Hibs' lack of discipline 'unacceptable' - Boyle
Martin Boyle has bemoaned Hibs' "unacceptable" discipline issues after three red cards cost them in back-to-back defeats. Grant Hanley was sent off in the first half of the 2-0 loss at Aberdeen in the last game before the split, then Hibs had Raphael Sallinger and Felix Passlack dismissed – while leading 1-0 – in Sunday's 2-1 loss at home to city rivals Hearts. Boyle, who opened the scoring in his final Edinburgh derby last Sunday, said: "It's not great, the discipline in the last few weeks has been unacceptable and it's cost us.
"The boys have to take responsibility. I thought the boys that remained on the pitch [on Sunday] gave everything they could, but the discipline isn't good enough. "It's going to have to be [spoken about] because it let us down in two massive games that we needed results.
" Hibs now trail fourth-place Motherwell by six points with just four games left in the battle for a guaranteed European spot. "It's extremely difficult now," Boyle said of Hibs' prospects of reeling in Well. "Obviously, we had to get a result on Sunday.
We're going to have to try and probably win the remaining games. We're going to have to pick ourselves back up and go again next week against Celtic. "We know how difficult the opponent is, they're reigning champions and they've picked up recently.
But we have to have the belief that we can win the game. " [BBC]