So there we have it, the summer transfer window has "slammed" shut, and once again, Hibs fans are left feeling underwhelmed.
We were promised a "wind of change" that would blow through the club and galvanise it from top to bottom.
We were promised "Quality over Quantity".
We were promised a team that would challenge for the title, and WOULDN'T be built on short term loan signing's.
What have we been left with?
An inexperienced, threadbare, young squad, once again built on short term loan signings.
To make matters worse, going in to the last week of the window, we were crying out for a predatory, penalty box, finisher to complement the excellent signing of Farid El Alagui.
Instead, El Alagui tears his Achilles tendon, and faces up to 6 months on the sidelines, and we go out and sign a forward who has made one senior appearance in his whole career, and even that was as a 90th minute substitute!!!
The club has been stale for years now, but it seems the hierarchy at the club are only interested in balancing the books.
Incredibly, since the end of last season, counting first team players, youth players and loan signings, 28 players have left the club.
You could also argue that Tim Clancy and Rowan Vine also left in January, with nobody coming in the opposite direction, takes it up to 30.
That's 30 players out and 8 in (with 4 of them loan signings, and even then, 2 of the 4 are only until January!!)
Our rivals for the Championship title are MILES ahead of us on the pitch, but yet again, Hibs are left picking up the scraps nobody else wanted on the last day of the transfer window.
Ok, we showed a bit of ambition to try and re-sign Leigh Griffiths, but once it was clear Celtic wouldn't let him go, why did we not try to push the boat out a little to try and land a player of similar quality???
I..E. The likes of Lyle Taylor or James McFadden etc??
The type of signing that would have boosted a support still reeling from struggling past part timers Dumbarton in the League Cup, and being outplayed by part-timers Alloa Athletic in the league.
It's also obvious the team lacks a leader, a ball winner in the middle of the park, but that also has failed to have been dealt with.
Now the window has shut, the type of players we are crying out for are few and far between. We will be picking at the scraps once again.
The club told us all money raised from season ticket money would be spent on the team.
Now during the summer we were told we had sold 5,700 season tickets, way down on last years amount, but the club introduced a payment plan afterwards that surely would have lead to more sales???
We have also been charged Premiership prices for those season tickets, and pay at the gate supporters are being asked to fork out £22 for games against (and no disrespect intended) Falkirk, Dumbarton, Alloa and Livingston - The same price as it would have been in the SPL for games against Aberdeen, Motherwell and Dundee Utd.
We also received a £500,000 parachute payment for being relegated through the newly introduced play-off system.
Surely the 8 players we have signed hasn't blown that whole budget????
Especially taking into account the mass exodus of players from the club, and the fact we will be paying "part" wages for the players secured on loan.
The club is facing a long, hard, season in the Championship, and the lack of investment in the playing side is going to hurt us badly.
We have been fed promise after promise over the summer, that have turned out to be nothing but soundbites.
The club lacks ambition, and that comes from above. The board seems to be OK with the club underachieving, as long as the books are balanced.
Our owner, who we owe a debt of gratitude to for saving us back in 91, seems disinterested and won't invest in the playing side.
The Chairman, his right hand man, is pretty much in the same boat, happy with the club to just trundle along.
We apparently have a number of different consortium interested in taking control of the club, with one fronted by David Low, already having £3.5m offer knocked back.
Ex Hibs midfielder Paul Kane is also fronting a consortium, Forever Hibernian, who have put a couple of proposals to the club, which have also been knocked back.
Wether one of these consortium's, or one of another supposed three still interested, takes control remains to be seen.
Whatever happens, it's clear massive changes are needed at the forefront of the club.
We have a new manager, who it looks like has been hung out to dry, with his hands tied behind his back in the transfer window, and could end up becoming the latest scapegoat for the mess that is our club.
We need investment and we need a forward way of thinking, otherwise, this club is heading for disaster.