Hibs fans at the Scottish Cup Final

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Originally Posted by jeffers

That was my concern, hopefully my out of date passport would suffice, if not I won’t be going in the ballot.

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I'm not saying it is the case, but you would think there would be something about ID, and not transferring tickets etc.

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Originally Posted by Since452

Are people genuinely throwing their toys out the pram over who gets priority? You'd think the last 15 or so months would put things in perspective

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Correct. Especially when Hibs have done it in the fairest possible way!

I hope it's made very clear that you shouldn't enter the ballot unless you're certain that you can go. We don't want any seats left empty.

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Originally Posted by Mikey

I hope it's made very clear that you shouldn't enter the ballot unless you're certain that you can go. We don't want any seats left empty.

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How will you tell? [emoji1787]


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Originally Posted by Kaff

The club has run a scheme, which costs money to administer, to make your life easier following all the games you're fortunate enough to attend.
They've cut out any stress for you chasing up small allocation games and for an absolute one off game in a season like no other you're going to chuck your toys out of the pram if you don't get preference above 12000 other fans who have paid and watched the same football as you this season.
You need to have a think about things tbh

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Well said.

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Originally Posted by Billychaotic182

No one has been to any away games this season! I don’t know you but you are coming across as very selfish and entitled! What we are doing is the fairest thing to do this season IMO.

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You’ll probably find the same people who bumped their gums about loyalty points are the one’s feeling a sense of entitlement as AST🤔 There’s clear commercial reasons why season ticket holders are prioritised over walk ups.......that’s where any entitlement should begin and end.

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Originally Posted by jeffers

That was my concern, hopefully my out of date passport would suffice, if not I won’t be going in the ballot.

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I imagine an out of date passport would be ok for ID purposes as long as the picture looked enough like your current appearance.

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Originally Posted by 660

If there was a loyalty system this would be straightforward. The away season ticket was brought in to partially replace a loyalty points system and ensure those who go to every game get a ticket. For some unknown reason, it’s not applying to this game. BF is right and I don’t see why someone who has a season ticket and never goes to away games should be treated the same as someone who literally goes to every game.

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Your point about someone who doesn’t/rarely goes to away games but has a season ticket is part of the reason the loyalty scheme was stopped as some fans were contacting LD saying they wouldn’t renew their season tickets if having one didn’t give them the chance of tickets for games at Tynecastle.

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

I'm not chucking my toys out of the pram. AST wouldn't have worked due to shortage of tickets.

Fortunate to attend, really?

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Unless you think it's a duty or a hardship to attend the games then of course you're fortunate, I can't get to many games but they cost me about £300 per match so everyone I count myself fortunate to be able to do so and able to afford it compared to someone else.

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Originally Posted by CapitalGreen

I imagine an out of date passport would be ok for ID purposes as long as the picture looked enough like your current appearance.

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Fingers crossed, Game wouldn’t accept it when I was trying a trade in ! I still look as bad now as when the passport photo was taken :greengrin

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Originally Posted by Kaff

Unless you think it's a duty or a hardship to attend the games then of course you're fortunate, I can't get to many games but they cost me about £300 per match so everyone I count myself fortunate to be able to do so and able to afford it compared to someone else.

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I've sacrificed a lot in my life to do what I do. Doesn't make me fortunate

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

I'm not chucking my toys out of the pram. AST wouldn't have worked due to shortage of tickets.

Fortunate to attend, really?

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Were the ASTs actually confirmed this season? I've heard conflicting stories.

I hope whoever gets to go sees us lifting the cup and relishes the moment. We are all hibbys after all. :flag:

ID checks and negative covid tests I assume will be required if recent football matches with supporters are anything to go by.

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Originally Posted by Kaff

Unless you think it's a duty or a hardship to attend the games then of course you're fortunate, I can't get to many games but they cost me about £300 per match so everyone I count myself fortunate to be able to do so and able to afford it compared to someone else.

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This kind of chat come up now and again.

Some folk who go to away games make out as though it's a sacrifice or a duty they're fulfilling. They forget that its actually a game of football they're getting to watch.

To suggest that they are more entitled now is pure selfishness on their part. No one else matters apart from them apparently!

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Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..

