Season stinks and fans are scunnered but I still believe Monty should get another window to sort mess

Short-term pain for long-term gain has to be club’s hope

- TAM McMANUS

HIBS’ top-six hopes are in the last chance saloon and that just sums up a season best described by a word that rhymes with split.

Assuming Dundee do not stun Rangers at Dens tonight, it’s a three-way Saturday shootout for that last spot in the top half of the table.

And with Hibs off to the other side in the mix, Motherwell, I’m hardly bursting with confidence.

It’s a sorry state of affairs. Losing to St Johnstone at home last weekend said it all.

That side had won just twice on their travels in the Premiership all season.

Hibs had plenty of chances, dominated possession, were denied a stonewall penalty when goalie Dimitar Mitov cleaned out Emiliano Marcondes and Saints scored with their only two shots on target.

If all that wasn’t frustrating enough, the sight of Craig Levein cavorting around Easter Road at full-time put the tin lid on a sickening afternoon for fans.

These are the results that kill you as a manager at a club like Hibs. The boos ringing around the ground just sum up what has been a rotten campaign.

There have been so many lows – being 3-0 down at halftime against St Mirren at home, losing home and away to St Johnstone, being hammered by Rangers and losing the League Cup semi-final to 10-man Aberdeen.