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welcome
to the
2nd edition of our
Newsletter. All of the
feedback
received
after the initial launch
was very positive. We
want this to continue,
to keep all of you
informed about the
Branch, as well as
being a tool in our
recruitment of new
members.
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is
your
Newsletter, so if there
is anything relating to
yourself, the Branch
or to Hibernian F.C.
which you want to
highlight here, then
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forget to check out
the latest news on our
Website (the address
is on the Contact
Section on the last
page) and at the St.
Pat’s forum on the
March 2012
Hibees Bounce.
We
want
your
participation, so don’t
forget to come along
and to take part in
Branch Meetings or
Functions.
You
will
always
receive a very warm
welcome at the St.
Patrick’s Branch.
Branch Fundraising Events:
St.
Day:
Patrick’s
As promised, the
Branch
(in
conjunction with St.
Paul’s)
have
organised
a
St.
Patrick’s
Day
Celebration
for
Friday the 16th
March in the Hibs
Supporters
Sunnyside
7.30pm.
Club,
@
Tickets priced
each, will be
£5
available
through Race Night:
the Branch and full
details will follow
shortly in a separate
We
are
also
e-mail.
arranging a Race
Night on either the
05th or 12th May
(whenever
the
fixtures are decided)
which will also take
place in the Club.
These
are
ideal
opportunities to get
to know others in
the Branch or to just
have a great time,
so why not grab a
ticket or 2?
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Who We Are:
It may be that you are
a die-hard Hibby, an
armchair supporter or
are now living abroad
and would like a tie to
home or it may be
that you are a former
pupil
or
parish
member
of
St.
Patrick's. Regardless
and whatever your
link, we would very
much like to invite
you to become a
member of the St.
Patrick's Branch of
Hibernian Supporters.
Our aim is to keep the
name of St. Patrick's,
the historic home of
Hibernian
Football
Club,
as
the
supporter’s voice and
link to the Club.
Hibernian F.C. was
born in St. Patrick's
(Cowgate) on August
6th 1875. We were
first to wear the
Green & White, and
we are proud of our
heritage. G.G.T.T.H.
The January Transfer Window
Transfer Summary
(31 Jan 2012)
Hibernian has now
concluded business
in the January
transfer window. A
summary of activity is
outlined here:
Players in:
Matt Doherty - loan
to June 2012
Roy O'Donovan loan to June 2012
Jorge Claros - loan
to January 2013
Pa Saikou Kujabi signed to June 2013
George Francomb loan to June 2012
Tom Soares - loan to
June 2012
James McPake loan to June 2012
Eoin Doyle - signed
to June 2013
Leigh Griffiths - loan
extension to June
2012
Players out:
Akpo Sodje
Michael Hart
Junior Agogo
Victor Palsson
Matthew Thornhill
David Crawford
.
Birthday Corner
A
very
Happy
Birthday
to
the
following members,
who’s birthday takes
place between March
– May:
Robert Henderson,
James Woodlock,
Robert Devine, Pat
Brack, Peter Barr,
Brian Cunnison,
Alan Bain, Daniel
McKinley, Alan
Gallagher, Terry
Rudden & Michael
Moore.
Also, meet Finn
Power, our youngest
member at only 13
hours old.
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The Branch Flag
The Branch Flag on
display in the Famous
5 Stand during the
game
against
Rangers on Saturday
10 December 2011.
The
20’
x
10’
masterpiece will be
seen at most games
and any photos taken,
can be e-mailed to the
Branch
for
future
publication in your
Newsletter.
The purchase of the Flag was only made possible due to a generous loan from a member of the
Branch. Whilst it is our intention to hold a fundraising event to help repay this, any donations (no
matter the amount) from members are obviously welcome and can be brought to a Branch meeting,
to the Hibs Club before & after home games or by PayPal on our donate section of the Website.
I Remember When:
Sir Tom Farmer
Sir Tom Farmer was
responsible for saving
the
Club
from
extinction in 1990
following the hostile
take-over
bid
by
Wallace
Mercer.
