Hibernian statement on away supporters

[truehibernian]

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Who cares. This about our club and our ground. We know what they think about Hibs and how little they of Hibs. Let them carry on. Next season is the start of something new for us and this move by Hibs can only be a good thing. We've adapted, changed and evolved as an institution and that is as ongoing process. If they want to stick their heads in a little 16x90 hole in the sand that is nothing to do with us. The difference between how Hibs fans showed respect to Walter Smith and how they behaved when Ron Gordon died tells you everything you want to know about how they are collectively. The chances of them actually progressing as a support are zilch and they will carry on with what they see as their "tradition".
We'll just have less of them doing so in ER.

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I care about the bigger picture and other clubs and the media following this excellent stance by Hibs - enough is enough but we need the combined support of other clubs to galvanise a movement to eradicate this filth from not only football but in society. I absolutely support the Club here, but I’ll wager it’ll be tomorrow’s chip paper because our biased media won’t entertain the idea that there’s a problem. For once, every single weekend, I want a pundit calling it out - they won’t as they’re scared of them. Steve Clarke called it out, never heard anything after it - says it all.

[Kato]

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I care about the bigger picture and other clubs and the media following this excellent stance by Hibs - enough is enough but we need the combined support of other clubs to galvanise a movement to eradicate this filth from not only football but in society. I absolutely support the Club here, but I’ll wager it’ll be tomorrow’s chip paper because our biased media won’t entertain the idea that there’s a problem. For once, every single weekend, I want a pundit calling it out - they won’t as they’re scared of them. Steve Clarke called it out, never heard anything after it - says it all.

Totally agree. But the only statement that will cut any ice with the Scottish football media will have to made on the pitch. So hopefully we make inroads next season.

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[ErinGoBraghHFC]

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Just call them Huns not vermin, hate this term, no place, no need

If they get to call me a taig, tarrier, pape, beggar, pauper et al without any repercussions then I’m perfectly comfortable with them being called vermin.


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[Forza Fred]

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On Sunday we were missing 5,000 Hibs fans. Whilst many had other reasons for not attending there will be absolutely no doubt in the mind of Ben and Ian that some fans simply will not go to a game against them.

We all know of lassies and family groups who don't go because of the poisonous atmosphere their hordes create. The loss of that ticket income isn't so much of a direct result of who Hibs are playing but the baying mob and the bile they spout. As others have said the policing and stewarding costs are high.

I'd imagine that reducing their allocation would actually result in an increase in home tickets sold and a reduced police presence.

A Win Win if you ask me!!

Dunno about reduced police presence.

Both the Uglies social media sites have been quite open about the number of their fans who travel without a ticket and ‘rush’ the turnstiles at Easter Road to gain entry.

No doubt that is going to increase substantially unless the polis police it better than they currently do.

[neil7908]

Overall a really professional statement and delighted the club is taking action - I'll admit I didn't think it was going to happen.

We've acknowledged the issues with our own support and not got into a mud slinging match by naming clubs directly.

Despite my frustration with the result on Sunday, I'm really pleased with the direction the club is heading in.

[Greensunshine]

This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

[Greensunshine]

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Overall a really professional statement and delighted the club is taking action - I'll admit I didn't think it was going to happen.

We've acknowledged the issues with our own support and not got into a mud slinging match by naming clubs directly.

Despite my frustration with the result on Sunday, I'm really pleased with the direction the club is heading in.

What direction would that be? An empty stadium? So the Rangers fans sung a
Empty seats all over the shop and w’re taking the moral high ground when our own supporters behaved like animals recently at Tynecastle.

There must be a better way to tackle this.

[Vault Boy]

Excellent start. Silence is complicity. Well done Hibs.

[Hermit Crab]

Can’t fault the board here, finally grown a pair. For years we’ve been **** scared to upset the huns. Those days are gone.

[Forza Fred]

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This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

You are entitled to your opinion, but I’m not sure how having 10’000 people spouting sectarian abuse adds to the attractiveness of a football fixture.

My opinion..a good move and fully supportive of the statement.

[silverhibee]

Have the huns released a statement yet.

[shamo9]

Good statement. I'm happy to pay extra if it helps Hibs afford to keep out the majority of Celtic and Rangers fans. Stick them in the upper tier and be done with it.

