Dundee 4-1 Hibernian: Analysis

Circumstances often conspire against teams at the bottom of the table and head coach David Gray must feel like he cannot buy a break.

Amid their woeful start to the season they began this game in blistering fashion – perhaps allowing the large travelling to start to believing a corner could about to be turned.

But any such hopes ended after Jordan Obita’s early red card and Gray will have been alarmed by the way his team folded like a deckchair after that setback.

If ever there was a time for leadership and character to come to the fore it was in that moment – both qualities were posted missing.

Gray got a vote of confidence from the Hibernian powerbrokers during the international break, however he has been in the game long enough to know that will count for nothing if he cannot stop the rot.