on the pitch??? IMO I wouldn't play him in this match - no way I could justify fielding a liability even though he is the current Hibs captain! The only way I could possibly change that view is by demanding that he "gets a grip" and plays like a committed captain of Hibs FC and hope that the criticism has "sunk into his brain"!!!GGTTH