Pre season fixtures

[matty_f]

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Shocking that we aren't playing Everton at home!!

Why is that shocking?

[Billy Whizz]

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Shocking that we aren't playing Everton at home!!

We're playing in the cup that day.
Wonder if the police will allow Hibs v Rangers and Hearts v Everton on the same day

[SteveHFC]

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We're playing in the cup that day.
Wonder if the police will allow Hibs v Rangers and Hearts v Everton on the same day

No chance.

[Brightside]

Only hibs fans could get upset about who we are or aren't playing in friendlies!

[marinello59]

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Why is that shocking?

It just is.
I'm not going back until we play Everton at home in a pre-season friendly.

[james62]

I would agree with most of this thread that for the fans our pre season fixtures aren't much to get excited about.

What I feel is far more important though is that maybe these are games that Stubbsy wants to play as he feels that they will give us the best preparation for the upcoming season. We started really slowly last season and if we are looking to avoid the lottery of the play offs again we simply can not afford another slow start this year.

[Back Lounge]

I see that Hearts are charging £18 for the Everton game.

Way too much for a friendly.

[Scouse Hibee]

Thankfully the Blue ****** are playing the Maroon ******......happy days:-)

[3pm]

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Only hibs fans could get upset about who we are or aren't playing in friendlies!

Strange one!

[Squealing pig]

Pat stanton on peter and roughies show just now

[Baldy Foghorn]

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Only hibs fans could get upset about who we are or aren't playing in friendlies!

Crazy eh

[Jonnyboy]

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It just is.
I'm not going back until we play Everton at home in a pre-season friendly.

That's my season ticket in the bin

[Stax]

Livi playing Real Socieadad on the 14th, not a bad wee game for them there.

[Baldy Foghorn]

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Livi playing Real Socieadad on the 14th, not a bad wee game for them there.

What, we are at Berwick and they play a crack Spanish outfit.....Sack the Board, and the fans reps......

[Stax]

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What, we are at Berwick and they play a crack Spanish outfit.....Sack the Board, and the fans reps......

It's like yer reading my mind baldy, Petrie get it sorted, the Basques ken whits goin oan.

[Brooster]

Has any mention been made of a home friendly against Wigan?

[andrew70]

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Has any mention been made of a home friendly against Wigan?

No I don't think so. They are playing Thistle and Dundee W/C 20 July so any firendly would likely be dependant on the Rangers fixture being moved.

[PatHead]

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Has any mention been made of a home friendly against Wigan?

We are playing Wigan in La Manga this weekend. Seemingly a closed door friendly but if anyone turns up to watch they won't get turned away.

[Billy Whizz]

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We are playing Wigan in La Manga this weekend. Seemingly a closed door friendly but if anyone turns up to watch they won't get turned away.

Won't be this weekend, think Hibs only head out on Sunday

[Saturday Boy]

I see the official site has the U20 team playing Brentford at home on 31 July. Looks like an afternoon kick off at HTC.

[Boris]

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We are playing Wigan in La Manga this weekend. Seemingly a closed door friendly but if anyone turns up to watch they won't get turned away.

Hibs only going out this weekend & Wigan not arriving until late next week. Game will be Saturday 11th I understand, the day before Hibs return home. With the heat there at this time of the year it will I would imagine be a late afternoon/early evening kick-off. The main "pitch" at the La Manga complex is open on 3 sides but has a sort of raised platform on one side with several rows of seats for spectators which I'd estimate holds maybe 300 to 500 spectators. Difficult to enforce "closed doors" there as so much is going on at any time on what is a massive complex (not just football) but I suspect game will not be "advertised" as such possibly owing to Spanish FA rules or "fees" for an "official" game.

[Keith_M]

Didn't Hibs play an English team in the south of Spain a couple of seasons back?

[Cod Boy]

I think the played Notts forest in the Algarve got beat 2.1 alot of crowd trouble
as well.

[cabbageandribs1875]

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I think the played Notts forest in the Algarve got beat 2.1 alot of crowd trouble
as well.

i'm quite possibly wrong but was that game maybe in Malta ?

[Theinsider]

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Won't be this weekend, think Hibs only head out on Sunday

Yeah out this Sunday for a week travel back next Sunday.

Cheers

[Boris]

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i'm quite possibly wrong but was that game maybe in Malta ?

Played at the vila Real complex near Monto Gorde on the Algarve - Portuguese Olympic training complex. Close to the Spanish border. Played Forest there plus Gibratlar XI in Gib on same tour. Wasn't closed door - charged to get in.

[cabbageandribs1875]

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Played at the vila Real complex near Monto Gorde on the Algarve - Portuguese Olympic training complex. Close to the Spanish border. Played Forest there plus Gibratlar XI in Gib on same tour. Wasn't closed door - charged to get in.

i knew it was a wee island somewhere i'm still sure there was a couple of wee 'incidents' on the island though, were forest based on Gib at the same time we were ?

[hibeeleicester]

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i knew it was a wee island somewhere i'm still sure there was a couple of wee 'incidents' on the island though, were forest based on Gib at the same time we were ?

Gibraltar is not an Island

[Keith_M]

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Gibraltar is not an Island

It's a Peninsula, which in German is called a Halbinsel, or half-island, so he was half right....


....if he speaks German

[Boris]

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i knew it was a wee island somewhere i'm still sure there was a couple of wee 'incidents' on the island though, were forest based on Gib at the same time we were ?

Forest turned up in numbers at the game. About 3 bus loads as I recall - all staying in Faro on the Algarve. There was an altercation during the game. It was ugly but it was swiftly dealt with - the Portuguese polis don't mess about with them big sticks! Clear who they blamed as well as they ran the Forest buses out of town immediately after the game. We had our car at the Forest "end" & the police kept us from walking round until they'd moved the Forest buses away then one of the top Polis who spoke very good English walked us round. He confirmed where he thought the blame lay.

I sensed something might happen before the game that night as both sets of fans went to same booth to buy tickets & there were what I would regard as sectarian comments by some Forest fans & one or two were giving it the engerland anti-IRA chants, Thing they were getting Hibs muddled with Celtic. Yes, some Hibs fans reacted to it inside the ground but mix provocation with sun & beer & it happens.

Sure the Baldy Foghorn can confirm my take on events?

I'd just emphasise it wasn't all the Forest fans. Myself, Baldy Foghorn & a certain Fans Rep director shared a hotel with some Forest fans in the wee town where the game was played & they were smashing lads, both before & after the game & they laid the blame squarely on their "nutters" as they called them.