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[Bayern Bru]

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Wow, 1980/1981 Easter Road was dead.

So was 1984 Easter Road going by this pic (click for bigger)

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Some cracking pics in that gallery

[Argylehibby]

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I’d love to know how they’d come to the decision of who has to play there three times. Imo it should be done by drawing balls out of a hat. It’s an absolute disgrace if Celtic get preferential treatment over the rest of us.

Its based on last seasons league position. Killie and us will have been expected to finish bottom 6 and I would expect be the teams to be back at Ibrox taking the place of the 2 that were top 6 last time but bottom 6 this time.

[Sammy7nil]

There has been a huge increase in the number of girls and women attending games in the past 10 - 15 years. For me that is the main reason for the increase.

[Iggy Pope]

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The owner of that website is a guy called Bobby Sinnet. I think he's a Hibs supporter so maybe he has contacts in the club.

I was sure that attendances were announced in the 70s though.

Bobby is the rather well informed man behind this.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NY1W...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

He knows his onions.

[Hibbyradge]

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Bobby is the rather well informed man behind this.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009NY1W...ng=UTF8&btkr=1

He knows his onions.

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[CropleyWasGod]

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The owner of that website is a guy called Bobby Sinnet. I think he's a Hibs supporter so maybe he has contacts in the club.

I was sure that attendances were announced in the 70s though.

They were.

But my Dad always used to scoff at them. Football was a cash business in those days, so there was plenty scope for understating attendances.



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[JohnMcM]

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We should be guaranteed The Rangers and Celtic at home 👌🏼

Yes.

We should be.

[Wilson]

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There has been a huge increase in the number of girls and women attending games in the past 10 - 15 years. For me that is the main reason for the increase.

Aye, but it's not all bad news.

[ancient hibee]

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They were.

But my Dad always used to scoff at them. Football was a cash business in those days, so there was plenty scope for understating attendances.



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In the old days there was the mythical? turnstile 32 where the bag of takings went straight to the board room for Mr.Swan.

[CropleyWasGod]

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In the old days there was the mythical? turnstile 32 where the bag of takings went straight to the board room for Mr.Swan.

Yup.

He taught Sir Tom and Rod all they know.

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[hibsbollah]

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I did a rough calculation using £15 as the average.

6000 X £15 = 90000 per week. Multiply that by 19 home games gives you £1.71m

That's extra income!

Last season, in the championship remember, our average was about 4000 higher than in 2010. Using the same back of tag packet calculation, the extra income from attendances was £1.14m.

Average ticket price was £17 including students /concs a few years back, you're probably not far off with £15.

[Lago]

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Wow, 1980/1981 Easter Road was dead.

Don't I know it, I was one of the few regulars.

[Sammy7nil]

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Don't I know it, I was one of the few regulars.

Me too, I also went a full season I think under Miller home and away and we failed to win a single game away from home.

[Lago]

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Me too, I also went a full season I think under Miller home and away and we failed to win a single game away from home.

Don't knock it you & I must have some real street cred based on those days.

[Hibbyradge]

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Me too, I also went a full season I think under Miller home and away and we failed to win a single game away from home.

Didn't we eventually win at Raith Rovers?

[Jack Hackett]

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Wow, 1980/1981 Easter Road was dead.

There's a piccy story in the Scotsman of how Easter Road developed from that period. Some of the crowds are massive, some pretty sparse. There's one image the caption says is from a derby in May '66 which looks to have a crowd of about 3 or 4k, but the opposition are playing in all white, so I have my doubts

https://www.scotsman.com/image-galle...14/img14691967

[Jack Hackett]

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So was 1984 Easter Road going by this pic (click for bigger)

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Some cracking pics in that gallery

Didn't see page 2 before I posted a link... Forgive me, I'm old

[Sammy7nil]

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Didn't we eventually win at Raith Rovers?

Maybe my memory has gone but if we did it was the last or second d last game of the season.
Happy days

[wookie70]

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Wow, 1980/1981 Easter Road was dead.

That was my first year going to home games on my own aged 12/13. Traveled to with my uncle and I don't think I missed a league game home or away that year.

[wookie70]

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Average ticket price was £17 including students /concs a few years back, you're probably not far off with £15.

I suspect as the average gate goes up so will the average ticket price as the £25 kids FF seasons will not effect the average price as greatly.

[Hibbyradge]

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I suspect as the average gate goes up so will the average ticket price as the £25 kids FF seasons will not effect the average price as greatly.

Yes, I thought that too.

We'll be closer to an extra £2m in additional gate receipts in that case.

[Lancs Harp]

As a side to this thread in 1954/55 we averaged 22,825, our highest gate 43,000 but our lowest recorded as 875. Anyone know the story behind the 875 gate, I presume it would be a match rearranged for a midweek afternoon???

[hibsbollah]

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Yes, I thought that too.

We'll be closer to an extra £2m in additional gate receipts in that case.

Leigh Griffiths' wages for 2018/19 covered

[Hibbyradge]

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Leigh Griffiths' wages for 2018/19 covered

[ancient hibee]

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As a side to this thread in 1954/55 we averaged 22,825, our highest gate 43,000 but our lowest recorded as 875. Anyone know the story behind the 875 gate, I presume it would be a match rearranged for a midweek afternoon???

