Block 7 today

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Originally Posted by lyonhibs

Is this a fact that they get a direct allocation from the club for away games or just the latest burgeoning .net myth that's in danger of becoming an accepted truth if enough folk repeat it?

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From KP

"The Ticket Office team confirmed at the Hibs First launch event earlier in the year that Block 7 don't receive priority tickets. Away teams do request we place our singing section/"ultras" in a specific designated part of their ground to support the policing. These seats are allocated after our priority groups."

Take that as you will. I take it as Hibs First, first, then Block 7. I might be wrong.

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Originally Posted by Hibernian Verse

From KP

"The Ticket Office team confirmed at the Hibs First launch event earlier in the year that Block 7 don't receive priority tickets. Away teams do request we place our singing section/"ultras" in a specific designated part of their ground to support the policing. These seats are allocated after our priority groups."

Take that as you will. I take it as Hibs First, first, then Block 7. I might be wrong.

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Pretty poor if that's the case. Should have the same chance as every other season ticket holder after Hibs First members.

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Originally Posted by JohnM1875

Pretty poor if that's the case. Should have the same chance as every other season ticket holder after Hibs First members.

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Q1 & Q2 are sold out for Villa away, so if they are sat in those areas (lower sections if you're watching on TV) then we know they were given access prior to season ticket holders.

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Originally Posted by WeAreHibs

Never seen them so subdued.

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I was quite enjoying them bantering with the opposite stand, ginger lad did a great job 👍

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Originally Posted by matty_f

I don't think their levels of enthusiasm today were anything to do with where they were situated. They'd have been just as quiet anywhere in the ground.

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:agree:

To suggest they were quieter because they were sitting somewhere else is absolute nonsense.

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Originally Posted by Arch Stanton

I doubt the East could hear them - I certainly couldn't in the West. It seemed to me that the East came alive in response to the away support who were totally dominating the stadium.

Also, Block 7 don't do chants that anyone else joins in with which makes it a bit pointless in my view.

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Mate, I was practically in the center of the east at the Luzern game and that simply wasn't my experience. The away support were certainly not dominating the stadium and they were on the same side as my telephone ear which gave them the advantage :greengrin

Whatever the case one thing cant be argued with. At both the Luzern game and the Inter game the FF lower with Block 7 in it contributed far more to the atmosphere and matchday experience than the FF lower normally does and whatever the reason was for the east coming alive during the Luzern game, surely its better to have two sides of the stadium singing and chanting than just one. The Luzern game was the best atmosphere ER has had from the home stands for a long time outside of derbies or games against the Sticky Buns.

I agree that some of the Block 7 songs and chants are a mystery to me as well ... but how that makes them pointless is beyond me.

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Originally Posted by Onceinawhile

Most of them will be season ticket holders and most of them will have each others references etc...

So surely it wouldn't be that big a surprise if they are there in bigger numbers?

Unless you're saying that they get preference before ordinary st holders?

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If they are all seated together at Villa park you will know the club have skirted round the their own system. This will be especially apparent if they are in the lower tier because that is virtually sold out. Q1 still has a handful of tickets, Q2 is sold out and Q3 is not on sale and unlikely to be as its directly below Villa fans in the upper section.

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Originally Posted by Hibernian Verse

From KP

"The Ticket Office team confirmed at the Hibs First launch event earlier in the year that Block 7 don't receive priority tickets. Away teams do request we place our singing section/"ultras" in a specific designated part of their ground to support the policing. These seats are allocated after our priority groups."

Take that as you will. I take it as Hibs First, first, then Block 7. I might be wrong.

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Would be easy for KP to directly clarify this so I’ll ask again. Do Block 7 get tickets set aside
for them to avoid them going in the scramble with the rest of the season ticket holders?

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Originally Posted by .Sean.

Would be easy for KP to directly clarify this so I’ll ask again. Do Block 7 get tickets set aside
for them to avoid them going in the scramble with the rest of the season ticket holders?

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My understanding is that B7 do not receive priority tickets but those who do get tickets are placed together at games for easier policing etc. How the club knows who is a B7 member though i do wonder.

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Originally Posted by DIXIHIBS

My understanding is that B7 do not receive priority tickets but those who do get tickets are placed together at games for easier policing etc. How the club knows who is a B7 member though i do wonder.

