Nightmare start for Calderwood
Colin Calderwood suffered a painful 4-2 defeat to Aberdeen at Pittodrie in his first match in charge of Hibernian.
The Dons, who had previously taken only one point from a possible 18, squandered a couple of decent scoring chances before Chris Maguire broke the deadlock after 18 minutes with a clinical finish.
Scott Vernon added a second after 33 minutes and Vernon slid home Maguire's shot-cum-cross at the back post to make it 3-0. Paul Hartley scored a fourth from the penalty spot before Colin Nish and Sol Bamba replied.
The Dons took the lead with a superb piece of counter-attacking play with Sone Aluko's long diagonal pass releasing Maguire who buried the ball clinically into the bottom corner.
The visitors made an enforced change after only 22 minutes when Danny Galbraith came on for the injured David Wotherspoon before Aberdeen's Zander Diamond limped off and was replaced by Derek Young just before the half-hour mark.
The Dons doubled their lead after 33 minutes when Vernon's volley took a wicked deflection off Bamba and trundled past the stranded Mark Brown into the net.
And the visitors fell further behind after 50 minutes when Vernon reacted quickest to slide home Maguire's shot on the turn that was heading well wide of the target.
Aberdeen had the chance to score a fourth after 66 minutes when Aluko was brought down in the box by Chris Hogg. Vernon wanted the chance to complete his hat-trick from the spot but in the end it was Dons skipper Hartley who sent Brown the wrong way from 12 yards.
Nish pulled a goal back for the visitors two minutes later when he headed home Paul Hanlon's cross, although the striker landed awkwardly and had to be replaced by Valdas Trakys immediately afterwards.
Bamba headed home a second for Hibs from Derek Riordan's accurate cross in the closing stages but despite this late rally from the visitors the majority of the 7,587 at Pittodrie left content having seen their team win at home in the league for the first time since their 4-0 victory over Hamilton.