[scm70nyd1973]

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As a club this is a very good statement but sadly cutting away supporters costs us money. If we reduced both the Old Firm it’s going to cost us 000’s of thousands of pounds. Sadly we don’t have enough Hibs fans wiling or can afford to attend games to make up the short fall. Rather than ban fans Police Scotland should take action against the ring leaders

To be fair - I think it’s all about the reversal of losing HIBS fans attending than than gaining them. After Sunday my daughter said she’s had enough and will not attend a HIBS v Old Firm game again until HIBS do something about them.

[BILLYHIBS]

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This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

Strongly disagree with almost all of this apart from the part about new changes and VAR killing our game

Sick to the back teeth of decades of racist sectarian abuse, singing songs of hatred and displaying antisocial and unsporting behaviour

Even worse at Ibrox with no protection from Police Glasgow and danger to life thrown in

Remember their treatment of Boyle’s injury and our tribute to our late Chairman

Restrict the Uglies to the bare minimum and watch them try to squeeze 4000 into 500 seats

Good times are just around the corner

Better quality is incoming and Hibs will mount more of a challenge

The fans will return families will return and the TV Companies will be queuing up

Let’s fill the Stadium with Hibbies and cheer the boys on

Good to see the club finally making a stand long overdue imho

[flash]

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What direction would that be? An empty stadium? So the Rangers fans sung a
Empty seats all over the shop and w’re taking the moral high ground when our own supporters behaved like animals recently at Tynecastle.

There must be a better way to tackle this.

You are at it. Have suspected for a while but this confirms it.

[green day]

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What direction would that be? An empty stadium? So the Rangers fans sung a
Empty seats all over the shop and w’re taking the moral high ground when our own supporters behaved like animals recently at Tynecastle.

There must be a better way to tackle this.

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This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

You are very much in the minority - I can only assume you dont actually attend Easter Road to watch football, because anyone who does understands that this is absolutely the right move.

[scm70nyd1973]

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You are very much in the minority - I can only assume you dont actually attend Easter Road to watch football, because anyone who does understands that this is absolutely the right move.

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[Heisenberg]

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What direction would that be? An empty stadium? So the Rangers fans sung a
Empty seats all over the shop and w’re taking the moral high ground when our own supporters behaved like animals recently at Tynecastle.

There must be a better way to tackle this.

The club have acknowledged our own fans behaviour recently and will take the appropriate action to sort it. What have the Huns done? They won’t even comment on the sectarian abuse or songs because they fully support that behaviour. **** of the highest order.

[KeithTheHibby]

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Have the huns released a statement yet.

What could it even say? I know these ***** have the biggest brass necks around however how can they complain?
The chat from the AGM mentioned that this was on the cards. They took no notice and continue the bile and disgraceful singing at the next opportunity. They need to look at themselves before playing the victim card.

[GreenCastle]

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This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

Football is nothing without fans ?

The irony of a statement as many Huns and Tic fans are glory hunters and don’t even support their local community team.

Hun fans raging as even though they aren’t named they know they are guilty and less of them will be there at the next game.

Then what happens next..disrespect Hibs and allocation cut again until full stadium ban which wouldn’t bother me one bit.

[DunblaneHibby]

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You are very much in the minority - I can only assume you dont actually attend Easter Road to watch football, because anyone who does understands that this is absolutely the right move.

Absolutely

[JimBHibees]

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You are very much in the minority - I can only assume you dont actually attend Easter Road to watch football, because anyone who does understands that this is absolutely the right move.

Absolutely

[MrSmith]

Just remember, Scottish football flourished when the the the huns were banished! It has gotten much worse since they returned. Nice one Hibs ��

[Aldo]

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This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

I cannot fathom out if you are trolling or being serious.

Sectarianism is a blight on our society and is socially accepted by the Scottish Government, Police Scotland and the majority of Scottish media outlets. Never mentioned by anyone until the tabloid rags trolled .net and printed it. Why not print it along with the match report. No so there lies the issue.

You comments confirm that you are happy with their bile song book and behaviour every time they come to ER. I think you might be the only one I am aware of that’s happy to sit and listen to it. Tbh I would have cut their allocation after their disgusting Ron Gordon behaviour but Heay it’s done now.

Who cares about a couple of quid I’d rather we didn’t have to listen to that pish!

