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billbee
18-01-2011, 02:32 PM
Whats been your most rememered Hibs game for pure excitement - not the 6-2 or 0-7 but the most exciting - Barcelona (cup game)? pretty good Willie Wilson against St Mirren when he was injured, Cormack went in goals and the Willie went on the wing? great when Peter saved a brill shot!
For me it was Dunfermline v Hibs, typical Hibs went 5-2 up, Dunfermile leveled to 5-5 then Jim Scott scored in the last minute 5-6 to Hibs.
Ah well anything to take us away from our current depressions, I see the hibs shop started selling Prozac!
To all travelling fans tonight lets be heard, as we go matching on !

HibeeMG
18-01-2011, 02:42 PM
It has to be the Athens game.

The atmosphere was the best ever in my time going to ER. 'Sunshine on Leith' at half-time will always live with me. I think it inspired the players for the 2nd half.

If only Paco could've scored the header at the end!!

Joe Baker II
18-01-2011, 02:46 PM
Two all with Hearts New Year 1987 (1st half mainly)

One nil v Rangers in 1991 semi final

3-2 v Dundee United (1991-2)

Some memorable defeats:

1993 league cup final

1988-9 League Cup quarter final (1-2 v Aberdeen)

1988-9 , 0-1 defeat v Celtic at at Parkhead

J-C
18-01-2011, 02:47 PM
It has to be the Athens game.

The atmosphere was the best ever in my time going to ER. 'Sunshine on Leith' at half-time will always live with me. I think it inspired the players for the 2nd half.

If only Paco could've scored the header at the end!!


:thumbsup:

H!BEE
18-01-2011, 02:48 PM
aek athens @ easter road,

the place was truely buzzing, ohhh remember zitellis goal, we sure could do with a david zitelli the now!!!

saying that singing we want 7 in the 6-2 game was pretty awesome!!!! and latapy's

goal, the one two with mixu probly is my favourite goal.:flag::flag::flag::flag::flag::flag:

PeeJay
18-01-2011, 02:52 PM
Tynecastle 1968 Scottish League Cup semi-final against Dundee - Alan McGraw's late winner to clinch us a cup final place - he'd gone off injured and returned with his leg bandaged up (no substitutes allowed in those days) - he showed some real fighting spirit, something currently missing from our team....

:flag:

Famous Fiver
18-01-2011, 02:53 PM
Barcelona 3 - 2
Real Madrid 2 - 0
Napoli 5 - 0
Hearts 3 - 0 (Tynecastle - Sauzee et al)
Rangers 3 - 0 (Scottish Cup at Ibrox)

Throw in the two League Cup wins

Lots more!!!

Wish I had kept the programmes!

strummbo
18-01-2011, 02:58 PM
7-0...

terribly exciting so it was...

as was the 6-2 game...

live with me for evermore

iainm
18-01-2011, 03:08 PM
Midweek 4-4 league cup game against Celtic in the mid eighties. 3-3 after 90 minutes and then we won on penalties. Superb match. These were the days of Gordon Durie and Stevie Cowan up front

I'm sure we beat Celtic 4-3 later that season in the SC? Last minute goal from Eddie May? Another great day!

half.time.draw.
18-01-2011, 03:12 PM
It has to be the Athens game.

The atmosphere was the best ever in my time going to ER. 'Sunshine on Leith' at half-time will always live with me. I think it inspired the players for the 2nd half.

If only Paco could've scored the header at the end!!


Me too, I sat in the Dunbar end above the clowns singing 'OSAMA BIN LADEN'
Then the nutter ran on to the park all the way from the east stand to challenge them to a fight, the atmosphere was the most hostile, but most enjoyable I have ever witnessed.
Pity about that Header:agree:

truehibernian
18-01-2011, 03:16 PM
Hibs v Rangers, the Souness debut 1986.......atmosphere literally crackling, place was a mix of cheering, jeering, hatred and excitement. Beautiful hot day, the East was rammed full, the tackles were fierce, there were goals, the ref lost the plot and Hibs won, and he was sent off in disgrace.......just a fantastic game to watch unfold for a whole host of reasons.

GreenPJ
18-01-2011, 03:23 PM
Not on the same level as some of the others mentioned but the Aberdeen game at Easter Road under Mowbray when we won 2-1 (think it was Boxing day or in between Christmas and New Year anyway). Great goal by Glass to win it and the place was bouncing.