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If that happened then surely Hibs would be notifying others that they would have to move to another area in order to accommodate Block 7 in that aforementioned area?

I've not heard of a single incident where that's happened.

That tells me they're already allocated tickets together before they're on sale to others.

Again, how many actual members are there of Block 7? When you see the FFL lower bouncing with 1k they aren't all block 7 and would be in there bouncing no matter what.
The move should have been made well before Block 7 were even a thing. Block 7 are just lucky its their time that coincides whith the move to the FFL.

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Originally Posted by DIXIHIBS

My understanding is that B7 do not receive priority tickets but those who do get tickets are placed together at games for easier policing etc. How the club knows who is a B7 member though i do wonder.

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I've been to hampden a few times with supporters clubs and thats exactly what has happened, everyone who was able to get a ticket provided their reference number to the organiser who passed it on and the ticket office made sure we were all sat together, wasn't anything nefarious or queue jumping or any guarantees, that was pre being able to log on and select a certain seat etc though

What would help these discussions immensely is if one of the main movers and shakers in Block 7 would come on here and give their take on things. That might be the case already, but if it is I cant recall such a poster specifically identifying themselves as such. Even if they were to create a Block 7 profile that they posted under it would help, because there's a number of questions their fellow fans need to see them answer / address.

Q 1 ..... Do you actually have a structure or are you just a disorganised rabble who rock up to Easter Road on matchdays all wearing the same T shirt? If there is a structure, what is it?

Q 2 ..... There's a number of 'your fellow Hibs fans' complaining about being aggressively bumped from their seats at away games and blaming your group for it. What do you intend to do to fix that? Because it's totally unacceptable.

Q 3 ..... Do you have any plan of action to encourage folk to join in with the singing section even if they don't want to be part of the 'ultras' group as such?
The end game has to be a full or nearly full FF lower at most games, are you organised enough that you can come up with practical ideas to make that happen? ... Back in the day when crowds were far lower some radges managed to persuade about 300 kids to get together for a punch up every Saturday ... surely it can't be out of the question to get far bigger numbers to come along to sing and wave flags.

Q 4 ..... Someone suggested that your group contains a fair number of exiled Jambos fleeing Ann Budge's 'Ultras' pogrom .... say it ain't so :greengrin

Anyway .... The folk involved in Block 7 must be aware of the discussions surrounding them and the FF lower on here, and I have no doubt the Hibees Bounce .... Lets hear from you.

I don't think B7 will come on here to comment which is fair enough and it's not their fault if they get priority, who wouldn't take the tickets. They are a good bunch of lads actually, having met a few of them abroad, very well organised.

Maybe there are quite a few of them who are also Hibs First members so will get their tickets together. And then the rest join them at the game which is when the forcing other supporters out their seats comes in to play

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Originally Posted by Brooster

How many Block 7 do you think were in Switzerland?

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No idea, but there was a group of about 10 of them in the pub we were at in Zurich on the Wednesday. Same guys that had been sitting in the broken seated area at Fir Park. There were loads of young team in Lucerne the next day with man bags as well. Didnt ask them all if they were part of B7 though so maybe there weren't that many.

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Originally Posted by Hibernian Verse

Q1 & Q2 are sold out for Villa away, so if they are sat in those areas (lower sections if you're watching on TV) then we know they were given access prior to season ticket holders.

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As a Hibs First Member I logged on today at 10.05 am to get our 4 tickets. Couldn't get 4 tickets together in block Q2 (only single seats left) so def something up. Having looked at the stadium plan Q2 def the best seats IMO but cant imagine that whole section had gone after a few minutes.....

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Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE

What would help these discussions immensely is if one of the main movers and shakers in Block 7 would come on here and give their take on things.

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I'd guess for the average 20-year-old that's akin to asking them to break out their typewriter and fire off a missive to Points of View.

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Originally Posted by nonshinyfinish

I'd guess for the average 20-year-old that's akin to asking them to break out their typewriter and fire off a missive to Points of View.

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:hilarious

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Originally Posted by Brooster

I don't think B7 will come on here to comment which is fair enough and it's not their fault if they get priority, who wouldn't take the tickets. They are a good bunch of lads actually, having met a few of them abroad, very well organised.

