Hello Cherries fans. Or at least the ones who supported the club before you became a Premier League 'giant'
I came onto this thread to see your opinion of the lad Hyndman because of his loan to the club I support Hibernian FC. Imagine my dismay to see the usual ill informed and bog standard clichés dissing not only Scottish football, but more annoyingly my club. First off FYI the club he is allegedly 'stepping down from' ( Rangers ) have barely been able to buy a win against Hibs for about 5 years … especially at Ibrox.
Though we don't always succeed, what Hibs are known for is attractive attacking football played from the back … and that is our style at the moment, we usually score piles of goals. Your lad should fit in well at Easter Road and enjoy our training centre, which matches up to anything most big English clubs can boast … we are about to build a full sized indoor pitch to top it off.
He should also enjoy our crowd, which last season was an average of 18,000 …. This season we have 13,500 season ticket holders, nearly 4,000 more than your current stadium can hold. Our record attendance at Easter Road is 65,000 and in any match 143,000.
And now the history:
Formed in 1875 by Irish immigrants to Edinburgh, hence the name and colours, Hibernian were the first British club to play in Europe reaching the semi final of the European cup. Other Scottish clubs to reach European semis or finals are Aberdeen, Dundee Utd, Dundee and Kilmarnock … not forgetting Celtic and Rangers ( boo hiss ) who have reached multiple semis and finals.
We were the first British club to beat Real Madrid, and the first British club to beat Barcelona in competition. Other clubs to fall at Easter Road Include Napoli with the great Dino Zoff in goals who were humped 5 - 0 to overturn a 4 goal first leg deficit … Napoli were top of the Italian league at the time. Sporting Lisbon, humped 6 - 1 in the Cup winners cup. In the 75/76 season we were the only team to beat Liverpool as they went on to win the UEFA cup. We have crushed other European teams big and small.
We are also the only British club to be mentioned in the first ever official history of Brazilian football, with a tour we had there being credited with introducing passing free attacking football to that country.
These glory days are gone now as the game has become more about money. But Scottish clubs can still give an account of themselves as Aberdeen proved a fortnight ago taking Burnley to extra time in the Europa League …. the difference in the value of the teams was over £100,000,000. Our league, contrary to ill informed opinion is not full of cloggers.
Hibs have a fan culture and a place in pop culture that many clubs can only dream of …. hell, even our hooligans make it into print, though thankfully we don't have much of a problem any more.
For more on Hibs, what our fans are like and what its like watching the club check out You Tube and have your blinkered eyes opened. I get the dismissive arrogance of the likes of those EPL fanboys who support the likes of Man Utd or Chelsea …. but its only 10 short years since you guys were within weeks of oblivion, before which you had barely set foot out of league 1 or its equivalent in over 100 years and a crowd approaching 10,000 for one of your league games would have had your chairman pissing his pants in excitement.
When it comes to pedigree Bournemouth FC can only dream of being able to match up to Hibs. But I as a Hibs fan would never diss your club because of it, the guys who stuck with it all the way deserve respect and to have their club respected as well … so all I would ask you is to remember where you came from before the Russian oligarchs and insane TV money and remind yourselves, and especially the new found 'fans' who couldn't have cared less about the club before that, that you have a long long way to go before you can be so arrogantly dismissive of other folks clubs or the league they play in.
Oh, and for the guy who posted above …. Hibs are many things, but "mediocre" ? …. from a fan of a club who in the eyes of many would be viewed as the very definition of that term that is a laughable comment.
Rant over. I am sorry if my post has offended anybody, but when I see ill informed rubbish spouted about my great club I get a bit miffed. Anyway ..... Good luck to Bournemouth this season, the folk who have always stuck with the club deserve that at least.