Hibernia Na Eir
18-01-2011, 03:24 PM
has to be the 6-2 demolition derby

then the Athens game (El Classico)

hibee-shtuggie
18-01-2011, 03:27 PM
my two favourite games were under Collins:

3-2 against celtic with boruc making an arse of it and thierry scoring a screamer

Cup replay at easter road in the evening against Aberdeen, think we won it 4-2 with Benji coming on to score two. Mike stewart scored with his shin direct from a corner too!!

AllyF
18-01-2011, 03:28 PM
Hibs vs Rangers at Hampden in the CIS semi-final (we won't mention the final).

Stephen Dobbie :not worth

Colin Murdock :not worth

Frank de Boer :not worth

But most of all, Daniel Andersson :not worth

patlowe
18-01-2011, 03:30 PM
In terms of sheer excitement, you can't do much better than a last minute derby goal so the O'Connor ten-men game has to be up there and the John O'Neill equaliser at Tynie (You'll never beat Sauzee) as well. I think what made them both so special is that we were underdogs in both situations for whatever reason, which made the celebrations all the better!

erin go bragh
18-01-2011, 03:35 PM
Midweek 4-4 league cup game against Celtic in the mid eighties. 3-3 after 90 minutes and then we won on penalties. Superb match. These were the days of Gordon Durie and Stevie Cowan up front

I'm sure we beat Celtic 4-3 later that season in the SC? Last minute goal from Eddie May? Another great day!
Great games mate,the cave was jam packed and bouncing [sure the east was closed/getting the roof put on] when up steps benny brazil to take a pen[he scores were through] but benny being benny he blasted it over the bar ,then pierce o,leary steps up and put it wide ! que bedlam . fin brilliant .:top marksfor pure drama and exitement that one is my pick too:agree:
ggtth

CabbageFan
18-01-2011, 03:49 PM
ATHENS GAME @ ER IS No 1

CIS CUP FINAL vs Killie is No 2

and believe it or not - the last game of the season vs Rangers in 2005 is No3 - when they won the league and we just secured 3rd and it also depended on results from the other games!!

Famous Fiver
18-01-2011, 03:51 PM
I had forgotten about that Hampden semi against Rangers!

Great night. Even got on the telly, there were only 6000 Hibbies there, and we were rattling about a bit in the main stand.

Right up there in the excitement stakes.

H!BEE
18-01-2011, 04:00 PM
lol Colin Murdock < how slow was that man!

bournehibby
18-01-2011, 04:23 PM
Real Madrid 1964 (2-0)
Rangers 1965 (2-1)
Napoli 1967 (5-0)

:greengrin bh

HUTCHYHIBBY
18-01-2011, 04:44 PM
I'm sure we beat Celtic 4-3 later that season in the SC? Last minute goal from Eddie May? Another great day!

This one for me, also the 1st 2 away games of the season M Weir left for Luton - 4-3 v The Pars and 3-3 v Morton IIRC. Though the 1st game mightve been 3-3 too!

HFC 0-7
18-01-2011, 04:48 PM
Barcelona 3 - 2
Real Madrid 2 - 0
Napoli 5 - 0
Hearts 3 - 0 (Tynecastle - Sauzee et al)
Rangers 3 - 0 (Scottish Cup at Ibrox)

Throw in the two League Cup wins

Lots more!!!

Wish I had kept the programmes!

I hate it when all these old farts bring up the Barca, real Madrid and the Napoli result. :wink: Its the only time I wish I was older than I am!

Hibstrooper
18-01-2011, 05:02 PM
Have very fond memories of the 1-0 against the Huns at ER in the 00/01 season where Zitelli scored.

I think that result really made people sit up and notice what a team we actually had.

Shame we had our usual post Christmas slump as that was a special team that could have really challenged.

Simon70
18-01-2011, 05:07 PM
Hibs vs Rangers at Hampden in the CIS semi-final (we won't mention the final).

Stephen Dobbie :not worth

Colin Murdock :not worth

Frank de Boer :not worth

But most of all, Daniel Andersson :not worth

:agree:

happiehibbie
18-01-2011, 05:08 PM
dead Simple Hibs V leeds

Fantastic

bournehibby
18-01-2011, 05:10 PM
I hate it when all these old farts bring up the Barca, real Madrid and the Napoli result. :wink: Its the only time I wish I was older than I am!

