THREE live games on television, three defeats, no points - it's safe to say it's been a torrid few weeks to be a Hibbie. We're not quite in the grip of a crisis, but at a time when the club is actively campaigning to lure supporters back to Easter Road, it is, to borrow one of Alex Miller's well-worn  sayings, DISAPPOINTING TO SAY THE LEAST.

With more tricky games afoot, including Celtic in the CIS Cup and the same copycat greens at Parkhead on 27 December (which could see Hibs their biggest ever price on the fixed-odds coupons), it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for the immediate future, and the questions are sure to be raised sooner rather than later about Bobby Williamson's position as manager.

My position on Boaby's future is still undecided. If I'm being honest, I've a sore erse from sitting on the fence. When we lost so abjectly to Dundee at Dens last season, I vented my spleen and thought it was time for his XXL jacket to slip from its shoogly peg. But, to his credit, he's instilled a bit of youth and flair in the team since then and finally beaten the Jambos, but by and large the results are still far from satisfactory.

Williamson's strengths and weaknesses are probably split 50-50, and I don't dislike him as a manager, but while it's encouraging to see young players break through and be given their chance in the first team, we still lack a killer instinct, and even more worryingly, our defence is still murder... or should that be MURDOCK.

We've had a few characters from DC Thomson's finest cartoon strip down the years - "Oor" Wullie Miller, Graham "Soapy" Soutar, [Big] Eck, and now we've got PC (Poor Colin) Murdock. You could almost imagine Williamson blurting out "HELP MA BOAB" as the unfortunate defender gift-wrapped the points for Aberdeen on Sunday.

Williamson has pleaded repeatedly for time to build his "own" team and he has been in the position for a sufficient length of time for that now to be considered the case. Now it looks as if he will stand or fall by the players he has brought in, and the error-prone Murdock is certainly not helping his case. He too possesses strengths, notably in the air, and I thought until his monumental blunder against the Dons, he was having a decent game, but the guy has a disturbing tendency to sell the buns (he was also woeful against Motherwell earlier in the season), and at this stage looks way short of the standard we need to get motoring up the league.

Doumbe has been immense and is an early contender for player of the year, but Smith and Orman have also looked highly culpable for some of the goals we've lost in recent weeks, and they too (while not actually bought by BW) are actively contributing to his downfall.

It may be a cliche, but when the chips are down, it is a commonsense policy to build from the back. Maybe Williamson saw Murdock as the man to make us a solid unit in defence, but he is so bereft of pace most supporters will take a lot of convincing. While Paul Fenwick has never hit the heights he did when playing alongside Le God, maybe he is the short-term solution to tighten us up. As for Orman, words fail me - the guy is on another planet half the time, and coaches up and down the land are exposing his weaknesses on a weekly basis.

The wrangle over Williamson's contract may provide the board with a convenient outlet to dispense with his services, but if the results don't pick up fast, there may be little choice but to show Bobby the door. One thing's for sure, he's got a fight on his hands to hold on to his job.