Pubs in Edinburgh on Saturday

[nice1simmy]

It seems as if Goodwin knows how to play against ten men but not with ten men. The capitulation today, signaled by the immediate introduction of Polvara, told Hibs everything they needed to know about Aberdeen’s tactics. It was the same as last season’s defeat by St Mirren. Given we were not on either occasion facing Real Madrid, an attempt to attack might at least have stemmed the waves which flooded forward against us. If any forward was going off then it should have been Miovski – that was not his game today with 10 men but it could have been Duk’s.

Good summary pal,when Polvara came on i thought he was out his depth,looked like an American amateur to be fair.
Great goal by Duk and why did Goodwin take him off?
Miovski was sh!te again,missed a sitter,he needs to get his head out his bum and start scoring again

[TheDeeDon]

Considering the reluctance of Goodwin to use any Glass era players, Polvara coming on yesterday was a strange one and to take off take off Duk for him just made the decision worse.

[Shetland Don]

Considering the reluctance of Goodwin to use any Glass era players, Polvara coming on yesterday was a strange one and to take off take off Duk for him just made the decision worse.

Polvara isn’t at the required standard for even first-tier Scottish football - not convinced on what I’ve seen that he’ll make the grade. He was at fault for the second Hibs goal. Poor team performance though overall.

[LongDistanceRed]

It seems as if Goodwin knows how to play against ten men but not with ten men. The capitulation today, signaled by the immediate introduction of Polvara, told Hibs everything they needed to know about Aberdeen’s tactics. It was the same as last season’s defeat by St Mirren. Given we were not on either occasion facing Real Madrid, an attempt to attack might at least have stemmed the waves which flooded forward against us. If any forward was going off then it should have been Miovski – that was not his game today with 10 men but it could have been Duk’s.

It will always be the case when you play a striker mile Miovski who makes little to no effort off the ball in the defensive phase, the rest of the XI have to run around doing his work for him, he's purely a goal poacher

When down to 10 he should have been subbed off not DUK, at least DUK works for the team defensively and can run and press, we were effectively down to 9 men with Miosvki on loitering around and he still missed a sitter in what was about his 3rd touch in the entire second half

Boyd was the same for Rangers, used to be dropped in european games because its like playing with 10 men, Rangers got away with it in the SPL because the other 10 players quality let them get away with it against SPL standard teams

[donsdaft]

Bloody hell, yet another international break.

This whole season is practically part time fitba.

[stewarty27]

Goodwin was right Porteous is a bit of a cheat and did con the ref, But oh the irony ! Goodwin spent his whole playing career Kicking, Punching, Elbowing, opponents if fact he did everything in the Cheating handbook in order to win. His Yellow and Red card count will testify to the that. Stones and glasshooses inat.

[Bisconti's balls]

Goodwin was right Porteous is a bit of a cheat and did con the ref, But oh the irony ! Goodwin spent his whole playing career Kicking, Punching, Elbowing, opponents if fact he did everything in the Cheating handbook in order to win. His Yellow and Red card count will testify to the that. Stones and glasshooses inat.

He seems such a inexperienced gimp! 100% needed a manager with experience. I hope he is a success but im not sure he will be.

[Donanddusted]

Bloody hell, yet another international break.
This whole season is practically part time fitba.

Another lesson from Ukraine too

On a lighter note, I see Grant Hanley has pulled out the squad.

[57vintage]

Johnson is ‘encouraging his players to cheat’ claim former refs
The Scotsman
By ANGUS WRIGHT
Hibs manager Lee Johnson has been accused of encouraging his players to cheat by two former SPFL referees following comments made in the wake of the 3-1 win over Aberdeen.
Steve Conroy and Des Roache, who have both officiated multiple matches in the Scottish league, gave their views on the Get Involved Referee podcast as part of a discussion around the penalty incident awarded to Hibs and subsequent red card for Dons defender Liam Scales shortly before half-time.
Aberdeen boss Jim Goodwin said afterwards that Hibs defender Ryan Portegous was guilty of ‘blatant cheating’ and the former whistlers appeared to agree, accusing the Hibs defender of instigating the foul and conning the referee, and Johnson of condoning cheating.
Roache said: “Porteous is the gift that keeps on giving – we’d be out of a job if it wasn’t for him.
"My interpretation was that Porteous was the one who instigated the whole scenario. He was clearly pulling and grabbing Scales’ jersey and then moved into a headlock as the movement progressed.
"As Porteous is falling you can see Scales has his hands up saying, ‘I’ve not got a touch of him’.
"However, his manager is condoning it. In his post-match interview he said thatb‘goodplay forced the sending-off’. I think that’s got to be looked at – a manager saying he’s condoning it, encouraging his players to get another player sent off. Take it back to the bones, that’s cheating. And [Johnson] is condoning cheating.”
Both Conroy and Roache agreed that referee David Dickinson got the decision wrong – but claimed he had been fooled into giving the penalty and sending off Scales.
"I know there’s contact in the box all the time but I don’t think it was a penalty,” Roache added. "The referee unfortunately got that one wrong but Porteous was in the wrong and the manager’s even worse in my opinion.”
Conroy added: “It goes a step beyond condoning. By those comments, Johnson is encouraging cheating. Let’s not kid ourselves, it was cheating and Johnson is praising Porteous for it by coming out and talking about it.
"I don’t understand for a second how the SFA do their business but from what’s happened this weekend, Johnson could get away with saying he encourages his players to cheat and Goodwin could
be hauled up in front of the beaks for saying that Porteous conned the referee.
"I wish David had taken heed of the joke Goodwin had with him beforehand but although the referee got it wrong, he got it wrong because he was totally cheated into making that
decision. It’s not one that the lino or fourth official could help with, they couldn’t see it.
"David was cheated. The course of events – the choreography – to me, is practiced.
“Johnson has come out and said he encourages his players to cheat – surely to God [the
SFA] have some kind of common sense up there.
"You can’t come out and say, ‘my team are encouraged to cheat, I want them to practice that’. It’s neon lights: Hibs encourage you to cheat. Somebody has to come out and take him in hand for that."

[stewarty27]

The Porteous cheat thing got me thinking about other cheats I have personally witnessed in my time. The one who springs to mind is John McDonald of Rangers this guy went down so easily, They say even his own teammates used to call him Polaris, Kyle Lafferty vicious assault on Mulgrew was a cracker. And going back Derek Johnstone dying Swan act at the hands of big Doug. But staring us in the face is the biggest cheats of all time Sevco the biggest organised cheating scandal in the history of World fitba, this act of fraudulence will never be beaten.