Hibs’ Captain David Gray insisted that the artificial surface was not to blame for his side’s defeat away to Alloa Athletic yesterday.
The result was Alloa’s first home win of the season and dents Hibs hopes of finishing second although that still remains within the players own hands.
The right back also revealed that the players will be training today (Sunday) in preparation for Tuesday’s game against Falkirk at Easter Road and he is confident that the players have the ability to win all the remaining games this season and gain promotion to the top flight via the play offs.
Speaking to Hibs TV immediately after the game, he said: “I think it was the decision making, we can’t use the pitch as an excuse at all – it’s the same for both teams. We’ve got enough quality in the dressing room.
“There can be no excuses, we’ve been here often enough and we all knew what we were expecting. sometimes we need to adapt to the surface but we just didn’t perform on the day, it wasn’t good enough.
“The only positive we can take is that we have a game on Tuesday which is a massive ‘must win game. It would have been worse f we had a whole week to stew on today’s result.
“We will be in tomorrow (Sunday) and get everything on the table and be ready for Tuesday.
“We need to win every game now. Falkirk have been there all season. They are not going away, we know that, but I know from looking around the dressing room that we have enough quality to win all the games until the end of the season.”
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.
