Changing Teams?

[Keyser Sauzee]

I was listening to TalkSport yesterday and I heard an advert claiming that u can change all sorts or things in ur life but never ur team and it got me thinking, has anyone on here changed their team? Or know anyone who has done it? It's unthinkable to me and probably the majority of others on here but was just curious to see if it had happened.

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[Ozyhibby]

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I was listening to TalkSport yesterday and I heard an advert claiming that u can change all sorts or things in ur life but never ur team and it got me thinking, has anyone on here changed their team? Or know anyone who has done it? It's unthinkable to me and probably the majority of others on here but was just curious to see if it had happened.

GGTTH

It's more common than most people think. I know a few who have done it and I was a Celtic fan myself until I was 15.


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[easty]

My brother was a Hibby, now he's one of them. He was a there as a Hibby when we won the Skol cup.

Turned to the dark side a couple of years later.

He should have been removed from my house and put up for adoption.

[Sas_The_Hibby]

After Wednesday's scintillating performance by the boys in Maroon (or "the talk o' the toon" as I prefer to think of them) I've decided to become a Hearts fan.

[HibsNutter]

Normal people that do it can't really get much out of seeing their new team succeed, it wouldn't be the same.

Although, you can understand players doing it. Cummings and Gray have changed teams.

[High-On-Hibs]

I can't help but support the "wee team", the "underdogs", the "bottle merchants".

I'm switching to hertz.

[Ozyhibby]

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Normal people that do it can't really get much out of seeing their new team succeed, it wouldn't be the same.

Although, you can understand players doing it. Cummings and Gray have changed teams.

That first part is just not true. Although I accept I may not be normal.


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[SeanWilson]

Childhood friend was a Jambo, along with most of our other pals. Me and a hibee mate were season ticket holders with our dads and said jambo pal started coming along with us in our Mcleish relegation year....said 'jambo' is now a grown man with his own season ticket for him and his own lads 👍👍

[Andy74]

If you've actually supported a team for any meaningful period I don't believe you can just change.

A kid who is encouraged to support one team and sees the light a bit later is different, there will be lots in that category but I think anyone who has changed later in life wasn't really that into football or their initial team anyway.

I'm sure you can build up an passion for your new team but not sure it can ever be the same as having the team as a central part of your whole life almost.

[Scouse Hibee]

Can't relate to changing teams but adopting another one has certainly given me untold satisfaction.

[pacoluna]

Similar question.. Could you ever bet against hibs? I seen a few posters mention the possibility pre derby.

It wouldn't even cross my mind regardless of prices or any other circumstance.

[Peevemor]

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Similar question.. Could you ever bet against hibs? I seen a few posters mention the possibility pre derby.

It wouldn't even cross my mind regardless of prices or any other circumstance.

I'm not really a betting man, but betting against Hibs wouldn't bother me as long as I could happily afford to lose my stake. I couldn't imagine myself urging Hibs to lose.

[biotech]

I'll be supporting an SPL team next season!

[BroxburnHibee]

My brother changed from them to us in his late teens. Think all his pals were Hibby's.

[Big_Franck]

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Similar question.. Could you ever bet against hibs? I seen a few posters mention the possibility pre derby.

It wouldn't even cross my mind regardless of prices or any other circumstance.

I've done it before. Not for a while, but I've done it several times in big games.

The way I look at it if Hibs win the big game I won't give a **** about my bet, I probably won't even remember I'd put it on. If we get beat in a big game and I win a good few quid out of it, it very slightly takes the edge off the defeat for me. Doesn't make me happy in any way, but I feel very slightly less annoyed about the defeat. Having won money after a defeat also helps me focus on something other than the anger/disappointment I feel at having lost the game.

[_hucks_]

As a very young child, I was one of them. Saw the light by the age of about 7, though. Hard not to, growing up under the shadow of Easter Road.

[Diclonius]

I loosely had an affiliation to Celtic (by virtue of my Dad) until I was 14, but had no interest in football. Switched to Hibs after I became seriously interested.

[jeffers]

I rarely bet but did so on us to finish 2nd bottom under Butcher. If ever a bet was close to a certainty that was it.

[SirDavidsNapper]

Lucky enough to be born a Hibby. Grew up in a big Rangers town during the 9 in a row era so took a ribbing from most of my pals. Glad I never switched. Made 21/5/16 all the more sweeter.

[Godsahibby]

Not just changing teams I cannot understand how anyone can support a second team. A lot of people support Hibs and a Premiership team.

How can you possibly have so much passion supporting another club and ultimately what happens if the teams ever play each other?

These people call themselves true Hibs supporters as well!

[Sas_The_Hibby]

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Similar question.. Could you ever bet against hibs? I seen a few posters mention the possibility pre derby.

It wouldn't even cross my mind regardless of prices or any other circumstance.

I've bet against Hibs a few times, not because I want thm to lose (!) but more as an 'insurance' bet, which I'm happy not to win.

