Defiant David Gray insists he won't walk away from Hibs as he declares 'the players are with me'

Under-pressure David Gray has insisted he won’t walk away and believes he still has the backing of his Hibs players.

The boss watched another horror show as his rock-bottom team were dumped 4-1 at Dundee. The club legend has only led his team to one league win this season but he is adamant he can turn things around and will continue to try and do so until he is told differently. Hibs play Aberdeen on Tuesday and it remains to be seen if he will still be in the Easter Road hot seat. He stated: “I one hundred percent want to be here.

“That's a decision for the powers that be at the football club. Until someone tells me otherwise, I'll do everything I possibly can to turn this around. I know the players are still with me, one hundred per cent. I know they've still got that desire to try and turn this around.”

Gray is adamant that Hibs’ issues are not down to a lack of effort but costly mistakes. That was shown as they collapsed after going 1-0 up and then Jordan Obita got sent off and they gifted too many goals.It was their fourth ordering off in six games.

Gray stated: “I have no complaints (about the red card). There was no malice in it, you see it regularly in football where someone takes a bad touch and then you lunge into a tackle. But you can’t do that.

“The red card was a big turning point in the game. They're giving absolutely everything. They're hurting in there at the moment because of the effort they're putting in. But it's just too many individual errors and at key times it’s costing us.

“So until anybody tells me otherwise, I'm going to do everything I can to turn this around. We know the areas we’re letting ourselves down in. I can't sit here and defend it because I've said it too many times now, so I