Is Hibs for records the third force of the Scottish premiership?
On a Saturday evening at the end of November, while the rain exploited to Dens Park, the Hibernian players touched the shot from the field from an annihilation of 4-1 that kept them anchored at the foot of the Scottish premiership.
They had taken an initial advantage, then specifications. Jordan Obita has been expelled. Elie Youn, not infamous, performed Keepy-up alone while David Gray reorganized his impoverished team. Goalkeeper Josef Bursik distinguished himself in possession and chose his pocket for a disastrous goal.
Hibs had just touched the bottom, they were practically underground.
At the time, in a moment of Slapstick defender, frequent red cards and constant late concessions, Gray’s work was already dangling from a thread.
The debutant coach had won one of his first 13 championship games at the helm. If Hibs had not shocked the managers so prolificially recently, and Gray had not been a winning club totem, the owners could press the trigger.
Wind the clock in five months and the surprising contrast would have quantum physicists who scratch their heads.
On Sunday afternoon, Hibs canceled Dundae 4-0, equaling an unbeaten club record that has remained for almost 80 years and strengthening their grip in third place.
The fears of relegation, the thoughts of layoffs and proclamations of Doom have given way to Euphoria, Feelgood and Passport Hunting in anticipation of a European adventure.
With hibs, it is rarely boring. But rarely this jar.