10-1 (I just missed out on getting 16-1 before the odds shortened) on Hamilton getting promotion, after our first leg play-off win, was frankly just too good an opportunity to pass up, considering how fragile we were at that time under Butcher. I'd rather not have won the money but I don't think my bet caused Hibs to lose.

[LichtieHibby]

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Normal people that do it can't really get much out of seeing their new team succeed, it wouldn't be the same.

I beg to differ. I moved to Edinburgh 30 years ago with my Arbroath scarf (now strangely lost) and started supporting Hibs I have never looked back. I doubt anyone on here is more happy than me with the way things are going for us. I get plenty out of it.

[sleeping giant]

I know a Jambo who changed to the sevco and a Hibee who changed to hearts WTF?

I can never ever have a football discussion with them.
Twats

[SirDavidsNapper]

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Not just changing teams I cannot understand how anyone can support a second team. A lot of people support Hibs and a Premiership team.

How can you possibly have so much passion supporting another club and ultimately what happens if the teams ever play
These people call themselves true Hibs supporters as well!

Don't get that either. Couldn't ever involve myself emotionally with another club. Would feel like I was cheating on Hibs 😂

I remember some lass on twitter saying she was a Chelsea and Manchester United fan 🤔

[steakbake]

I always liked Celtic when I was younger - like really young, before I started going to the football. When kicking a ball around, I'd want to be Mo Johnston. If I was in goals, I'd want to be like Pat Bonner.

First proper match I went to was Hibs/Hearts at Tynecastle some time in the late 80s - my old man's colleague wasn't able to go so passed on the tickets. In the Hearts end, I think it was a draw but remember saying something along the lines that I thought Hibs were great. Then went to high school, where most of the Hearts and Rangers guys were dicks, very few fans of other teams but a small group of good lads who were Hibs fans and fell in with them. Didn't start going to games until a bit later on (always had something on on Saturdays and we lived a bit away from Edinburgh), the first was at ER against Aberdeen - but it always was a stick-on I'd go to Hibs.

Like to see Celtic do well at European level but I'm glad when pretty much anyone else beats them in the league or cup etc: I like a giant killing and an underdog. When it comes to a Glasgow derby though, I can't help but wanting them to win and the more the better.

[grammyb111]

My dad grew up in Brechin and supported Rangers as a kid (Brechin were his diddy team). When Rangers then campaigned to have some of the small teams like Brechin kicked out the league (don't know much about this, if anyone has information?) he changed to Dundee United. Now he's more a Brechin fan than Dundee United and since my brother and I support Hibs, probably would rather see us happy and so he'd want Hibs to beat United.

[grammyb111]

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Don't get that either. Couldn't ever involve myself emotionally with another club. Would feel like I was cheating on Hibs 😂

I remember some lass on twitter saying she was a Chelsea and Manchester United fan 🤔

Totally agree on not having an English team. I'd want the team with the biggest Scottish influence to win. For a while that was Everton so I'd want them to win, if suddenly Liverpool had more Scots again then I'd want them to win instead.

I still have Brechin as a second team but don't go to many of their games.

[NAE NOOKIE]

I was a Celtic 'supporter' from the age of 7 until I was 15 .... a story I've told on here a few times and which all my friends are aware of. I do remember being a Hibs fan before that, in so much as I remember singing a song about Willie Wallace being *****, *****, *****, on Leith links when I was a wee laddie

I suppose mine is a story of changing back rather than just changing teams in that respect. I would say that if its a case of changing from being a glory hunter to a team you should be supporting then its perfectly acceptable ..... my decision was as much driven by my pride in being from Edinburgh as anything else, at the age of 15 I became conscious of that fact and realised I shouldn't be supporting a club from another town, least of all Glasgow.

There are quite a few folk out there who have realised that old firm glory hunting isn't for them and have done the right thing in the end ... a guy I worked beside who is a die hard Yam was a boyhood Hun.

I do think having a family who support a particular team affects your choice, something that wasn't a factor in my upbringing .... but having made my choice I defy anybody to claim they are a more fervent Hibs fan than me, the idea of changing to anybody else is unthinkable

[DarrenSQH]

I knew a guy that was a hun as a kid but got older and didnt like the sectarian stuff so changed to hearts.

Sure Pat nevin is same with celtic to Hibs.

[bigwheel]

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Not just changing teams I cannot understand how anyone can support a second team. A lot of people support Hibs and a Premiership team.

How can you possibly have so much passion supporting another club and ultimately what happens if the teams ever play each other?

These people call themselves true Hibs supporters as well!

I don't think there is ever the same passion for one as the other...I lived in London for years, and whilst I still had a season ticket for Hibs, I also had a season ticket for Spurs...as you go to their games, you do build an infinity with the club and care how they do...I'm back in Edinburgh now, and still am a Spurs member...see them 3-4 times a year on average. When I go to see them, I'm passionate about them winning. But last night is a good example, Spurs got put out of the Europa League. My emotion around that is nothing compared to how I feel about Hibs. Wednesday night was outstanding - I've been to some big Spurs victories - none come close emotionally to how happy I was this week when we battered Hearts.