I have been an Aberdeen suppoter all my life, and yes, it hurts just now. But one thing everyone should know is that no team has the right to expect to be the best all the time. Yes, also, it is good for Scottish football to see other teams competing at a much higher level than they have for so long. Good luck to them all.
£35 a ticket was far too expensive, especially for a bottom 6 fixture. Hibs should stop over charging both home and away fans. Wasn't expecting much of a match, and was thinking it was probably going to be a fairly boring end of season match with little excitement, but I'm glad I was proven wrong. Easily Aberdeen's best performance in the league all season, but I wish we'd played as well as this earlier then we might be pushing for Europe rather than being relieved to avoid a relegation play-off. What an amazing few days for young Fletcher Boyd, winning the under 18 league title on Friday, then making his debut on the Sunday and scoring with the very last kick of the ball.
What you have to accept is that Scottish pro clubs and semi-pro acknowledged long ago that their supporter base was fixed and incapable of expansion. So their business model is based on charging as much as they can from that core supporter base with little or no interest on attracting new fans via pricing initiatives. Home and away support figures in Scotland outside the OF will probably show very little variance year on year. So the clubs bank on exploiting the loyalty of the fans they know will attend regardless, instead of making it attractive to floating fans. The regular fan attending 19 home games will absorb high ticket costs for those 19 games. The floating fan will perhaps attend one match when the price is reduced but not return. So the revenue streams are concentrated on rinsing core fans alone. Sad fact, but too true. Scottish fans outside the OF have to accept that they are playing for 3rd place in the league every season and a cup win now and then. The other harsh fact is that pro football in Scotland is pretty much unsustainable at its current level. Only interest in the OF allows it to continue. The wages on offer at Hibs, AFC etc are pretty astonishing when you consider the league's revenue. SPFL players outside the OF can earn upwards of 5k a week. So that's equivalent of a League 2 English club attempting to compete with a low-ranking Championship club paying upwards of 20k a week. The figures make no sense and fans have to accept that semi-pro football without the OF would be a much more realistic and competitive proposition. If Scottish pro football was allowed to collapse, UEFA would have no alternative to allowing the OF access to another league outside Scotland. The rest of Scotland's clubs would enjoy a much more equitable league if it happened
You don’t want to see the Scottish league ending up like the premiership with the same old teams at the top HELLO Rangers and Celtic have won the last 40 titles
I thought the exact same thing lol. I think the point was meaning the rest of the table is pretty changeable, but when the top hasn't been won by anyone outside the OF since I was months old and I turn 40 this year, it fell pretty flat.
Sad to see such a great club getting it so catastrophically wrong. Spent so much money on infrastructure and let the football team rot. Lovely stadium, great training centre, clueless key staff and players that look disinterested at best. Hibs are forever in a state of transition from one disaster to the next. They'll sack this manager after losing their first half dozen games next season and be in another season of transition next year. Brutal. Never boring being a Hibs fan though, always some crazy drama going on.
We also sell at the first opportunity. I know that the players have a big say, but the standard of player we have let go over the past 20 years before the team reaches it potential is heartbreaking (2007 and 2016 shows what can happen before say, a McGinn or a Brown is sold). We never have a stable team , I honestly reckon the 2006 to 2008 team could have won the league if intact.
@@MelThorburnAgreed. Managers carrying the can for having their key players sold and not replaced is normal in football and I'm honestly surprised that nobody has sued for constructive dismissal yet.
If Aberdeen hadn’t brought Warwick in but given the role to Leven as an interim he would have fixed the defence and given them a chance of getting into the top six. Warnock arrived, told jokes, lost lots of games and left. The only thing he did that was worthwhile was sign Junior Hoilett. From his point of view he got to manage a team against Rangers. Complete waste of time! Poor decision making cost Aberdeen this year. Wrong managerial option, some really illogical signings and botched change of manager. We are where we deserve to be.
I’m a Hibee. We should realistically have a target of bettering the Jambos. In Scotland that usually means a top four spot. Third place SHOULD be a competition between HFC, HMFC and AFC due to club size.
Hibs only competed in the European Cup because who went to Europe was decided by a committee of the SFA board. Who was the head of the SFA and chair of the committee? The Hibs chairman. Aberdeen had won a league and cup double the previous season and should have played in Europe instead.
Good coverage of the game. Worth noting Aberdeen were league champions in 1955 and should have taken part in the first European cup. Hibs however took their place as they were chosen by the sfa.
