Home game v Sevco 13 Dec

[erin go bragh]

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the polis wont keep the away fans behind after the game so with both sets of fans leaving the one end at the same time without segregation will be a no no.
as good as giving them reduced tickets & us the other half of the away end sounds it will never happen

Hibs fans will exit through the East I would think .

[MyJo]

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If we give them the full stand then a lot of our female and younger season ticket holders will stay away
if we give them up a pittance we can fill the rest of the stadium if we are going well

Given the game is at 7.45pm on a wednesday night in the middle of december with category A pricing i can't imagine there being a huge tournout from families and kids who aren't season ticket holders anyway.

In an ideal world you would want as few of them in the stadium as possible but the reality is that giving them the full stand generates around £70k - £80k in income that we would be unlikely to make up any shortfall from with ticket sales to Hibs fans, especially given we would need to leave a good number of the seats completely empty to accomodate sharing the stand.

Having them isolated in thier own stand is safer for Hibs fans, much harder to launch, coins and smuggled buckie bottles across to the east stand than it would be from one side of the south to the other etc. and also makes segregation and keeping them away from us post-match much easier for police.

[Hermit Crab]

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the polis wont keep the away fans behind after the game so with both sets of fans leaving the one end at the same time without segregation will be a no no.
as good as giving them reduced tickets & us the other half of the away end sounds it will never happen

You know that stand can be separated inside and the Hibs fans can leave via the East Stand by going behind it and the Rangers fans leave via the normal route out over the bridge of doom.

[BullsCloseHibs]

I think they'll be in for some real special dogs abuse on their way to the Holy Ground.
We friken own them now.

[Hermit Crab]

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Given the game is at 7.45pm on a wednesday night in the middle of december with category A pricing i can't imagine there being a huge tournout from families and kids who aren't season ticket holders anyway.

In an ideal world you would want as few of them in the stadium as possible but the reality is that giving them the full stand generates around £70k - £80k in income that we would be unlikely to make up any shortfall from with ticket sales to Hibs fans, especially given we would need to leave a good number of the seats completely empty to accomodate sharing the stand.

Having them isolated in thier own stand is safer for Hibs fans, much harder to launch, coins and smuggled buckie bottles across to the east stand than it would be from one side of the south to the other etc. and also makes segregation and keeping them away from us post-match much easier for police.

If they are subjected to the same search procedures that we were yesterday theres no way they will get a buckie bottle into the ground.

[bod]

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Hibs fans eill exit through the East I would think .

I didn't know you could transfer between them, from where I sit I just see a big white advertising hording

[Keith_M]

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Give them half a the stand like we done for the play off game a couple of seasons ago, don't deserve full allocation

Give them two sections in both Upper and Lower South Stand, 1,600 tickets. Leave 800 empty between both sets of fans and give the rest (~1,500) to Home Fans.

I'm sure we'll be able to sell 17.5k, especially as we'll be well clear at the top of the league by then

[NAE NOOKIE]

If Hibs sell tickets well in advance, as we appear to be doing for league matches this season, the time of year might not be such a factor. Get them on sale from the middle of November.

I agree that segregation of the south stand would lead to a reduced capacity by a few hundred and lose us a few quid, but it might be worth doing to make a point. Our ticket allocation for Ibrox is woeful .... to be allocated less than 1000 in a stadium that holds 50,000 is pathetic. We haven't often had the opportunity to show our displeasure at that state of affairs in the last few decades and IMO we should grab the chance when we can.

The Hibs fans at the eastern end of the south can easily be funnelled out round the back of the east after the game and the south can be segregated inside too. The police might not be happy about Hibs and Sevco fans sharing the same stand, but the upside for them would be that rather than having 4,000 knuckle draggers to keep an eye on they would have less than 2,000.

IMO this is something we should actively be looking at.

[hibee-boys]

I would imagine the club have budgeted for 4 old firm visits so can't see the club cutting their allocation. Just can't see us selling out the 3 stands and half the south against them on a wednesday night in December.

[Hibernia&Alba]

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They give us 2% of the total Stadium. If we did the same all they should get is 400.

This would be my suggestion. 400 tickets is the same percentage by capacity; that's fair.

[Lancs Harp]

Sharing an end shouldnt be an issue. It wasnt with Hearts and the OF last season at Tynecastle, why should it be different for us?

[darwenhibby]

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I would imagine the club have budgeted for 4 old firm visits so can't see the club cutting their allocation. Just can't see us selling out the 3 stands and half the south against them on a wednesday night in December.

Hear what your saying but has the club budgeted for 17 600 v Partick and probably the same v accies Motherwell s the
It might just compensates few hundred empty seats v Huns

[Hermit Crab]

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If Hibs sell tickets well in advance, as we appear to be doing for league matches this season, the time of year might not be such a factor. Get them on sale from the middle of November.

I agree that segregation of the south stand would lead to a reduced capacity by a few hundred and lose us a few quid, but it might be worth doing to make a point. Our ticket allocation for Ibrox is woeful .... to be allocated less than 1000 in a stadium that holds 50,000 is pathetic. We haven't often had the opportunity to show our displeasure at that state of affairs in the last few decades and IMO we should grab the chance when we can.

