There's a calm before the summer storm at every football club during close-season and Hibs are about to be hit by a hurricane this summer.
A new manager, a ruthless approach with as many as a dirty dozen new faces arriving and the same amount being shown the exit door.
Every squad requires a bit of surgery after each season but after the last ten months in Leith, it'll need a complete transplant of new talent if Lee Johnson 's to survive and prosper in his new job.
It's already starting to happen with the news Drey Wright won't be retained and nobody who's deemed surplus to requirements can have any complaints after the dismal failure of the season just past which cost both Jack Ross and Shaun Maloney their positions.
Watch this space, in the coming weeks I fully expect to be writing an 'I told you so' column about a manager who's about to clear the decks.
Johnson will have discovered he has a lot of players out of contract. Sean Mackie, Alex Gogic and Scott Allan are all on the way out, loan deals for Sylvester Jasper, James Scott and Rocky Bushiri are also up and I don't expect any interest in any of them to be followed-up.
There's a new deal for Paul McGinn who will have his option of another year taken up and to be fair he's one of the few who should be kept at the club.
There needs to be a freshness and rebuild within the team because to finish last season as a bottom six club is completely unacceptable.
Football is a cutthroat industry. The rewards for success can be massive but failure also has a high price and a few Hibs boys are about to discover a few brutal realities.
Those lessons aren't new to me, I remember being a player under Steven Pressley at Falkirk. The club had just been relegated and the following campaign they threw the kitchen sink at an attempt to come straight back up and it didn't happen.
Steven had the unenviable task of releasing an incredible 16 players after that failure and he tried to keep me at the club as I'd done okay for him but the coffers were empty.
Some of these types of clubs release players at the end of a season and then try to take them back on again so they don't need to pay them over the summer. That's how tight money is within Scottish football.
Fortunately Hibs have a few bob and the recruitment is going to be key.
Johnson has managed at a high level with Bristol City in the English Championship and League One at Sunderland which has been a bit of a basket case club.
It speaks volumes for Alex Neil to have managed to win them promotion into the Championship this season as there's a list the length of a toilet roll of those who have tried and failed so I wouldn't be critical of Johnson for his lack of success with the Black Cats.
He had a very difficult job and in all honesty they weren't that far away when he was punted out the door so he has my sympathy on that score. They were still in and about the play-off area but a six goal drubbing in his last game back in January was a last straw.
He's made all the right noises since he arrived at Easter Road and I'm confident he'll assemble a side which will play an attractive type of football as that's the minimum the fans expect.
Johnson has brought in Jamie McAllister who I know well from his days playing with Aberdeen and Livingston.
There's no danger I'll ever forget Jamie as he scored against my Hibs team in the League Cup Final for Livingston back in 2004.
He's going to be vital in his role as Hibs assistant boss as he knows the Scottish scene inside out. I appreciate Johnson also has some insight after his time at Hearts and Kilmarnock but Jamie is steeped in Scottish football.
So batten down the hatches, a storm's a brewin and players are about to come and go.
