Lee Johnson has two Hibs games to save his job and shake off 'Hearts syndrome' to boot – Tam McManus

Let’s not dance around the issue of yet another manager on the brink - Lee Johnson has two games to save his job.

The last thing I’d want to do is call for a manager’s head but if Hibs don’t make the top six then it’s difficult to see how he can survive what will be deemed an abject failure. I don’t know what’s in the water in Edinburgh at the moment (I shudder to think) but my old club has a bit of the Hearts syndrome going on with key players not producing when it matters most.

Johnson is now in Robbie Neilson territory if there isn’t a radical upturn in results and that’s a brutal fact about this business and he’ll know that better than anyone. If Hibs don’t finish in the top six in this season of all seasons then he’ll be a goner and this Premiership is as poor as it’s ever been.

The general standard needs to be called out and I’ll back that up with some facts. You have an Aberdeen team which has been hopeless for the majority of this campaign yet now sit in third spot.

A Dons side beaten 5-0 by Hearts, 6-0 by Hibs and knocked out of the Scottish Cup by tiny Darvel yet they are currently the best of our rest. If that doesn’t tell you a story of how poor this league is then nothing will.

I find that incredible so if Hibs don’t finish in the top six then the fans will be screaming for him to be punted and how could you argue with that? Jim Goodwin was sacked by the team currently occupying third place, Neilson was sacked at a team sitting in fourth so by that barometer, Johnson’s on shaky ground.

Even Motherwell, who are breathing down their necks have sacked two managers this season. Having read Hearts defender’s Stephen Kingsley’s comments on Monday after Neilson had been sacked, you can almost translate his