HIBERNIAN OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME #GGTTH 2015/16 ISSUE 08 PRICE £2.00 V ST MIRREN 26.09.15 KICK OFF 3PM LADBROKES CHAMPIONSHIP HIBERNIAN FOOTBALL CLUB Easter Road Stadium, 12 Albion Place, Edinburgh, EH7 5QG Website: www.hibernianfc.co.uk Email: [email protected] Tel: 0131 661 2159 @HibsOfficial Hibs TV Hibernian Football Club Official This week the club’s official media channel, Hibs TV will CLUB DIRECTORY be bursting with must-see content, including full match BOARD OF DIRECTORS highlights of the League Cup Third Round match against Leeann Dempster, Chief Executive Aberdeen. Rod Petrie, Chairman Brian G Houston, Director Amanda Jones, Director There will be full match highlights, with replays, for the game Bruce Langham, Director today against St Mirren available to watch – as well as all the post- Jamie Marwick, Finance Director Stephen Dunn, Director match comments. 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Email [email protected] Tel: 0131 656 7074 HIBERNIAN HISTORICAL TRUST Tom Wright, Club Historian Artefacts and memorabilia: [email protected] General comments or enquiries: [email protected] MEETINGS & EVENTS Azure at Easter Road Stadium, 0131 656 7075 Email: [email protected] CLUB STORE Tel: 0131 656 7078 [email protected] TICKET OFFICE Nicola Laing, Ticket Office Manager Tel: 0844 844 1875 [email protected] 3 STADIUM & OPERATIONS Keith Donaldson, Stadium Manager Colin Fraser, Head Groundsman Robbie McGregor, Operations Advisor GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jennifer Tune, Sian Pryce DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY ALAN STUBBS HEAD COACH Welcome to Easter Road for this afternoon’s Ladbrokes Championship match against Saint Mirren. I’d like to extend a warm welcome to our guests from togetherness within the squad to push a result like that Paisley this afternoon, whether they are players, over the line. coaching staff or supporters. We also thoroughly enjoyed the rendition of Sunshine on We have been on a fine run of form ourselves – and I have Leith at the end of the game, it was a spectacle that we to mention the fine win on Wednesday night. I thought want to see more of at Easter Road, and it is something I my team, to a man, played excellently and all contributed feel we can achieve. to the performance in their own unique ways. Enjoy this afternoon’s game. At the back we were rigid, we held our own against a side that had previously won eight matches out of eight GGTTH, in domestic fixtures and restricted their chances. In the Alan Stubbs midfield we had the blend of defensive stoutness and were also threatening going forward in the attack. When we pushed for goals our strikers remained dangerous and alert to the opportunities that presented themselves and we were duly rewarded when Jason Cummings’ fantastic strike gave us the lead. We experienced the crowd at Easter Road erupting once again and it was a joy to behold. I could see the lift it gave our players, and they were already on a high, so it boosted them an awful lot. Dominique Malonga exemplified the 4 quality he possesses with his run and finish. He was calm, took his time and assessed his options well, fortunately he decided to pursue a second goal and we got it. That display from everyone involved was great and as the Head Coach I was delighted to see them do that. It really does show the quality we have in the team at this moment in time, and that there is a real sense of WWW.HIBERNIANFC.CO.UK 5 SPONSORED BY James Cruickshanks (Home), Redpath & McLean (Away) and Stevie B (Boots) WWW.HIBERNIANFC.CO.UK THE AWAY END: ST MIRREN FOOTBALL CLUB Hibernian welcomes the players, management, officials and supporters of St Mirren to Easter Road Stadium for this afternoon’s Championship fixture. Last season was one to forget for today’s visitors; they their encounter with Queen of the South, however any never really got going under former boss Tommy Craig and confidence gained from that brief run of results evaporated by the time he was replaced by Gary Teale in December, with home defeats against Falkirk and Raith Rovers. the damage was already done. St Mirren last month moved to snap-up former Aberdeen The club moved during the summer to bring in former goalkeeper Jamie Langfield just days after he left Pittodrie Hibernian and Rangers defender Ian Murray and have for the final time. Langfield, 35, made 335 appearances backed him during the recent transfer window. during his ten years with the Dons and was given a testimonial match against Brighton & Hove Albion last The Buddies are in a transitional phase at the moment month. The former Dundee, Dunfermline Athletic, Raith and given the massive turnaround in personnel during the Rovers and Partick Thistle keeper joins his hometown club summer, the team have understandably taken time to gel. on a two-year deal as a Player-Coach. Club captain Stephen Thompson recently admitted that St Versatile full-back Keith Watson joined the Buddies on a Mirren have perhaps taken time to adjust to life outside of short-term contract until January after being released by the top flight and have been caught out by the standard of Dundee United. The 25-year-old spent the second half football in the Championship. of last season on loan to Hibs and nine appearances for It hasn’t been the best of starts for Murray’s new-look side the club. He spent part of the summer training with the who go into this afternoon’s contest sitting third bottom club however injury hampered his chances of a deal. A on the league on five points. combative, full-hearted defender, Watson will seek to get forward whenever opportunity allows. Petrofac Training Challenge cup victories over Berwick Rangers and Annan Athletic did little to mask a Defender Jack Baird came through the club’s youth disappointing start to the campaign. academy and broke through into the Paisley club’s first team midway through last season. The 19-year-old An opening day defeat against Rangers at Ibrox was made his senior bow last November in a 3-0 defeat away 6 quickly followed by a surprise home loss against Murray’s to Hamilton Academical. Baird has featured in all of St former side, Dumbarton. Mirren’s games this term. A goal-less draw in the Renfrewshire Derby against Morton Veteran defender Andy Webster recently joined St Mirren gave them their first point of the new season and was soon on a one-year deal, with the option of a year’s extension. followed by another against basement boys Livingston. The former Scotland international has enjoyed a successful Sean Kelly and Stephen Thompson scored the goals as career with the likes Heart of Midlothian, Wigan Athletic, St Mirren comfortably claimed all three points from Rangers, Dundee United and Coventry City. Webster, who WWW.HIBERNIANFC.CO.UK has had his fair share of injury problems over the years, 33-year-old Irishman appears to revel in his role as the picked up Scottish Cup winners’ medals during his time pantomime villain of Scottish football. He thrives in the with Hearts and Dundee United. heat of a battle, the tough-tackling, no nonsense veteran loves nothing more than a physical challenge. Goodwin Defender Sean Kelly came through the youth ranks at St has been sent off twice during the last six meetings of the Mirren Park before making his first team debut against clubs. Inverness Caledonian Thistle in August 2013. The defender, who has been capped by Scotland at under-21 level, was Manager Murray took a gamble during the summer, loaned out to Montrose and East Stirling for experience. bringing in midfielder Cameron Howieson following the Kelly scored his first goal of the new campaign during St 22-year-old’s release from Burnley. Howieson made Mirren’s recent win over Queen of the South.