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Minutes of London Hibs Monthly Meeting, September 14th,
2004
Location : William Wallace and Rob Roy pubs
Present : Mike Inglis, Stuart Donald, Andrew Murray
(Treasurer), Alex Lindsay, Mike Hennessy (scribe),
Scott Donaghue
Apologies for Absence : received from Rose (on Arsenal duty) and
chairperson Brian Rogan (auditing in Kazakhstan, or auditing
Kazakhstan � no one was sure). Deputy chairperson Donald took the
chair. Well, in reality he didn�t because all the barstools and
chairs were already stacked on the tables when we arrived at the
WW. (see below).
Meeting Location : the decision re ceasing to use the WW pub was
taken for us, for which we will be eternally grateful, decision
taking not being on of our core skills. Not only had the pub
decided to close at 8 o�clock that very night i.e. at the time the
meeting was due to start, but we were told that the it was going to
be sold and/or the premises closed in the near future. And there
would be no opportunity for a public enquiry, appeal of any other
kind of intervention by London Hibs. Talk of a delegation being sent
to track down former owner Tony Maloney somewhere in Ireland was
deemed a poor use of club funds. At this point the treasurer bought
another round before we were forced out of the pub. That took club
funds negative because hardly any of our supposed 100 plus strong
membership had paid their subs yet (shame on you all � send those
cheques to Andrew immediately). Word
that the Celtic v Barcelona game was being televised at the Rob Roy
convinced those present to adjourn there immediately to support the
subsidiary team we founded in 1888. In practice it was really good
fun seeing Barca run rings round them
Any Other Business : I don�t actually remember what we talked
about other than that Alex was moving house to Lancashire � can�t
be corbyalex any more - and Stuart was spending lots of time in his
parents� house in Spain. Andrew was congratulated on winning the
junior title at Flushing Meadow. There was no discussion about POTY,
merchandise, Burns Night. or the US Presidential election. I
remember telling a captivated audience (not) that I went to the
Liverpool v Celtic match (5-1) in East Hartford, Connecticut, in
July, where the first person I met was ��..Archie Macpherson, who
told me his son is a Hibee who takes his kids to Easter Road each
week. I also spotted at 200 paces a kid wearing a green with white
sleeves football shirt. Turned out to be the son of a Hibee who
emigrated to Toronto. Tom Hendry by name � anyone know him? Wife�s
a scouser which explains why they were at the game. At the end, as
10000 cars tried to get out of the place, I spotted the number of
the car in front was a Toronto one � a Hibee shirt was waved out the
window. Talk about coincidences ? On the same trip, I ended up in
Manhattan and met a Irish waitress who knew that Hibs was the first
and only real Irish team in Scotland !!!!
Why
am I telling you all this ? Because otherwise you�d be bored and it
fills the page
Next Meeting � Tuesday October 12th, venue TBA
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