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G B Young
11-03-2018, 11:54 AM
I note that we finished 14 points ahead under McLeish in 200/01 and 11 points ahead in Mowbray's first season but I imagine there must have been some distance between the teams in the 70s ( although with only two points for a win back then it probably wasn't as much as it might have been)?

Sir David Gray
11-03-2018, 01:09 PM
70s record;

69/70 - 6 points ahead
70/71 - 3 points behind
71/72 - 5 points ahead
72/73 - 15 points ahead
73/74 - 11 points ahead
74/75 - 14 points ahead
75/76 - 8 points ahead
76/77 - 7 points ahead
77/78 - Hearts in the league below
78/79 - 14 points ahead

NORTHERNHIBBY
11-03-2018, 01:12 PM
According to creep-back I don't think it has ever happened?

Killiehibbie
11-03-2018, 01:13 PM
70s record;

69/70 - 6 points ahead
70/71 - 3 points behind
71/72 - 5 points ahead
72/73 - 15 points ahead
73/74 - 11 points ahead
74/75 - 14 points ahead
75/76 - 8 points ahead
76/77 - 7 points ahead
77/78 - Hearts in the league below
78/79 - 14 points aheadSomething similar for the next decade would just about do. Adjusted for 3 points a win, Naturally.

southsider
11-03-2018, 01:27 PM
I remember a 1-4 defeat in Sept 1973 but I cannot remember any more during the 70's

Pagan Hibernia
11-03-2018, 05:10 PM
I remember a 1-4 defeat in Sept 1973 but I cannot remember any more during the 70's

That was the only one in 24 derbies during that time, and only the second defeat in 31

RoxburghHibs
11-03-2018, 05:16 PM
That was the only one in 24 derbies during that time, and only the second defeat in 31

What’s the longest spell undefeated we have had over them?

CMurdoch
11-03-2018, 05:50 PM
What’s the longest spell undefeated we have had over them?

Counting league games only we have had a few good spells.
The last one of which, were the 30 league games between 1965 and 1978 when we lost only 3.

RoxburghHibs
11-03-2018, 08:54 PM
What’s the longest spell undefeated we have had over them?
To answer my own question...

Between 1969 - 1979 we went 9 games unbeaten (last being the 7:0 game) lost the next derby then went another 13 unbeaten. So one defeat in 23 games with 13 undefeated is our best post war run at least.

Danderhall Hibs
11-03-2018, 09:29 PM
To answer my own question...

Between 1969 - 1979 we went 9 games unbeaten (last being the 7:0 game) lost the next derby then went another 13 unbeaten. So one defeat in 23 games with 13 undefeated is our best post war run at least.

Unfortunately when we had our spell of dominance there were only 2 games a season, whereas when they had theirs it was 4 per season. That’s one reason why the numbers they have been spouting are skewed.

Pagan Hibernia
11-03-2018, 09:37 PM
To answer my own question...

Between 1969 - 1979 we went 9 games unbeaten (last being the 7:0 game) lost the next derby then went another 13 unbeaten. So one defeat in 23 games with 13 undefeated is our best post war run at least.

Not bad that is it.., to listen to the jambos you’d think we never strung more than 2 together without losing