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I think you may have misunderstood the intention of my post. I was being flippant, or at least I thought I was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
No harm done though. May the best of blessings fall from the sky and shower you with goodness.:greengrin
Won’t happenQuote:
Originally Posted by Since452
That was a different scenario. Firstly you were talking about 100,000 supporters in the same city on the same day , it was a semi final so undoubtedly lots of alcohol consumed and the games were being played at the same ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibeesmad
Having Hibs v ICT and Hearts v Sevco on the same day in different parts of the city is much more easily managed.
Best draw possible. We really have had a fair bit of luck with these over the last few years, long may it continue! Big opportunity for a trip to Hampden.
With recent history between Hibs and Rangers as well as the rivalry between us and Hearts I just can't see both games being played on the same day. But we shall see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Just like last time we won't be able to call upon Jason Cummings up front to bail us out too :hyperQuote:
Originally Posted by Borderhibbie76
This is the year :hyper
No I got the flippantness in your post, I'm sure that's exactly what they'll come out with. I just don't think they'll have any grounds for complaining if they're asked to play Wednesday and Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnMcM
That was supposed to be at the same stadium though. Bit different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibeesmad
Us Saturday lunchtime and them evening, or us Saturday and them Sunday with the derby pushed back to the Wednesday. Pretty straightforward.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomtownHibeys
Some of my best friends are ICT fans, so really looking forward to this
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The derby won’t be moved. The TV ain’t going to amend their scheduling.Quote:
Originally Posted by May2116
All 4 will be on TV, part of the new TV dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Iggy Pope
:aok:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
So they were. I’ll get my coat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibeesmad
Can’t see us both being the same day, although that’s what I’m hoping for!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by May2116
And I don’t think there’s a need to move the derby just so the Inverness fans can get home at a decent time
Jambos spewing about our draw. Did they not see their own cup run last season?
I know Celtic have pumped St Johnstone every time they have faced them so far this season but I think St Johnstone will do them. Hoping so anyway.
Wee lack of foresight from the Hibs selling me tickets for the Hall of Fame dinner that weekend knowing this then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
All four games will be on the tele
- Us and Hearts can’t play Sunday because we play on Tuesday the midweek after
- Celtic can’t play until Sunday because they’re in Europe
- Rangers play on Wednesday in Europe, but as they’ve got Hearts they can’t play Sunday either
- Police won’t want Hibs, Hearts and Huns playing in Edinburgh on the same afternoon
So, putting my detective hat on. We’ll be on Friday or Saturday night (BBC), Hearts will be on Saturday lunchtime (Premier Sports), St J v Celtic on Sunday lunchtime (Premier) and St Murn/Well vs Dons/Killie on Sunday afternoon (BBC)
Would be surprised if I’m wrong!
I've got tickets for the dinner as well. I wonder if they might try to incorporate it into hospitality for the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iggy Pope
Dinner
1st inductees
Speeches
Pay and extra £20 for your match ticket and watch the game in the main stand
Post match drinks
Final inductees
Round the night up
Much of March and April is busy for me so I hope it doesn't move as I'd struggle to make a rearranged date.
I think it will be the following:-
Fri night - Hibs vs Inverness - BBC
Sat noon - Hearts vs Rangers - Premier
Sat night - St Mirren or Motherwell vs Aberdeen or Kilmarnock - BBC
Sun afternoon - St Johnstone vs Celtic - Premier
If the police didn't , or couldn't , veto the playing of the 4 semi finals at the same ground on the same day last season then it's highly unlikely they would not allow both games to be played on the Saturday. For starters it's different grounds and about 70,000 less supporters.
Exactly. First home tie for us, having taken care of DUFC away. Hibs have earned that :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Since452
Livingston , Auckinleck , Partick , ICT , They got a bye through to the final , That mob can't moan about any drawQuote:
Originally Posted by Since452
Seems that's the most likely scenario.Quote:
Originally Posted by hfc rd
Absolutely, people saying they won’t allow the two games in Edinburgh on the same day are wrong. As you say they were prepared to allow both league cup semifinals to be played in the the same city in the same stadium last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
I’ll give it a miss.
