Kyle Reese

I honestly watched that game tonight, rooting for Dundee. Sadly, it became apparent really early, that your team were all over the place. Ill repeat that, I wanted Dundee to win.

Assume that’s a Celtic book?

Oh I don’t think they threw it, I just can’t get over how awful they were. It’s like they totally overestimated you.

“Stellar”

Wow. On a thread about Hibs v Dundee, where you have lost, on an evening when you could have kept Hibs in your sights in the relegation battle… you are more concerned with Hearts not winning the league thirty odd years ago, and Hearts being demoted two years ago. Such a strange bunch. Hibs were there for the taking, and none of you seem that bothered. Must be something in the water.

Not really. Just disappointed at the complete lack of effort against a badly toiling Hibs team. It’s like they never even bothered turning up. Even you must admit that’s a poor Hibs team just now.

Not sure how. I’m literally pointing out that Dundee seem to just happily get bent over by garbage like Hibs, when they will actually bother their arse v Hearts. If we don’t turn up properly at the weekend, we will get beat. Because Dundee will turn up. They have a really weird thing about us. That was genuinely one of the shittest games of Premiership football I’ve ever seen.

I’ll leave you to join in the celebrations.

Well, that would maybe mean something if it wasn’t coming from a poster who in the entire time I’ve been on this forum, hasn’t said one thing that was funny, or even particularly insightful.

You’re actually not even bothered you lost, are you? Such weird behaviour.

The game’s finished, mate. They beat you. You don’t have to still keep trying to suck them off. Bloody hell, I was putting more effort in to supporting Dundee tonight than half of the Dee fans on here by the looks of it. Shat the bed v a genuinely awful Hibs team, and you bring up 1986? Mind-boggling stuff.

Fucking hell, mate. Naw. I wanted Dundee to win tonight. I’d take a team with Nilsen, West, Broadie and Sutcliffe over Hibs every single time. You are absolutely horrific though. It was like watching eleven c***s on acid trying to f**k a spaniel.

Was cheering your mob on all evening. It’s not my fault your manager and players can’t even look on the same level as one of the worst Hibs teams I’ve ever seen. Absolute joke the way you capitulated to than garbage.

Dundee are utterly utterly utterly shite. Dearie me. see when Neddywise the Clown is your best player? It’s time to do something else:

Eh, aye… that’s what I always look for in a stadium too.

No accounting for taste, I suppose, so fair enough.

Someone changed sex? Damnit… are there courses on how to do it the new way?

I don’t recognise these things about Easter Road. The stands aren’t close to the pitch and there are pretty sizeable gaps between the stands.

No idea if Maloney is a good coach, and even less clue if he’d make a good manager. The Cathro comparison is probably a little unfair though. Plenty managers have been excellent in their first jobs as the number one. Gerrard and Neilson are two that spring to mind. Jack Ross didn’t do too badly either in his first manager’s position. Still hoping this is all a diversion and it’s Stevie Kean.

Let’s just quit all this foreplay and announce Kean.

I was surprised at how hard it was to find a decent resource for what we were discussing. Although a small sample, the averages are about what I remember. There doesn’t seem to be any resource for season tickets other than me Google searching the figure for each year after close of sales… we’ll see if I can be arsed doing that later. Not hopeful though! When Romanov came in, crowds were starting to drop a bit. I remember sitting at Tynecastle and releasing black balloons, and it didn’t feel like much o we 10k. A lot of fans were unhappy with Levein’s first tenure after the relative highs of the Jefferies era. The hopelessness of the Cala Homes deal, Robinson’s plan to move is to Murrayfield all combined to create a bit of apathy from some corners of the support. Romanov coming in did see an increase in season tickets, and the fabled “waiting list”. Since the new stand was built though, increasing our capacity, season tickets have increased in normal years. This balances out any increase that would have been seen when capacity was reduced somewhat. I think the increase that you mention was far more down to the quality of player that we suddenly started signing. There was a genuine invincible feeling at that time.

I suppose. It all just seems a bit backwards to me tbh. If you are building a new stadium, whilst hoping to grow your season ticket numbers, then surely you hope to see attendances rise over the coming seasons? If you do, then you provide the space for that to happen. Infrastructure projects the scale of multi million pound new stadia, are not the sort of thing you embark upon every couple of years. There should always be a reasonable projection of where you intend to be upon complettion. If they get to the 15k mark, in a 16/17k stadium, then it's not really leaving a lot of room for future growth. I don't know, maybe you guys are right, it just seems a bit wonky to me.

Hearts attendances have steadily risen since 2011/12. Season tickets generally mirror that rise, outside of major events like Covid (sales down) or administration (sales up): https://www.fitbastats.com/hearts/club_records_league_attendance.php https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/heart-of-midlothian-fc/besucherzahlenentwicklung/verein/43 Our capacity has not really fluctuated that much save a few hundred here or there with stadium and pitch issues. I certainly dont remember any massive decrease, and a mirrored increase in season ticket sales as a result. If anything, since we built the new stand and increased the capacity, we have seen more season tickets sold, following the general steady annual increase.

Come now... do you really believe this?

To give a foul, you need to see an incident. What did Walsh see when Morelos dived?