The Neil Warnock rants Nick Montgomery cherishes as Hibs boss to use brutal honesty and man management tools

Neil Warnock's dressing room rants have become legendary on social media but Nick Montgomery doesn’t need the clips sent to his phone to remember his old gaffer’s brutal honesty.

He filed that lesson in man management a long time ago to call upon in his own dug out career which just last week landed at Hibs. The veteran gave Montgomery his professional debut as a teenager at Sheffield United 23 years ago and handed him the captaincy somewhere along the next seven years at Bramall Lane.

Warnock’s just one of a string of big names that have made their mark on the 41-year-old. But he’s the one who left the most indelible impression. Speaking earlier this year the 74-year-old - now in his 19th job at Huddersfield - described Montgomery as having “the biggest heart I’ve ever had in a team”. Coming from a boss famed for his “you’ve got to die for three points” dressing room blast at the Blades it’s no surprise the battle-hardened midfielder was a favourite.

Montgomery said: “I played for Neil Warnock for a long time, he gave me my debut at 17, 18. People see him ranting and raving on YouTube and people still send me them now. In terms of his man-management he was always honest, he would tell you if you were playing or weren’t playing. Whether you agreed with it or not you really respected that as a player. I respected that.

“I spoke to Neil a while back, he contacted me before the A-League final last year and had said a lot of nice things about me. I speak to him now and again. Neil has a few properties scattered around so no doubt he will be knocking me up for some tickets one day when he’s up here. He’s a great character, a great guy and I have a lot of time for him.”

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