Dave Hibbert Swaps Stoke City Under-21s For Wycombe Set-Piece Role
Wycombe Wanderers have added specialist support to their backroom team by appointing Dave Hibbert as first-team set-piece coach, with the 39-year-old leaving Stoke City after 12 years in the academy, as confirmed by the BBC.
Hibbert had been in charge of Stoke’s Premier League 2 side since January and previously worked across several age groups.
His move to Adams Park reflects Wycombe’s focus on maximising dead-ball situations, bringing in a coach who has helped develop hundreds of youngsters during a long spell at Clayton Wood. At Stoke, former winger Liam Lawrence will take interim charge of the under-21s while the club decides on a permanent successor.
Stoke academy manager Sam Stockley said Hibbert had made “a significant contribution to the development of hundreds of academy players, on and off the pitch” over more than a decade, thanking him for his dedication and wishing him well for the next stage of his career at Wycombe.
Older Imps fans might remember Hibbert destroying us on the opening day of the 2007/08 season while playing for Shrewsbury in a game we lost 4-1.