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Brilliant that the fans are supporting the club in its 150 year.
Phenomenal effort from the fans again. Fair play Hibs in freezing prices as well.
I trust the BK group are watching these figures with interest…
The potential of our club has always been there and I hope the partnership really starts to bear fruit next season.
Renewed today.
Good sales so far. Get the team performing and the Hibs fans will back them.
Over 10k and still technically in March.
Fantastic effort.
On track for 13k+ I would guess
Our support continues to be fantastic for a team that’s underachieving bar this season hopefully. Well done all involved.
Out of curiosity I wonder how many are new season tickets or has it been all renewals from last year .. either way great figures
What do you mean technically in March? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Col2
We're definitely still in March and we will be for several hours!
Most of them will be renewals to keep their seat with the deadline just passed.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibby67
Parking is going to be a nightmare next year then :)
brilliant from the fans, if we secure group stage European football next year I’d imagine we will smash a few records next year.
I’m really impressed with that. I heard it was over 7k the other day and thought that was really good going. To get to over 10 before the seat release is amazing.
What was the total this season? Around 11k?
im sure the last update we got last year before it went quiet was around that yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mcbizz1998
I'd love a few more of these tickets to be used every week cos the numbers still seem a fair bit off actually attendances, but 10,000 is incredible at this stage, well done everyone.
I'm toying with buying a season ticket this time, I really want to help the club but as I can only make it over four or five times a season, it would be yet another seat that will be counted in the official figures but sit empty for three out of every four home games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
I just bought one. I'll try to get to as many as possible but realistically, because of the distance and TV schedules, it'll be 10 at the most.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pagan Hibernia
There's obviously scores of people in the same boat as you and the other poster, and you'd much rather have the seat bought and the club funded that lying empty and without value.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
Think I just have an irrational dislike of our colour of seats looking 'emptier' than others clubs.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...31b0d3fe96.jpg
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It's not an irrational dislike. I know exactly how you feel but I guess there's not much that can be done about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
Thats an outstanding effort jeez.
Great numbers for March, shows the support that is there if the team perform
Have to agree, considering how well we have been playing recently still only 17000 there on saturday 2000 less than pittodrie. 10000 allready for next season though is great going, well done everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
It was £10 a ticket at Pittodrie on Saturday which explains the large crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralphy C
Not in other parts of the world it isn’t. 🤪Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
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Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
It annoys me too. Dark green seats would help!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
Fair enough, just think this team are doing their bit and deserve backed a bit more, 17000 is probably up a bit but not by much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Col2
When half the south is split for away fans, you’ll probably find there was probably only around 700-800 unsold seats in hibs 3.5 standsQuote:
Originally Posted by Ralphy C
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On a similar topic we really could be doing with somehow making it easier to get out the East from the back at full time. As soon as the board goes up it EMPTIES, even when winning. People are doing it cos it takes so long to get out but there was hardly anyone left in the East when the penalty went it in Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
A thousand more and that's Hibs sold the equivalent capacity of Bournemouth's stadium in Season ticket sales, in March. :flag:
What you thinkin'?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs Go Bragh
Firemans poles or flumes up the back?
It is ***** trying to get out the East at the height of winter when you just want to reach heat as quickly as possible.
By the time you get out everyone from the other stands are nearly back in their hooses or in the pub.
It isn't helped by fannies unable to move down the stair quickly for looking at their ****in phones for a couple of minutes.
Holy ****
What about one of those inflatable slides you get on an aeroplane in the event of an emergency? 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by PHeffernan
At what point in the game was that picture taken?Quote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
The East looked a lot fuller than that to me on Saturday
The east was basically sold out on Saturday yet looking at that picture there are so many empty seats. Weird considering how well things are going at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
Could well have been pushing towards half time, as I do think it was a tad fuller than that and you see a fair few on the stairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pagan Hibernia
It looked full when standing during the minutes applause, but did find it quite noticeable there would barely have been a full row of seats in any section bar the South end, and most would have had at least a quarter empty.
As the post says above, that was with a supposed near sell out too, AND the free kids tickets. I'm not saying we're lying about ticket sales, but for a Saturday 3pm in a winnable game with 15-odd unbeaten, there's clearly a sizeable number of STHs not attending.
Anyway, didn't mean to sidetrack the thread. 10,000 is brilliant, can't dispute that.
