What will it be like supporting Hibs in 10 years time…?

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Will the Ultras sustain or f-f-f-f-ade away?
Will we see further disruption and have home games, Derbies or “classicos”played elsewhere?

Will season tickets & memberships evolve into something else?

Will we recognise any of the songs?

Will online forums evolve into something else? Will there be reasoned debate or will that be jettisoned as the post-truth era kicks in and everything in the well is poisoned and folks give up as the toxic social media stuff that exists today some how emerges as what the public wants?

what do you reckon? What happens when the core of the support that predates the internet recedes?

[CentreLine]

I wouldn’t worry about it. Donald Trump will have annexed us in the the USA by then. The people will be crossing the various Firths of America in order to get to Edinburg and the backdrop to the south stand will be Trump’s Seat while you endure endless hours of flags on the play AFL

[Northernhibee]

Craig Levein still won’t have won anything in his life.

[Frazerbob]

That BIG HUGE club Hearts still won't have won the League Cup for now 70+ years

[lyonhibs]

The actual experience of supporting Hibs in the stadium won't have changed much.

Infuriating, frustrating and interspersed with the occasional sprinkle of delirious joy

[scm70nyd1973]

All I care about is that HIBS and everyone of our supporters are still here to be able to watch them 🤞🙏

But by then I think not a lot will have changed other than maybe a Euro super league game t 2

[HIBS NUTS]

A statue of Bowie, will sit out the back of the North stand, and we will pay homage to him for winning 9 titles in a row.
Having started with 7 goals against Clydebank, next weeek in the cup.

[Pretty Boy]

Supporting Hibs hasn't really changed all that much in my lifetime.

30+ years ago I went with my mum and grandad. We sat behind the goals on a bench seat. Sometimes we went to the pub before the game and I got a coke and crisps and the adults would get quite animated discussing Alex Miller. My grandad would walk to the fence between the terracing and the cowshed at HT to dissect the first half with his mate then we'd dissect it again on the drive or bus home. The group who generally led the singing gathered under the gantry on the terrace and I'm sure old codgers moaned that songs like 'we are Hibernian FC' weren't proper Hibs songs.

Fast forward to now and I sit on a plastic seat behind the goals. My grandad no longer goes but my parents are the grandparents now. Sometimes I go to the pub before the game and my daughter sits in the corner with coke and crisps whilst the adults animatedly tap their thoughts about David Gray into their phones. I message my mates on WhatsApp at HT to dissect the 1st half then log on here at FT to do the same. The group who generally lead the singing gather in one section and the old codgers come on here to moan that they don't sing 'proper Hibs songs'.

I daresay in 10 years it will just be another evolution of the same. The world keeps moving but at it's heart a day at the football stays the same.

[Glory Lurker]

Hopefully....

We'll be adjusting to the financial impact of the OF moving to some Euro league. It'll be affecting the quality on the pitch but it'll feel like a huge weight has been taken away. Thanks to the implosion of social media in the late 20s, the adjustment won't be played out against a wall of online rage from keyboard hardmen and overall the outlook will be positive.

[Pagan Hibernia]

That BIG HUGE club Hearts still won't have won the League Cup for now 70+ years

Hopefully they still won't have beaten us since December 2023 and we'll be well on our way to overturning their historical derby record.

[BILLYHIBS]

Looking forward to the next ten years under the Gordon’s / BK’s cannae wait to see our Champions League lightshow and to see if SDG can win the Scottish Cup as a Manager

Never say never

[jakedance]

Not much will have changed at all. Hibs will have had a good few seasons around 2030 and won the League Cup, before sliding back into mediocrity, narrowly avoiding relegation. Hearts will have done the same, but without the League Cup. In an increasingly dangerous world we’ll be thankful for the consistency.

[DIXIHIBS]

Hibs will have won the Scottish for a second time in 20 years and hertz support will be over half a million. Hibs.net will still full of greetin faced old gits...

[SHODAN]

1st January 2035: Hibernian 0-1 Hearts

hibs.net: "We were due a win, what happened?"

:wink:

[Saint Hibee]

We’ll get sick of everybody accusing us of being glory hunters for supporting the team which has entirely and comprehensively dominated the sport at a global level for the previous decade.

[matty_f]

I hope hibs.net is still a thing in ten years, I think it’s done fantastically well (as has the Bounce) to stay active despite Facebook and Twitter etc.

I think the next ten years will be dictated by how much or how little the Gordon family buy into what BKFC are doing and whether or not we end up majority owned by BKFC.

I would think we’ll continue to see stadium improvements, wouldn’t surprise me to see bars in all the stands and some of the spaces around the stands used for pre-match food and drink.

