Quote Originally Posted by rico94 View Post
The bringing everyone one back for corners thing is exactly like last season when everyone moaned about Robson playing 3 at the back.

The players were getting chucked under the bus by Robson for playing with a back 3 which never works according to experts, ironically Hibs have sealed 3rd place by changing to a back 3.

Last night Nisbet and Knoester were right next to the Celtic defender at the corner but he still managed to score.

People can blame the managers for how they set up the team with tactics and formations but the players are as much to blame for not doing their jobs properly.

They are professional footballers who should be able to adapt to what the manager is instructing them to do, they are either not good enough or dont give a fvck or both.
A back 3 works fine - if you have the right players to play it.

Look at the back 3 we had of Pollock, Scales and MacDonald - it was brilliant and turned our season around. We had the right players to play it, and a real big nasty hard unit in Pollock who threw himself at everything and never backed down ever - my god we need a guy like that just now.

MacDonald taken out of that setup was pretty useless. Its all about the right players in the right setup.

Our big problem seems to be we just dont have the players to play the system Thelin wants. Ok, there are still a lot of players here he didnt sign, but there are also lots he did and the issues we have seen all year like shyte defending at set pieces and shyte defending against simple long balls are all still there - and the defence is now almost entirely made up of his players.

He will bring in a bunch more in that summer, so the, "not his squad" excuse will no longer exist.

To be honest, he is 100% out of excuses right now.