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Ross more or less indemnified himself from all blame!!!???? He picked that team for yesterday's match and I wouldn't be the only Hibs fan with "alarm bells ringing" re that choice of side/formation for this particular match!! I received enough texts from some family members and others who expressed similar concerns preceding the start of the game. Also one disturbs a reasonably settled defence at great risk - that was fairly evident yesterday!! For starters, I'd argue that Stevo was a better option for either of the full back positions - clearly not from JR's viewpoint, a manager who definitely set up this team wrongly yesterday and it didn't look like he could motivate the players either btw!! My view is that JR had the players to give United a testy match, but he didn't set up the "stuffy side" that was possible to initiate using the players he had available. Also is McGregor injured???? If so, why was he sitting on the subs' bench? Remember this was a group of players most of whom had a decent two week break to freshen up before this fixture. I watched a rerun of that tackle by Edwards on Boyly and IMO a good few refs would've red-carded Edwards for that tackle - we didn't get anything from that ref bearing in mind a quick reflection back to Porty's tackle on Arribo at Ibronx!!!! Study Edwards tackle on Boyly and compare it, the score was 0-0 at that point too - NO CONSISTENCY RE THIS TYPE OF OFFENCE, AND HE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTACT TOO - PORTY DIDN'T!!! AND EDWARDS EVENTUALLY SCORED ONE OF THEIR GOALS AGAINST US!! Sadly we are not Rangers FC at Ibronx because it's clear to me and a lotta other Scot footie fans that the "rules of engagement" are different - an absolute disgrace in a sport that shouldn't be enduring this kinda biased nonsense!! We move on, but we now realise we need our best players in the team asap. Lastly, Murphy was mentioned in a previous thread - I must say I don't like this player at all and hoped that Hibs wouldn't sign him in the summer. I've no ill feeling against this guy, I just think he's not good enough to play for Hibs, not enough to offer! I watched his shenanigans preceding one of United's goals and frantically waving for offside when he was clearly playing them onside in Hibs pen box - a total embarrassment in that instance, looked clueless!