I don’t think much else will change, really. To Pretty Boy’s point, the core “experience” of going to the games hasn’t really changed that much over the years and other than how successful or not the team is, I reckon it’ll stay much the same for years to come.

[theonlywayisup]

I love these types of threads. There's no right or wrong answer! You can be as serious or not in your responses.

As PB states, not much has really changed in my 40 watching the Hibees. Generally, it is many lows, with relegation and bad cup losses, with some amazing highs. That said, past performance is not indicative of future results!

It is often said for years that Scottish Football is not rocket science. Generally, the non-Old Firm teams that have done well had a good mix of a solid defence (including goalkeeper), combative midfield, pace up front and a goalscorer who scores when he gets the chance. They are well set-up and had leaders on the pitch that took responsibility to drive the team forward or defend when needed. Easy! So, I'd like to think we'll get back to the basics with respect to team recruitment.

I'm encouraged by the whole Black Knights model, so my hope is that over the next decade we'll start to see promising youngsters being tested in our environment alongside some solid professionals that will be the backbone of the team. Get it right and I think we'll have a great platform to win some cups and achieve at least 3rd place in the league. For the next decade, I'd be happy with that. Getting to the more advanced stages of European competition should be our goal - if The Rangers and nearly the Hearts can do that then anything is possible.

[Hillsidehibby]

I hope I’m well and healthy enough to still be going.

[Lago]

Will the Ultras sustain or f-f-f-f-ade away?
Will we see further disruption and have home games, Derbies or “classicos”played elsewhere?

Will season tickets & memberships evolve into something else?

Will we recognise any of the songs?

Will online forums evolve into something else? Will there be reasoned debate or will that be jettisoned as the post-truth era kicks in and everything in the well is poisoned and folks give up as the toxic social media stuff that exists today some how emerges as what the public wants?

what do you reckon? What happens when the core of the support that predates the internet recedes?
Well I guess I'll never know as at my age it's highly unlikely I'll be here😕

[Malthibby]

I hope I’m well and healthy enough to still be going.


Yup, suspect if I want to know what it is like in 10 years someone will have to use a ouiji board.

[Greencore]

Big money.

[gbhibby]

Loyalty points will still be mentioned every time tickets for Tynecastle are released but will have been replaced by AI allocation but the usual suspects will still not be happy.

[marinello59]

You may not notice much change in 10 years.
If you are lucky enough to get several decades of watching Hibs in then you will have seen quite big changes. Two of the most conservative groups of people you will encounter in your lifetime (small c :greengrin) are the Scottish football authorities and Scottish football supporters. Change does happen but at a pace so slow as to be barely discernable but if you look back over 40 to 50 years the change that has occurred could almost be described as revolutionary. Try searching for pictures and video footage from forty years before you first started going to the football and the past really does look like a foreign country.
The stadiums are unrecognisable from the rubble strewn terraces that I used to visit in the late seventies and early eighties. Violence inside the grounds was commonplace and sometimes impossible to avoid getting caught up in. Outside of the main stands,(the only seated area) the crowd was overwhelmingly male. Look round the stadiums now and it's mainly made up of family groups all round the ground. If that continues then the need for segregation, (itself a relatively new thing) may disappear. Block7 and the Ultras may very well be the last hurrah for young males using football as a way of chasing an identity. One of the biggest changes in recent years has been VAR. None of us imagined a time when goal celebrations would be tempered by the fear of the goal being chalked off, that is a fundamental change to the so called 'match day experience.'
And we have to remember that there are two different factors at play as we look back at how we enjoy football, the game itself and our own unique life journey's. The match day I enjoyed as a teenager certainly bears little resemblance to the one I enjoy now as an old codger. :greengrin
The rise of online interaction between fans will continue but the nature of that will evolve in to something we probably can't imagine right now. Maybe we will all log in as holograms to tell each other we are talking *****. :greengrin
We are already starting to see the Season Ticket change, I think it will become more of a membership with no connection to an individual seat unless you pay a supplement. The clubs will find a way to squeeze even more money out of us, one thing is for sure, they ain't going to get cheaper.
In the longer term I can see the woman's game becoming an even more important part of every club. As Euro leagues do start to evolve and the men's team begin to play ever more games abroad it will provide an opportunity for the woman's game to become the more prominent domestic league.
The one change I hope to see? Hibs winning trophies on a more regular basis. At least one more Scottish Cup before I'm gone please. :greengrin

[monarch]

We’ll still have to put up with Feeleep Clemong complaining about the penalty Hibs got against Rangers on 5 January 2025.

[Gmack7]

You'll struggle to get a ticket in our 30000 seater stadium for the CL Group games, best option is to book a room in one of the many hotel rooms with the windows that face the pitch

[Alfred E Newman]

52 year old Craig Gordon saves Hearts blushes again.