On this week's Fitbaw Talk: What Hibs need in Montgomery's replacement

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00:00That's probably going to change the prospect of which managers they can realistically attract

00:09because now any head coach they bring in is going to be working under Malky McKay who

00:15will lead the recruitment for Nick Montgomery's successor.

00:20You've got to feel that the early bookmakers odds came out, Derek McInnis was the favorite,

00:26other names up there included Neil Lennon and Steven Robinson, further down the list

00:30you're looking at guys like Alec Neal who we've spoken on this show about whether or

00:34not he would be coming back to Scottish football at this time.

00:38Yeah, but I mean, well, let's focus on McInnis a bit first of all, taking the whole Malky

00:47McKay and putting it to the side just for a minute, even if he wasn't there, could you

00:52see McInnis leaving Kilmarnock with where he's got them at the moment to go to Hibbs

00:58with where they are at the moment, regardless of things like the budget he would have or

01:03his own salary that he'd be getting, but by making that switch?

01:07Yeah, I think first things first, I think obviously Hibbs would be a step up from Kilmarnock.

01:14I think in terms of the infrastructure in place there at Easter Road, it would be an

01:22attractive proposition, I guess, but the big issue at the moment in time is the current

01:27instability I think that the club have in place there, I think there needs to be some

01:32really hard hitting questions asked of the Hibbs hierarchy and whether or not McInnis

01:38would want to come into that type of environment and work with Malky McKay, I don't know what

01:44their kind of relationship is there, and Ben Gensel as well who is now overseeing,

01:49I think that's the fourth manager he's fired during his time as Chief Executive, so whether

01:54or not he would necessarily want to leave a Kilmarnock side who, let's face it, punching

02:00well above their weight, obviously guaranteed European football next season, and he might

02:07be thinking to himself in the back of his mind, how far realistically will I be able

02:11to take a Kilmarnock, if you like, finishing in the top six alone is some achievement for

02:18them, but I just think at this current moment in time, I don't think Danny McInnis would

02:23necessarily be lured by the Hibbs job just based on the current mess above him at this

02:34moment in time, I don't think he would necessarily want to work with the people that they've

02:38put in place at Easter Road.

02:40Yeah, I would tend to agree with that one, and you look at McInnis' track record from

02:46his time at Aberdeen, he obviously knocked back the opportunity to become both Rangers

02:50and Sunderland manager while at Aberdeen, both clubs in terms of infrastructure, budget,

02:57his wage would have all been a step up from Aberdeen, but similar to where Hibbs now,

03:03neither club at the time he was offered those jobs were in any kind of stable, stable slope.

03:11I don't know who in Scottish football would take this at the moment, if I'm being totally

03:15honest.

03:16A younger coach seems more realistic when you're bringing us from maybe Moray at Leith

03:21Robards or...

03:23I can see the Black Knight group links being used, I think it needs to be somebody who's

03:28worked in these, do I say multi-club models, but it needs to be somebody I think who's

03:32familiar with that.

03:33I think people say Scottish football experience, they need that, but it's only good to have

03:38Scottish football experience if it's good Scottish football experience, and I'm not

03:42necessarily sure they can get somebody like that.

03:45Probably one that I've seen that would be kind of interesting to see how ambitious Hibbs

03:48are would be Ronnie Dyla, he's somebody that's worked in Scottish football before, he's worked

03:53within the sort of city group models, so he'll know how that hierarchy works between sporting

03:58directors and perhaps not having all the recruitment, or whether it is going to maybe

04:02be a younger coach who comes in.

04:05Yeah, we're probably looking more at your Reece McCabe's, your Stephen Thompson, Kevin

04:10Thompson, sorry, obviously not Stevie Thompson, he's too busy with...

04:13Sport scenes at St Figues.

04:15Yeah, sport scenes at St Figues, sorry, Kevin Thompson, I mean...

04:18Ian Murray?

04:19Well, I said Ian Murray, but I don't know, I think, yeah, Ian Murray is potentially a

04:26good shot, obviously, with Hibbs' legs.

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