Michael Stewart flips at 'classless' Hibs hierarchy as club plunges into deeper turmoil

Michael Stewart has accused the Hibs hierarchy of lacking class as the club plunges from one crisis to another.

The former midfielder delivered a scathing assessment of the shambles on and off the pitch at Easter Road in the wake of David Gray's flops slumping to a dismal 2-1 home defeat against St Mirren. The Hibees remain bottom of the Premiership with just one league win all season and furious punters are demanding change after years of mismanagement.

BBC Sportsound pundit Stewart reckons the current regime are completely out of touch and have been guilty of flushing money down the drain during a dismal period of failure for one of Scottish football's biggest clubs. He said: "Paul Hanlon and Lewis Stevenson were stalwarts of the club, the committee that was looking after them wanted to get a table for the last game of the season. The club were then charging the families for a table. Little things like that, that's not class.

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"Rod Petrie now doesn't get a ticket for the game, he has to buy his own ticket. Some would say, 'Well, that's fair enough'. But the club as a whole, you look after people who have given service to the club. There's no class there. There's no understanding of how you do things. That is indicative of the club as a whole.

"Paul McGinn, shown the door. Why? I don't know. Lesser players brought in, more money spent. Leanne Dempster, out of the door. More expensive replacements who aren't up to the job and aren't doing as good a job as they were. Jack Ross was the first manager who was bulleted by Ron Gordon and his family and bit by bit, you are spending more money and bringing in less quality. On the park, it's the exact same."