[Tha Cabbage Kid]

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This is a bad move by the club.

All it does is make the game much less of a spectacle.

It could mean less T.V money

Less fans in the stadium equals less revenue

Football is nothing without fans.

The game is dying a death already because of all the new changes and VAR.

We already have enough empty seats. Ridiculous decision!

I think once we have done some housekeeping and clean the mess the old fim make, we will become a better product.

[Trinity Hibee]

Great news. Remember Rangers are actually the ones who started all of this by cutting Celtics allocation because they kept getting beat at ibrox. At least we’ve cut it for non sporting reasons

[CentreLine]

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Celtc are just as bad

Agreed but in a different way. I may be off the pace here but I cannot think of any sectarian songs that Celtic fans sing at ER. Their offensive material is more about celebrating terrorism and narrow minded support in Middle East affairs. Equally offensive in the way it is weaponised but is it sectarian?

Maybe the occasional mention of a piece of fruit?? To be fair that fruity organisation is wholly rooted in sectarianism and perhaps should be called out but none of that has any place in an entertainment sport arena.

What I have always found is that the general behaviour of Celtic, in and around the stadium, is worse than that of the the rangers fans. In the meantime the hate filled focus of rangers fans on their religiously based suprematism is their offence

The dilemma is that nobody is prepared to single out one side of the two cheeks for fear of offending the other. It would have been interesting if Hibs had called out the rangers side more strongly than the other cheek and sanction accordingly.

Interesting times ahead, I feel, because one side will amend their behaviour more quickly than the other. When that happens we should reward whichever that side is with more generous seating allocation. That, in turn, will be interpreted as taking sides. We have avoided that for the present but it remains on the horizon.

[Brizo]

Well done to Hibs for having the courage to do something that the SFA, other clubs, media, politicians and police are unwilling or too frightened to address.

For those that say Hibs should have been more specific about The Rangers, i think Hibs have played it perfectly, acknowledging our own supporters shortcomings and including sectarianism among a list of other unacceptable behaviour. The timing of the statement on the back of Sundays game leaves no one in any doubt what the catalyst for its issue has been.

I suspect that on the back of the disgusting behaviour directed towards the late Ron Gordons commemoration last season, our owners have been watching and listening to The Rangers fans behaviour and that the equally disgusting chants as Martin Boyle was being stretchered off on Sunday have been the final straw.

It's the strongest condemnation from the club in my nearly 60 years of following Hibs and interesting that it's taken American owners to speak out about a Scottish problemm.

[hibsbollah]

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Agreed but in a different way. I may be off the pace here but I cannot think of any sectarian songs that Celtic fans sing at ER. Their offensive material is more about celebrating terrorism and narrow minded support in Middle East affairs. Equally offensive in the way it is weaponised but is it sectarian?

Maybe the occasional mention of a piece of fruit?? To be fair that fruity organisation is wholly rooted in sectarianism and perhaps should be called out but none of that has any place in an entertainment sport arena.

What I have always found is that the general behaviour of Celtic, in and around the stadium, is worse than that of the the rangers fans. In the meantime the hate filled focus of rangers fans on their religiously based suprematism is their offence

The dilemma is that nobody is prepared to single out one side of the two cheeks for fear of offending the other. It would have been interesting if Hibs had called out the rangers side more strongly than the other cheek and sanction accordingly.

Interesting times ahead, I feel, because one side will amend their behaviour more quickly than the other. When that happens we should reward whichever that side is with more generous seating allocation. That, in turn, will be interpreted as taking sides. We have avoided that for the present but it remains on the horizon.

So flying a Palestinian flag (like block 7 did on Sunday) in solidarity with a people who are being you know, wiped from the face of the earth is just as bad as singing about killing catholics? Interesting take.

You also seem to be over concerned about how we are perceived in relation to the old firm divide. Im not interested in the old firm divide, or whether we prefer celtic to rangers or if we’re the edinburgh ‘tic or any of that weegie chat. It’s irrelevant to me. If by calling out rangers behaviour that makes them think we are just pandering to celtic, fine. They would probably think that anyway, who cares? This is about us.

[Steve20]

Fair enough if the stadium gets filled and we don’t miss out on any money.

But I struggle to believe there’s a few thousand that don’t turn up just because the Old Firm sing songs that are offensive.