4-5am? How far do you think Aberdeen is from Glasgow?
They can leave at 8:30 and be there an hour early.
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There are 3 trains that leave early enough, 0633, 0740 and 0842......all are £60 return already. There are no trains that arrive in time for 1230 KO on a Sunday. I tried to book a bus for the Aberdeen Hibs fans but already fully booked by the Sheep. It'll be the car for me. Even that journey, which usually takes 2.5 hours, on big match days like this & Scotland games, takes up to 4 hours due the football traffic. It took me 6 hours to drive down for the Scotland v Ireland game at Parkhead a few years ago. Takes ages to get through Dundee and the Perth to Stirling bit.
The game could kick off at 3pm and keep virtually every fan happy, and not break any of the rules.
Just don't televise it. :greengrin
To be fair to supporters, they really are a 2nd thought these days when arranging tv timetables. :rolleyes:
It is a big deal. many fans will see it as a reason not to go and you know that. that in itself devalues the event and if I was an Aberdonian, I would certainly think twice about dragging the bairns doon the road. added to that, the whole experience of the day is spoiled because the fans can be toiling to get a couple of beers with mates before it and it will be bedlam trying to all get through and get in before the start. not happy.
The Aberdonians will just need to get up a bit earlier, it's a Scottish Cup semi final, surely worth it. The Sheep fans are quick enough to tell us how utterly fantastic they are as an away support anyway, here's their chance to prove it. I hope you are right though and most of them can't be bothered.
Not the point at all ..... they are fitba fans like us, no matter what team they support. Their opportunity to have a good day out supporting their team is being pissed on at the whim of the TV companies and their financial stranglehold over the SFA .... we should be supporting any gripe they have over the kick off time, not using it as a stick to beat them with !!!
From memory, every Scottish Cup semi final has kicked off around 12.15 since about 2004.
It beggars belief that people are shocked and fuming about this.
Both Semi-Finals have been shown every year since 2010 but there have been many years previously in which both have been shown.
The second choice TV semi-final is always awkward as it is on Sky and BBC and has to fit both schedules.
Since 2010, every semi-final has had an early kick off and we have been in most of them. I understand people being annoyed but I don't understand people being surprised it is this kick off time.
As I said before, we have had Sunday 6.05pm for a semi-final and a Friday night too.
It bloody does for me. :greengrin As someone else said, if you kick them in the balls enough times, it does not hurt anymore, but you wont be getting anyone who's not been kicked in the nads volunteering for said kicking.
In a time where we are probably along with the gimps across town the only two clubs who's crowds are actually up these days, the authorities really need to find a way of attracting new fans along to games, and not making it as hard as possible for those who do go.
Tv is a necessary evil i suppose, but we should be working as hard as possible to attract more folk through the doors, quite how i really dont know? :confused:
There are four trains, you missed out the 05.26. If your quick you can still do it for £30 return if you buy singles instead of returns. If there are 4 of you traveling you can actually buy tickets at the moment for £50 return and that's for all 4 of you. Only a few of these left though so be quick.
The perfect kick off time would be at 3pm but I wouldn't say that having it a few hours earlier would spoil the day, it's a semi final at Hampden. It certainly doesn't spoil the day for kids. Getting up early because you are going to Hampden just adds to the excitement when you are a bairn doesn't it?
5/10k 😂 - They're not travelling from Brighton and leaving on the Friday morning, taking days off work into the bargain, they are travelling from 2 hours up the road. Most of their fans are from the central belt anyways as seen by their respective home and away crowds.
Agreed. I absolutely hate the term bedwetting but some folks mattresses must reek of piss with the states they're getting themselves in over the sake of a couple hours.
If 5-10000 folk are put off because the game kicks off a massive 2 and 3/4 hours earlier than usual you need to question how arsed they are about supporting their respective team. Would they still be moaning if we got to the final and it was an early kick off?
For folk like me it wouldn't .... but semi finals above all games attract casual non regular fans, it affects their numbers when they are faced with situations like this, why would they bother to get up at 6am to go to watch a team they only follow as a casual fan when they can watch it on the telly without having to get up early or even leave the house and probably save themselves a couple of hundred quid into the bargain? One of the things that makes working people look forward to the weekend is knowing they WONT have to get out of their bed at 6am.
Answer me this ..... what other branch of the entertainment industry forces its patrons to put themselves out for the privilege of parting with their money? Apart from big festivals where people stay on site anyway what rock band would schedule a gig to start at lunchtime, they wouldn't because they know their fans would react badly to it and they would likely sell less tickets.
Can you imagine cinemas only showing this months blockbuster as a matinee? They show the films in the evening because they know that people often go to the pictures as part of a wider night out and that's exactly what a trip to Hampden should be, part of a wider experience where you get to enjoy the build up to the game with a couple of hours in the boozer beforehand, like it or not that's a huge part of the day for a lot of fans ..... if you don't agree try getting into a boozer within a two mile radius of Hampden whenever Hibs are playing there.
There is no branch of the entertainment industry that would dare to show the utter disregard for its patrons that football does .... but when you see the number of folk posting on this site who seem happy to accept being treated as an AFTERTHOUGHT its no wonder they get away with it.
Long way around the houses.
You are Bobby Willimson and I claim my five pounds.
Nothing to do with going to the pictures or any other activity for that matter. What has boozing got to do with Cinemas? Do we need to fill publoads with folk waiting to see T2? Will they only show the film once? Do we have Aberdeen v Hibs on a constant evening loop for anyone that wants to go on whichever evening they choose?
Are the clubs only playing to support the promo on the new album they have out? Are they playing Glasgow on the Saturday and the rest of the country later in the week?
Wimbledon has millions of afternoon "kick offs".
Why does any game at Hampden have to evolve into a night out? Will nobody think of the children? (except obviously Monktonharp)
It's a dinner time kick off. Happens all over the world. In bigger places than this. The more sober our support the better as far as I'm concerned.
Suits me down to the ground especially if it deters drunk day trippers who berate the team when we concede two throw ins in a row.
We get this every time we get to Hampden ...... I've missed two Hibs matches at the national stadium since my first one in 1979 and in all that time I've never had any problem with drunk day trippers, I've seen a couple of incidents but the way some folk go on you would think 90% of the support can barely make it up the steps without puking and the ones who do make it into the stands are looking for a fight with anybody who casts a glance in their direction, including our players.
Ffs this is not about drunk fans, its about getting a f, n fair deal for the paying public, the fan, we are being shafted time and time again by SFA, tv and police bloody Scotland, give us our 3pm ko back, its not about how many beers yi cram in, its about filling our national stadium, getting the game to folk who might not go but decide to go cos its no on the telly might be a start. 12 oclock is a bloody stupid time for a game. We also have fans that will bevtravelling long distance, its not fair on them either. Not a great way to promote the game with half empty stadiums.
Look at it this way: the league needs tv money, there are stipulations put in place to get that money, we will benefit as a club from said money, it was hardly a surprise that it's a 12:15 KO as it has been that way for years.
No point moaning about it because that's how it will be for the foreseeable - it's a trip to Hampden FFS