Hibs: Your Say

Darren Moore, Comely Bank: "At last we were allowed to play on a surface that suits our style of football but it took the players time to realise this as they were hurrying passes and very afraid to take control and pass the football. By that time Hibs had lost the softest goal we will lose all season – McCormack gave the ball away, it was fed down the wing, crossed in to the box, Celtic player dummies and Keane will never have an easier chance to score.

"Good reaction from Hibs as Anthony Stokes robbed the Celtic defender and fed his pal Derek Riordan who hit the ball so sweetly that it was in the net before Boruc could react. This gave Hibs the initiative and we were the better team and only Colin Nish will know how he didn't convert a cross by Stokes to give us the lead as it was as easy a chance as Keane had, but Nish, even though he earns nowhere near the salary Keane is on, really should have scored.

After the interval we took the lead from our top scorer, he was fouled in the box and he powerfully converted the penalty, this gave us some confidence to take the game to Celtic.

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"I felt we were going to see the game out but we fell back far too deep and this was just inviting trouble and not only did we loose one goal we lost two to hand the points to Celtic.

Man of the match for me was Paul Hanlon. He was superb and didn't really deserve to be on the loosing side as he was a rock in the centre of the defence.

I did not have any real complaints about the referee, he gave us a penalty in Glasgow, how can we complain?"

Dave Curran, Leith: "We have a porous defence and leaked another three goals to a very poor Celtic team.We have taken very little from games since Christmas and still John Hughes doesn't see the problem within the team.

"We were up against a Celtic team still hurting from their cup exit but, with more luck than judgment, we got ourselves ahead but instead of closing the game down Hughes brings on a young inexperienced winger along with Benji who never kicked the ball in the minutes he was on the pitch.

"It should have been Thicot and Stevenson to stifle the game and stop them creating. Those two were the substitutions he should have made, but again he made the wrong move.

"Celtic then just took advantage of the space and forced two goals and we succumbed like little lambs. Any fan with basic football knowledge could see these substitutions were the wrong move. We have talent up front as Riordan proved with a fantastic strike and Stokes was buzzing after scoring a penalty but they were denied any real decent service and Riordan was even substituted.

Four games to go and I hope that we can at least end the season with a high but I remain sceptical. The referee was OK, no real problems that I can remember getting animated about."

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