The new East stand and the myth of 98/99 attendances

[Hibbyradge]

I had someone on my Facebook, a Hibby, remind me that Hibs' attendances during the successful 98/99 promotion season were regularly over 15000.

The power of a winning team, he pointed out.

Except, he's wrong.

In fact, today's crowd was only 300 less than our highest attendance that season, a crunch game against Falkirk towards the end of the season. We never reached 15000.

I have no doubts, that if we continue to win games, we'll regularly see crowds exceeding 16k. We already have.

The new East is paying dividends and it can't be long till it's paid for itself.

[Smartie]

We had a bumper crowd around Christmas against Raith I seem to remember.

[Jonnyboy]

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I had someone on my Facebook, a Hibby, remind me that Hibs' attendances during the successful 98/99 promotion season were regularly over 15000.

The power of a winning team, he pointed out.

Except, he's wrong.

In fact, today's crowd was only 300 less than our highest attendance that season, a crunch game against Falkirk towards the end of the season. We never reached 14000.

I have no doubts, thst if we continue to win games, we'll regularly see crowds exceeding 16k. We already have.

The new East is paying dividends and it can't be long till it's paid for itself.

It's a popular myth and as you say, wholly incorrect!

Proof for your Facebook poster can be found here

http://www.fitbastats.com/hibs/team_results_season.php

[Jonnyboy]

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We had a bumper crowd around Christmas against Raith I seem to remember.

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[Hibbyradge]

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We had a bumper crowd around Christmas against Raith I seem to remember.

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[rcarter1]

I remember the Raith game in 98/99as well, and it was a bumper for that season at over 14K. As the OP said, we are on course to hammer that seasons average attendances with how we have started. Really good news to see the numbers up.

[LancashireHibby]

Overall capacity was only 16,500 in those days so it's easy to see how the memory can play tricks with the figures when it was looking so busy back then.

[GreenCastle]

We play Raith this December also at home and Dundee Utd first game at home in 2017.

Could well be full houses! Hopefully !

[Mibbes Aye]

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We had a bumper crowd around Christmas against Raith I seem to remember.

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I remember the Raith game in 98/99as well, and it was a bumper for that season at over 14K. As the OP said, we are on course to hammer that seasons average attendances with how we have started. Really good news to see the numbers up.

I can't remember how they partitioned it but we had part of the South for that game.

[Hibbyradge]

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I can't remember how they partitioned it but we had part of the South for that game.

Yes, you're correct.

[Broken Gnome]

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Yes, you're correct.

We had all the South I think? Remember being up the top, and Raith were in the main stand. Doubt they'd have had two sections.

The crunch game against Falkirk would have been the last home game and trophy presentation as well, no?

[G B Young]

Circumstances were different back then though. We'd had a few really dire years at the tail-end of the Alex Miller era and the Duffy debacle where we failed to heed the warning of being in the relegation play-offs, only to find ourselves back in them again the next season. Yes, we were at a horribly low ebb post-Butcher too, but there's been a couple of much more positive years since then and of course we went into this season on the back of a historic Scottish Cup win and a very exciting managerial appointment.

They may not have been quite as high as many believe but the First Division attendances under McLeish were still very good and I think the crowds following our return to the top flight were consistently high with Sauzee, Latapy and co a major draw. Crowds weren't slow to decline again under Williamson.

[stantonhibby]

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I had someone on my Facebook, a Hibby, remind me that Hibs' attendances during the successful 98/99 promotion season were regularly over 15000.

The power of a winning team, he pointed out.

Except, he's wrong.

In fact, today's crowd was only 300 less than our highest attendance that season, a crunch game against Falkirk towards the end of the season. We never reached 15000.

I have no doubts, that if we continue to win games, we'll regularly see crowds exceeding 16k. We already have.

The new East is paying dividends and it can't be long till it's paid for itself.

The folk girning about building the East have gone awfy quiet.

[Aldo]

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I can't remember how they partitioned it but we had part of the South for that game.