:greengrin bh

Hibiza
18-01-2011, 05:11 PM
league cup quarter final, beat smeltic with a gordon chisholm header, :flag:

Killiehibbie
18-01-2011, 05:14 PM
1985 League Cup Semi 2nd leg at ibrox. One of the few games I left totally exhausted.

Diclonius
18-01-2011, 05:15 PM
6-6.

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18-01-2011, 05:16 PM
I agree with the OP. The 6-5 win against Dunfermline has to be the one.

Though the first Drybrough Cup win against Celtic (3-1 up, pulled back to 3-3, then winning it with 2 goals in ET) comes very close.

i also remember a lunatic afternoon at Pittodrie - we were NOT playing well at the time - when Eric Stevenson went daft and scored 4 in a 6-2 win. Totally unexpected and a right royal stuffing for the Dons, who were managed at the time by one Eddie Turnbull.....

And the League Cup semi-final in late November 1972 - part excitement, part sheer terror. We'd lost to them 2-1 at home in the League the previous game, and then had to play them at Hampden, winning 1-0 (deservedly) - but it was a great deal too close for comfort. Rarely been so relieved to hear the final whistle. Not dissimilar to the semi at Tynie in 2007 against St Johnstone. Exciting, yes, in a thoroughly bowel-loosening sense of the word.

All in the late 60's or early '70's, I'm afraid.

yekimevol
18-01-2011, 05:24 PM
under mogga i remember a 4-2 game against killie.

half time we were down two nil.

then we went on to win 4-2 :D
great day :)

swazzie
18-01-2011, 05:28 PM
4-3 Scottish Cup qf for me v Celtic in 85/6. 3-2 down with 10 mins to go before Chopper Harris and Eddie May scored late on. Still my favourite Hibs game ever

Speedy
18-01-2011, 05:30 PM
It has to be the Athens game.

The atmosphere was the best ever in my time going to ER. 'Sunshine on Leith' at half-time will always live with me. I think it inspired the players for the 2nd half.

If only Paco could've scored the header at the end!!

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3-2 against celtic with boruc making an arse of it and thierry scoring a screamer

Cup replay at easter road in the evening against Aberdeen, think we won it 4-2 with Benji coming on to score two. Mike stewart scored with his shin direct from a corner too!!

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Jim_in_Canada
18-01-2011, 05:43 PM
There were quite a few but the most memorable :

v. Napoli
v. Leeds Utd.
v. Celtic (LC final 1973)


Jim

lapsedhibee
18-01-2011, 05:58 PM
I hate it when all these old farts bring up the Barca, real Madrid and the Napoli result.

Ok I won't say Barca.

Napoli 5-0
Celtc 1-1 Willie Hamilton 18yard line
Real Madrid 2-0
Celtc 2-1 LC Final 1972

seamus88
18-01-2011, 06:10 PM
Pink bus Stop on the wednesday night 1-0 down at half time, O'connor makes it 1-1 Amadou Konte comes on hits the cross bar and Wee deano smashes in the follow up!!! Great atmosphere:top marks

Leithenhibby
18-01-2011, 06:17 PM
This is a tuffie :agree: so many games over the years that I could choose!!

But I shall go for my first European night at ER - 6-1 v Sporting Lisbon :not worth.

What's the chances now .. :rolleyes:


GGTTH .. :wink:

ancient hibee
18-01-2011, 06:26 PM
Barcelona Yes

Real Madrid No-only a friendly

7-0 No -just an enjoyable massacre

Napoli yes

Rangers 1965 last minute winner in cup

Baker 4 against Hearts

Knocking out Berwick the round after they'd seen off Rangers(they kicked everything that moved)

Baker's first game back against Aberdeen

Woody1985
18-01-2011, 07:02 PM
The unbeatable game or the cup final vs killie for me.

As for pre game excitement it was the cup semi against them.

iwasthere1972
18-01-2011, 07:30 PM
High up there would be the European nights at Easter Road as a youngster against

Napoli
Leeds
Liverpool

Wasn't at the 7-0 or 6-2 so 1972 LC Final win against Celtic and 2007 CIS Cup win against Killie would also be high on my list.

Sunny1875
18-01-2011, 08:04 PM
The AEK game at Easter Road

What an atmosphere , I had Travelled from Texas USA to see my first game in almost a year, on the other hand i did meet my Jambo wife the same night so not all good then.