Aberdeen & the Race for 3rd Place

[HibeeHibernian4]

I haven't seen this being talked about much anywhere on here recently. Not wanting to tempt fate, but if we beat Hearts on Friday night then we are 1 point behind Aberdeen in third, with them travelling to Thistle the next day and having one eye on their cup replay with Killie a few days after.

Given that we can't say for definite that fourth will guarantee Europe (at least until we know who has won the Scottish Cup), should we not as a fanbase and a club as a whole be trying to drum up enthusiasm to hunt down Aberdeen and overtake them before the season's out?

Obviously it falls largely down to the squad and the management staff, but Hibs could be marketing tickets for our last few home games as us looking to finish in the top three of Scotland for first time since 2005. It just strikes me as a little strange that more isn't being made of this big opportunity for us to seal Europe and lay down a real marker on Aberdeen and the other non OF teams.

[Hibbyradge]

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I haven't seen this being talked about much anywhere on here recently. Not wanting to tempt fate, but if we beat Hearts on Friday night then we are 1 point behind Aberdeen in third, with them travelling to Thistle the next day and having one eye on their cup replay with Killie a few days after.

Given that we can't say for definite that fourth will guarantee Europe (at least until we know who has won the Scottish Cup), should we not as a fanbase and a club as a whole be trying to drum up enthusiasm to hunt down Aberdeen and overtake them before the season's out?

Obviously it falls largely down to the squad and the management staff, but Hibs could be marketing tickets for our last few home games as us looking to finish in the top three of Scotland for first time since 2005. It just strikes me as a little strange that more isn't being made of this big opportunity for us to seal Europe and lay down a real marker on Aberdeen and the other non OF teams.

Did you watch Lennon's interview? He says that's exactly what we're trying to do.

Tickets are selling themselves already and if we win on Friday, all the remaining games will be either sell outs or very close to it.

[The Leith Dutch]

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I haven't seen this being talked about much anywhere on here recently. Not wanting to tempt fate, but if we beat Hearts on Friday night then we are 1 point behind Aberdeen in third, with them travelling to Thistle the next day and having one eye on their cup replay with Killie a few days after.

Given that we can't say for definite that fourth will guarantee Europe (at least until we know who has won the Scottish Cup), should we not as a fanbase and a club as a whole be trying to drum up enthusiasm to hunt down Aberdeen and overtake them before the season's out?

Obviously it falls largely down to the squad and the management staff, but Hibs could be marketing tickets for our last few home games as us looking to finish in the top three of Scotland for first time since 2005. It just strikes me as a little strange that more isn't being made of this big opportunity for us to seal Europe and lay down a real marker on Aberdeen and the other non OF teams.

Not quite sure what you're getting at here - I'm pretty certain nobody at the club is even remotely thinking "let's settle for fourth".
I've seen no evidence suggesting such a plan.

Pretty certain that the entire fanbase, the manager and the players is all intent on trying to get past Aberdeen.
I'd go further and suggest we haven't given up on hunting down Sevco too....
Win our game in hand, beat them in the Top 6 fixture and it's only 4 points separate us - 5 if you include a GD we're not pulling back.

Certainly not going to be easy but I'm pretty sure it's what we're trying to do.

[Onceinawhile]

How can we market tickets for our last few home games when we don't know who we will be playing?

[Billy Whizz]

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How can we market tickets for our last few home games when we don't know who we will be playing?

Same for everyone unfortunately

[HibeeHibernian4]

Sorry if that came across as a pop at the club or the fans, I'm genuinely more curious than critical

[green day]

If we get a decent set of results between now and the daft split, I dont think you will need to be marketing anything, as the stadium will be a sellout or as near a sellout as possible for every home match we have.

Pretty sure everyone is keeping their powder dry on this one, but I am quietly confident we can give Aberdeen a good run for their money, especially if we get points on the board on Friday - Rangers? Lets see what happens after their match v Celtic this weekend.

