Hibs folded once again to lose their latest Premiership clash to Dundee.
The Hibees have just one victory to speak of in the league this season and remain bottom of the Premiership after taking nothing from the City of Discovery.
Gray had a vote of confidence from the Hibs board after the last defeat to St Mirren but the pressure will continue to grow on him until he and his team arrest this slide.
They continue to shoot themselves in the foot – taking an early lead tonight before Jordan Obita’s red card allowed Dundee to come back and win 4-1.
Gray takes Hibs responsibility
Gray has already admitted this season that he feels like a broken record when he bemoans his players for individual mistakes that have been consistently letting them down.
But they continue to do it.
However, the 36-year-old doesn’t want to completely abdicate responsibility and insists he will take his share of the blame.
Asked if there is nothing he can do about the mistakes, he replied: “No, I think there’s always coaching points within it, 100%. It’s not always directly my fault, so to speak, but it’s definitely my responsibility.
“So I need to rectify it as quick as I can. You look at the goals we’ve conceded, whether we had 10 or 11 players on the pitch, they’re avoidable in their moments.
“I think that’s probably the bit at the moment that’s harder for me. When I’m looking at it going, how can we rectify it?
“We show the players we do everything we can to make sure that in the situations we need to do better. But there’s no doubt about it, the Red Cards are a massive turning point in the game.
“They got a massive lift from the momentum we had because of how we started. It really turned the game, to be honest.”
Gray was also asked about the lack of a reaction to going a man down and went on: “I think it’s difficult, as I’ve said there. It’s a massive moment in the game, a big momentum shift. There’s a little bit of a settling period after that as well.
“I thought for the next five, ten minutes we were okay. Once you lose the goal, which is a real poor goal to concede, we had three or four opportunities to deal with it better than we did. The second goal is a set-piece.
“The third goal is a killer, which is you’re still well in the game with one goal in it. We changed the shape a little bit to try and be more of an attacking threat.
“But then it’s an individual error again that’s cost us the goal. Dundee didn’t have to work hard for that in that moment. That’s the bit that frustrates me the most because it’s not a lack of effort from the players at all. You see that tonight, they go right to the very end.
“They’re giving absolutely everything. They’re hurting in there at the moment because of the effort they’re putting in. But it’s just too many individual errors.
“At key times, it’s costing us. Even the fourth goal comes from an error as well. But the lads were still pushing right towards the very end, trying to get themselves back into the game.”
Will Gray be Hibs manager vs Aberdeen?
It is a quick turnaround for Hibs now with Aberdeen at home to come on Tuesday.
But questions around Gray’s future grow with every defeat.
The man himself answered questions on whether he will still be in charge.
“I 100 per cent want to be here,” he insisted. “That’s a decision for the powers that be at the football club. Until someone tells me otherwise, I’ll do everything I possibly can to turn this around.
“I think, as I said, the way we started the game, the response I got from the players at the start of the game and then the effort to go right to the very end. I know the players are still with me, 100 per cent. I know they’ve still got that desire to try and turn this around. And I would say that we know the areas in which we are.
“I can’t sit here and defend it because I’ve said it too many times now. So I understand that as well.
“And I understand the frustration from the supporters, 1,500 of them or so, making the effort to come up here tonight, which is incredible when you consider the weather conditions in Edinburgh, especially today, and around the country.
“So the effort that was made to come and support the team, which has been here forever since I’ve been at the football club, I understand the frustration and the pain. And I think until anybody tells me otherwise, I’m going to do everything I can to turn this around.”