From next season should we have a couple of thousand seats in the West Stand sold to Old Firm and Hearts fans, on top of their current allocation?
Benefits - Likely Sell outs, better atmosphere, increased revenue
Drawbacks - More undesirables in the Stadium, better backing for the away team, specific area being set aside meaning Season Tickets couldn't be bought there.
I'd rather we obviously just sold out our own area, but with big games always on TV its going to be difficult as things stand. Maybe if we were doing better sell outs would be easily achieved? I dunno.
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05-04-2011 06:46 PM #1
More Tickets to Old Firm and Hearts Fans at Easter Road?
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05-04-2011 06:48 PM #2
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05-04-2011 06:50 PM #3
To be honest, Rangers, Celtic and especially Hearts struggle to sell out their current allocation these days.
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05-04-2011 06:51 PM #5
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No we should be trying to grow the fan base. as well as that if we were in better form and had been better this season we would have be selling more.
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05-04-2011 06:51 PM #6
Total non-starter. You'd lose a couple of hundred seats for segregation. You'd have increased policing/stewarding costs. You'd have a block completely empty when you play the "smaller" teams as ST holders wouldn't want these seats.
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05-04-2011 06:52 PM #7
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Are you Rod Petrie?
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Simple to install some movable door-wall to seperate the areas.
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05-04-2011 07:32 PM #13
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Fans mixed together walking to the game, usual shouting, singing, banter etc, verbals and the odd missile getting passed across the segragation point with away fans being kept in after the game. Nae real problems...
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05-04-2011 07:37 PM #15
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05-04-2011 08:17 PM #17
IMO it doesnt matter if it will get us a sell out or more cash etc I dont want any of the smellies in our stand. I hated it last season but I knew it was just for a short period of time, couldnt handle it again.
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05-04-2011 08:20 PM #19
No danger, Easter Road is for Hibs fans! Plus green seats are much better looking than bigots and jambos. Or even jambo bigots.
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05-04-2011 08:24 PM #20
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I would be horrified if the Club were even to consider this at this time. We have to try and build our own support.
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Having OF fans be filthy ****mers and creep into the home end in small pockets is bad enough, but for the club to actively pursue their money and fill even one section of the home end with OF or - god forbid - Hearts fans is unthinkable.
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05-04-2011 09:31 PM #22
Not a good idea.
It's easy enough to fumigate the entire South Stand, much more difficult to fumigate just part of the West......
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05-04-2011 10:00 PM #23
Wasn't just last season. We had to share when the West was being built.
On the main point, NO danger should we be giving any of them extra seats. By my reckoning we were only something like 2500 short of a sell out against the Yams. Not bad for a team in 9th. Wait till we're up the top end of the league and pushing for trophies, you'll struggle to get a ticket .
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Aye very good mate.
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06-04-2011 12:15 AM #26
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Its quite a good idea
I would not have a problem with this, as long as hibs install electric chairs.
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06-04-2011 06:13 AM #27
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More tickets to the Rantic would only reinforce their delusional self importance and perpetuate the myth that Scottish football cant survive without them. Poisoning the atmosphere with more of them in our stadium would deter some Hibs supporters from attending those games.
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06-04-2011 07:49 AM #28
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This is now the 6th April not the first, you're a bit late
Space to let
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06-04-2011 07:54 AM #29
Why don't we just go all the way and really bow down to the OF and give them behind both goals in the same way as Killie, St Johnstone etc do?
I'm sure Hibs fans would be quite happy in just the East and West.
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06-04-2011 08:17 AM #30
A couple of points on this.
I don't think exiting the stadium would be a problem, as the visiting support at the south end of the West Stand could be let out of the gate that opens directly on to Albion Road, where the rest of the visitors are.
Segregation inside the upper section of the West stand wouldn't be a problem, as that end is already divided off from the rest of the stand. The problem would come in how you'd let fans enter and leave the lower section. It could mean having to allocate almost half of the lower West for visitors/segregation.
My final point is that, if we sold all but 2,000 or so seats against Hearts in such a cr*p season, we could surely sell more when we're doing well. On that basis, I'd like to see Hibs go with the current seating arrangements for next season at least before we start selling out more tickets to 'the enemy'.
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