Under his ownership,
the club has enjoyed
unrivalled
stability
resulting
in
the
complete
re-vamp
and modernisation of
Easter Road Stadium
and the development
of our state of the art
(www.hibshistoricaltrust.org.uk)
training facility at East
Mains. In a move
similar to that of his
direct
family
descendants,
his
intervention
has
meant
that
the
Hibernian family can
once
again
look
forward
with
anticipation to a great
future.
Joe Baker
(Centre Forward)
with Hibernian, Baker
scored 196 times in
152 appearances and
was capped 8 times for
'The Baker Boy' was England.
a prolific goal scorer
endowed with great
pace
and
tremendous bravery.
Joe
Baker
represented
the
transition from one
era to the next and
during the 1959-60
season scored 42
league goals, a Club
record. In 2 periods
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(www.hibshistoricaltrust.org.uk)
In the
Beginning
Many different forms of
football
have
been
played in this country
for hundreds of years. It
is believed the game
was first brought to
these shores by the
Romans
who
had
adapted it from the
Turks and Greeks, who
themselves
were
influenced
by
the
Chinese. Played under
many
different
regulations, or codes, it
wasn't until the College
or Cambridge rules
were devised in the
1840's and the Football
League formed in 1863
that the game, as we
know it today, was
finally established.
In Scotland, Association
Football, as it became
known, was usually
played only in the West
of the country. In
Edinburgh, Rugby was
still the established
game but in December
1873, a Queen's Park
XI and a side called
Clydesdale, acting as
missionaries for the
new code, played an
exhibition
game
at
Raimes
Park,
now
Victoria Park in Leith,
watched by a crowd of
only a few hundred.
Many of those watching
from the sidelines left to
form their own teams
and very soon several
sprang up in the city
playing under the new
Association rules: 3rd
Edinburgh
Rifles;
Hanover;
Thistle;
Brunswick St Bernard's;
St Andrews; to name a
few. Not long after, a
group of young men
from the Canongate
and Cowgate area of
the
city,
including
Michael Whelehan and
Malachy Byrne, formed
their own team playing
in their local park. The
team was quickly taken
under the wing of the
Catholic Young Men's
Society,
or
CYMS,
which was based at the
local
St
Patrick's
Church in the Cowgate,
who
offered
the
Irishmen training and
changing facilities. The
local
priest,
Father
Edward Hannan was
quick
to
recognise
Hibernian F.C. (1876)
playing football was
better for his many
young parishioners than
drinking in the local
pubs, and became, in
effect, the team's first
Manager. Formed by
Catholic Irishmen or the
descendents
of
Irishmen who had come
to Edinburgh during the
great
Irish
Potato
Famines
of
the
nineteenth
century,
Hibernian, as they were
now
known,
were
initially refused entry
into the local Edinburgh
Football
Association
and
the
Scottish
Football
Association
because the club were
not
recognised
as
Scottish. After several
unsuccessful attempts
to gain entry, their
persistence
was
eventually
rewarded
and they were allowed
to join both associations
in 1877, although they
were prohibited from
entering the Scottish
Cup that first season.
They were, however,
allowed to enter the
Edinburgh
Cup
competition.
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European Nights
While Scottish football has
undergone something of a
slide on the European
stage in recent years,
when
the
inaugural
European Cup began in
1955-56, Hibernian were
the
only
British
representatives and made
it all the way to the semifinals. The side was based
around the talents of
legendary forward line 'the
Famous Five'. As the
tactics of the day dictated,
many teams operated with
two wingers, an 'inside
right', 'inside left' and a
centre forward; Gordon
Smith, Bobby Johnstone,
Lawrie
Reilly,
Eddie
Turnbull
and
Willie
Ormond made up the
quintet of arguably the
finest frontline that the
Scottish game has ever
seen. All five players
scored more than 100
goals for the club, with the
north stand at Easter
Road now named in their
honour.The Independent's
obituary to Johnstone in
2001 claimed: ''In those
days, Easter Road, the
club's ground, had steep
terracing slopes which
were needed regularly to
accommodate crowds of
60,000. The 65,850 who
paid to see the Edinburgh
derby with Hearts in 1950
a club record is testimony
to the regard in which
Johnstone and his four
colleagues were held.