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I don't see why not mate. It's not as if they are devoid of support on here, there's plenty of folk sympathetic to any group trying to improve the atmosphere at Easter Road, including auld farts like me. But there's also a need for some issues and questions surrounding the group to be addressed and simply just a few things some of us are curious about.

Its not as if posting under a profile name on here will stop them being all mysterious and interesting :greengrin

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Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE

I don't see why not mate. It's not as if they are devoid of support on here, there's plenty of folk sympathetic to any group trying to improve the atmosphere at Easter Road, including auld farts like me. But there's also a need for some issues and questions surrounding the group to be addressed and simply just a few things some of us are curious about.

Its not as if posting under a profile name on here will stop them being all mysterious and interesting :greengrin

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The illustrious leader can put a balaclava on at his computer.

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Originally Posted by Mon Dieu4

I've been to hampden a few times with supporters clubs and thats exactly what has happened, everyone who was able to get a ticket provided their reference number to the organiser who passed it on and the ticket office made sure we were all sat together, wasn't anything nefarious or queue jumping or any guarantees, that was pre being able to log on and select a certain seat etc though

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And does everyone get a ticket when there more fans wanting one than we have available. This was discussed during the loyalty point debates. Without giving priority to B7 or supporters clubs I'm not sure how they could be sat together. The only way I can think is if there are 12k season tickets and 1200 tickets available for Villa Park. That means you have a 1 in 10 chance of a ticket as a ST holder. B7 presumably have some form of membership list and I would give them 10% of the number of members they had at the start of the season and they can sit together. There would be a cross reference to make sure they were all ST holders.

Far too much work so they should take their chances with other fans and the club should do what any club with more regularly fans wanting to go than tickets available. If we are to grow and be more successful then that will happen more often so it is a no brainer.

B7 will be getting tickets put aside for them, there's nothing surer.

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Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE

What would help these discussions immensely is if one of the main movers and shakers in Block 7 would come on here and give their take on things. That might be the case already, but if it is I cant recall such a poster specifically identifying themselves as such. Even if they were to create a Block 7 profile that they posted under it would help, because there's a number of questions their fellow fans need to see them answer / address.

Q 1 ..... Do you actually have a structure or are you just a disorganised rabble who rock up to Easter Road on matchdays all wearing the same T shirt? If there is a structure, what is it?

Q 2 ..... There's a number of 'your fellow Hibs fans' complaining about being aggressively bumped from their seats at away games and blaming your group for it. What do you intend to do to fix that? Because it's totally unacceptable.

Q 3 ..... Do you have any plan of action to encourage folk to join in with the singing section even if they don't want to be part of the 'ultras' group as such?
The end game has to be a full or nearly full FF lower at most games, are you organised enough that you can come up with practical ideas to make that happen? ... Back in the day when crowds were far lower some radges managed to persuade about 300 kids to get together for a punch up every Saturday ... surely it can't be out of the question to get far bigger numbers to come along to sing and wave flags.

Q 4 ..... Someone suggested that your group contains a fair number of exiled Jambos fleeing Ann Budge's 'Ultras' pogrom .... say it ain't so :greengrin

Anyway .... The folk involved in Block 7 must be aware of the discussions surrounding them and the FF lower on here, and I have no doubt the Hibees Bounce .... Lets hear from you.

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That makes complete sense.

Unfortunately, it seems Block 7 are above answering questions from mere Hibs supporters.

Won’t someone think of the seats?

Did someone not pretty much confirm that Block 7 get priority on another thread. Said they weren't a season ticket holder but got tickets for game at Easter Rd before tickets were on sale to season ticket holders.

They have a big part to play tomorrow. Hope they terrify that Argie melt in goals.

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Originally Posted by Since452

They have a big part to play tomorrow. Hope they terrify that Argie melt in goals.

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I'd be content if they don't cause the club to have to pay a fine. I doubt I'll hear them anyways at the other end of the west upper.

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Originally Posted by DH1875

Did someone not pretty much confirm that Block 7 get priority on another thread. Said they weren't a season ticket holder but got tickets for game at Easter Rd before tickets were on sale to season ticket holders.

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You have read the thread about the ticket shambles. That is how I got a ticket through my season ticket holder son and Hibs first member but don't let facts twist your story. I for one think it is pretty pathetic how Hibs fans are turning on other Hibs fans. Actually glad I am in beside them tonight as they look like they will support their team rather than sit and moan about others.

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