Favourite Memories V Aberdeen at Pittodrie

[bigwheel]

What are your favourite memories of us up at Pittodrie v Aberdeen ? Not been that happy a hunting ground …a bit better in more recent times.

A niche one that springs to my mind would be a midweek match up there in 87-88 season…it was a time when Aberdeen were a top team . November 87 we played up there. It was a place we regularly got beat by 3-4 goals without reply in those days . Hibs fans in the old beach end . Kano scored our only goal in a 1-1 draw. Freezing cold night , but a decent drive home after an unexpected point …

Think we actually beat them up there later the same season too with Kano and Tortolano scoring …

[90274]

Think we had a good record up there in the Tony Mowbray and John Collins days?

[bigwheel]

Think we had a good record up there in the Tony Mowbray and John Collins days?

Not bad. 50/50…the thread though is really about favourite memories ..what’s yours?? [emoji106]

[stevenson]

Aberdeen 2 Hibs 3 Autumn 1974

Hibs were 2-1 down and down to ten men after using their substitutes. Fog was descending on Pittodrie. Some Hibs fans were leaving early.

Alex Cropley broke through on goal and was cynically chopped down. Joe Harper smashed in the free kick.

In the dying seconds, Harper turned Willie Young on the edge of the box and crossed for Crops who stabbed the ball over the line.

Yes, a post with a positive memory of Harper!

[DaveF]

Think we actually beat them up there later the same season too with Kano and Tortolano scoring …

I was at that game. Was when they had black goal nets iirc?

Also been at way too many 2+ goals beatings but Laurencekirk stops usually took the edge of them.

[JimBHibees]

Beating them on pens in the Scottish cup. Leighton in goals. Willie Young ordering a retake during pens.

[Niagara Lad]

October 15, 1977. A raging 30 yarder from Ally McLeod for a 2-1 win.

[Diclonius]

Been twice. A 4-2 annihilation in Calderwood's first game (they were 4-0 up before we scored two late consolations), and the 0-0 a few years ago when Maclaren missed the penalty. All-in-all, not great.

[Zambernardi1875]

Pre match pints in the saltoun arms it came on the tv hearts have sacked George burley. Hibs then beat Aberdeen 1-0 Riordan scored. Good day that

[stantonhibby]

Beating them on pens in the Scottish cup. Leighton in goals. Willie Young ordering a retake during pens.

Kenny Clark iirc

[The Modfather]

Winning 1-0 with a Riordan goal, under Mowbray I presume. Randomly during the game the Makalamby song came over the tannoy. Hibs fans kept singing it throughout the game after that.

Myself and a friend had gone up on the the Edinburgh Aberdeen supporters bus as another friend used to run it. Was an enjoyably smug trip home. Especially when we asked everyone to be quiet as they were doing the cup draw on the radio. Hibs were still in the cup and Aberdeen weren’t anymore. They also did a weekly MOTM vote and let us do it. We both thought Ricky Foster had a good game. Apparently that was the only two votes he got all season, from a couple of Hibees.

[JohnMcM]

March 1968 at Pittodrie we got thumped 5-0. Two of us, 15 & 16 year olds missed our original train and had to get a later one. Turns out it was the same train for the Hibs team coming back to Edinburgh.

We were on the train waiting to leave when the team started boarding, they were going to their reserved seats further down the coach. As they passed us I said to Thompson Allan “Well played Thompson”, he stared at me for a second, said thanks and moved on. About 20 minutes after the train started moving some of the players, led by Thompson Allan came to our seats and placed crisps, sandwiches, chocolate biscuits and wee cartons of juice, (presumably from their food supply?) on our little table thing. We were stunned when one of them who we think was Alan McGraw said “Thanks for coming”.

We always wondered if they ever thought of us at anytime or even remembered the two wee wringing-wet boys with no jackets who giggled as they wolfed down the goodies they gave us.

