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I’ve not been as creative as i’d have liked been the last few months. As you can see there has been a lack of posts on zero seven. Lack of a brain has caused me to find anything to give you. Yet, being a sunday and I have nothing to do at the moment I would like to offer you a nice new wallpaper.

As some of you know it’s coming up to the 20th anniversary of the Hands Off Hibs campaign. So, a simple wallpaper with some now iconic words might make their way on to the background of your computer.

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also don’t forget that Hibernian supporters are hoping to get Sunshine on Leith in the charts this week. Zero Seven are in full support of this and are download the single from the 31st May in the hope that it gets into the charts. For more information click here.

Just out of sheer interest. We would love to know what colour of away kit you would like to see the Hibees play in next season. Answers on a postcard. No, not really answer in the poll below. The colour chart below will also help you.

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If you chose other please let us know below? GGTTH!

Collectively are Hibernian fans and players showing an extreme mental block when it comes to winning football matches or more to the point winning a Scottish Cup? I’m not a sports psychologist but do notice a mental block, a nervous mindset in certain games we’re expected to win. When Hibernian are not playing well the stands exude a nervous atmosphere and tend to turn on the usual scapegoats in green and white for tension release, this nervous aptitude then seems to pass on to the players on the field and the end result is normally defeat or cup exit.

Watching the Rangers fans get stronger vocally today when they were up against the odds and playing shite made me think about mental strengths, did you like me still think they would nick it? Can we do anything on the terraces to change the mental strengths of the Hibernian players? Should we lift the atmosphere more when we’re struggling in games? Are we too critical and becoming aloof like our deluded neighbours, believe. What do our players want or expect from the terraces?

I’m not being critical of our fantastic supporters, like you all I want is my team to achieve in the game with all Hibernian fans right behind them. Message to Hibernian, fuck it, fuck everyone, go out and win that bastard cup this season. Apologies for my foul language I hate lying down to the Hearts. Still in love with Hibernian and always will be. All the best to Hibernian fans going up to Dingwall on Tuesday, you deserve a performance and a win.

GGTTH

Following on from the end of an era topic we progress to the people who follow Hibernian. My love affair with Hibernian has passed onto my own children.

The satisfaction of winning the League cup against Dunfermline and celebrating with my eldest son and half the city of Edinburgh in Easter Road will never be forgotten.My wife met us with our young daughter and new baby son all wearing the glorious green.I’d always hoped that all my kids could witness it again in the future and the old Hibees duly obliged with that smashing 5-1 win against Jim Jeffries Kilmarnock. The whole family were captured outside Tamsons in the credits at the end of the official DVD that Hibernian made. More recently I took my grandson to the Hibernian v Montrose game followed by the tie against St Mirren at Easter Road, both happily ending in victories. In my grandsons school story book my daughter told me how he had written about how much he enjoyed the whole occasion, seeing school friends at the game and being involved in the atmosphere of it all.

Another generation of my family falls in love with Hibernian and it makes me smile with great pride. Everyone has their own stories to tell of how they fell in love with Hibernian all different but more probably than not passed down from fathers and mothers.

Frustration was the name of the game against Ross County and we survived a torrid tie.

We are still in the cup and winning it is still possible if the desire and application is given by this current Hibernian team. Moving on to the Derby tie tomorrow, I’ll not be there after promising myself never to pass a penny of my money to the Hearts after the Wallace Mercer trauma.

Predicting a result is foolish in this game so I pray Yogi has his team ready to do themselves justice? hopefully we can have the bragging rights come Monday morning.

Get right into them boys three points tomorrow will set us up lovely for the Scottish cup replay at Dingwall next Tuesday.

If you can remember back to the days of the old Sighthill Hibees website where we had Daddy ‘O’ Hibee’s weekly views on matches you will know roughly what to expect. We’ve got him back for a one off for his views on the famous Easter Road East Terracing which is now missing from the Leith Skyline.

My earliest memories of the east terracing at Easter Road was the distance from the top of the terracing right down to the pitch, it always seemed so different when you were a child sitting on your fathers shoulders. There was a game one night when it got so cold I couldn’t feel my feet, when my father put me to the ground, I toppled over onto my backside much to the amusement of my dads mates who announced that it wouldn’t be the last time that it would happen following the fortunes of Hibernian, as I would find out watching over the years.

I grasped the passion and knowledge of what it was all about following a football club, soon after these early years I really started a love affair with this famous old club. I now went to my regular spot every home game sitting on the wall near the half way line with the red barriers to hold onto, legs dangling down the wall. Hibernian were a wonderful team to watch back then.

Turnbulls Tornadoes and those glorious European nights, we now recognise that we took those nights for granted almost every year. The Turnbulls Tornadoes had two deadly and contrasting forms of attack, the classical right hand side with Brownlie and Edwards and the kamikaze left with Schaedler and Duncan  add to that the drive and leadership of Stanton the left peg of Cropley and the majestic combination of Gordon and O’Rourke, hey presto, heavenly football.

Easter Road without that old terrace felt strange for me, but with the new generation and a covered terrace a new kind of atmosphere developed, bringing with it again wonderful memories and over the top celebrations, I never got used to the concrete and plastic seating being in front of you whenever Hibernian scored, I have scars to this day from celebrating passionately from the important goals scored. The transformation of Easter Road has to be applauded and the future generations will owe a lot to the endeavours of all involved who saved this old club form extinction and raised it up to where it belongs in Scottish football.

There will be tears when the old East Terracing disappears completely for good but memories live long and stories will be past on to our youth from grandparents and parents for years to come and from the ashes the next generation will bring the passion and atmosphere required to give our team the most vociferous of backings to go on and achieve in this wonderful old game.

I raise my glass to the old Easter Road and toast the next generation and their new fabulous Hibernian theatre of dreams.

GGTTH

For images of the East Terracing check out Osprey Watcher on Flickr.