David Gray frustrated by Hibs stop-start fixture list after St Johnstone win
Hibs boss David Gray admits he's frustrated by the stop-start fixture list after finally bagging their first league win of the season.
The Hibees got a long-awaited three points on board by defeating Craig Levein's St Johnstone 2-0 at Easter Road on Saturday. But after returning from the two-week international break, the Edinburgh club will now have to wait until the end of the month to play another game due to their Premier Sports Cup exit. The Hibees travel to Ibrox on September 29 but face another fortnight without a competitive fixture.
Gray said: "We would have liked a game at the weekend, it would have been good to build on the momentum of the result to take that into training but it also gives us time. We're a new squad, the coaching staff and everyone, and it gives us extra time on the grass.
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"We'll make sure we're getting as much into the players as we can. But ideally you would like it to be a working week with a game at the end of it every week, trying to get that rhythm and a way of working.
"We'll do everything to make sure we're getting enough into the boys from a training point of view and organise games. A free weekend is not great, but we can't affect that now. We have to just make sure the boys are ready to go."
Mykola Kuharevich and Martin Boyle fired Hibs to victory at the weekend but Gray was equally pleased with a clean sheet.
He added: "I'm delighted for everyone. We have come under a lot of criticism for that and we know we needed to be better, we were not shying away from that. There is a lot of hard work that went into that - but I think we fully deserved the win we got on Saturday. We didn't feel like we were going to scramble across the line, I felt we were in control."