This kind of chat come up now and again.

Some folk who go to away games make out as though it's a sacrifice or a duty they're fulfilling. They forget that its actually a game of football they're getting to watch.

To suggest that they are more entitled now is pure selfishness on their part. No one else matters apart from them apparently!

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Imagine going to every game, how selfish

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

I've sacrificed a lot in my life to do what I do. Doesn't make me fortunate

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Fwiw it’s worth I sympathise with guys like you, which includes one of my mates, who go every week, who will miss out. I’d almost rather there had been no fans allowed at all, up until a few weeks ago I think most of us had accepted that would be the case. Even keeping the tickets for players and staff as I’d originally stated would no doubt have meant some of the fans with “connections” would have managed to get themselves one.

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

Imagine going to every game, how selfish

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Eh? I never said that.

I've been to the same number of games as you this season. Why do you think you're more important than me?

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Originally Posted by .Sean.

What if they’d love to go every week, but once they’ve fed themselves, taken care of the family, paid the car and mortgage they canny afford to? Or they’re at work or the wife’s working and they’ve got the kids to look after? Does that make them less of a fan? No everyone is a singleton or a 21 year old living at home with hundreds of quid of spare cash every weekend all to themselves, I had this attitude years back but soon grew out it when I started doing callouts at work , got a house and a car and I can tell you for a fact I love Hibs no less now than I did at the time when I never missed a game home or away for about seven seasons solid.

Usually find myself agreeing with your posts, but that’s nonsense. Hibs are repaying the loyalty of all of of us who’ve pledged hundreds of pounds to the club for a season ticket for which we never had any hope of using to attend the football this year and I can’t see how anyone can say that’s unfair.

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Great post and your circumstances up until recently mirrored mine. Only in recent years that I've had the spare cash to restart the season ticket, I hardly missed a home or away game up to my late 20's and then other priorities kicked in.

Good luck to all who enter the ballot, the club are making the best of a really difficult situation so lets stick together and hope those who make it get to see the right result on the day!!

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

Imagine going to every game, how selfish

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We’ve all been to every game available to us this season.

Provided the ‘proportion’ thing is not excessive, I think the club have got the allocation correct. I’ll be putting myself and the wee man in the draw and hoping for the best. [emoji1696]
And I don’t care if someone who bought a cheaper ticket than me or goes to less games than me gets a ticket. So long as they are season ticket holders then it’s all good.[emoji106]


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Originally Posted by jeffers

Fwiw it’s worth I sympathise with guys like you, which includes one of my mates, who go every week, who will miss out. I’d almost rather there had been no fans allowed at all, up until a few weeks ago I think most of us had accepted that would be the case. Even keeping the tickets for players and staff as I’d originally stated would no doubt have meant some of the fans with “connections” would have managed to get themselves one.

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Thanks, Yip be better with no tickets.

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

Imagine going to every game, how selfish

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Sarcastic comments like this come about when there are no toys left in the pram.

Get a grip of yourself, you are a good poster but you're showing yourself up here.

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Originally Posted by WhileTheChief..

Eh? I never said that.

I've been to the same number of games as you this season. Why do you think you're more important than me?

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This argument would be more of a slam dunk if in other seasons, where some fans objectively did go to far more games than others, they were met with 'we're all season ticket holders!!!!' when they dared to try and question why the club fails to have a loyalty points system that ensures its most regular, match-going fans are given first dibs at tickets for games at Tynie and Ibrox.

In 2018, there was a ridiculous situation where I, and quite a few of my pals, had been to every home and away game bar our trip to Molde before we played Hearts at Tynecastle on Halloween, yet were left having to beg for tickets because around 1,000 to 1,500 season ticket holders who virtually never leave the Lothian region for an away day are given just as much right to the mad online scramble for them.

Nearly every other club of our size has a working, fair loyalty points system and their fans accept it. So this argument that 'well we have all been to the same number of games this season!' may look like smart boxing, but let's just remember it next campaign when we go back to the silly scrambles for 900 briefs at Ibrox

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Originally Posted by Hibernian Verse

Sarcastic comments like this come about when there are no toys left in the pram.

Get a grip of yourself, you are a good poster but you're showing yourself up here.

