Praise for the Fans

[madabouthibs]

Commentary on BBC praising the Hibs fan for turning up in great numbers tonight, seems the Friday night/£10 + £5 combo has worked.
Well done to all the Hibby's that have braved the brass monkeys weather!

[LancashireHibby]

Upper tier nearly full it seems, not sure if there are any in the lower tier. Biggest Motherwell support for a long while as well to be fair.

[pentlando]

Great turnout tonight. However on the bus coming home plenty of folk are bragging about how many replacement tickets they managed to score. Gutted to be associated with basic 'theft'. Especially with many fans being unable to get any tickets when they were at the game. Society gone mad.

[Billy Whizz]

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Great turnout tonight. However on the bus coming home plenty of folk are bragging about how many replacement tickets they managed to score. Gutted to be associated with basic 'theft'. Especially with many fans being unable to get any tickets when they were at the game. Society gone mad.

What do you mean replacement tickets. Left the ground and there was no one around doing this?

[brianmc]

Dearie me... Society gone mad indeed.


Quick draft a strong worded letter to... Someone that gives a ****?

Gutted??? REALLY?

[lyonhibs]

I suspect they are talking *****.

How do you go about scoring "replacement tickets" for a game less than an hour after the 1st game gets cancelled??

[sundo1875]

They were handing out tickets at the end of game

[zelda]

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I suspect they are talking *****.

How do you go about scoring "replacement tickets" for a game less than an hour after the 1st game gets cancelled??

They were gettin handed out outside the ground

[Billy Whizz]

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They were gettin handed out outside the ground

Not when I left they weren't

[clerriehibs]

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I suspect they are talking *****.

How do you go about scoring "replacement tickets" for a game less than an hour after the 1st game gets cancelled??

I would imagine either the OP means vouchers for the replay or those that claimed they had multiple replacement tickets had multiple vouchers for the replay.

[DaveF]

I didnt see anyone handing out tickets and had no idea they were doing that. No point in putting it out on the PA as that was ****ing useless.

Not happy if I have missed out on this.

[kennyh]

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Great turnout tonight. However on the bus coming home plenty of folk are bragging about how many replacement tickets they managed to score. Gutted to be associated with basic 'theft'. Especially with many fans being unable to get any tickets when they were at the game. Society gone mad.

Gave up trying on the way out as stewards hadnt a clue but got T's for WEll end as we walked throug their bit after the game. Bit of hassle tho, walked up to a steward and asked for t's saying none were available at our stand only to be told to go back to the hibs end. Decided to wait 10secs, move to the stewards other side and put my hand out, hey presto i now have a free t for the next game... shambles

[Steve20]

I got a match abandoned voucher. Didn't see people get more than one though.

[forthhibby]

yep, i managed to get replacement vouchers, was a bit chaotic though

[BEEJ]

They were handing out vouchers at some exit doors but not at others. I doubled back when I heard someone say they were handing them out.

[easty]

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Not when I left they weren't

Me neither. When we came out I couldn't see a single steward anywhere.

[lyonhibs]

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They were handing out tickets at the end of game

God, they were rapid. Also, what a hit and miss system. I assume there were far, far fewer folk handing out tickets than there were fans, spread relatively thinly around the ground.

By the sounds of it, either a lot of folk had left before they got out, or it was easy to walk back to cars/buses and not see them.

Shambolic and amateur - much like Motherwell FC and Fir Park in general.

GGTTH

[DaveF]

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They were handing out vouchers at some exit doors but not at others. I doubled back when I heard someone say they were handing them out.

Clearly I left via one of the doors where it wasn't happening! I'll fire off an email to motherwell as I just followed the stewards instructions and basically left as asked.

[forthhibby]

mate was talking to one of the stewards and he said we were supposed to be held back for a few minutes and they were going to have stewards at each gate giving out tickets, but as you say ended up shambolic and amauterish.

[CallumLaidlaw]

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God, they were rapid. Also, what a hit and miss system. I assume there were far, far fewer folk handing out tickets than there were fans, spread relatively thinly around the ground.

By the sounds of it, either a lot of folk had left before they got out, or it was easy to walk back to cars/buses and not see them.

Shambolic and amateur - much like Motherwell FC and Fir Park in general.

GGTTH

Commentator was talking about it on the radio, saying how the voucher system had been deployed at a previous abandoned game, and the fans photocopied the vouchers and took about 20,000 to the rescheduled match!!!

[francobaresi]

Was a great crowd for a Friday night, especially from Embra... Got my abandoned ticket though for the replay in March

[Andy74]

The ones doubling back were causing some dangerous crushing. Poor organisation but also some daft behaviour.

[BEEJ]

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The ones doubling back were causing some dangerous crushing. Poor organisation but also some daft behaviour.

Where was this?

The lasting picture in my mind is several hundred Hibs fans mingling around outside the South Stand at Fir Park trying to work out what was going on.

No sign of smoke or flames, no fire alarm system going off, no sense of emergency exit procedures being put into play. Just, "match abandoned, please make your way home now".

[kennyh]

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Was a great crowd for a Friday night, especially from Embra... Got my abandoned ticket though for the replay in March

Great hibs support, very vocal, two home stands almost full too. I am against Friday footy but the reduced admission certainly worked as the crowd was much bigger than a run of the mill £22 game on a Saturday. This will soon become an ESPN slot.....

[lucky]

If Friday night football is going to work then £10 for ticket is the way forward. Couple of Motherwell fans told me that was the biggest away support of the season out with the ugly sisters

[AlbertK86]

Probably the most shambolic thing i've seen in years. Should have handed them out in the stadium. It just became a total farce

[AlbertK86]

great support. All very positive. Even singing ooh ah mikey hart. Lets keep the encouragement going

GGTTH

[hibeedonald]

An absolute joke. The steward was cornered and lots of agressive people were going mental at the guy, he was handing them out like sweets, I got an extra one for my dad.

[Alfred E Newman]

I think the good crowd was more down to the reduced admission charges than the Friday night. Felons first game was a factor as far as the Hibs fans were concerned as well. It shows that fans are still keen to come out and support their team but that the normal over inflated prices are gradually driving people away from the game.

[Jonnyboy]

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I think the good crowd was more down to the reduced admission charges than the Friday night. Felons first game was a factor as far as the Hibs fans were concerned as well. It shows that fans are still keen to come out and support their team but that the normal over inflated prices are gradually driving people away from the game.

That's criminal calling him that