If we bring in Miller I'll hold my hands up, I absolutely was not expecting a replacement. I don't know much about him but the consensus seems good. Still, sort out Brittains contract 12 months ago and we wouldn't need to replace him.

brittain is going to be a big miss with his attacking instinct,we`ll struggle down that side with no dolan and now no brittain,maybe val is going all long ball for this season,negating the need for attacking down the flanks think we all know that travis will be next out of the door and im`e very surprised that sonny is`nt courting any interest

Absolutely. Gestedes stance just shows he's not got a hope, and not competent.

Yeah but both McGuire and his agent were critical of the club when that happened If no issue with Baradji medical surely they would be saying something or his club if we led them up the garden path and started trying to alter the deal after he arrived

I've been wondering if the holdup on further activity was the Brittain sale and seeing if we could get Baradji for a sufficiently low guaranteed fee. But then I keep remembering that outgoing transfers have no impact on our budget according to Gestede (a stance I find hard to believe, as surely without all these sales we would be spending even less).

Yeah, there's no way on earth anything like that could ever happen. *Cough* (Mcguire)

It's almost as if we have no money and needed a sale.

Lewis Miller...24 year old (25 before end of August) 6 ft 2 inches right back with 14 caps for Australia, as well as 2 international goals. They're not what they used to be the Socceroos, but we don't have a lot of internationals. Spent 3 seasons at Hibs, out of contract next season. Played in the A-League in Australia before that. Wiki has him down as 144 career club appearances and 6 goals (5 of them at Hibs in his 85 games for them, all in the last 2 seasons and 3 of them in the league). Struggling to find much in the way of highlights reels, none from his time at Hibs, this one being the most ecent... And that's SMI, not to be confused with SEM of SEM and Kentaro infamy, in case anybody else made the same mistake as I did for a moment.

Very hard to say you would probably have to put him behind Brittain at this stage given he’s no championship experience - so better the devil you know sort of thing but good age still a lot to learn and can improve on and a bit more versatile hard comparison but if pushed cal at the this stage a better right back but he wouldn’t be a massive downgrade

Quite possibly, however you'd suspect the player wants to keep us sweet as it would be a huge move for him. I suspect it will just get filed away and forgotten about though.....

Doing what?

What's your view on him in comparison to Brittain? Upgrade or downgrade? (if it happens)

I like the look of miller I follow a good bit of Scottish football he’s decent. How that transfers to the championship only time will tell but can play centre half and rb good age profile is an international - decent signing

I was thinking exactly this this afternoon. Every single transfer window since the Court case I get more and more despondent about the Club. The likes of Dolan and Brittain are nowhere near the best players to leave the Club. It's nowhere near a Shearer or Duff or Adam Wharton moment, hell it's probably no nowhere even near a Tony Field or a Roger Jones or a Simon Barker moment. However the plan now seems clearly to be to shed all higher earners and scour the lower reaches of European Leagues or any other League where players are paid a fraction of what they are in the Championship and are therefore still happy to come. If we can do this and remain competitive in the top half of the table or even just about survive it's a stroke of genius but as Herbie says "but..........". When you've got to the stage where the Club isn't prepared to offer competitive enough wages to retain the services of decent Championship players like Brittain and Dolan or even tempt a 35 year old centre back or a 34 year old squad player into signing a short term deal, the temptation is as you say to think "Why bother?"

That's the song sorted anyway 😄

At least we're replacing Brittain....Another player over 6ft n all...We are a team of giants!

Terrible owner = but they’ll go in the short to medium term. Proper football club like that will recover, perhaps strongly. Terrible owner = They won’t go and they are happy to see the club further and further ‘cut its cloth’ until all’s left is a raggy piece of string.

That would be the best exit of all.

Definitely not "exciting" but certainly an "exiting" summer. Venkys out!!

Oh I don't know. They were a struggling Championship club when he turned up 10 years ago and still are. We were a top 10 Premier League club when our lot took over and look where we are now. Granted they are having all sorts of issues at the moment but I expect they will be rid of him and under better ownership in the not-too-distant future whilst our owners continue to leave us to decay.

Yea hibs manager said it’s nothing too serious and he’s back out on the pitch already - Nixon 2 months was well off the mark who’d have guessed

Brittain is a huge loss

Hopefully he’ll be as good as our last Aussie full back 🙂

So so weird...I have YouTube on as I'm scrolling down here, and an ad was playing as I got to this...a Fosters ad!

Interview with Hibs manager 3 days ago says it's a couple of weeks...But yeh probably end of September before we see him up to speed.