Leeann Dempster has issued a statement to all Hibs’ fans following this year’s Scottish Cup victory.
She is urging fans to buy season tickets for next season’s campaign and her aim is to reach the 10,000 mark.
The statement on the club’s website reads:
“It gives me great pleasure in addressing you as Scottish Cup Winners!
The win will live long in the life of every Hibernian supporter. It was a fantastic performance and to win in the final minutes of the game was incredible.
I have spoken to so many supporters. Some young and some older, current season ticket holders and those who are not and everyone agrees – winning the Scottish Cup gave us all a weekend to remember and a performance for to be proud of TOGETHER .
In some ways the victory parade was even more impressive. To have well over 150,000 people line the streets of Edinburgh, dressed in green and white and cheering the team, left me speechless. It was a visual representation of the potential of our Club. Tens of thousands of people, all touched by our achievement and wanting to join us on that momentous day.
Now we want to realise that potential on a permanent basis and I really want us to create that togetherness longer term, to be a launch pad for all the things that are already great about our Club.
The day brought the community together – now we need you back at Easter Road.
As things stand, we have almost 8,000 season ticket supporters for next season – an encouraging total for this time of the year, This means however that over 2,000 season ticket holders from last season have still to renew and that we have over 1,000 new season ticket holders.
We want 10,000 season ticket holders. That’s my Target 10K.
We know you can help us get there to give us the best possible chance of winning the Championship outright and returning to the top flight where this Club belongs. The way to do it is to get back to games at Easter Road.
Don’t watch from afar, don’t wait for anyone else, just get yourself to Easter Road and support us over the line in 2017.
If you can, rally your friends and family to come to games. I plan to give our new Head Coach the means necessary to win the Championship – it is easier to do this with you beside me.
It is simple, the sooner you can commit to a season ticket then the more and the sooner we can support our new Head Coach to get players signed up and prepared for the initial games.
A payment plan is currently available to supporters buying by Friday’s renewal deadline, allowing supporters to spread the cost over four instalments.
Life With Hibs has been pretty incredible over the last few weeks. Join us for more next season.”
Leeann
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
