Liam O'Brien is excited by the challenge he and Pat Fenlon have to rise to at Easter Road. O'Brien revealed he and Fenlon felt they had achieved everything they could in the Republic of Ireland and needed a fresh challenge.
They certainly picked a bog one. O'Brien, who worked with Fenlon at Bohemians, was confirmed as first-team coach at Easter Road on Tuesday, with Billy Brown retaining his post as assistant. Fenlon and O'Brien were in the McDairmid Park stand to watch Hibs lose 3-1 against St Johnstone on Saturday.
They will have a ground level view of the team tonight when Hibs travel to Fir Park to take on high-flying Motherwell.The former Newcastle and Republic of Ireland midfielder said: "I'm very excited because we all like new challenges in life. For us, we've done more or less what we could have done in Ireland; we won a few leagues and a few cups. It's nice to have a fresh challenge and hopefully we'll do okay over here I think we work well together and we bounce things off each other.
We don't always see eye to eye on everything, we disagree on things, but that's probably why we get on so well."Fenlon and O'Brien left Bohemians a year after seeing their budget slashed amid financial problems at the Dublin club. But O'Brien was proud of their achievements in leading an inexperienced squad to fifth place in the Airtricity League last season and gave an insight into what is expected of their new charges.
He said: "The players that we brought in were a lot younger but they worked very hard for each other, on and off the park. We got them well organised and they gave everything they could in every game they played. We were probably a bit unlucky not to win something last year. I thought we did well with the squad we had."
Source: FOOTYMAD
