Paul Hanlon doesn't expect Hibs to change mind with offers already coming in

But it hurts the departing Easter Road stalwart that it’s ending this way. And he doesn’t envisage a route back. Even after boss Nick Montgomery was axed. After more than a decade-and-a-half as a top-team player for Hibs, Hanlon will play his final game on home soil tonight. Emotions will be mixed. Deep pride at the service he’s given and pure pain at how it’s concluding.

View gallery Of course, Hanlon would have preferred the scenario to be better. A bottom-six encounter in a disappointing season which has seen another manager fired isn’t the fairytale finale. Montgomery paid for it with his job and, given the circumstances of Hanlon’s situation, it raised a question. Last week it was announced that the 34-year-old, along with another long-serving Hibee Lewis Stevenson, would end their Hibs careers this summer after playing over 1100 games combined.

There’s no bitterness with Montgomery’s part on the decision or his playing time as he preferred to take his share of blame for another gaffer being sacked. He continued: “Yeah, it definitely still stings, 100 per cent. You still get a guilt.

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