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[ancient hibee]

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This is a trip down memory lane! Been a while since we had a decent flag debate.

Don't think this debate is up to standard.

[Bayern Bru]

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lets be honest, the people waving tri-colours dont do it because we have ROI players in our team. If we are celebrating our origins, then fine. Hearts have every right to wave a Union Flag, as should anyone who is British.

Personally I dont agree with flying flags at football as I believe the reason people choose to do so is political, however they have every right to.

In the same way those waving Moroccan flags are nothing to do with showing support for Zouma and Benji? Less of the faux-omniscient crap mate, you can't say for sure what people's motives are for flag waving.

Whereas I'm sure some people bring tri-colours specifically to games against Rangers and Hertz, I've seen tri-colours at a lot of games. Hard to see how waving a tri-colour at a Hibs vs Dundee Utd game could cause issues really - surely the intention is there to either support our roots, or our Irish players rather than to antagonize the Dundee Utd fans?

[ginger_rice]

To me a flag is just a flag, they add colour to our games so what does it matter who brings what?

I once read the the only country in the World where the Irish are not allowed to be Irish is Scotland, I think that's a damning indictment of our reputation for being a tolerant modern nation.

[Rossco1875]

we are a club of irish origins and are based in scotland.

dont like the word being british as im not british im scottish

[Leicester Fan]

We had a similar debate on our forum when an Algerian lad asked if it would be alright to bring his flag.
At the end of the day who gives a ****?
I'd never wave any flag personally but others want to what's the harm?

[Dashing Bob S]

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The Tricolour flag had not been invented when Hibs were formed. If we want to respect our irish origins, then do what the club do and use the harp as the symbol.

This is flag that we should be using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Leinster.svg

Keep the tricolour for the plastic paddys and keep our identity separate from theirs!!!

Actually, no, if we're being pedantic it should be this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Munster.svg

As we were formed by a Limerick priest, that city being in the province of Munster.

[ArabHibee]

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we are a club of irish origins and are based in scotland.

dont like the word being british as im not british im scottish

Based in Scotland?

Have a word with yourself.

[(((Fergus)))]

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Don't think this debate is up to standard.

boom tish

[Hainan Hibs]

In football there is no Britain. Hibs are a Scottish club.

Couldn't really give two monkeys what flags people wave, but Union Flags just make me boak, but people are free to wave it if they want.

[blackpoolhibs]

I was watching QPR play someone last week, the team escapes me at the moment. In their support was 2 Irish tri colours. These nasty IRA sympathizers get everywhere.

[MSK]

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I was watching QPR play someone last week, the team escapes me at the moment. In their support was 2 Irish tri colours. These nasty IRA sympathizers get everywhere.

Aye..some folk just like tae get their knickers in a twist over F all imo ...

[lyonhibs]

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ONLY in Scotland could you debate a flag being flown at the fitba!! An Irish flag? Who really gives a monkies other than sad little bigots. Maybe, just maybe it was one of our very welcome Irish fans.

Exhibit A) How to sum up 15 pages, mostly of dim-witted slavering in 1 post!!



Who gives a flying f***?? When folk bring Morocco flags along to support Zemmamma, is their uproar about the possibilty of offending and Tunisians or Algerians in the crowd??

Granted, the flag may have been flown by some pished up daftie just to wind up the corresponding pished up UJ waving jakies in the Hearts support, but then again maybe it wasn't.

I'll only start taking the occassional presence of a tricolor or 2 in the Hibs away support as a problem if it comes accompanied with pro-IRA "folk songs" a la Celtic, or if we started doing it en masse like their support does (but then again, maybe a lot of their support comes from Ireland, so are therefore just waving the flag of their nation of birth??)

It's a minefield of a topic if you take life so seriously as to give a f***, so everyone's a winner if you don't

[Dashing Bob S]

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Aye..some folk just like tae get their knickers in a twist over F all imo ...

It shows how pathetically sectarian this country is. In England, a team called Rangers, who play in red-white and blue have their fans happily fly an Irish flag, in acknowledgement that QPR is supported by a lot of west Londoners with Irish roots.

In Scotland, there are moans and grumbles when a team called Hibernian, founded by Irishmen and with five Irish players in the first team squad, fly an Irish flag.

We need to forget about all this weegie-driven nonsense and do what we damn well please.

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We actually have 5,

Stack, Miller, Cregg, Stokes and Byrne.

We're absolutely certain they're Irish flags?

Not someone sporting an Ivory Coast flag in honour of Sol Bamba?

And if I brought along the flag of the Ivory Coast would i be guilty of sectarianism? And how would anyone know?



Bob is right - we should do as we damn well please. We ain't Weegies.

[ancient hibee]

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We're absolutely certain they're Irish flags?

Not someone sporting an Ivory Coast flag in honour of Sol Bamba?

And if I brought along the flag of the Ivory Coast would i be guilty of sectarianism? And how would anyone know?



Bob is right - we should do as we damn well please. We ain't Weegies.

I'd be black affronted........oops.

As long as nobody with a flag spoils my view.