Source: Team_Talk
Boss: Players need to keep me quiet
After a superb start to the season, Hibs have stuttered in recent weeks, taking just one point from their last three SPL games.[LNB]Saturday's defeat at Dundee United saw them lose the top-three spot they have held for virtually the whole campaign.[LNB]Hughes believes Hibs are still ahead of where he thought they would be when he took charge of his boyhood idols in the summer.[LNB]But he insists their inconsistency remains a serious cause of concern for him.[LNB]He said: "We've all been together for seven months; I've talked about the culture we're trying to create, a winning culture.[LNB]"You'll still probably see me at this moment in time in the dugout shouting and bawling.[LNB]"What you try to work towards as a manager is that you're cool, calm, collected.[LNB]"You put your head on the pillow on a Friday night, you go to sleep.[LNB]"You wake up on the Saturday morning and you know what you're going to get.[LNB]"I'm still working very hard towards that, trying to keep working them, tactically, so we know what we're going to get."[LNB]He added: "We've really worked hard for the first half of the season so it would be disappointing if we just let that dwindle away."[LNB]Hibs were beaten 1-0 at Tannadice last time out and Hughes is looking for a response when Hamilton travel to Easter Road this weekend.[LNB]"Every team has a wee bit of a dip and the only way to rectify that is to get back to winning ways on Saturday," he said.[LNB]"That will not be easy against a Hamilton team I've got great respect for.[LNB]"I've got a soft spot for Hamilton because they always seem to be fighting against it.[LNB]"All through that, they produce young players and they play some right good football, and they have proved a lot of their doubters wrong."[LNB]Hamilton are in the middle of a hectic schedule and played extra-time at Rangers in the Active Nation Scottish Cup on Tuesday night, their third meeting with the Scottish champions in nine days.[LNB]Hughes is not expecting fatigue to play a part on Saturday.[LNB]"I very much doubt that - I wouldn't get taken in by that," he said of opponents whose victory over Hibs in November inspired their recent 12-match unbeaten SPL run.[LNB]"Hamilton will probably go for a couple of days' rest - as long as they're not carrying any injuries and knock - and they'll come to Easter Road confident from their last three performances against the Scottish champions.[LNB]"The last time we played them, they battered us and thoroughly deserved their victory."[LNB]Hibs will be without Merouane Zemmama, who has a grade one hamstring tear but should be fit for Wednesday night's trip to Celtic.[LNB]The same applies to goalkeeper Graham Stack, who is back in light training after his troublesome back injury.[LNB][LNB] Hibernian v Hamilton. Click here to bet.