The Hibs fans at the eastern end of the south can easily be funnelled out round the back of the east after the game and the south can be segregated inside too. The police might not be happy about Hibs and Sevco fans sharing the same stand, but the upside for them would be that rather than having 4,000 knuckle draggers to keep an eye on they would have less than 2,000.

IMO this is something we should actively be looking at.

We got over 1000 yesterday.

[Hermit Crab]

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Sharing an end shouldnt be an issue. It wasnt with Hearts and the OF last season at Tynecastle, why should it be different for us?

Tynecaslte is slightly better set up for sharing the stand. There are roller shutters underneath the roseburn stand. I'm not sure if the South stand has these, perhaps someone who was in that stand at the Partick game can confirm?

[Billy Whizz]

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the polis wont keep the away fans behind after the game so with both sets of fans leaving the one end at the same time without segregation will be a no no.
as good as giving them reduced tickets & us the other half of the away end sounds it will never happen

What did they do at Tynie last season?
Rangers and Celtic only got 2 blocks

[dougieflett]

I can remember going into the stadium the day after a huns game and they had ripped some seats out in the Dunbar end.. The less of them the better.

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[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Given that the institutional conspiracy against the Rangers will still be in place by then, surely we should offer them the option to officially swerve this one then make it home fans only?

[NAE NOOKIE]

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We got over 1000 yesterday.

I read 900, though the support on TV did look bigger than that ........... whatever the case as a percentage we get miles less than we give them.

[chinaman]

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This would be my suggestion. 400 tickets is the same percentage by capacity; that's fair.

This.
And not a single bigot more, it's time this **** learnt respect for decent fans

[Johnny Clash]

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the polis wont keep the away fans behind after the game so with both sets of fans leaving the one end at the same time without segregation will be a no no.
as good as giving them reduced tickets & us the other half of the away end sounds it will never happen

I thought the Dunbar end could be sub-divided ? So that the Hibs half would leave by walking around past the East ?

[hibee_girl]

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I thought the Dunbar end could be sub-divided ? So that the Hibs half would leave by walking around past the East ?

It can be.

When the East was getting rebuilt we were in the South stand with Rangers fans so it can be done.

[Leith Green]

Please Please Please... lets give them minimum allocation, no more than 1500 tickets and have Hibs fans in the other half.

[Nakedmanoncrack]

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I thought the Dunbar end could be sub-divided ? So that the Hibs half would leave by walking around past the East ?

It can, and has been done, why do people make things up to complicate something very simple? If we can sell the tickets of course we should limit the Sevco allocation.

[Arch Stanton]

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It can be.

When the East was getting rebuilt we were in the South stand with Rangers fans so it can be done.

God, I remember that well - even the sound of them from the lower half was pretty scary. I can't remenber what the exit procedure was but I'm sure it wasn't via the East exit (held back perhaps?).

I'm also pretty sure that we wouldn't fill half a stand without there being walk-ups, which would surely not be allowed.

Anyway, the game will be played on the pitch and the team managed to cope with 40k baying huns so I really don't see what everyone's problem is. Whatever, it will be a great atmosphere.

[givescotlandfreedom]

Could Hibs fans get the half of the South Stand closest to the West and the Sevconians can be kept until it's clear like happens to us at Ibrox.

[Bostonhibby]

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If Hibs sell tickets well in advance, as we appear to be doing for league matches this season, the time of year might not be such a factor. Get them on sale from the middle of November.

I agree that segregation of the south stand would lead to a reduced capacity by a few hundred and lose us a few quid, but it might be worth doing to make a point. Our ticket allocation for Ibrox is woeful .... to be allocated less than 1000 in a stadium that holds 50,000 is pathetic. We haven't often had the opportunity to show our displeasure at that state of affairs in the last few decades and IMO we should grab the chance when we can.

The Hibs fans at the eastern end of the south can easily be funnelled out round the back of the east after the game and the south can be segregated inside too. The police might not be happy about Hibs and Sevco fans sharing the same stand, but the upside for them would be that rather than having 4,000 knuckle draggers to keep an eye on they would have less than 2,000.

IMO this is something we should actively be looking at.

Wonder if this is one for the Fans reps to get a view from the club on?

Certainly something that would send the right message, not suggesting we should subject the huns to spitting, money being thrown at them and sectarian bile as we are better than that but I do think there's something to be said for giving them the same proportion as they give us and if they don't like it they can always issue a statement.

[Jones28]

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Could Hibs fans get the half of the South Stand closest to the West and the Sevconians can be kept until it's clear like happens to us at Ibrox.

No becuase you can't segregate effectively this way.

[MartinfaePorty]

Prior to this season I would have been firmly in the no camp, but I think, depending on how demand is looking from our end (if we're still doing well), then I'm all for reducing their allocation, in the same way as Hearts. Would be a bit embarrassing if we did this and didn't get close to selling out our South Stand allocation, though, so would need to be announced in advance and well promoted by all.

[majorhibs]

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Even though the game is a Wednesday night and will undoubtedly be live on tv and being so close to Xmas?

You have a big problem.

[Hermit Crab]

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You have a big problem.

No, I think you do but if you think I do why don't you enlighten me?