Scramble for tickets for the away game you reckon?
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It's going to be bedlam. Can't wait.
I live through in Glasgow and travel to our games via train, For this reason OF games are never much fun for me so I'm not particularly looking forward to having them in and around ER again! I used to go to all the games at Ibrox but thinking of leaving it this time, in the last game (December 2015) I got hit in the face with something and had a small cut, which led to a considerable shiner, underneath my right eye. I tried to complain to the stewards who said they'd been radioing up to report it & were being ignored, all the while the police stood not 10 feet from the idiots doing it! Nothing was done until an old steward got his head split open by a lighter. Don't know if I fancy that, or worse after 21/05/16, again which is a pity as I can count the number of away games I missed this season on 1 hand!
Wait until the last minute to decide their allocation ...... I don't know what the south is like inside coz I've only sat there a couple of times for Scotland games ... but if you get Hibs fans to approach the south turnstiles from the back of the east stand I'm pretty sure segregation outside the ground would be relatively straightforward. If the inside of the south can be divided like it can be in the east then I don't see any problem with giving Hibs fans half the south and limiting the uglies to as few tickets as possible.
Whatever happens the first meeting at ER is going to be tasty :greengrin
As I understand it if we were to give Rangers reduced allocation so that we can also sit in a split south then we'd have to do the same for every team over the league season.
Only instances I can think we'd have a problem here would be Aberdeen as they would potentially take more than half a stand and I doubt we'd use the extra allocation. The other possible problem with it would be if we were struggling and the crowds dropped. That'd be a big backfire and red face.
More Hibbies in the ground to support the team but it would mean slightly reduced revenue in the derbies and Rantic games due to the lost tickets in separation.
That first trip back to Greyskull is going to be absolute chaos - also looking forward to the SFA suddenly an miraculously becoming deaf to the inevitable 90 minutes of sectarian abuse directed at us and Lennon...
Aside from the challenges of segregating the South Stand, there is also the issue of approach to the aforementioned stand. Fans of both clubs would converge whilst trying to get in and out. I realise this happens to an extent with our main stand too. I have never been in the new main stand whilst we play the bigots, but I imagine the Polis will try to ensure fans remain on different sides of the street?
The reason it works at Tynie is that entering & exiting the game home fans go in through Wheatfield away fans Mcleod St.
At ER both sets enter at same end. That is your problem. Keep them in 20 mins after final whistle & give them a taste of their own medicine.
Rangers away is going to be insane
No way I'll be going to Ibrox for a couple seasons yet. Let all the cup final nonsense die down first.
The first visit to Ibrox isn't going to be a picnic! The locals are crazier than ever.
Don't think it is going to be any worse than usual. They are what they are and they are abusive to any teams that go ibrox, they're morons. All we have to do is turn up, beat them and watch them slink out early as usual.
I can't wait for Hibs v The Rangers next season. The first game since the sweetest victory ever.
We won the Scottish cup with a last minute winner against The Stickys. I'm jumping about just thinking about it.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Would love Rangers first game of the season. What an atmosphere that would be and 3 points to get us up and running.