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A wee tap on the calf muscle for Shankland early on just to help him see if he’s ok to keep playing 😈

Genuinely looking forward to this. Been on great run and I am sure wont relish playing us. With a crowd i reckon at least 10,000 it hopefully will be a cracking atmosphere and hopefully our great run can continue. Starting line up should be interesting as plenty permutations to consider. COYW

I was thinking about the predictable "JBA will be attracting other clubs" chat. I obviously don't want him to move on any time soon, but what he is building is laying a great foundation. Half the teams in Europe play this way (which is why we see the "obscure" teams pass rings round Scottish teams in the early Euro rounds) - so there should be plenty of candidates who can continue to develop the team in a similar way. All we need is the intent. Similarly, half the players in Europe (and around the world) are developed playing this style, so we should be able to recruit ones that continue with our new approach. What's also going to be interesting is whether any other Scottish clubs go down this path when they inevitably change managers at the end of the season.

Team Saturday if i was to guess will be Ward Mcginn Gordon Welsh Longelo Watt Fadinger Just Slattery TJ Hendry maybe TJ ST and RCC of the left but i don't expect any more changes than that

I have literally no idea what team is going out on Saturday and I think this is quite exciting rather than daunting. We don’t have a striker (in my view Hendry isn’t good enough)but we have the leagues top goalscorer and we have 7 excellent midfielders to choose from. defensively we might have Longello back but Johnny K and Sparrow did extremely well the other night and Welsh Gordon and McGinn are doing good at the moment. Jambos have a few injury doubts including max headroom so bring it on!!!

I assumed that Iredale was subbed to avoid him being red carded. After JT gave him a roasting he simply went totally out of control and could have picked up 3 yellow cards in a crazy 15 minute spell. Part of our gameplan was to "deny them access to their best players" according to JBA.

All I know is that I went to bed this morning smiling thinking about last night's performance. Not since the days of the Cobra

Although if You become really good at something, even although people know what you are going to do, they still can’t stop you. Or, as has been demonstrated, you have options

I agree that the handball law, and its interpretation generally, is a shambles. However, as far as last night goes, the shot was on target (IMHO) and Hanley's arm is at about 75 degrees away from his body, under the current rules it was a stonewaller, as was the Livi one. My real complaint is the BBC ignoring the facts to fit their narrative.

No sure whether anyone else thinks the same, but something I said to my son while watching the game was that in the first half, we created a lot more clear cut chances and we didn't have a 'target striker' on the park. Maybe the way we play is better suited to having 'wee fast guys' in the box, like Maswanhise, Just and Charlie Cook rather than a lumbering target man.

Good on ya mate 👍

Yep agree Time to extend the contract. We will still lose him but some golden handcuffs to make the inevitable less painful would be useful. (And maybe just maybe might show a commitment to jens which will get him to at leaat think about completing his motherwell project)

Last night showed that JBA can adapt and keep other managers on their toes (knees).

We're the Pound Shop Man City and Maswanhise is our Erling Haaland.

I think one of the important things going forward now is how other teams adapt to our style of play when we start playing them for the second or third time in the season. We've been a novelty up to now but usually it's harder to maintain a successful style over a full season when the opposition has experience against us and starts looking to negate our set up and tactics. I'd also say that we are heavily dependent on Maswanhise for goals and generally getting behind the defensive line.

Was worth posting it twice then wasn't it. Some of us based in Scotland are sleeping while the rest of the world posts. 🙄

By the current standards that's a blatant handball. If the ball was going miles wide Hanley must have mr tickle arms. Also, whether its on target is completely irrelevant. Gray is really doing his best to deflect from us sussing his team out and ragdolling them. As mentioned in the Terrace podcast this morning, we focused on boxing in iredale and Nicky cadden, and gave them a torrid time, leading in them both getting subbed early. Hibs get a lot of joy out of N Cadden's crossing ability, and we totally nullified him.

Indeed! More goals wouldn’t hurt us.

Just imagine what our current goal tally would be if we had a number 9 capable of scoring more than just penalties.

Once JBA gets poached, Max Rogers is our next manager. Not Maloney. He was only there last night to learn from the master.

From what I saw on the highlights, Just's shot was on target and was not really "from close range". Having said that, the handling in the box law needs to be re-thought because the inconsistences in its interpretation are too common, and not just in Scotland.

A thoroughly entertaining watch last night with no failures at all right through the team. The last hour was a masterclass in how to play against 10 men, something we have really struggled to do for quite a few seasons now. If I was being really picky, we ended up trying too many fancy flicks and tricks when there were better options available, I did laugh out loud when Said did that jump though. On another note, the BBC match report claims that the shot handled by Hanley for the Penalty "with Just prodding the ball against the outstretched hand of Hanley from close range." David Grey claimed " "The shot is clearly going miles wide. Grant hasn't made himself any bigger, he's not even trying to block the shot." A statement later repeated in a different BBC story about the Livingstone non-penalty on Saturday. It would seem too much to hope the BBC would at least watch the playback of the incident before spouting cack like that, their own highlights show that lie up for what it is,

Very impressed with our swift passing and movement last night, reminiscent of the Ancell Babes at their best by all accounts; only disappointment was not scoring more goals in the second half. Askou has broken the mould for the smaller clubs in the Premiership by insisting this kind of football is possible with imagination, good coaching and shrewd recruitment rather than the more unimaginative, defensive, physical grind dependent on set-pieces so typical of clubs outwith the OF. Perhaps this explains why some football pundits are eager for this great experiment to fail so clubs like us can get back in our box. I had a look at the btl comments by Hibs fans in the various Hibs videos post-match. Quite a few used the term "outclassed" to describe their team and while some complained about the penalty award and the sending off, others said we clearly deserved to win and congratulated us.. I hope we make amends on Saturday for only drawing at Tynecastle while up 0-3 but I think this will be a tremendous tussle worthy of a sell-out crowd. May The Force be with us.....