[Hibs90]

Winning 1-0 with a Riordan goal, under Mowbray I presume. Randomly during the game the Makalamby song came over the tannoy. Hibs fans kept singing it throughout the game after that.

Myself and a friend had gone up on the the Edinburgh Aberdeen supporters bus as another friend used to run it. Was an enjoyably smug trip home. Especially when we asked everyone to be quiet as they were doing the cup draw on the radio. Hibs were still in the cup and Aberdeen weren’t anymore. They also did a weekly MOTM vote and let us do it. We both thought Ricky Foster had a good game. Apparently that was the only two votes he got all season, from a couple of Hibees.

Probably my earliest memory of a game v Aberdeen this, or similarly the game with the Steven Glass winner at ER.

[tamig]

What are your favourite memories of us up at Pittodrie v Aberdeen ? Not been that happy a hunting ground …a bit better in more recent times.

A niche one that springs to my mind would be a midweek match up there in 87-88 season…it was a time when Aberdeen were a top team . November 87 we played up there. It was a place we regularly got beat by 3-4 goals without reply in those days . Hibs fans in the old beach end . Kano scored our only goal in a 1-1 draw. Freezing cold night , but a decent drive home after an unexpected point …

Think we actually beat them up there later the same season too with Kano and Tortolano scoring …

We were en route to that game. Bus stopped off at Glencarse for refreshments and wouldn’t start again. Some dafties decided to taxi it to the game but most of us waited for the replacement bus. Too late for the game but a merry evening was had by all 😀

[steelendhibs]

Matty Jack scoring a late equaliser up there for a 2-2 draw. 1999/2000 season i think. we had the luminous away strip with black pattern on it at the time

[bigwheel]

Pre match pints in the saltoun arms it came on the tv hearts have sacked George burley. Hibs then beat Aberdeen 1-0 Riordan scored. Good day that

A bit against the run of play iirc…great goal from
Riordan Good day ….

[marinello59]

Pre match pints in the saltoun arms it came on the tv hearts have sacked George burley. Hibs then beat Aberdeen 1-0 Riordan scored. Good day that

:agree:
I’d just walked in to the Saltoun when the news came in. It was a very good day. :greengrin

[O'Rourke3]

Been twice. 1980 while at Uni for a 1-1 Draw. Girdon Rae for us, Andy Watson scored their equaliser. George Best was booked going off at half time. Dons went on to their first league win under Fergus and we dropped down a division. Next was a LC game versus Livvy, who went through after et and won the competition.. In Inverurie for two nights so it was something to do.

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[Pretty Boy]

Cup tie mid 90s.

Penalty shoot out. Jim Leighton saved one and Kevin Harper banged the winning penalty in off the post.

Also a game under Mowbray when Riordan scored an absolute peach in a 1-0 win. Stephen Dobbie missed a sitter to kill it late on. We were in all white and looked a million dollars in more ways than one. It was the day I think people realised we were a very good team.

[Crab apple]

What are your favourite memories of us up at Pittodrie v Aberdeen ? Not been that happy a hunting ground …a bit better in more recent times.

A niche one that springs to my mind would be a midweek match up there in 87-88 season…it was a time when Aberdeen were a top team . November 87 we played up there. It was a place we regularly got beat by 3-4 goals without reply in those days . Hibs fans in the old beach end . Kano scored our only goal in a 1-1 draw. Freezing cold night , but a decent drive home after an unexpected point …

Think we actually beat them up there later the same season too with Kano and Tortolano scoring …

I went up so many times in the late 80’s and early 90’s and can’t remember many good results. Midweek in August 86 we were hammered again 3-0 in a game which I remember for the ASC kill Hibs message which was cressoted onto the grass at the top of the hill on the way to the ground. Always a friendly welcome at Pittodrie combined with lovely weather!

[Auckland Hibs]

Beating them on pens in the Scottish cup. Leighton in goals. Willie Young ordering a retake during pens.

Same for me - great night.

