Did anyone hear sportsound yesterday. It involved the 2 mentioned. They got on to talking about attendances. AP then pipes up saying HMFC are a bigger team than The Dons. RG said really what European cups have HMFC won. AP then said you can't even play for that trophy now & anyway our average support is more than yours. I then looked up footie stats website for EPL. According to it West Ham have a higher average attendance than Liverpool this season. LFC are one of the most successful clubs in England and WHFC can't lace their boots. We know AP is a twat, but who was right here. I side with the dons as they have been more successful in there history. What's others thoughts on this.
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08-01-2017 06:41 PM #1@hibs.net private member
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Alan Preston v Richard Gordon NHC
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08-01-2017 06:44 PM #2@hibs.net private member
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2 bald men fighting over a comb really.
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08-01-2017 06:45 PM #3Coaching Staff
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West Ham have won a World Cup though! :-)
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08-01-2017 06:45 PM #4First Team Regular
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Alan Preston...
Hearts....
Who is bigger......
Sounds like the ultimate nightmare game of Pigeon Chess.
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08-01-2017 06:46 PM #5First Team Regular
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When he said "our average attendance " I think he meant rangers 😉
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Even if that squeaky voiced little prick is right he's wrong. The only people who think hearts are a bigger club than Aberdeen are hearts fans.
United we stand here....
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08-01-2017 06:46 PM #7Coaching Staff
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Hibs are bigger than them both.
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08-01-2017 06:52 PM #8Coaching Staff
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I listened to it and I thought Preston was a total embarrassment. Possibly the Hibs attendance the other night has irritated him as it seems to have every other hertz erze I know.
For what it's worth,I guess most fans measure size (when they do at all) in terms of domestic trophies won or when relevant, European trophies. With fan base and average attendances also a factor. So Aberdeen beat Hertz. Hertz and Hibs are of similar size, 4 league trophies each with comparable attendances.
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08-01-2017 06:52 PM #9Coaching Staff
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If they are arguing about what amounts to an opinion, then that would back up what I have always said about how amateurish the Scottish commentators and co-commentators are compared to their English counterparts. Regardless of what you think about them, you just do not hear Gary Neville, Graeme Le Saux etc etc involving themselves in such moronic discussions.....
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08-01-2017 06:57 PM #10
When whatshisname said Hearts were a bigger team Richard Gordon was literally speechless......said it all.
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He sure was. Think his reply was are you kidding me on.
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Hearts and Aberdeen are very close.
My grandfather who is a Rangers man through and through remembers the Hibs golden era and at the time says Hibs were comfortably seen as the third biggest in Scotland...and potentially the biggest. Sadly, we never really kicked on but when he talks about this era he seems confuzzled on how Hibs failed to capitalise on such a period.
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Id say theres not much between all three all thing considered but the gulf to Celtic and the old Rangers is pathetic so we've not got much to crow about - all three Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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100% what I thought and it's coming through load and clear amongst the yam mob that they are raging about the continued rise of the Hibees and the fall of 'the famous'. AP is a bitter twat who has absolutely nothing to add to the football debate unlike some of the journalists (English, Spiers) and other pundits (Sutton). Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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The yams are absolutely raging and still haven't come to terms with May 21st 2016. I would fear for the yam wellbeing if we ended up retaining the Scottish Cup....or even if we knocked them out AGAIN for the 3rd time in 4 years.
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No they aren't. In the last 50 years (which is longer than Preston has been alive) Hearts have won three major trophies and Aberdeen have won 16, two of which were at European level. If Preston truly believes that then he has plumbed uncharted depths of stupidity. Originally Posted by cleanyman
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He truly believes it. Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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Typical Yam!!
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Who cares about the past FIFTY years Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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Past 20 maybe but fifty?
Come on
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Yams' obsessive interest in trophies has traditionally gone back as far as 1902, so 50 years is not too long a window imo. Originally Posted by cleanyman
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Seriously? What happened more than 20 years ago doesn't matter? Aye right..... Originally Posted by cleanyman
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They are a bigger team though Potter dosnt sign players unless they are over six feet eight. Originally Posted by jabis
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What is the definition of bigness?
Nottm Forest won two European cups? Are they bigger clubs than Arsenal or Chelsea or even Everton for that matter?
Wimbledon won an FA cup. Are they bigger than anyone at all?
Is a big club one with a traditionally large fan base, irrespective of how many trophies they have won? Are Rangers and Celtic really as big as they claim to be, bearing in mind they play in a predominately weak league set up? (Ignoring the fact that their support is drawn from non-geographical base).
If the Scottish clubs had been integrated within a British league set up would anyone here in Scotland even consider referring to any Scottish club as big? Even the halfwits at the other side of town couldn't come out with that nonsense.
So many questions so few answers.
I doubt anyone could come up with a definitive objective, rather than subjective, test.
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10...5...whatever Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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Aberdeen have won what...2 league cups in 25 years? Add a terrible average finish in the league along with attendances that were below both Hibs and Hearts for a period and an incredible winless record at Hampden and I think you have a draw.
No way can anyway say Aberdeen are a bigger club than Hearts...or Hibs for that matter
I'm calling a draw
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Call it what you want - I think you are profoundly wrong but there you are. Opinions......... Originally Posted by cleanyman
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O.....K Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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Two of these three were won with blatant cheating. To me they have only won one trophy in 50 years, but they are a huge club of course and very famous! Originally Posted by HoboHarry
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Aberdeen no matter what anyone thinks. I'm also pretty sure they've never been out of the top league.... The team at the top are no more though
Rank Club League SC LC UCL UEL CWC USC Total Last Trophy 1 Rangers 54 33 27 0 0 1 0 115 2010–11 Scottish Premier League 2 Celtic 47 36 16 1 0 0 0 100 2016–17 Scottish League Cup 3 Aberdeen 4 7 6 0 0 1 1 19 2013–14 Scottish League Cup 4 Heart of Midlothian 4 8 4 0 0 0 0 16 2011–12 Scottish Cup 5 Hibernian 4 3 3 0 0 0 0 10 2015–16 Scottish Cup 5 Queen's Park 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 1892–93 Scottish Cup 
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In their own empty heads maybe........ Originally Posted by inglisavhibs
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Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
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Great.
So Queens Park are the same size as Hibs
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Aberdeen have never won a World War.
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