Tbh I won't need my 6 tickets but I'll probably buy them anyway just so I have a bit room either side of me.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I've become accustomed to having plenty room to spread out at ER the last few seasons so don't see why that should change at Hampden just because the stay aways decide they fancy it again......
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09-02-2015 09:15 PM #301PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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09-02-2015 09:17 PM #302This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-02-2015 09:23 PM #304This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
, then use the 6 stubs to get 6 briefs for the final so you've plenty room again.......
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09-02-2015 09:40 PM #305This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-02-2015 12:30 AM #306This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If of your estimated 500 Hibs fans at Ainslie Park on Saturday 400 of them see Spartans as an alternative to giving up football altogether then fine I suppose. But if the remaining 100 have switched allegiance from Hibs to Spartans for whatever reason then the case is made for Spartans being a bad thing for Hibs in the long run.
Nobody has a duty to go to football or even follow a particular team if they don't want to. But its the very essence of being a fan that if you have chosen to follow a club your loyalty is to that club above all others, no matter what. That's the thing that stops us being just another punter like customers at TESCO ..... I know clubs take the piss out of fans by using that loyalty by the way I'm not that daft.
Hibs as far as I can see cant afford to be losing fans to anybody, especially a potential rival on our own doorstep. If Hibs average this season is 9,000 over 18 games that means that 9,000 folk watched Hibs 18 times ..... not that Hibs have 162,000 fans. In view of that, if Spartans aim is to go pro ( and it is ) which by definition means they will be competing with Hibs for support, then I don't care if they are run by Mother Theresa and use their gate money to feed orphans and rescue puppies, I want them to fail.
Sorry to rant, but that's my view of it.
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10-02-2015 04:32 AM #307
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10-02-2015 06:12 AM #308This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-02-2015 07:21 AM #310
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Spartans are creating a niche for themselves however Meadowbank used to be down the road and it made no difference to us. The choice in Edinburgh is between Hibs and Hearts and they are the real competition. Dundee Utd are probably bigger than Dundee these days because they have performed so much better than Dundee over the last 30 years. Glory hunters
We have held on to our support, despite some pretty lean years, but ultimately it is about success on the park and if we achieve that we won't need to worry about Hearts, let alone Spartans.
By the by lets hope it is Spartan's in the next round. Much more exciting and better attended than a game v Berwick?
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10-02-2015 07:28 AM #311
Does anybody know what's happening re the Hibs kids day scheduled for mar7th. We were meant to be playing livi that day but it seems someone forgot about it being scottish quarter final day.
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10-02-2015 09:19 AM #312This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-02-2015 09:26 AM #313This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hopefully a big crowd and big atmosphere. Big chance o get ourselves back to hampden so lets make it an occassion
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10-02-2015 09:50 AM #314This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They can't as not all families will have the cup top up.
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10-02-2015 11:14 AM #315This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
.... Ach, that's not what I meant .... Before I had a partner who would cut my dangly bits off if I was at football every Saturday I used to pop down to watch the Fairydean when Hibs were away. My only concern is when folk choose to go elsewhere instead of Hibs.
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10-02-2015 11:22 AM #316This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I know what you're saying here, but if Tesco treat their punters better than a football club treats the fans - and mostly they do - the question has to arise as to when and at what point a fan is justified in walking away? .... or going elsewhere? ... or even choosing to follow another sport entirely?
And wanting every potential or actual rival to 'fail' - lose games, get relegated, go into administration, cease to exist as if they never had been? - apply that to all Hibs' rivals and Hibs end up the only team in the league and then where are we?
Though I do agree that another League football team in Edinburgh could be seen as being one too many.
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10-02-2015 11:31 AM #317
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Have the QF match date/times been announced yet ? If not, any idea when we'll know ?
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10-02-2015 11:36 AM #318This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-02-2015 11:58 AM #320This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't think that Meadowbank dented the Hibs support even when they were in Division One.
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10-02-2015 12:02 PM #321This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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I take your point, and given the way that Spartans are involving the kids in the area, giving them something to belong to, I can see that they will attract more people to games in future.
I just don't see them as a long term competitor to the big clubs - what they will be is a conveyor belt of talent as they have a very good development programme. They are based in an area where a lot of kids don't have parents who can take them to the likes of East Mains, and they are to be applauded for promoting the game as a way to build self esteem and a sense of community.
It is the way ahead for Scottish football as the way our game is going we really need to see it as being the equivalent to the likes of the LoI, rather than a competitor to the likes of the Premiership or La Liga. Where that leaves Hibs in the long term, I don't know.
Just now, they are no more a threat to Hibs than junior teams - it's just that they operate in a city (albeit a part of the city that is "outside the city walls").
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10-02-2015 12:54 PM #324
Just imagine what state we'll be in if 300 Spartans descend on ER on 1/4 Final Day!
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Fast forward 10 years - Huns no more, Celtic in England. What then, further consolidation of cross border arrangements? I think that if Spartans ever compete with Hibs, it will be a result of a massive restructuring and rationalisation of our game.
So, it'll be a level playing field anyway.
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10-02-2015 01:27 PM #326
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You raise some interesting points. It remains to be seen if The Rangers gates will return, or whether they are permanently damaged. It is certainly unsustainable to have just one club that can win everything - dull for them and tedious for everyone else.
The last 4 years without Rangers have not done the game much damage and to be honest if Celtic left I think it would not be a disaster. We would have a very competitive league with Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen and Dundee Utd all pretty equally sized followed by another 6 sides or so all capable of challenging. Sure the TV money might be done, but so what- it would be an exciting competitive league rather than the one horse race it is now.
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