Lots of defeats from memory, made all the better with the stop offs in Laurencekirk before and after the games on the IEC bus.

Last game of the season one year, think we lost 2-0 and everyone was in fancy dress.

[Broken Gnome]

Pre match pints in the saltoun arms it came on the tv hearts have sacked George burley. Hibs then beat Aberdeen 1-0 Riordan scored. Good day that

That's my only win there, felt like we were going somewhere and that Hearts downfall was imminent. Ho hum. Can't remember a thing about the game itself apart from it being a Zander Diamond howler.

[zitelli62]

Can't remember his name auld age I suppose but a kiwi striker we had scored a cracker in a win and I'm sure als got a bad injury that more or less ended his hibs career he went on to sign for celtis.

[bigwheel]

Can't remember his name auld age I suppose but a kiwi striker we had scored a cracker in a win and I'm sure als got a bad injury that more or less ended his hibs career he went on to sign for celtis.

Chris Killen

[Wheat Hound]

3-2 win around 95. Midweek game with Steven Tweed scoring the winner.

Also honorable mention for 2-0 in 96 with the one and only Thorsten Schmugges sole Hibee appearance 😁

[zitelli62]

Chris Killen

Correct it was doing my head in.

[EricM]

https://youtu.be/FXRk6jNsSlA

Aberdeen 1 Hibs 2, November 1995

I thought the winner came very late but maybe not watching that video

Remember being sat next to the fence and a furious middle aged dons fan challenging 12 year old me to a fight after full time lol

[Puddocky]

Feb 1992. Only goal of the game from Mickey Weir in the last minute - with a header!
IIRC Aberdeen sacked their manager (Alex Smith?) a few days later, so presumably that result triggered his exit.

[BS44]

Watching two Aberdeen fans who were Yosser Hughes lookalikes - probably brothers - take on the police in the stadium before the game had kicked off.

It starts off with Yosser 1 shouting abuse at Hibs fans from left hand side of beach end segregation, police talk to Yosser 1 and he head butts one of the policemen. They then grab him and attempt to lift him, that's when Yosser 2 then piles into police too. The brothers lost....

[Chorley Hibee]

Remember winning 2-0 up there early 2000/01 season.

Memorable for the news that Aberdeen had financial issues and had dispensed with the toaster in the player's canteen.

Cue Hibs fans arriving holding slices of toast in the away end.

[eastterrace]

Went up there late sixties hibs winning 6-3. Memory a tad cloudy but mind Alex scott scoring top corner and Peter cormack as well.

[HibbyAndy]

Boxing day winning 2-1 round about 88-89

[Peevemor]

I don't really have any good memories of trips to Pittodrie to see Hibs . I've probable been a couple of dozen times and have seen a few draws but never a win.

I remember going up on new year's day, 6 of us in a mk 3 escort estate, rough as a badger's bum. I think we got humped as per.

There was also a freezing cold midweek game where somebody was stabbed/knifed. At the end of the match (probably a defeat) the police were searching folk at the bottom of the steps as we left the beach end - as if anyone was going to keep a knife in their pocket as we waited half an hour to get out.

Definitely not my favourite Hibs memories.

[Jones28]

The 0-0 draw when Jamie Mac missed a penalty a few seasons back. My wife’s first away match, the guy next to us seemed perfectly normal to chat to but developed some sort of Tourette’s when it came to anything to do with John Beaton. As soon as any whistle blew he launched into some weird tirade against him but would chat away to us quite normally in between.

That and the amount of coke being taken in the toilets was the most memorable moments.

[silverhibee]

Pizzagate. game under Calderwood where fans lost the plot that the players had pizzas delivered after the game.

Think we beat ICT & Aberdeen at pittodrie in same season, maybe one game after the other.

[IberianHibernian]

I don't really have any good memories of trips to Pittodrie to see Hibs . I've probable been a couple of dozen times and have seen a few draws but never a win.

