Hibs fans ‘within rights’ to question Gordon – McDermott

Sacking Jack Ross. Appointing himself as head of recruitment. Signing too many players. Not listening to investors over key club appointments.

Just some of the mistakes that Hibs owner Ian Gordon fessed up to in his rigorous interview with Sky Sports this week.

There have been five managers since the Gordon family took over in 2019 – at least three of whom have gone down as failures.

Since the summer of 2022, they have made 47 signings – a figure that eclipses even Chelsea’s infamous transfer policy.

Gordon’s interview was an attempt to heal relations with the fanbase, but will it work?

“To be really brutal about it – if you’re a Hibs fan, I think you’d be within your rights to question him because of all these mistakes that he’s owned up to,” said Scott McDermott, the Sunday Mail’s chief football writer, on the BBC’s Scottish football podcast.

“You’d be within your rights to question, are these the right people to lead the club?

“In life, as well as football, you need to admire people that own up to their mistakes and admit when they got it wrong and then they try and rectify it and be better in the future.

“That’s good, but just listening to the litany of mistakes and errors that they’ve made since taking over at Hibs, I thought it was quite astonishing.

“I don’t really understand – when they come into the club new to Scottish football, a whole new environment for them – why they wouldn’t go and seek some guidance, some support, some advice.”

Former Hibs midfielder Stephen McGinn was also in disbelief at what’s happened to the club since he left in 2021.

“It’s madness what’s happened over the last three or four years, unrecognisable from the teams that were finishing third and winning Scottish Cups,” he said.

“The money that club must be spending. Some of the teams in the Champions League won’t have spent the money that Hibs have spent in the last few years.”