Looks like it does when folk have started to move down to get some food maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pagan Hibernia
This pic definitely taken just before half time as the east was pretty full on SaturdayQuote:
Originally Posted by Broken Gnome
The picture was taken minutes from the end of the game
The fans were consulted and opted for a single tier stand. This was probably an inevitable consequence without substantial additional cost to build extra exit routes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs Go Bragh
wheeeeeeeeeeeQuote:
Originally Posted by hibs go bragh
Don’t think it was as Hibs shooting towards the south stand in it which would mean first half.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringothedog
Sorry mate your wrong as that’s the hibs goalie in the shot which is definitely the 1st halfQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringothedog
That’s the first half though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringothedog
Season ticket holders in the East taking a ‘Hibs Kid’ would probably have to be accommodated outwith their usual seats, possibly outwith the East.Quote:
Originally Posted by DIXIHIBS
41st minuteQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringothedog
I was trying to remember when the rainbow appeared. You are all right, the big giveaway was that Hibs were shooting up the slope in the first half. What an erse!
Keep on this trajectory and we might find ourselves in a position where a reduction of Old Firm allocations becomes a realistic scenario.
That thought occurred to me, I wonder if we may open the South and offer a season ticket in the South with a guaranteed seat elsewhere when Hearts visit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carheenlea
To have that guaranteed seat we'd need to have seats that weren't sold as STs in the other 3 stands anyway so not sure there would be much incentive to open up the South for ST sells.Quote:
Originally Posted by gbhibby
Unless I've missed something!
Said it many times before ,our team in the recent past has not been anything to shout about ,but most certainly our supporters have been phenomenal ,over 10000 season tickets sold it’s only march ,as one of the posters pointed out earlier our aim must be to sell season tickets in the south stand and reduce the ugly sisters allocation ,we can do it cmon :flag:
Once we qualify for the Europa league group stages a season ticket will guarantee you a ticket, get it done hibs
Even with the factor of the seat release deadline pushing folk to renew before the end of March 10,000 plus by this stage is phenomenal.
Folk like me who started going to games in the mid 70s could never have imagined crowds of 17,000 against the likes of St Johnstone barely rating a mention, never mind a time when over 10,000 people would pay in advance to watch all of the club's league games, with the hope being to get to 14,000 and that not even being unrealistic.
Considering the likes of us Hearts, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd etc have even less chance of winning the league than we did back then, it's a real testament to the dedication and passion of Scotland's non glory hunting football fans that they are so willing to back and support their clubs, especially in an era where there are so many more entertainment choices and far far more live games on TV.
Yes we might have a pish league, yes the standard isn't the bloody EPL or La Liga .... but our dedication to it in spite of all that is something to be proud of IMO and if you ask me our sports media don't make enough of it.
It just shows the potential of the club, if we finish strong, we might not be far off 15k.
Brilliant post completely agree particularly your final post re the media. We are very short changed in this country in that area.Quote:
Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
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Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
I think it's a great phenomenon and a reaction against the blandness of modern entertainment capitalism, whereby people want to be involved in their own community. One way they do this in increasing numbers is getting involved in their local clubs and rejecting the football tourist model of the glory hunter.
For Hibs, we potentially have the best of both worlds, with national and global appeal. Our location is a definite asset, Edinburgh still has weekend vibrancy as a city and Leith is by far the most happening district in Scotland, with it's variety of pubs, bars and eateries of all sorts. The only thing that limits us (in a way quite pleasingly as I'd hate us to become a tourist club) is playing in a smaller league in Scotland. When you at clubs like Bournemouth, it's not ridiculous to think of Hibs in a league like the EPL or a European League playing in a 60,000 dockland stadium.
But nah...this is just better.
I was lucky enough to watch hibs in the early 70s and beyond, I think many people would be surspised at the average crowds for games outwith the old firm, and hearts, nothing like what we get today.
The old firm, and hearts attendances, were much larger, but we only played them once a season.
My guess for 1972 average attendance would be about 12,000.