The weather forecast is horrendous for that weekend , the pricing is too dear, the kick off time is ridiculous and it’s on the telly.
I want a ticket for the final though.:greengrin
That sounds like a plan. Get on the blower to them!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Rangers play in Europe on the Thursday.Quote:
Originally Posted by hfc rd
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They play on the Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by CallumLaidlaw
Not saying it will, but if we are on the Friday then it’s a massive boot in the balls to the ICT fans, when the derby can be moved if need be. If the rangers Europa league tie was the Thursday then TV wouldn’t have a choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
The Beeb like Saturday night football, I’m hoping we get Saturday 7.20pm, although Inverness might not be happy with this ko time
Caley are also away at Dunfermline on Tuesday 25th
They’d best get digs somewhere for a couple of nights, make a trip out of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
That’s 3 days between games so don’t think that’s an issue. Same gap as we would have from Saturday to the derby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
Wouldn't stop them playing on the Friday but I would like to think their fans would be considered and it's not night time kick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
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All 20 of themQuote:
Originally Posted by Steven79
It's Thursday on their website and BT Sport have it then too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir David Gray
They play home on Thursday 20th then play away in Braga on the 26th (Wednesday) at 5pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
Their website has it as Wednesday 26thQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
I was looking at the home game.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomtownHibeys
My mistook.
I was stating they had a big game before they play usQuote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
Beeb have had Saturday night games in the last 2 rounds
It's 100% on the Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...cores-fixtures
I would hope that sensible pricing is at the front of mind if it is in the telly. Nothing worse than seeing a half empty ER on the telly. A chance to try out the singing section in FF lower as well perhaps
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Originally Posted by hfc rd
Going for these dates as well, tv companies don't give a toss about fans.
St Johnstone v Celtic 12:00 on the Sunday .Premier Sport get the last game, get the semi-final draw done and dusted before the English League Cup Final starts.
I don't believe that many people will refuse to go to a very favourable home quarter final tie, at the end of the shortest month, because prices haven't been reduced by a fiver or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
It'll be £20± for adults and usual for concessions.
Day after payday and a massive chance to reach Hampden. Should be a very good crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
Fri night - St Mirren or Motherwell vs Aberdeen or Kilmarnock - BBC
Sat noon - Hearts vs Rangers - Premier
Sat night - Hibs vs Inverness - BBC
Sun afternoon - St Johnstone vs Celtic - Premier
The Rangers and Celtic games are shoe ins for the above time slots.
No way Police Scotland want loads of Rangers fans firing about Edinburgh on Saturday night.
I can feel a semi coming on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oscar T Grouch
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The few jambos I know with the requisite opposable thumbs for texting, seem to be raging at hibs drawing ICT while they get the most difficult draw “as usual”.
Mind boggling man. Have they seen their draws in both cups?Quote:
Originally Posted by 660
Sevco won't want a lunch time game if they've travelled back from Portugal, so it's more likely that their game at the Tiny PBS will be 6pm and our game at 12 noon. Plenty of time between the two matches.Quote:
Originally Posted by CMurdoch
I think that's the point. We get teams at a lower level than us, they get teams at the same level they're at.Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
Fair point. 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyrie
When’s the last ferry back to Northern Ireland on a Saturday?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyrie
1690Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
Even though Celtic have officially got an away tie at St J, it will be just like a home tie for them now that St J have decided to surrender three sides of their stadium to Celtic supporters.
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Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
I agree that it would be a good idea, just to get a sense of the level of interest, or even just to do something a bit different for the day.
I think that will depend on whether the club want to guarantee ST Holders the right to buy tickets for their own seats, though, so they might need to be persuaded to take a different approach this time.
Whoever puts the idea to the club would have to prepare a decent case for it, to 'win them over' as it were.
