The Mogga Dawn, 27 June 2004

The headline has unfortunate echoes of one of the less complimentary epithets applied to Alex ‘Mogadon’ Miller (did he have any complimentary ones?) but this article provides more interesting detail on Mowbray’s ideas on management and building a team.

Williamson heads south, 18 April 2004

Bobby Williamson wasn’t looking for another job, but when Plymouth Argyle came looking for a replacement for Paul Sturrock he was happy to talk to them, in large part because the Hibs board didn’t try to stop him. That, taken along with the cut to his salary earlier in the season, the board invoking the clause to switch him from a five-year to a one-year rolling contract, and the difficulty in signing some of his preferred targets, made Williamson feel like he wasn’t particularly wanted, and it wouldn’t have needed any deep perceptive insight for him to know that a large part of the support didn’t feel that warm towards him either.

Williamson woos Hibs support, 26 February 2002

An age old problem, 24 February 2002

The problem, according to Paul Forsyth in Scotland on Sunday, is that great players do not necessarily make good managers. Some do, some don’t, just as some very ordinary players make a far greater impact on the touchline than they ever did on the pitch.

Williamson agrees to take job, 23 February 2002

There was no time for the press to indulge in its customary orgy of speculation following the sacking of Franck Sauzee. The very next day Bobby Williamson was revealed to have accepted the job, and all that was left was for the clubs to agree compensation. The speed of the operation spoke not of desperation but of forethought, a plan laid immediately after the last dismal draw with Dunfermline, incubated over the ensuing six days and finally hatched once Williamson had tipped them the wink.