''With a growing reputation
in
Scotland,
Hibs'
visionary chairman Harry
Swan
and
(former
manager)
Willie
McCartney recognised the
need
for
global
recognition and sought to
lead the club forward by
organising tours to other
www.espn.co.uk
(Where And When It All Began)
areas of the football globe.
Starting
small,
they
organised
exhibition
games against English
clubs such as Manchester
United,
Tottenham
Hotspur and Arsenal and
beat Matt Busby's United
7-3 in a testimonial for
Smith in 1952. A trip to
Brazil to take part in the
Octagonal
Rivadavia
Correa Meyer (a version
of
the
World
Club
Championship, according
to the Brazilian FA) in
1953 then gained them
more of a media profile as
they became the first
Scottish side to be asked
to play in the country.
Despite the fact that
international travel was
''rare, expensive and time
consuming'',
the
champions of Scotland in
1951-52 took a chance
and according to the Hibs
fanzine, Mass Hibsteria:
"Hibs took three sets of
boots: the usual football
boot of the day, a lighter
'shoe' with studs, which
they had bought whilst
touring Germany, and an
even lighter rubber-soled
shoe. They also took three
sets of strips of varying
materials. This is in stark
contrast to the preparation
of the Scotland national
team of the time who still
favoured the (Hobnailed)
"tackity boot". They failed
to win a game in the
competition, losing to
Fluminense and Botafogo
and drawing with Vasco
da Gama to finish bottom
of their group, but the trip
earned them valuable
experience of football on a
wider
stage.
The
progression in both profile
and
equipment
was
rewarded when, in 1955,
the club were given the
chance to play in the first
European Cup [now the
Champions League], as
one of the 16 teams. With
the
technology
of
floodlights allowing games
to be played on midweek
evenings, and cheaper air
fares making it possible to
travel to games across
Europe, the stage was set
for the first British club in
the competition to make
an impression. English
champions Chelsea had
turned down the invitation
because
the
Football
League were ''terrified of
fixture congestion and
foreign contamination'' pressure
from
the
League's
controversial
secretary Alan Hardaker
ultimately
proved
too
great.
While
Scottish
champions Aberdeen also
withdrew because they felt
that playing under the
floodlights gave the home
side an unfair advantage.
Hibs were called as their
replacements and took on
the job of representing
Britain
with
aplomb.
Drawn
against
West
German
champions
RotWeiss Essen, Hibs
won 4-0 in Essen and the
return tie in Scotland
ended in a 1-1 draw.
Eddie Turnbull became
the first British player to
score in Europe and said
that they had quite a few of
the World-Cup winning
team of 1954 on their
side."
Swedish
side
Djurgaarden were the next
opposition and, despite
going behind in the first
minute, Hibs came back to
beat them 3-1 'away' in
Glasgow
after
their
Stockholm stadium had
succumbed to the usual
Scandinavian freeze. The
second leg saw another
Turnbull strike enough to
secure a 1-0 win and
progression to the semifinals
was
assured.
Arriving at Stade Reims'
35,000 all-seater stadium
was a far cry from the
sloping terraces of Easter
Road and the stage
appeared to overawe the
Hibs players. Unable to
make the most of their
chances, Michel Leblond's
67th
minute
strike
punished
the
Scots'
profligacy and Reims' star
Raymond Kopa set up the
second for Rene Bliard
with seconds left. With too
much of a mountain to
climb, Kopa's skill killed off
Hibs' challenge in the
second leg as he led his
side to a 1-0 win, Hibs'
European adventure was
complete.
St. Patrick’s Hibernian Supporters’ Branch
New Members Always Welcome
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Committee:
Douglas McLeod Chairman
Robert Henderson Secretary
Stuart McLeod Treasurer
Rory McLeod Vice Chairman (committee rep for any absentees)
Gordon McKinley Delegate
Steven McPillips Delegate
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Edward Duffy Co-opted member (Newsletter co-ordinator)
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