Hibs head coach David Gray apologised to the fans after his side fell to defeat against St Mirren at Easter Road yesterday.
The Buddies went 2-0 ahead in the opening 45 minutes, and managed to hang on to all three points as a late Nicky Cadden equaliser was ruled out for offside after a VAR check.
When speaking after the game, Gray gave his thoughts on the defeat.
“Firstly, I apologise to the fans for the first half performance. I haven’t had to do that this season. Today that first half performance wasn’t good enough.
“There was a lack of fight at times, we were slow to react at times, there was a lack of quality and bravery on the ball, individual errors, people trying to play in the wrong areas at times, and we didn’t show the attitude to win the ball back.
“They started on the front-foot, won more second-balls, showed more fight than us, but when we showed any kind of quality, we played through them, which is what we worked on all week.
“The first half performance was way below what we expect, though; that was the message at half-time.
“Second half we had more of a go and went to the very end, but the damage was done in the first half.
“We really needed a big performance today. We talked a lot about last week and deserving results, but we absolutely deserved nothing because of that first half performance today. We let ourselves down.”
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.