I remember going up on new year's day, 6 of us in a mk 3 escort estate, rough as a badger's bum. I think we got humped as per.

There was also a freezing cold midweek game where somebody was stabbed/knifed. At the end of the match (probably a defeat) the police were searching folk at the bottom of the steps as we left the beach end - as if anyone was going to keep a knife in their pocket as we waited half an hour to get out.

Definitely not my favourite Hibs memories.I was at new year game . About 1983 . 2 v 0 defeat I think .

[eastterrace]

Another game I remember we lost 3-0 and were chased along union street by the mental crew towards the train station . Got on the train but it wasn’t going for about 5 mins and there must have been about a thousand of them in the station with us on the train ( well it seemed like a thousand) .

[Since452]

Game under Hecky when we absolutely battered them and ended up drawing. Was probably the beginning of the end for him.

[Renfrew_Hibby]

Mid nineties, mid winter and I was a very young looking 16 (I think) year old. Having never been to Aberdeen I thought I would go to this one.
I grew up in Ayr and it was at Ayr train station that Saturday morning that I walked into and asked for a return to Aberdeen. I still remember the look of disbelief on the lady at the ticket counter and then the third degree i got from the staff.
I think they thought I was running away from home or something (I did ask for a return ticket!) I can understand where they were comming from as i looked about 12 and Ayr is a long way from Aberdeen.
It all worked out well in the end. I enjoyed the scenic journey, found my way to Pittodrie by following some fans and oh aye Michael O'Neill bagged the winner at a venue we very rarely got anything from back then.

[EricM]

Mid nineties, mid winter and I was a very young looking 16 (I think) year old. Having never been to Aberdeen I thought I would go to this one.
I grew up in Ayr and it was at Ayr train station that Saturday morning that I walked into and asked for a return to Aberdeen. I still remember the look of disbelief on the lady at the ticket counter and then the third degree i got from the staff.
I think they thought I was running away from home or something (I did ask for a return ticket!) I can understand where they were comming from as i looked about 12 and Ayr is a long way from Aberdeen.
It all worked out well in the end. I enjoyed the scenic journey, found my way to Pittodrie by following some fans and oh aye Michael O'Neill bagged the winner at a venue we very rarely got anything from back then.

4th November 1995, same game I posted a YouTube link to

[SteveHFC]

The game just before Christmas in the 09/10 season. Stokesy scored 2.

[Suburban Hibby]

Feb 1992. Only goal of the game from Mickey Weir in the last minute - with a header!
IIRC Aberdeen sacked their manager (Alex Smith?) a few days later, so presumably that result triggered his exit.

Yep- Mickey Weir header at the Beach End bedlam!!!!

[B.H.F.C]

The game just before Christmas in the 09/10 season. Stokesy scored 2.

That’s not a good memory for me. I was in the back row and the snow was still hitting me. The coldest I’ve ever been at a game of football.

[bringbackbenny]

Yep- Mickey Weir header at the Beach End bedlam!!!!

Does anyone remember a game in the mid/late eighties when Micky Weir equalised or scored the winner in the away/beach end? Or am I imagining?

[.Sean.]

Been up several times and think I’ve seen us win twice.

Two that come to mind, one being Riordans second game back when he scored a double with a late pen, the week after he’d scored the peach away at Hamilton, and a win around about Christmas in the snow under yogi which I think put us top of the league

[Earlydelivery]

Aberdeen 2 Hibs 3 Autumn 1974

Hibs were 2-1 down and down to ten men after using their substitutes. Fog was descending on Pittodrie. Some Hibs fans were leaving early.

Alex Cropley broke through on goal and was cynically chopped down. Joe Harper smashed in the free kick.

In the dying seconds, Harper turned Willie Young on the edge of the box and crossed for Crops who stabbed the ball over the line.

Yes, a post with a positive memory of Harper!
That’s the game for me ‘ fabulous team ..and we had opposite end from the beach end .

