Came on to say much the same. McLean and Shinnie were constantly in Hibs faces. I'd also disagree with the comment about Hayes not playing well, he certainly tried his usual pace but just kept getting battered by the Hibs defence whenever he was looking like getting past them - I was pretty relieved to see that he made it to the end in one piece.
the O'Connor sub definitely not the best decision deek has ever made - i can see what his thinking was (to play out the game), but we lost that goal straight after because our defence then didn't have a clue where they were meant to be.
Difficult to tell if they would have settled as he changed it straight back again not long after, but we certainly don't look comfortable with 3 (4? 5?) at the back. When McGinn came on, went back to our strongest team and shape, was just praying Hibs didn't get a last minute number as i reckon we would have come out on top in ET because of that.
Bottom line, trying to play safe ironically nearly cost us the game. Had we simply stuck to our proven winning team with like-for-like swaps (McGinn>Christie, O'Connor>Taylor probably?) we would likely have been more comfortable.
The team and management need to get their heads around treating cup-ties as just another game we need to win, and not start thinking they have to do something different.