It won't feel like it at the moment but Hibs' horror show at Falkirk on Tuesday night might just be the best thing that could have happened to Lee Johnson in the long run.
The new boss might have been looking at a decent pre-season against English opposition and a 5-0 scudding of Clyde on Saturday and thinking he was on the right track, but losing to Falkirk - and the first half display in particular - will have told him that there is still plenty of work to be done right through the team. It must also have drilled home to him that some of the players who didn't do the business last season and who played at Falkirk, simply aren't going to cut it at Easter Road if the club is to progress.
A manager learns more about his team in adversity than he does when it is winning, so I'm sure he will now know who he can rely and where he needs reinforcements. For me, he has got to find the right blend in midfield. He played Jake Doyle-Hayes, Josh Campbell and Joe Newell and whenever that trio played together last season it just didn't work. That was the same on Tuesday. They are just too similar, so Johnson has got to find someone who is going to go beyond the strikers and get a goal.