[Gloucester Hibs]

2-0 win under Yogi think Stokes got both of them. Snowing and Baltic but a great day out, my last visit to Pittodrie actually.

[Yorkshire HFC]

I remember being at college in Aberdeen for 4 years during the Ferguson years - saw 8 league games during which we got one draw and 7 defeats.

Not really any good memories of that. I remember being in the Beach End when Gordon Durie got sent off and there was a surge of people going down to clap him down the tunnel - why would fans applaud a player getting sent off? I was also at the game when Aberdeen paraded the Cup Winners Cup.

I stayed for a few years afterwards though and things did pick up - I remember a good win in a big Hibs crowd on a midweek night when I'm sure Steven Tweed scored the winner - early 1990s?

[marinello59]

Can't remember his name auld age I suppose but a kiwi striker we had scored a cracker in a win and I'm sure als got a bad injury that more or less ended his hibs career he went on to sign for celtis.

That was a cup gamę that ended in a draw. Michael Stewart scored a belter in the replay at ER which we won.

[Ray_]

March 1968 at Pittodrie we got thumped 5-0. Two of us, 15 & 16 year olds missed our original train and had to get a later one. Turns out it was the same train for the Hibs team coming back to Edinburgh.

We were on the train waiting to leave when the team started boarding, they were going to their reserved seats further down the coach. As they passed us I said to Thompson Allan “Well played Thompson”, he stared at me for a second, said thanks and moved on. About 20 minutes after the train started moving some of the players, led by Thompson Allan came to our seats and placed crisps, sandwiches, chocolate biscuits and wee cartons of juice, (presumably from their food supply?) on our little table thing. We were stunned when one of them who we think was Alan McGraw said “Thanks for coming”.

We always wondered if they ever thought of us at anytime or even remembered the two wee wringing-wet boys with no jackets who giggled as they wolfed down the goodies they gave us.

We got beat 3-0 in the Scottish cup in 68, that must be the game your remembering. In 69 we won 6-2 there, we had already won at Parkhead, Ibrox & Tynie that season. My worst result around that time was 0-3, they got early revenge in September that year for Hibs topping the league cup section and Hibs being 4-0 up in the at half time in the last section game [and also decider, they were ahead on goal difference going into the game]. There were very few good memories that season, another involved certain white boots, a debut winning goal from a returning Joe Baker, "Rangers are Rubbish" comments and and an outrageous assist from the emerging Alex Cropley in the semi replay.

[allmodcons]

I seem to recall another Micky Weir goal up there when he played a tidy one two with A N Other around the half way line before running through towards the Beach End goal and clipping a finish beyond their keeper.

Midweek, I think we won 1v2 but could be wrong. Also remember a glorious rendition of ***** ***** that night.

Also attended the game up there the weekend after Gothenburg. Not such a happy day out got hammered 5v0 and (aged 16) got filled in by what I later learned was the early Aberdeen casuals :greengrin

[lord bunberry]

The midweek cup game that we won on penalties. I think hibs put on busses for the game, but I’m not 100% sure about that. Me and my mate were absolutely hammered by the time we got up there and as we were paying in I looked back and saw him on his hands and knees picking up his money that he’d dropped, the police then told him he wasn’t getting in. I shouted back that I’d see him on the bus. He wasn’t having that though and he returned and got in this time, after about 5 minutes the police recognised him and threw him out, undeterred he returned again and paid in, he lasted a bit longer before being recognised again and the police grabbed him and took him to the cells for the night.

[Iggy Pope]

A 2-1 win, unexpected, around about 1977. McLeod winner followed by absolute carnage on the hill afterwards going back to the buses.

[hibstag]

Matty Jack scoring a late equaliser up there for a 2-2 draw. 1999/2000 season i think. we had the luminous away strip with black pattern on it at the time

October 99? With my dons supporting pal in the home end possibly the dons first points that season IIRC...