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[Islington Hibs]

65840 is thebiggest crowd ever to watch a Hibs Hearts match, I believe.

If it was the old Hampden, capacity 140000, walk up on the day, what do yourecon the crowd would be and how many Hi-bees?

We will never know but my guess is that 65480 would be smashed. I think around85000 would be there roughly 50/50. Any thoughts?

[S.sct]

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65840 is thebiggest crowd ever to watch a Hibs Hearts match, I believe.

If it was the old Hampden, capacity 140000, walk up on the day, what do yourecon the crowd would be and how many Hi-bees?

We will never know but my guess is that 65480 would be smashed. I think around85000 would be there roughly 50/50. Any thoughts?

I think we could have filled Murrayfield and I believe that would have beat the record. Not sure about 85000, we'll never know.

[Bishop Hibee]

Hampdump was rebuilt with too small a capacity. OF games and finals involving either of the OF, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen could get over 52000.

Recent Scotland games such as Scotland v Italy, Scotland v Spain or Scotland v Holland would have got 75000.

I reckon this game could have got 75000.

The SFA got it wrong (again).

[lapsedhibee]

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65840 is thebiggest crowd ever to watch a Hibs Hearts match, I believe.

If it was the old Hampden, capacity 140000, walk up on the day, what do yourecon the crowd would be and how many Hi-bees?

We will never know but my guess is that 65480 would be smashed. I think around85000 would be there roughly 50/50. Any thoughts?

Eh, no way would we be able to match their pulling power. We're a wee team forever in their shadow donchaknow. Also if 'twere the old Hampden the crowd wouldn't be segregated so there'd be no sure way to know the split. Nevertheless I'll go 400,000 doing camp twirlies v. 26 thousand and 07 normals.

[esjorto]

I think it was at Easter Road and not Hampden.

[BoltonHibee]

When it comes to the games that matter, we have a far higher number that will attend.

Their ticket sales seemed to go extremely slowly compare to ours, I think that is pretty obvious. There appears to be an awful lot of Hibbies in their end for the Final.

It would've been a full house at Murrayfield to smash the record, 55to 65%Hibs fans.

Some Hearts fans I Know are crapping themselves over this one. We hold all the records against them, well the records that count

[Jonnyboy]

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65840 is thebiggest crowd ever to watch a Hibs Hearts match, I believe.

If it was the old Hampden, capacity 140000, walk up on the day, what do yourecon the crowd would be and how many Hi-bees?

We will never know but my guess is that 65480 would be smashed. I think around85000 would be there roughly 50/50. Any thoughts?

65,840 was the official attendance but contemporary reports suggest there was at least 5,000 more than that in the ground on the day. Fans were sitting round the track between the wall and the pitch and there were several stoppages for fans spilling onto the pitch because the crush was so tight.

Musta been quite a spectacle

[hibsdaft]

did we not take 40,000 to the CIS final against Livi?

this suggests even more for Scottish Cup final, against them. i can't believe they could not get toward 30k or more themselves, really don't understand this talk of them not selling out quickly, if true.

if we were talking equivilent 20th centure prices i think over 100,000.

[Jonnyboy]

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I think it was at Easter Road and not Hampden.

It was but I think the word "If" in the OP indicates that Islington was wondering what the crowd would have been had it been played at the old Hampden

[BoltonHibee]

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65,840 was the official attendance but contemporary reports suggest there was at least 5,000 more than that in the ground on the day. Fans were sitting round the track between the wall and the pitch and there were several stoppages for fans spilling onto the pitch because the crush was so tight.

Musta been quite a spectacle

I hope you gave one of the youngsters a lift over

[bob12345]

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Hampdump was rebuilt with too small a capacity. OF games and finals involving either of the OF, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen could get over 52000.

Recent Scotland games such as Scotland v Italy, Scotland v Spain or Scotland v Holland would have got 75000.

I reckon this game could have got 7500t0.

The SFA got it wrong (again).

True, but I would say for every sell out there would be 3 games that didn't - so the stadium would look even more empty.

[jgl07]

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Hampdump was rebuilt with too small a capacity. OF games and finals involving either of the OF, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen could get over 52000.

Recent Scotland games such as Scotland v Italy, Scotland v Spain or Scotland v Holland would have got 75000.

I reckon this game could have got 75000.

The SFA got it wrong (again).

The mistake (by Jim Farry) was to firstly develop Hampden rather than building a new stadium. I suspect that it cost more than a new build would have done. Maybe they should not have bothered and used Ibrox, Parkhead or Murrayfield?

Secondly the development was botched (by Jim Farry) by basically retaining the terraces and putting seats into the North, East and West. The views in the East and West are poor because the rake is too shallow for an all-seater and the punters are too far from the pitch.

The South Stand is OK but most of the best seats go to debenture holders, plus the 'suits' and the 'blazers'.

[Jonnyboy]

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I hope you gave one of the youngsters a lift over

How do you think the extra 5,000 got in?

[BoltonHibee]

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How do you think the extra 5,000 got in?

:)

[fit o' the walk]

As the Hibs song says "And when i think of bygone days,as i do now and then" Just thinking of the amazing crowds we have been involved in,yeh the Easter Rd record attendance of over 65k when we played THEM, 143,000 (a world record for two clubs at the time)V Rangers,92,000 against Clyde,102,000 against Rangers at Ibrox,101,000 against Celtic at Hampden.Those were the days !!

[DC_Hibs]

Pretty sure without the ticket hassles and pay at the gate as stated then there would be plenty of neutrals from all over also looking to go and see this one.

p.s **** the Hertz

[The Harp]

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65,840 was the official attendance but contemporary reports suggest there was at least 5,000 more than that in the ground on the day. Fans were sitting round the track between the wall and the pitch and there were several stoppages for fans spilling onto the pitch because the crush was so tight.

Musta been quite a spectacle

Very glad I was only a nipper and too young to attend this one - 65,840, and that was before the east terracing was extended. I read that a lot of fans gave up and left the ground because of the crush and the fact that they couldn't see a thing.

[BoltonHibee]

Good god, I didn't realise that it was before the terracing was extended!!

What a squash!

[blackpoolhibs]

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Good god, I didn't realise that it was before the terracing was extended!!

What a squash!

Good job you were not at that game, the crowd would have have been dramatically reduced to manage even 20 thousand in fact the turnstile sepals have to be a lot wider just to let you in.

[BoltonHibee]

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Good job you were not at that game, the crowd would have have been dramatically reduced to manage even 20 thousand in fact the turnstile sepals have to be a lot wider just to let you in.

Ah, just back from the pub I see

[BoltonHibee]

What was the attendance at the 0 v 7 game? I mean before HT when most of them, emptied the ground and were then seen tramping around the ground greeting.

[blackpoolhibs]

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What was the attendance at the 0 v 7 game? I mean before HT when most of them, emptied the ground and were then seen tramping around the ground greeting.

Know your place BH, know your place. Anymore pish like above and i'm swapping the tickets around, and you are in with them.

[hiblander]

Probably 53,001 cause there was empty seats the last time.