Gray on 'feelgood factor', injuries update & summer planning

[ASFN Admin]

David Gray has been speaking to the media before Hibs visit Dundee in the Premiership on Saturday.

Here are the key lines from the Hibs boss:

• Grant Hanley, Chris Cadden - who could play on Saturday - and Jordan Obita are all back in training. Hanley has missed a month of action but will be available for selection after this weekend and also for Scotland's World Cup warm-up friendlies at the end of March.
• Josh Mulligan has been out since January with an ankle injury and while Gray says it is difficult to put an "exact timeframe" on a return, he says the key midfielder will "definitely" be back this season.
• Gray "wants to use the feelgood factor" from last week's win at Celtic Park as Hibs look to secure a third straight victory.
• "The aim" for this season is to catch fourth-place Motherwell, who occupy the final European spot and are five points ahead having played a game fewer. Gray says: "We're constantly trying to chase them down until such a point that we can't catch them. It stood us well last season in terms of trying to catch that team in front, and it's something we're still striving to do just now."
• Gray insists every team in the Premiership have "something to play for" with 10 games left and it is "great for the neutral and great for the league".
• He say Hibs are "proactive" with plans for the summer transfer window: "There are a lot of conversations going on with players that are in the building, and with staff, about what we think we could be looking at and what we might need to make sure we keep progressing."
• Hibs won 2-1 at Dens Park on the opening day of the season but Gray says Dundee are now a "very different" team and have "real threats all over the pitch".

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