Abysmal Hibs made my eyes bleed and underachievers must step up before things get REALLY ugly - Tam McManus

I've heard a lot of soundbites about being nasty, winning ugly and fear creeping in at Hibs lately. Maybe they were just getting in the Halloween spirit.

But after watching 90 minutes that made my eyes bleed against Ross County the other night, I can confirm it WAS ugly… it WAS nasty… and it was pretty scary at times too. In fact the only thing missing was the win - the most important thing.

Martin Boyle was right when he said last week they needed to rediscover the art of winning ugly. The problem is having managed to shut up shop at the back - other than one gift to Hearts in the 87th minute on Sunday - they seem to have lost any cutting edge they had up front. Listen, the clean sheet in Dingwall is a start and to be honest I wasn’t confident they’d get one up there because I’ve been very critical of the defence and goalkeeper. They’re off the bottom of the table and leapfrogged Hearts, that’s a small plus.

But the game, the first half in particular, was absolutely dire. It’s just not good to watch right now. There’s players in that team underachieving. I look at the ability in the squad particularly in the forward areas and there’s no way they should be sitting 11th with seven points out of 30. That is abysmal. It’s an abysmal start to the season.

Bottom line is that they need to start picking up points. It’s okay saying Hearts are below us but they have to forget about that and get up the table. The players need to do a lot more. They have to take more responsibility.

The manager sets them up and puts them across the line but it’s up to the players to produce. In the forward areas the last three or four games have not been good enough. There’s been huge chances to go and win games that have been missed. Dwight Gayle