Think it was a midweek,afternoon game against Stirling Albion.

[LaMotta]

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There's a piccy story in the Scotsman of how Easter Road developed from that period. Some of the crowds are massive, some pretty sparse. There's one image the caption says is from a derby in May '66 which looks to have a crowd of about 3 or 4k, but the opposition are playing in all white, so I have my doubts

https://www.scotsman.com/image-galle...14/img14691967

That game was the East of Scotland Shield final, after the season had finished, hence the wee crowd!

[monktonharp]

I remember a game in the mid-eighties, probably Morton when me and my mate took our youngest boys. they were about 10 or 11, and my mate's boy says ;you got any matches Da? what you wantin' matches fur?!!!!! . his reply was, we're buildin' a Bo'nie. they had gathered auld bits of wood around the back of the top East terracing. needed to heat themselves up as there was nae crowd to get a heat amongst. clever lads.

[wallpaperman]

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Don't I know it, I was one of the few regulars.

Yeah me too, I had just turned 11, though had been a regular at homes games for a couple of years with my Dad, 80/81 was the year we went to loads of away games, my Dad no doubt feeling it was a bit safer as there was loads of bother in the years before at Easter Road at certain times.

Although it looks from the stats that home crowds were low, I have vivid recollections of some really big away crowds, no doubt buoyed by winning regularly.

I remember going to Stirling at their old ground, 1st away game of the season I think, after losing at home to Raith the week before, there was a tremendous Hibs support. Peter Cormack scored in a 2-0 win.

Trips to Firs Park to play East Stirling in a dire 1-1 draw, and a trip to Berwick on either New Years Day or the day after when that lad broke his leg after a minute and never played again.

Also big game at Starks Park to play Raith in what I think was Alan Sneddon's debut. Raith were maybe top just above Hibs, and I'm sure there must have been close to 10k there, half Hibs fans, but it was a tame 2-0 defeat and a big Hibs support disappointed.

Even got to the cup game at Ibrox, my Dad had got some tickets for the main stand from someone at his work, so sat quietly amongst the Huns but cheered when Jackie Mac pulled a goal back. Think I got off with it as I was just a young lad, my Dad was probably crapping it.

[Lago]

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Yeah me too, I had just turned 11, though had been a regular at homes games for a couple of years with my Dad, 80/81 was the year we went to loads of away games, my Dad no doubt feeling it was a bit safer as there was loads of bother in the years before at Easter Road at certain times.

Although it looks from the stats that home crowds were low, I have vivid recollections of some really big away crowds, no doubt buoyed by winning regularly.

I remember going to Stirling at their old ground, 1st away game of the season I think, after losing at home to Raith the week before, there was a tremendous Hibs support. Peter Cormack scored in a 2-0 win.

Trips to Firs Park to play East Stirling in a dire 1-1 draw, and a trip to Berwick on either New Years Day or the day after when that lad broke his leg after a minute and never played again.

Also big game at Starks Park to play Raith in what I think was Alan Sneddon's debut. Raith were maybe top just above Hibs, and I'm sure there must have been close to 10k there, half Hibs fans, but it was a tame 2-0 defeat and a big Hibs support disappointed.

Even got to the cup game at Ibrox, my Dad had got some tickets for the main stand from someone at his work, so sat quietly amongst the Huns but cheered when Jackie Mac pulled a goal back. Think I got off with it as I was just a young lad, my Dad was probably crapping it.

Ah yes those were the days

[weecounty hibby]

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Yeah me too, I had just turned 11, though had been a regular at homes games for a couple of years with my Dad, 80/81 was the year we went to loads of away games, my Dad no doubt feeling it was a bit safer as there was loads of bother in the years before at Easter Road at certain times.

Although it looks from the stats that home crowds were low, I have vivid recollections of some really big away crowds, no doubt buoyed by winning regularly.

I remember going to Stirling at their old ground, 1st away game of the season I think, after losing at home to Raith the week before, there was a tremendous Hibs support. Peter Cormack scored in a 2-0 win.

Trips to Firs Park to play East Stirling in a dire 1-1 draw, and a trip to Berwick on either New Years Day or the day after when that lad broke his leg after a minute and never played again.

Also big game at Starks Park to play Raith in what I think was Alan Sneddon's debut. Raith were maybe top just above Hibs, and I'm sure there must have been close to 10k there, half Hibs fans, but it was a tame 2-0 defeat and a big Hibs support disappointed.

Even got to the cup game at Ibrox, my Dad had got some tickets for the main stand from someone at his work, so sat quietly amongst the Huns but cheered when Jackie Mac pulled a goal back. Think I got off with it as I was just a young lad, my Dad was probably crapping it.

Although 73 was my first game as a 4 year old and I attended a few games each year, the season before that was when I started going regularly home and away. The game at Firs Park was the game the linesman was hit on the head by a beer can thrown from the Hibs end. The Raith game was ASs debut and I think, without checking, he gave away a pen and may have scored an OG? Those were tough times to be a Hibby, especially coming from a town like Alloa where it's 60% hun, 35% tic, 5% others. Made is tough though and makes days like 210516 even sweeter. This is surely up there with late40s/50s and early 70s as one of the best times to be a Hibby. Long may it continue and unlike those periods we need to sustain this and build for the future