Brilliant effort by hibs fans this season .👍
Excellent news. A good finish to the season and who knows how many we can sell.Quote:
Originally Posted by HIBS NUTS
Don't want to take the thread off on a tangent but I've never been able to understand why crowds weren't bigger in the Tornadoes era for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
As you say, football was cheap then, and there were less options for entertainment on a Saturday. Hibs were quite simply a team of exceptional quality and banging in goals for fun (over a hundred in all competitions before christmas in 1972-73). We had a genuine and realistic chance of winning the league and going far in European competitions.
When crowds were big for the derby, rangers and celtic etc they were very big, but for run of the mill games most weeks only 10 -13k people could be bothered coming to watch this wonderful swashbuckling team.? Sometimes less than 10,000. I can't get my head around that.
Yup quite staggering that the average was that low, remembering being at a Derby game as wee kid, 3-0 up at Easter road after 30mins. Must have been 33-37k there .....Quote:
Originally Posted by HIBS NUTS
I have this photo on my phone and it says 16:48?Quote:
Originally Posted by CapitalGreen
I too thought it was at the end?
There must have been two.
Did your phone move to BST a day early? :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hillsidehibby
All of our front 4 are offside :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringothedog
10k is superb.
My understanding is that whilst new ST holders could buy they probably weren't the target market so this is largely 10k renewals out of our current ST pool which is really good going.
I started going late 80’s and early 90’s.
I’m sure crowds were around 8,000 for some games.
Unbelievable sales
My photo from the west definitely has the Saints goalie in yellow at the FF end.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
There must have been two rainbows. 😂
If I knew how to upload a photo I would!
There were plenty of empty seats in the East on Saturday, I commented to my son about it during the game. And there were two separate rainbows.Quote:
Originally Posted by eastterrace
3 of them are in their own half :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Thank you. I’m not going senile after all 👍Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Its an incredible upturn particularly given that 40 years ago there wasn't the chasm between the OF and the restQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4185
i can go back to 4 and 5 thousand crowds for some games early 80s and a game vs the huns probably 1982 where I'm sure the crowd was about 8500.
The demographic of our crowds has changed hugely in the last 40 years, I'm guessing because its a safer and more family orientated atmosphere. There's a huge number of women and children going compared to the 80s. I also get the feeling, totally unscientifically based on some of the folks that sit around me, that we attract a more middle class crowd now and I'm in the East. Doesn't seem to be as much mainly gadgies now :greengrin. And Edinburgh now being a major city-break destination there's visitors coming to games that never used to.
I sit in the East and there’s not a lot of Gadgies beside us ‘ myself and my m8 are a couple of Lochend gadgiesQuote:
Originally Posted by Brizo
We were getting crowds of 8/9,000 in 2015/16 in the Championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4185
How many ST are actually available to buy in home stands?
What is our record ST sales?
16,000-16,500 (including hospitality)?Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenCastle
Remarkable stuff, I wonder how many folk haven't renewed on last season?
I long for the days I can afford the time and cash to buy one. Hopefully with the 2 junior Jones' in tow. Mrs Jones will be a hard no I imagine but you never know!
As a regular in the Turnbulls era perhaps one of the reasons for the low crowds was the delapidated state of Easter Rd at the time. eg ladies toilets almost non existent, gents toilets you just pee'd against a wall in a ramshackle outbuilding whilst standing in a 4 inch pool of urine and as for a sit down ,,,,,,,, nah, don't go there. We also had next to no catering back then and what there was was basically a pie and bovril.
Also limited cover from the elements and not a very friendly area under the shed/cave where in matches against the big 3 it was often like a full scale battle zone. Add in that the crowd was nearly all male and not averse to singing ditties about women getting parts of their bodies out to show the men!! Definitely not family friendly.
Now we have all covered, all seated and mostly dry seats with plenty loos and food outlets. Also segregation from the away nutjob fans.
All this combined makes for a better experience
So you’re saying we’d get 13,000 if we had hot water in the toilets?Quote:
Originally Posted by linlithgowhibbie
8,000 was a pretty decent crowd for some games in that period.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4185
A lot of crowds below that, some as low as 4/5k.
The fans wanted a single tier stand so they got one. If you want out quicker at the end of games switch to the prawn sandwich stand :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibs Go Bragh
ST ticket sales not an option online just now, was there any indication when they would be back up on sale?
