Jack Ross

Well, if that's almost the entirety, then the summer plan is slipping and sliding at the minute by the look of it.

You've got a head of strategy, Jack Ross, who used to be the Sunderland manager.

um who we don't really hear from we don't know what that strategy is do you know what the strategy is i mean it's not apparent isn't it no um and we keep hearing that everything's aligned but i'm not sure i'm not i don't understand how it can all be aligned because Matthijs Jaisler's got a certain way he wants to play, he's got a certain philosophy, and I'm just not sure how that kind of marries up with Jack Ross, Ross Wilson, obviously Ross Wilson wanted Jaisler to come in, but he's just not been able to get the best out of the signings he's been given, so I think it's...

It's difficult.

You know, two games ago, they were all in the dressing room at Sellers Park, posing for a team picture.

I'd have probably laughed in your face.

I just didn't see it being a thing, but it was a, yeah, it was one of them games towards the end of the season under Jack Ross, wasn't it? Where we were tossing away the prospect of automatic promotion.

And, and, I want to put you both on the spot and see if you can pick the team from that day.

If you have stat cat open, get the tab closed because I don't want you doing any cheating.

It's an omen.

Premier Sports Cup final when Jack Ross was still manager, when Hibs, I think, had...

I don't think they played a game for the best part of two weeks, something like that, because it was still...

I think there'd been, like, a COVID outbreak.

think he speaks well I loved the lemon ketchup analogy they were slating him, the media were slating him for it but it was a really good analogy alright and I mean honestly god Scottish media against their jobs and that but Christ they love to give Hibs a good hard time eh

since we sacked Jack Ross we sacked him

because they're all mates with him yeah embarrassing

well listen let's say let's wrap it up there it's been a very good chat tonight Gab actually I've really enjoyed that less obviously about dissecting the game as a whole and more just chatting about the feeling around around the

the atmosphere in there, it can be brilliant at times, but when it's not going your way, like the players will be hearing the shouts, like McLeish will be hearing the shouts from the people behind him.

We've had two different managers fight with fans in the stands when it's not been going their way with Jack Ross and Steven Robinson.

So we know what these kinds of things can happen.

you need to start this game well the problem is we've started our last three games atrociously and essentially handed them an early lead we need to make sure that concentration levels are at the highest point and we can we can be the team to to put the like dundee on the on the back foot but well will that be the case

End of.

Jack said, this is getting beyond a joke.

It's like players aren't willing to play the new manager's style of play.

It's shocking.

The Gordons, they're coming under flak just now as well.

Is that just like someone like Tom Farmer or Nord Petrie used to get it tight when they won him when he was in charge? Just come with the territory? Or are we really in a position where we are so bad that we're looking at the owners to go and try and sell up? Well,

All the Gordons have done is put money into the club, right? They've made mistakes, definitely, right? They made the Jack Ross one themselves, I think, putting Ian in as head of recruitment or whatever the title was at the time.

Might have been head of recruitment, I can't remember.

Mm-hmm

... supposed to be Jack Ross, and then Jack Ross said, "Actually, you know what? I don't fancy this job," and we had to go to the second candidate, which was Ian Murray, this 31-year-old who'd never managed before, and you know, he turned us around.

So-

Are you expecting...

"I can't play.

Um, but I said that to get the gig." Um, and he, he actually played a reserve game.

Him and Jack Ross played a reserve game together-

Wow

Um, he's going to get hounded out the door.

Think about how, how we reacted to, to David Gray and to Jack Ross, um, [clears throat] and managers like that who, who were winning and were playing effective football, but it was not pleasant to look at, at times at all.

So I think he, he is going to need to implement a bit of his style, because at the end of the day, he's not going to have an overhaul of 11 new starters coming in in January.

He's going to be playing with a majority of the squad that he's got, with a few additions, um, sprinkled in.