25,000 to Hampden Semi..

[GreenCastle]

Let's do it !

Stubbs and this team deserve our support - plus this will be a tough game and could be a major factor helping us get through to a money spinning final.

We have had some great Hampden crowds over the years and it would be great if we could fill our end for this one.

[silverhibee]

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Let's do it !

Stubbs and this team deserve our support - plus this will be a tough game and could be a major factor helping us get through to a money spinning final.

We have had some great Hampden crowds over the years and it would be great if we could fill our end for this one.

Are daytrippers invited for this trip to Hampden.

[GreenCastle]

Yes of course! You never know they may turn into diehards - however you classify a diehard ?!

[Pete]

25 would be nice but 15,000 would be more realistic. It also depends on the day and kick off time.

[davhibby]

I'd be disappointed if we couldn't at least match the 2013 semi which was 17,000

[NadeAteMyLunch!]

Really hope we're on the Sat. A Sunday would drop our attendance significantly I think

[monktonharp]

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Are daytrippers invited for this trip to Hampden.

nice of you to lend some encouragement to the op.

[Hibeesmad]

Hoping its a saturday game, it was last time so hopefully the same again

[monktonharp]

I do get the feeling that it could be a Saturday. my reasoning being that we are classed as a wee club at the moment, in comparison to the likes of Celtic/Utd/Inverness/ if they beat Raith.

[Pete]

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I do get the feeling that it could be a Saturday. my reasoning being that we are classed as a wee club at the moment, in comparison to the likes of Celtic/Utd/Inverness/ if they beat Raith.

The other one probably will be Celtic or Utd v ICT, which will be the one that's more desirable for the television companies. Like yourself I'm hoping that they will want that game to be shown at midday on a Sunday as an appetiser to the all important blockbuster between Rotherham and Wigan...therefore leaving us alone.

Saying that, they might actually do their analysis and decide that our game has the potential to be a cracker. The last one certainly was.

[SteveHFC]

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Are daytrippers invited for this trip to Hampden.

[silverhibee]

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nice of you to lend some encouragement to the op.

[Haymaker]

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Are daytrippers invited for this trip to Hampden.

I hope we are allowed to the final at least!

[monktonharp]

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The other one probably will be Celtic or Utd v ICT, which will be the one that's more desirable for the television companies. Like yourself I'm hoping that they will want that game to be shown at midday on a Sunday as an appetiser to the all important blockbuster between Rotherham and Wigan...therefore leaving us alone.

Saying that, they might actually do their analysis and decide that our game has the potential to be a cracker. The last one certainly was.

we can hope that their analysis is more of a premier league teams more acceptable to the uk public on a Sunday scenario Peter. a bit like 60 million, don't really care if 5 million don't want Westminster scenario

[SteveHFC]

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I hope we are allowed to the final at least!

Nope

[Hermit Crab]

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Let's do it !

Stubbs and this team deserve our support - plus this will be a tough game and could be a major factor helping us get through to a money spinning final.

We have had some great Hampden crowds over the years and it would be great if we could fill our end for this one.

Our last two home crowds put together don't equal 25,000. We will be hard pushed to that to hampden.

[Hibbyradge]

I'm hoping it's the Sunday as I'll be on a plane to Turkey on the 18th.

[MacBean]

Pretty sure Both were on TV last season so won't really matter

[Pretty Boy]

Will those boycotting until Petrie goes turn up for a semi final and, dare I say it, a final?

This will be the acid test of their principles.

[Hermit Crab]

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Will those boycotting until Petrie goes turn up for a semi final and, dare I say it, a final?

This will be the acid test of their principles.

Maybe not the semi but you watch the scramble for tickets should we get to the final. There will be cries of "it's not fair" I can't get a ticket.

[21.05.2016]

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Will those boycotting until Petrie goes turn up for a semi final and, dare I say it, a final?

This will be the acid test of their principles.

[easty]

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Hoping its a saturday game, it was last time so hopefully the same again

I hope it's the Sunday.

[Onion]

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Will those boycotting until Petrie goes turn up for a semi final and, dare I say it, a final?

This will be the acid test of their principles.

Think you'll find most said they'd not return to Easter Road Hampden's fine

No chance of 25k Hibbies at the semi. Expect the usual 15-17k hardened soldiers. Girlfriends and the foreign legion will trot along to the Final.

[EH6 Hibby]

Are we not automatically the Sunday game with being the second fixture drawn?

[Keith_M]

I think you're getting a tad over excited (uderstandable, I suppose) if you think we could take 25,000 to a Semi Final.

There'll be the usual 15-18,000 there, I'd imagine.

[Andy74]

15k max based on recent support I think. If barely more than 10k can be bothered turning up at home in a quarter final I can't see where the extra will come from.

[Keith_M]

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15k max based on recent support I think. If barely more than 10k can be bothered turning up at home in a quarter final I can't see where the extra will come from.

Have a look at the other runs we've had in the cup. The number we can take to a Semi-Final bares no relation to how many turn up for a home game earlier in the competition. For instance, two years ago we had less than 10,000 at home to Aberdeen, and that was when we were in the top league and they brought a big support. It didn't stop 17,000 Hibbies turning up for the SF.


Try to think of it as the difference in demand between the Chuckle Brothers and a Bruce Springsteen concert.

[Golden Bear]

On the subject of attendances, yesterday's United v Celtic tie attracted 10,504 while we had 11,259 so we're not doing so bad after all.

Falling attendances is a general malaise throughout football but when it comes to the semi final stage then you can bet that the occasional supporters will turn out in force.

[Not In The Know]

Last year both Semis Kicked off at 12.45. So prepare for another early start!

[Mathias Jack]

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Are we not automatically the Sunday game with being the second fixture drawn?

Na, looking at previous years, more often than not, the bigger tie tends to be on the Sunday.

Watch this, now i've said that, we'll be put on Sunday!