They will make an announcement when they have finished dealing with seat relocations.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsforeurope
https://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/news/2025/march/31/season-ticket-update--over-10-000-tickets-sold-/Quote:
Originally Posted by hibsforeurope
I’m in the Prawn Sandwich stand those escalators are a godsend.Quote:
Originally Posted by dangermouse
But we also get a free suntan in the EastQuote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
Hearts have announced they are only at 5000 season tickets sold……
Bang on :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brizo
When I started going in the 70s women and girls at games were few and far between, now they are probably not far off a 6th of our crowd and that's probably true for most clubs. I think back in the day fathers uncles and grandads hardly ever thought of taking a wee lassie along, now it's something they don't think twice about ... in fact now you see wee kids being taken along by their mums, never mind dads etc.
Even though they were practically forced into it by Hillsborough and Hysel, clubs have improved their facilities massively in the last 30 years and the change in demographics is as much a reflection of that as anything else.
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Originally Posted by Hillsidehibby
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Originally Posted by Hillsidehibby
My photo is timed at 1544. So it was taken just before half time. The empty seats are because of the early pie munchers migration
Saturday was a bit weird. 5 minutes before KO the east wasn't even half full, but by the time the game was 5 minutes old it was far fuller, probably 5,000 or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
The trouble with the east is that if you want a pie at half time you have to get moving before the whistle goes just to get onto the east concourse. It's the same at full time, folk up the back start leaving before the end so they don't have to stand on the stairs for 5 minutes, probably one of the reasons there was only about 2000 folk left in the east to watch Bowie's penalty on Saturday.
The facility does exist to put a 1st floor onto the east and create new 'vomitoriums' half way up the stand ( thanks to Anne Budge :greengrin ) Though I can't help thinking if that's ever to happen it would be as part of a bigger stadium upgrade in the FF / east corner. A long way off, but something Hibs simply have to keep on the table if the club is to progress into the 21st century. Maybe we could get the billionaire part owners to pay for it all before we get to the clubs 200th anniversary.
We beat them at home and we beat them awayQuote:
Originally Posted by ThisIsTheYear
And this is the effect
that must be a mistype - surely two zeros missing from that number :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by ThisIsTheYear
When did they go on sale though?Quote:
Originally Posted by ThisIsTheYear
18/03 think we were the start or March?Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Close to a full house at such a small stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThisIsTheYear
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Springbank
The importance of the Edinburgh derby cannot be understated. We are finally reaping the rewards.
My first year as a season ticket holder was 1986/87. £50. Bought it in cash a few days before the start of the season from the club shop on Easter Road. Guy behind the counter told me we’d sold 1200.
Folk are fully entitled to prioritise getting away early and getting pies etc but there's no denying the East looks pretty grim from about 85 mins on every week. I doubt the club will think it's important enough to make structural changes at great cost to make it easier to get out though- people might still choose to leave early anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
AFAIK the east was designed with the possibility of a 1st floor factored in. I agree Hibs won't do this as a one off, but as part of a bigger stadium upgrade it's maybe something they would think about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shrekko
As it is adding more exits would reduce the capacity of the stand, but if the idea was to fill in the FF / East corner with seats which could add 1000 seats or more to the stadium the loss of a few hundred in the east might be acceptable in the cause of making things easier for the fans.
Just my thoughts on it, though I would say that whatever happens at some point Hibs are really going to have to do something with what is an utterly redundant, but significant, piece of land between the FF and East .... it seems ridiculously wasteful to simply use it as a defacto matchday car park.
That area is desperate to be turned in to some sort of hotel/matchday bar/clubstore complex.Quote:
Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
They could build the seating decks to link the FF and east but leave the area underneath them open for a covered fan 2one folk can just walk in and out of from the street .... a couple of club run kiosks selling beer burgers and hot dogs and overhead heaters to keep folk warm in the winter. Would be brilliant :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
Thats brilliant, would be so good and it would be a revenue generator for the club across the whole site.Quote:
Originally Posted by NAE NOOKIE
You could even stick a helliepad on the roof :greengrin
We could just put a big windowless cube in that area, call it a boutique hotel and watch the millions flood in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jones28
I understand thats what big clubs do.
Would it have screens instead of windows though? And can you see the castle? And also, in the conference rooms, would their be massive pillars right down the middle so you can't actually see the contents of the conference you're attending?Quote:
Originally Posted by green day
“Unbeatable views of the plumbers merchants across the road” 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by green day