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Just received a reply from Hibs. “Thanks for your email, we are approaching 11,500 including hospitality”.
If that's the case we'll do well to hit 12,000 by the time the league season starts IMO. 11,500 is far from a disaster so 12,000 would be more than decent still way north of what we have managed historically over the last couple of decades, but it is to a degree stagnation over three seasons now.

In one sense it's stagnation in a good way in that our sales have remained in excess of 10,000 for some time now, which indicates a solidification in our core support from the 8/9 thousand it had been for quite a long time prior to 2016 ... kind of what I at least had hoped for as the long term benefit of the cup final winning feelgood factor ... we were never going to maintain an overall average attendance in excess of 18,000 ... which isn't to say it can't be returned to and maintained in the future.

Its hard to say which way things will go in the next few years, but I'm guessing if Hibs want to return to 13,000 plus ST holders we need a good season this time around. It won't be difficult to improve on our cup performances that's for sure