Hi Sam, There needs to be proper investment in Scottish football. Sky/TNT could cut the financial share a little more appropriately. Scottish football is a good product. I hope I'm wrong, but if proper investment is not made, quality players will drift down south and the leagues will become a sideshow at best, irrelevant at worst and that would be unacceptable.
We shouldn't care about that. We will never be able to compete with the wealthy European leagues, or the plastic leagues in other parts of the world, and we shouldn't try. We chased that dream in the early 2000s and it blew up in our faces. Instead, we should focus on creating a great experience for match-going Scottish fans instead of trying to appeal to TV viewers in other countries - fair pricing, competitive matches, no VAR, great media that gets us behind the scenes, a real connection between clubs and communities.
Not trying to be funny here. Unless it’s a derby, old firm or Hibs are flying in the league, that stadium is the same. Passionate group of ‘ultras’, overall not a well supported club at all!
@@Support-your-local-team not true in the slightest. You wouldn’t see that at Tynecastle, Ibrox or Celtic Park. I know plenty hibs season ticket holders that say the same. Fans are only there when it’s good!
@@HandsomeFlackoJodye Celtic and Rangers have about 80% of the fans between them and you think it's an achievement to sell out a 50-60 thousand stadium? When have they been as bad as Hibs for a decade? Didn't Celtic's support split in half when Rangers weren't there (and that was when Celtic were still winning titles). Comparing anyone else to Celtic/Rangers with their gloryhunter supports is irrelevant. Hearts have had very good attendances for the last number of years but their attendances have fluctuated in the past as well.
@@HandsomeFlackoJodye in the early 80s when Rangers were a mid table team, they were regularly playing in front of very low crowds at Ibrox, with the stadium well under half full for many matches
Oh Sam.... what did you say.... The Jambos will forever be paying homage to you after this quote: "Bet you think it is glamourous being a RU-vidr in 2024 closing in on 200k subs, but in reality its a go pro balancing on a bin outside Easter Road"....
Unfortunately, the extreme tribalism of those two means that is almost impossible. It’s literally a struggle to the death and every point dropped is a disaster. Whenever a team remotely challenges them , the players of that team are mercilessly disgruntled by the MSM here in Scotland. All the players are miraculously linked with big money transfers. Hibs had a team in 2006 that could well have won the league if it remained intact. However, the “old firm” tore it apart. It’s why we have such a great stadium though!
The OF each have 10 times the resources of their nearest challengers. Between them that have half of all the income for the whole of Scottish football every year. It's not like the difference between Man City and Leicester, it's like the difference between Man City and Reading. It's impossible for anyone to break their stranglehold and there's no point thinking about it.
Aberdeen never had the squad depth to play to play high intensity euro football, then back to league games. We have seen this issue in the past, not just with scottish teams. Although Robson should have went before xmas, far too stubborn and self centred.
Spineless and gutless Hibernian this season and this match summed up how atrocious this squad is but Aberdeen could be pumped up for next season,good friends.
What a terrible game for Hibs and to be booed off the park...oh dear. As for the Dons next season could be a good one with the new manager coming in. An interesting game will be the "New Firm" match against promoted Dundee United as managed by former Dons manager Jim Goodwin.
Supply and demand,if you are charging a fortune to fans in England and the fans pay it you are ripping off fans but the demand is there.If this is the crowd with prices you are charging then the prices are too high.
A very depressing result for Hibs fans. Aberdeen has been able to turn things around after the managerial chaos to a degree, but both teams will need to do some serious soul searching in the off season to try and make the run towards the upper tier next season. Comparing this match against the Celtic/Rangers match shows the gap that exists and has to be overcome.
@@BALHAM69 exactly and its even sadder when east kilbride were only formed in 2010 as a glorified mcdonalds soccer school franchise and have no identity as a club whatsoever
People need to stop pretending hibs are a big club. They aren’t. Attendances are embarrassing every year unless they get to a cup final. Even then they can’t fill their allocation (as your video against Celtic showed). Just a mid sized club with a mid sized stadium that they can’t get close to filling.
Aberdeen are similar. Over achieved in the 80s due to a great manager, but are now where you’d expect them to be. Another medium sized stadium that the fan base can’t fill.
Sorry but as a Dons fan who was at the game was so funny seeing Hibs fans leaving at half time. 4-0 what a result! What relegation battle a few months ago...!? ❤🤍
Hibs have been mostly average to poor since Lennon and even before his departure selling John McGinn. Maybe the Foley money will arrest the decline and get the fans back. Can't get much worse.
