Ben Kensell is one more Hibs sacking away from getting the sack himself – Tam McManus

Nick Montgomery lifted some of the pressure off his shoulders with Saturday’s win at St Johnstone. But it’s not only the boss who will be keeping fingers and toes crossed Hibs can finish the season strongly and ease some of the strain weighing down from the stands and the boardroom.

Ben Kensell was the man who plucked Monty from Down Under to take over after the ludicrous Lee Johnson experiment flopped last September and he will be praying the new boss can cling on. If not, the chief executive should be following the manager out the door. Kensell has been at Easter Road for three years now but what has he achieved? The former Norwich high head yin arrived in Edinburgh the summer after Jack Ross’ team had finished third and reached a Scottish Cup final.

Since then, they’ve finished eighth, then fifth with another bottom six result guaranteed this term. It’s hardly living up to his vow to take the club to the “next level”, as he declared the day he was appointed. In football, the buck stops at the manager’s door but when you start burning through bosses at the rate Hibs have then you have to start asking questions of the men upstairs.

At Easter Road, that leads you to Kensell’s desk and I fully expect Bill Foley and his Black Knight Group will be demanding some pretty clear answers from the chief executive on how he plans to get things back on track now they’ve ploughed £6million into the club.

The statement released last week announcing a review of the club’s football structure was issued in the name of the board of directors, which includes Kensell. But assessing his performance should be one of the top priorities of that study.

He’d only been at the club for four and a half months when he joined that the