Great Hibernian Chairmen

[Phil D. Rolls]

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Finally, re FR's assertion ( probably a joke ) that Tom had his own turnstile I can personally testify this as nonsense. This myth existed long before TH was involved with Hibs, it used to be the Gordon Smith turnstile & no doubt it was Jimmy Dunn's or McColl's back in the day.

I've no idea if it is true.

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And the financial situation developing during those years?

I have never taken a step back and looked at the Hart years objectively. At the time I was young and thought it was as much about luck as anything else. I think you have made a very good point there though Doddie. Another thing worth looking at is the plummeting attendances over the 70s - albeit in the context of decline nationally.

Like you, I don't think he was the visionary that Harry Swan was. Apart from anything else, Swan made us into one of the biggest teams in Britain at the time. Hart seems to have taken us in the opposite direction.

On the whole, history has been kinder to Hart than we were at the time. IIRC he was not the fans favourite by any stretch of the imagination.

Of course that was a time when people weren't as interested in who owned the club as they are now. Mind you, he was right about Harper though. Wasn't he?