Hibs’ Head Coach Alan Stubbs has already savoured the 2-0 win over table topping Aberdeen at Easter Road last night and his mind is now on Saturday’s forthcoming game against Ian Murray’s St Mirren.
Few outside Easter Road had given Hibs any chance against the high-flying Dons who only three days previously had easily disposed of Hearts at Tynecastle, but Stubbs was confident that he had the players to cause an upset, and so it proved.
A neutral with no knowledge of Scottish football would have found it impossible to tell which of the teams was from the lower division, such was the performance of the Hibs’ players.
After the game Stubbs told the packed press room: “It’s a great result for us, there is no denying it. The players can get excited about it but I’m sad and I’m already thinking about St Mirren.
“It is very satisfying, I thought it was two teams cancelling each other out in the first half and in the second half it opened up.
“I didn’t feel we played that well in the first half, I thought we took time to believe in ourselves and were rushed in possession.
“I spoke to them about being brave at half-time and I thought we were more positive in the second half.
“They were both fantastic goals. It’s taken a great strike to break the deadlock from Jason and Dom’s is the icing on the cake.
“This will certainly help but there was a belief in the dressing room beforehand, I think it took us 45 minutes to realise that belief at times.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
