The WONDERFUL Hibs Support

[machibby]

Average crowd at ER sitting at over 18 thousand...quite incredible!

[1van Sprou7e]

Anyone got any decent videos from the game?

Some of the chants from the home end were brilliant

[Booked4Being-Ugly]

Anyone got a photo of the flag in the east stand at half time?

Looked a cracker but unfortunately I was right behind it and couldn’t see it properly.

[Islington Hibs]

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Indeed ... It was after the 2012 cup final ( where by the way our fans had the upper hand until it all fell apart, they buggers were sitting on their hands until they knew they were going to win ) that folk started to recognise we needed to galvanize a different approach from our fans. Just a few months later the club that had supposedly died took 4,000 to Kilmarnock for a quarter final and generated a terrific atmosphere.

A year later we produced one of the best responses ever seen from fans of a defeated club in a Scottish cup final ... it genuinely made the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

We took a wee backward step after being relegated, but once more we showed what we can do as for the last 5 minutes the whole crowd stood and cheered and clapped the team as it became clear our total domination of that 2nd leg against the Zombies just wasn't going to be enough.

Then came the 2016 cup final where the backing the team got at 2 - 1 down was enough to make our chairman greet' talking about it a few months later ..... What happened at full time may have its detractors, but I'll bet dollars to donuts there's tons of fans out there wishing it had been them .. especially fans of a club not a million miles away.

We still have work to do and there's no doubt the FF singing section has experienced some growing pains .... but last Tuesday night showed what can be achieved. As it has been for the last 3 derbies at ER the whole place was rocking with all 3 home stands joining in, but the display added another dimension to the whole thing .... ER is never going to be like that for every game, but it gets better all the time.

With our renditions of SOL widely admired by neutral fans as being right up there with the very best and ER showing time and again that it is far from the soulless stadium Yams would love folk to believe our fans can hold their heads up in any company ...... If the Yams are our competition then we are currently miles in front and they bloody well know it.

PLEASING !!! ..... as they say

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The change of atmosphere has been astonishing. Easter Road has gone from being, too often, a negative get on their backs place, to a very positive experience, when even when we go a goal down the crowd gets behind the team. Nae Nookie is right that the change started to happen before our cup win but by has winning that cup it totally transformed the place. Notwithstanding the fact we actually have a decent team that can play football (and that certainly has not always been the case) but the positive vibe seems to make players actually enjoy playing for us. In my 40 odd years of supporting the team this is easily the most rewarding time to support the club.