[Billy Whizz]

We need to win on Friday night, and hope Celtic do us a turn on Sunday, to get the ball rolling
Aberdeen have a tricky game away at Partick on Saturday

[Hibeewilly]

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I haven't seen this being talked about much anywhere on here recently. Not wanting to tempt fate, but if we beat Hearts on Friday night then we are 1 point behind Aberdeen in third, with them travelling to Thistle the next day and having one eye on their cup replay with Killie a few days after.

Given that we can't say for definite that fourth will guarantee Europe (at least until we know who has won the Scottish Cup), should we not as a fanbase and a club as a whole be trying to drum up enthusiasm to hunt down Aberdeen and overtake them before the season's out?

Obviously it falls largely down to the squad and the management staff, but Hibs could be marketing tickets for our last few home games as us looking to finish in the top three of Scotland for first time since 2005. It just strikes me as a little strange that more isn't being made of this big opportunity for us to seal Europe and lay down a real marker on Aberdeen and the other non OF teams.

I think that's a given amongst our support HFCE ......I don't think we need the marketing department to drum up enthusiasm....IMHO its there in bucket loads already unless I'm missing something....we sell out our home allocation for almost every game now. My bugbear is all of the empty seats especially in the Famous Five lower and why holders don't release their seats. In saying that...they wont be empty for this game. I don't know how you deal with it but hopefully we'll get people on these priviledged seats one day. GGTTH

[bingo70]

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We need to win on Friday night, and hope Celtic do us a turn on Sunday, to get the ball rolling
Aberdeen have a tricky game away at Partick on Saturday

Tbf that’s probably about the least tricky away fame they will have.

Aberdeen will probably win on Saturday so it’s important we hang on their coat tails so when they do have a more difficult fixture we are ready to pounce.

I’ve no idea what their recent results have been like but there seems to be a bit of a negative vibe coming from them just now. I don’t know what their fixtures coming up are like but with our fixtures we must have a great chance of overtaking them.

[Hibeewilly]

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Tbf that’s probably about the least tricky away fame they will have.

Aberdeen will probably win on Saturday so it’s important we hang on their coat tails so when they do have a more difficult fixture we are ready to pounce.

I’ve no idea what their recent results have been like but there seems to be a bit of a negative vibe coming from them just now. I don’t know what their fixtures coming up are like but with our fixtures we must have a great chance of overtaking them.

We will need to perform against them after the split Bingo which I'm sure we will. That will be the key game but lots of games to be played before then

[Billy Whizz]

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Tbf that’s probably about the least tricky away fame they will have.

Aberdeen will probably win on Saturday so it’s important we hang on their coat tails so when they do have a more difficult fixture we are ready to pounce.

I’ve no idea what their recent results have been like but there seems to be a bit of a negative vibe coming from them just now. I don’t know what their fixtures coming up are like but with our fixtures we must have a great chance of overtaking them.

Pre split they have in order
Away to Partick
Home to Dundee
Home to St Johnstone
Away to Hearts
Away to Motherwell TBC, was cancelled last week

Also got a cup replay as well to fit in

[Famous Fiver]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Win on Friday, then think about where that takes us.

Do our speculating after, not before.

'Natural Order' article posted prominently on the dressing room door, please.

[danhibees1875]

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Pre split they have in order
Away to Partick
Home to Dundee
Home to St Johnstone
Away to Hearts
Away to Motherwell TBC, was cancelled last week

Also got a cup replay as well to fit in

That is about as good as ours (Ross co for Motherwell is the only difference actually?).

We just need to focus on winning our games, one at a time starting Friday.

[hibbysam]

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That is about as good as ours (Ross co for Motherwell is the only difference actually?).

We just need to focus on winning our games, one at a time starting Friday.

We get to play hearts on a football pitch while they need to go to the pigsty.

[Sir David Gray]

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That is about as good as ours (Ross co for Motherwell is the only difference actually?).

We just need to focus on winning our games, one at a time starting Friday.

We also have Hamilton as opposed to Dundee.

We have Hearts, St Johnstone and Partick Thistle though.

[jacomo]

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Pre split they have in order
Away to Partick
Home to Dundee
Home to St Johnstone
Away to Hearts
Away to Motherwell TBC, was cancelled last week

Also got a cup replay as well to fit in

The Dons are good at picking up league points. It’s the big games they bottle.