I was in the south upper for the Raith game.

I also remembering it being bitterly cold that day!!

[Golden Bear]

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The folk girning about building the East have gone awfy quiet.

It's all very posh and sophisticated but it's never quite managed to generate the same atmosphere. The linesmen on the East side don't know how lucky they are these days.!

[Jonnyboy]

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It's all very posh and sophisticated but it's never quite managed to generate the same atmosphere. The linesmen on the East side don't know how lucky they are these days.!

Speaking of East Stand lino's, anybody know why Muir was called across to him, had a natter and then went to the tunnel where he appeared to hand something to a yellow jacketed official?

[greenlex]

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Speaking of East Stand lino's, anybody know why Muir was called across to him, had a natter and then went to the tunnel where he appeared to hand something to a yellow jacketed official?

He was handing in the bottle that had finally been found. Hearts lost it in the Scottish Cup replay last year.

[ACLeith]

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He was handing in the bottle that had finally been found. Hearts lost it in the Scottish Cup replay last year.

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[Jonnyboy]

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He was handing in the bottle that had finally been found. Hearts lost it in the Scottish Cup replay last year.

[Hibbyradge]

Some idiot threw something onto the pitch, according to Hibs TV.

[Scouse Hibee]

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Speaking of East Stand lino's, anybody know why Muir was called across to him, had a natter and then went to the tunnel where he appeared to hand something to a yellow jacketed official?

Thrown by some erse after we scored

[Ergye]

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Some idiot threw something onto the pitch, according to Hibs TV.

It was actually I that threw on the old suicide note that I'd kept from watching Jim Duffy's team in the very season before the one we are discussing here, with a specific message to the ref to give to the Morton fans - 'DON'T GIVE UP. IT GET'S BETTER'.

[IWasThere2016]

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I had someone on my Facebook, a Hibby, remind me that Hibs' attendances during the successful 98/99 promotion season were regularly over 15000.

The power of a winning team, he pointed out.

Except, he's wrong.

In fact, today's crowd was only 300 less than our highest attendance that season, a crunch game against Falkirk towards the end of the season. We never reached 15000.

I have no doubts, that if we continue to win games, we'll regularly see crowds exceeding 16k. We already have.

The new East is paying dividends and it can't be long till it's paid for itself.

In what way is it likely to pay for itself??

[mca]

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He was handing in the bottle that had finally been found. Hearts lost it in the Scottish Cup replay last year.

Hope We Dont Give It Back For a While !!!!

[Jumbo]

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Speaking of East Stand lino's, anybody know why Muir was called across to him, had a natter and then went to the tunnel where he appeared to hand something to a yellow jacketed official?

it was an apple thrown just after goal, also one just missed SJM when he took a corner a couple of minutes earlier. Don't know if they'd come from outside ground as there were a few on street outside FF at full time ??

[Hibbyradge]

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Hope We Dont Give It Back For a While !!!!

[Hibbyradge]

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it was an apple thrown just after goal, also one just missed SJM when he took a corner a couple of minutes earlier. Don't know if they'd come from outside ground as there were a few on street outside FF at full time ??

The Hibs TV guys thought the ref had taken a note of the incident. We could be doing without that.

[Ringothedog]

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it was an apple thrown just after goal, also one just missed SJM when he took a corner a couple of minutes earlier. Don't know if they'd come from outside ground as there were a few on street outside FF at full time ??

A group of young arrogant Muppets right in the corner,barely watched the game threw the apples and were told in no uncertain terms what would happen to them if they did it again.

[lord bunberry]

One of the apples nearly hit me. They must've picked them on the way to the game as they were tiny wee things.

[Pretty Boy]

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The Hibs TV guys thought the ref had taken a note of the incident. We could be doing without that.

It was the linesman that noticed it because it just missed hitting him. He called the ref over after we scored, pointed it out to him and he took a note of it then kicked it off the park. It will definitely be in his report.

Exactly what we don't need right now and you wonder what goes through some folks head. Complete muppets.