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I'm showing my emotion. But I'm not throwing toys out of pram. I'm posting in relation to how I feel, but it won't change anyones opinion. We all have an opinion, rightly or wrongly, it's called freedom of speech.

I'm a selfish, self entitled bloke, so I will bow out now, and leave the discussions there.

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Originally Posted by jeffers

Fwiw it’s worth I sympathise with guys like you, which includes one of my mates, who go every week, who will miss out. I’d almost rather there had been no fans allowed at all, up until a few weeks ago I think most of us had accepted that would be the case. Even keeping the tickets for players and staff as I’d originally stated would no doubt have meant some of the fans with “connections” would have managed to get themselves one.

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Good balanced post this ....

You could argue loads of different ways as to who is the most loyal fans (behind Baldy obviously). Some travel huge distances to even get to home games, some have 3 kids that they have to get season tickets for, some struggle to walk .... Could go on. Being able to commit to an away ticket doesn't put that necessarily above any of the other reasons in terms of loyalty.

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

Thanks, Yip be better with no tickets.

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So you won't be entering the ballot then 😉

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Originally Posted by ABZHFC

This argument would be more of a slam dunk if in other seasons, where some fans objectively did go to far more games than others, they were met with 'we're all season ticket holders!!!!' when they dared to try and question why the club fails to have a loyalty points system that ensures its most regular, match-going fans are given first dibs at tickets for games at Tynie and Ibrox.

In 2018, there was a ridiculous situation where I, and quite a few of my pals, had been to every home and away game bar our trip to Molde before we played Hearts at Tynecastle on Halloween, yet were left having to beg for tickets because around 1,000 to 1,500 season ticket holders who virtually never leave the Lothian region for an away day are given just as much right to the mad online scramble for them.

Nearly every other club of our size has a working, fair loyalty points system and their fans accept it. So this argument that 'well we have all been to the same number of games this season!' may look like smart boxing, but let's just remember it next campaign when we go back to the silly scrambles for 900 briefs at Ibrox

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That's the whole point, though. We're NOT talking about a normal situation, we're talking about a time where we're going through a global pandemic, where thousands have lost their lives, millions have lost their jobs and people have had to live through the kind of restrictions none of us would have imagined possible in our lifetime


The club has now been put in an unwinnable situation where it has to decide which of our fans get the privilege of picking up a couple of hundred tickets for a Cup Final.

Now on here I'm reading some selfish ********s telling us they DESERVE to be there more than anybody else?

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Maybe that argument has some merit during any other season but, jeezo, some people need to get some sense of perspective here.

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Originally Posted by ABZHFC

This argument would be more of a slam dunk if in other seasons, where some fans objectively did go to far more games than others, they were met with 'we're all season ticket holders!!!!' when they dared to try and question why the club fails to have a loyalty points system that ensures its most regular, match-going fans are given first dibs at tickets for games at Tynie and Ibrox.

In 2018, there was a ridiculous situation where I, and quite a few of my pals, had been to every home and away game bar our trip to Molde before we played Hearts at Tynecastle on Halloween, yet were left having to beg for tickets because around 1,000 to 1,500 season ticket holders who virtually never leave the Lothian region for an away day are given just as much right to the mad online scramble for them.

Nearly every other club of our size has a working, fair loyalty points system and their fans accept it. So this argument that 'well we have all been to the same number of games this season!' may look like smart boxing, but let's just remember it next campaign when we go back to the silly scrambles for 900 briefs at Ibrox

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Good post. It’s embarrassing hibs haven’t sorted this issue out yet. Hopefully it’s on RGs radar now that LD is away

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Originally Posted by Baldy Foghorn

I'm showing my emotion. But I'm not throwing toys out of pram. I'm posting in relation to how I feel, but it won't change anyones opinion. We all have an opinion, rightly or wrongly, it's called freedom of speech.

I'm a selfish, self entitled bloke, so I will bow out now, and leave the discussions there.

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I completely understand the frustration of you and the others who go to every single game . You all make choices to do that, and compromise on other things in life ...so to likely miss out on a major game must really hurt ..

I’d much rather the few who run buses got a ticket before hospitality members

Anyway. Fingers crossed !!