We will take that, it doesn’t happen too oftenQuote:
Originally Posted by Since452
Walked into that one 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by WoreTheGreen
They aren’t going to do anything radical with pricing. It’d be good to see them try something a wee bit different to generate a bit of atmosphere though. I don’t know what, but it’d be good to see them thinking outside the box a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keith_M
Chances are it will be the standard approach. 20 odd quid for a ticket, 7 or 8 thousand empty seats and the club not really trying to push or market it.
Can't ask for any more than a home draw in a cup competition, but ICT will be no pushovers given our defensive frailties.
It's something their wee fat manager will be well aware of.
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Originally Posted by 90+2
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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
You're probably right about the price. It's worth making an approach about the FF Lower, though, from any group interested.
As I mentioned, they'd really need to be careful about how they approach the club and prepare a good argument in favour. There's definitely good and bad ways of approaching this and assuming a negative result before the event will probably result in just that.
Very good draw. We ended up being fairly ‘comfortable’ in the end against Dundee Utd which was an away tie initially. No excuses for not dealing with ICT at home now.
Then anyone but old firm in the semi.
Then actual semi time.
Our season could get a lot more exciting all of a sudden.
Hope they do not price the game out. Would love to see £15 per adult and £10 per kid/over 65 etc but can't see that happening. From what I hear when Hearts played Airdrie it was £10 per head, can't remember last time we done that
It’s the quarter final of the Scottish cup, at home, against a lower league side. If folk can’t be arsed to get along to ER because it’s £20/£22 then that’s their loss. The game shouldn’t need marketed, folk should be fighting over tickets for it. Simple truth is that folk will always find an excuse not to go, reducing the price by a fiver won’t change that, and the club aren’t going to take that loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
£15, £20 or £23 will make no absolutely difference to the attendance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leith's finest
A James Keating goal the last time we played them in the cup quarter finals in 2016. Attendance that day was just under 10,000.
On the basis that folk won’t be fighting over tickets, they do need to try something different to fill the place. Doing the same thing as they’ve done historically will result in the same thing happening which is quite al lot of empty seats.Quote:
Originally Posted by May2116
If it’s not price related, which it won’t be, then they need to try something to fill the place, create a better atmosphere or whatever.
I think, and I hope, that we'll hear about plans to start making going to ER more attractive to more people.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
I'm not sure what that will entail, but I agree with you that we need to improve the offering, and not just on the pitch.
Dropping the price won’t get folk to come along though. They would just make one of the other excuses - ‘weather’ ‘kick off time’ ‘it’s on tele’ etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
I’m not sure what else the club would try either, they’re not going to write off large chunks of money to cut prices so much that folk turn up, moving the singing section won’t get the rest of the ground filled, I'm intrigued.
Very different circumstances though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lancs Harp
Last year we were sat night.
2 games Sunday
Partick v jumbos. Monday night
Would take a Friday night kick off.
Give us some extra rest for the derby on the tuesday
A significant enough drop would sell more. Hearts got nearly 15k for the Airdrie game, but it wasn’t just a token £2 decrease or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by May2116
Failing them dropping prices significantly, which won’t happen and I understand why that’ll be the case, I think they need to do something a bit different in the stadium. Be it the unallocated seating idea behind the goals, closing the top tiers to keep the crowd closer to the pitch to try and create a better atmosphere, giving the schools tickets or whatever.
I don’t know the answer but it’s no good when you have 8 or 9 thousand rattling round the 3 home stands. If they can’t do anything to fill the seats I’d just like to see them trying to do something to make it better for those in the ground.
Of course pinging it down to £10 or less will sell a couple of thousand more, but it wouldn’t cover the loss to both sides for the drop hence why it wouldn’t happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
I’m absolutely not against selling from the bottom up and from the middle out to get a better atmosphere, and unfortunately we can’t give tickets away as again, it would cost the club money stumping up for thousands of tickets that weren’t paid for to give ICT their ‘half’ of the cut.
