Owen Elding

So fair play to him.

Yeah exactly I think here here on that point of view Andrew Moran as well got a half a football for Preston in their draw at West Brom a game which Johnny Kenny started it's only Moran's third league cameo of the season he has played in the Carabao Cup as well but again it's been sort of hits and starts from Owen Elding though Alan has to be mentioned again sort of brilliant goal for Hibs against Celtic which I think if my memory serves me correct because I was in the office when it happened it was yesterday morning or sort of like the early kick off there and Hibs are in poor form but Elding certainly not.

No I love Elding as you know Raph and it was a great finish as well just summed him up really just how sharp he's always kind of just so alive to the situation around him like they fall asleep to Celtic experienced players but lovely little pass through he wants it obviously down the side and clinical finish on his left foot like he absolutely hammered it into the bottom corner.

He just, I know Hibs are struggling.

And when you don't have the other forwards chipping in, you know, Clijet still to score in the Premiership, Souto still to score in the Premiership, you know, not a huge number of goals from open play either.

I mean, even Owen Elding's goal against Celtics, that's him breaking in the double figures for league goals scored and we're nearly in November, which is slightly concerning.

And it's not just up front.

We could even talk about the midfield and the fact that you're having to...

He was going to keep moving forward.

Players around, as players come back, we'll probably see a little bit of that as well.

I know Owen Elding's shifted position a couple of times.

He's not the only one.

There was nobody, none of the Hibs players were alive to it.

Owen Elding was the only one, and Yule, obviously.

He was the only one sort of hunting any danger and looking for something.

I know that's easy, or it's maybe an easy criticism to make of the rest of the team that, because the ball is dead, and obviously nine times out of ten, that doesn't happen.

So as a result, you can kind of go either way.

and yeah obviously I thought that St Mirren were on the slide until they've just turned it on against Dundee for whatever reason and then obviously two away is today going against the Homes so yeah that Hibs Celtic game was wild Because Owen Elding obviously puts Hibbs 1-0 up and you're thinking, oh, like, didn't see this coming.

And then it literally lasts for all of a couple of minutes before Jason Kerr heads beyond Salinger.

And then, as you say, it was just kind of a general nothingness till Camille Duran pops up with a brilliant goal.

on it

in the early stages of the game it looked as if it might have been one of those games where it wasn't going to go Celtic's way because switching off from a free kick really early on conceding was a good finish by Owen Elding so that's then another thing that Celtic need to contend with not just the weather but having to come back from an early lapse

Yeah, listen, I think Josh just mentioned earlier now, I think the fact that he responded fairly quickly, got the equaliser, and you have to say, the winner was, it's very difficult, Kellen's right there in terms of, see, basic passing in these conditions as well, the misplaced passes, I don't think it was a vintage performance by either team, under difficult circumstances, however...

the one better classic you actually saw was the boy wrapping that into the far corner he has the ability to do that and you're talking about the standout performer this season so far it would most certainly be him because he has actually came and it's not just his goals I think his general all-round play his movement Also he's pressing so the way that Celtic want to play they want to get after teams and he leads that line brilliantly and I think that takes a wider debate to Kasper who is really really struggling at the moment and there were suggestions today from certain pundits whether Duran had the hump that he was fired out to the wing again because he's so prolific through the middle and performing well.

So I get that, but I just didn't see too much at all from them, especially in an attacking sense.

There was another curious thing that

I thought, a couple of times they had free kicks deep out on the left side and it was Owen Elding taking them, clipping them into the box.

he's probably about 6 foot 2 striker who has maybe got 5 goals this season has showed a great finish for the first goal was good last season when he came in if you've got a physical striker who's got an eye for goal surely there's someone else that if you want a left footer on it surely there's someone else that's capable of clipping that ball in

The downside obviously was conceding almost straight away and again it's such an avoidable, it's a known goal, it's such an avoidable um kind of goal to concede and then you know two i suppose really really good opportunities one for Thibaut Clegé one for Josh Mulligan uh with the score at 1-1 in that first half and those are the opportunities you have to take because if you don't take them there's always the risk that Celtic will get an opening and they'll take it which they did through uh Camilo Duran and you know no goals in the second half Hibs had a couple of half chances but I think the damage done really in that first 45 minutes when, you know, they arguably could have been two goals up themselves and it just, for me, kind of typified the issues they've got in that they don't...

I mean, that's Owen Elding, it's two goals in two games from playing through the middle, but apart from that, there's not an awful lot in the final third.

Hebb's obviously lost Martin Boyle to sickness before the game, but, I mean, bringing Grant Hanley on for the last, what was it, 10 minutes, I mean, that... maybe it's a Hail Mary, maybe it's trying to prove a point about the squad.

I mean, Nathan Lowe's still out injured, so you need somebody up there who's going to be a focal point and maybe give the defence something to think about.