Just gotta keep our form going into the top 6.

[cabbageandribs1875]

our after split games should be


sellick H
sevco H
killie (IF it's them) H
hertz A
aberdeen A

if murrawell instead of killie they could possibly be our x3 at home to keep the 19 and 19
if it's st.johnstone, we could play them away x3


* i think :)

[cabbageandribs1875]

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We need to win on Friday night, and hope Celtic do us a turn on Sunday, to get the ball rolling
Aberdeen have a tricky game away at Partick on Saturday

Aberdeen have won 9 of their last 10 games at firhill....maybe not so tricky

[bingo70]

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our after split games should be


sellick H
sevco H
killie (IF it's them) H
hertz A
aberdeen A

if murrawell instead of killie they could possibly be our x3 at home to keep the 19 and 19
if it's st.johnstone, we could play them away x3


* i think :)

I don’t think it’s a certainty Hearts will make top 6.

[IGRIGI]

I think it's all about keeping within distance to strike once they dons it again against Rangers and Celtic after the split.

[hibbyfraelibby]

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I think it's all about keeping within distance to strike once they dons it again against Rangers and Celtic after the split.

Agreed...but I'm not yet giving up on second place.

[Ronniekirk]

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We need to win on Friday night, and hope Celtic do us a turn on Sunday, to get the ball rolling
Aberdeen have a tricky game away at Partick on Saturday

Spoke to a Partick Season Ticket Holder last night He is concerned they could go down Thinks they have no chance v Aberdeen
But Weather could be a factor


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[Borderhibbie76]

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I haven't seen this being talked about much anywhere on here recently. Not wanting to tempt fate, but if we beat Hearts on Friday night then we are 1 point behind Aberdeen in third, with them travelling to Thistle the next day and having one eye on their cup replay with Killie a few days after.

Given that we can't say for definite that fourth will guarantee Europe (at least until we know who has won the Scottish Cup), should we not as a fanbase and a club as a whole be trying to drum up enthusiasm to hunt down Aberdeen and overtake them before the season's out?

Obviously it falls largely down to the squad and the management staff, but Hibs could be marketing tickets for our last few home games as us looking to finish in the top three of Scotland for first time since 2005. It just strikes me as a little strange that more isn't being made of this big opportunity for us to seal Europe and lay down a real marker on Aberdeen and the other non OF teams.

Not sure what you want the club to do?? If you watched Lennons latest interview that is exactly what we are targeting?? Short of taking a full page advert in EEN what are you expecting mate?

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[cabbageandribs1875]

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I don’t think it’s a certainty Hearts will make top 6.

fair point, killie have a great chance to go above them tonight v st.johnstone @killie pie park

[My_Wife_Camille]

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I don’t think it’s a certainty Hearts will make top 6.

Unfortunately, looking at the teams around them I think it’s pretty much nailed on that they’ll sneak in

[Sir David Gray]

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fair point, killie have a great chance to go above them tonight v st.johnstone @killie pie park

That game's tomorrow.

[cabbageandribs1875]

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That game's tomorrow.

just checked BBC site for score update, still 0-0

[RyeSloan]

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Unfortunately, looking at the teams around them I think it’s pretty much nailed on that they’ll sneak in

They will probably sneak in knowing them but nailed on it’s not.

Killie 2 points behind with 2 games in hand

Motherwell 5 points behind 1 game in hand

In fact if we beat them on Friday and both Killie (home to Ross Co) and Well (away to Hamilton) win then they will be 6th only 2 points in front of Well who will have that game in hand...

[MacGruber]

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They will probably sneak in knowing them but nailed on it’s not.

Killie 2 points behind with 2 games in hand

Motherwell 5 points behind 1 game in hand

In fact if we beat them on Friday and both Killie (home to Ross Co) and Well (away to Hamilton) win then they will be 6th only 2 points in front of Well who will have that game in hand...

Motherwell are only 4 behind with a game in hand. Not that I'm taking a keen interest..... so in your scenario they would be 1 behind with a game in hand and killie in front.

Anyway.... none of that matters if we don't do the business on Friday