New/extra floodlighting?

[Carheenlea]

Have we installed added floodlighting? Can’t say I’ve noticed the ones within the stands before?

Find they are catching the eye a bit too much. Slightly annoying.

Moan over - back to game!

[Gatecrasher]

Yeah, definitely new. Not sure what the point is unless they are getting rid of the older ones.

[surreyhibbie]

surprised you need them on. sunglasses weather down here in Surrey...

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Disco lights

[ShinyFantastic]

Horrendous. Painful afternoon at Easter road but not because of the football for once! The second half had me scrambling for sunglasses and squinting my eyes as if the sun was shining brightly. Lights like that will cause me migraines, if it continues like that I’ll need to move seats.

[Itsnoteasy]

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Disco lights

That's exactly what they are. Designed on the Celtic European night lights

[Pretty Boy]

I was seeing big flashes every time they caught my eye line.

Sure they will make a huge difference for evening games and make the pitch much brighter though.

[LewysGot2]

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surprised you need them on. sunglasses weather down here in Surrey...

We didn't which is what made it all the weirder..

[Keith_M]

I reckon Hibs decided that the four electronic scoreboards, plus the moving the digital ads round the pitch, weren't quite distracting enough, so they've upped their game by adding extra (completely unnecessary) floodlights..

[WhileTheChief..]

The way they display the teams on the big screens is crap now.

The text is way too small to read cause of the stupid banner adverts along the bottom.

[RyeSloan]

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I was seeing big flashes every time they caught my eye line.

Sure they will make a huge difference for evening games and make the pitch much brighter though.

Can’t say I’ve never thought we needed brighter lights!

I assume they will be funky before evening games though and then just annoy the hell out of everyone as the glare away for the rest of the match.

[WeAreHibs]

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Horrendous. Painful afternoon at Easter road but not because of the football for once! The second half had me scrambling for sunglasses and squinting my eyes as if the sun was shining brightly. Lights like that will cause me migraines, if it continues like that I’ll need to move seats.

Totally agree about the migraines

[Alfred E Newman]

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Horrendous. Painful afternoon at Easter road but not because of the football for once! The second half had me scrambling for sunglasses and squinting my eyes as if the sun was shining brightly. Lights like that will cause me migraines, if it continues like that I’ll need to move seats.

What a disgrace.

[brianmc]

Can't say I even noticed them 🤔

[BlackSheep]

The ones in the top of the south stand were awful in terms of catching the eye, I’m just glad they only turned them on in the second half as we weren’t looking at our own goal too much as fans…! One light in particular must be aimed incorrectly as it was blinding us in the west lower towards the south stand!

[ShinyFantastic]

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The ones in the top of the south stand were awful in terms of catching the eye, I’m just glad they only turned them on in the second half as we weren’t looking at our own goal too much as fans…! One light in particular must be aimed incorrectly as it was blinding us in the west lower towards the south stand!

That’s the one! 7 along, it must be a mistake because it was far too bright.

[Glory Lurker]

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Can't say I even noticed them 🤔

I noticed them when they came on but had forgotten about them until seeing this thread. They were bright, right enough, but they didn't interfere with watching the game. Appreciate other folk didn't have the same experience. Hopefully just a matter of getting used to them.

[eastterrace]

There was one of the lights in the south stand was right in my eyeline and blinding me when I looked at that end. Hope hibs either turn the light at a lesser angle or I will need to wear sunglasses or as another poster has said move my seat as it was starting to give me a migraine.

[wookie70]

They were installed a month or so back. It is something to do with trying to get a better UEFA standard of stadium or at least that was what one of the ground staff told me. The boys that fitted them were crazy abseiling down.

[NAE NOOKIE]

I sit near the front of the FF upper and they were really noticeable in the south and a bit distracting, but after a bit I found I could ignore them. It's like anything new I suppose, at first you cant help looking at it, but after a bit it just becomes normal.

What I did notice with the banks of the old floodlights on the roof of the East and West, which come in groups of three, was that some of them hadn't been switched on .... if the new lights are to improve on what we already had rather than replace it, what's the point if we then turn off every third bank of three and if that is the plan, then why not put the new lights on the stand roof, rather than sling them under it?

[Jack]

In my advancing years I was kinda hoping they were heaters 😆


I also noted 2 or 3 sets of the existing floodlights on the East weren't working.

[.Sean.]

I’ve always felt the floodlights were more than adequate. There’s a rule in the Premiership down south about floodlights needing to be a certain level of brightness for HD cameras, could it maybe be down to that? Doubt it but you never know

[SChibs]

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I reckon Hibs decided that the four electronic scoreboards, plus the moving the digital ads round the pitch, weren't quite distracting enough, so they've upped their game by adding extra (completely unnecessary) floodlights..

Why would Hibs spend money on new floodlights if they are 'completely unnecessary'?

[Renfrew_Hibby]

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I’ve always felt the floodlights were more than adequate. There’s a rule in the Premiership down south about floodlights needing to be a certain level of brightness for HD cameras, could it maybe be down to that? Doubt it but you never know

There are certain lighting requirements down south that are not in place in Scotland but they are a Uefa requirement going forward. Celtic Rangers Hearts and Aberdeen have all upgraded lighting recently. LED lights are so much better in different ways and I'm of a different opinion as I have thought for a while now that games during the winter months and at night we're a bit on the dark side. This will make such a difference.

[Keith_M]

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Why would Hibs spend money on new floodlights if they are 'completely unnecessary'?

The current floodlights already light up the pitch adequately during evening matches, so I'm struggling to see why we need more.

[LewysGot2]

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In my advancing years I was kinda hoping they were heaters 😆


I also noted 2 or 3 sets of the existing floodlights on the East weren't working.

Only place I've seen them were in the Bernabeu - I mean, Spain! At 15 degrees temperature 😆

[Not In The Know]

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Can’t say I’ve never thought we needed brighter lights!

I assume they will be funky before evening games though and then just annoy the hell out of everyone as the glare away for the rest of the match.

TBH I always thought we did. :-) it’s especially noticeable when you watch a night game on tv compared to say one at parkheid or the premiership.

[MelbourneHibees]

Perhaps we needed to upgrade them For Europe? They definitely have rules around illumination.

[Ronniekirk]

Enjoyed the game so much from west upper nearest the F F stand that I never noticed

[Itsnoteasy]

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The current floodlights already light up the pitch adequately during evening matches, so I'm struggling to see why we need more.

Led lights. Cheaper to run.