I also don’t think much will improve the atmosphere at these games, as crap as that sounds. Games where we are expected to win, less ‘glamourous’ games just don’t tend to bring a decent atmosphere with hibs fans nowadays.
Hearts game against Airdrie was the 4th round in the middle of January, at a time that their fans were losing patience with their entire club.Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
This is a quarter final and I'd expect around 14k depending on when it's played, more if our results running up to the game are decent.
Dropping the price to £12, same as the Duncans' did, won't increase the attendance by a significant number and it certainly won't make financial sense so ICT won't agree anyway.
Hibs have tried lowering prices before, but the bodies haven't turned up.
At 20ish quid I don’t see us getting over 14k. Think we got close to that against Ayr a couple of years back (with a large away support) but other recent ER quarter finals have been four figure attendances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
I understand why they won’t drop the pricing but we are rarely interested in actually trying to do anything a bit different which frustrates me.
Have we??? Weve been drawn at PBS 3 times in last 5 years...Celtic at home last season and we had a tough away draw to start this years run too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vault Boy
Could have been worse but I wouldn't say weve been that lucky tbh
No you didn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
You marched into it, led by a flute playing band.:na na:
Ah ...Half past Five in EurosQuote:
Originally Posted by WoreTheGreen
The price is the price. Why cut it when it will not measurably increase the gate or the total receipts buf will result in less money for the club to use on the squad down the line?Quote:
Originally Posted by May2116
That’s the point I’m making.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibbyfraelibby
We've avoided Celtic or Rangers until the final most years since 2012, I'd say we've had our share of luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Borderhibbie76
How quickly do they announce when the games will be and on what channels?
Good draw but don't for one minute think it'll be an easy game. ICT have always seemed to be a bit of a bogey team for us in the past.
However, last time we got them in the SC quarters . . . :greengrin
Considering it’s less than 3 weeks away, I’d expect an announcement at the start of the weekQuote:
Originally Posted by steelendhibs
Update - it took 5 days from the last draw to the tv announcement, so by Friday at the latest probably.
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We only got told about the TV games for today’s round on the 28th Jan. 9 days after the draw.Quote:
Originally Posted by CallumLaidlaw
https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/sc...res-announced/Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
24th. 5 days after the draw.
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Cool I must have looked at the report after we won the replay 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by CallumLaidlaw
I really hope the derby is moved, mate got me tickets for gig on the same night. 😫Quote:
Originally Posted by B.H.F.C
I think they'll wait until after the second replay on Wednesday.
Frustrating for those of us trying to book cheap train fares.
£20 for a Scottish Cup Quarter final would be very reasonable pricing. Should probably be slightly more.
I think we will be Friday night on bbc. Battle of the huns on Premier sat lunch time the other bbc game Saturday night involving the 2 replays and celtic Sunday afternoon on Premier. Based on matches chose by TV so far in the competition and us and hearts both at home and playing again Tuesday.
The replays are on the week after on Tuesday and Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
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Easy draw, Hearts pumped them last year. 3-0 or 3-1 to Hibs. Wish we'd have some confidence. Folk thinking today was some banana skin. We were rubbish and still won so easily. Brilliant draw. Thinking about the semi already.
Me too will win 8 - 5 with our defence playing a blinder :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by MWHIBBIES
Hearts v Sevco..
stevie g and the team will not be happy to lose there again.. They Need to Win a Cup !!!
possibly a good few yellow cards and possibly a few injuries.. think it's going to be a controversial game :greengrin
Right. I thought it was this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven79
I'm having a date nightmare today. :hilarious
The result the other week was one of those random freak results. Hearts by all accounts played well that day and deserved to win but the reality is they are murder so I highly doubt lightening will strike twice. They got lucky and squeezed past Falkirk last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by mca
Magic of the cup and all that, anything can happen but just can't see a team as rank as hearts beating Rangers twice in the space of a couple of months. But hey ho, kind of hoping they do as Rangers are a much better side and I'd far more fancy us against hearts than them if we were both to progress to the semis or final.