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It transpires that the club is operating at a small profit for the financial year up to 30 June 2016 and the main reason for this positive result is the participation in two cup finals last season - the main factor in Hibs 'operating successfully as a Premiership club outside the Premiership'! It's also worth noting that Hibs fans now own 31.8% of the club - a great commitment by many of our fans (incl me!) to plough money into Hibs FC in order to help the funding of sporting ambition - 2400 independent fans/shareholders to be exact, with other Hibs fans funding through Hibernian Supporters Ltd. We'll hit the 50% mark eventually and it is ultimately down to desire and commitment by the fans who loyally back the club! Promotion is targeted as the main sporting challenge for this season although I'd still like to see us defend our Scottish Cup with the same level of desire and commitment.

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Just back from tonight's AGM and six words come to mind after listening to various presentations covering Hibs 1st team progress, player recruitment, youth development and the organised structure of Hibs FC as a pro Scottish footie club - we are in very good hands!
The main orchestrator of this impressive set up? None other than Leeann Dempster with Hibs head of football, George Craig, not far behind and Neil Lennon enthusiastically 'buying into' a collective football philosophy with all participants playing a vital part in making it effective. This meeting opened with a display of the SFA Scottish Cup, draped in green ribbons, placed alongside the SWFA Scottish Cup - the first time in Scottish footie history that both trophies have been simultaneously held by the same footie club!
One of Leeann's end comments re the historical events that followed our Scottish Cup triumph of 21 May was so accurate - 'Amazingly it was like somebody 'flicked a switch' and a huge element of togetherness unfolded amongst our fans and throughout the Hibs community. We never looked back'!  I previously called it a 'massive feel good factor' but I 'get the drift' of her comment.

[hfcbounce]

Hats off to Leanne Dempster she's turned our club around bid time. She's upfront & honest to the fans . She's got a job to do in taking us to the SPL
She's defo the right person for the job imo

GGTTH

[hibeejim21]

IF we can get ourselves out this lousy, league i think hibernian could well be completely transformed, go into a new era and be one of the top clubs in the scottish premiership. The platform is there to build on with the fans involvement,the support turning out in expectation and an experienced,solid manager to hopefully guide us along.

Dempster hasn't dished out silly money either to jeopardise our future,we need to do this the right way.

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One thing she did emphasise last night was the expectancy that Hibs were gonna downsize was merely an assumption and it was never gonna happen to a club with the huge potential and assets that it holds. She ensured that Hibs would be transformed and hugely reorganised into one of the most well run footie clubs in Scotland with terrific facilities that will attract many interested players and there is also an appropriate video 'sales pitch' that can be used during any approach to eg a foreign player who may interest Hibs.

[St Charles Owl]

As far as executives in football go then Leanne Dempster seems to be a breath of fresh air. Aside from the obvious fact she is a woman in what is still a male dominated arena, she comes across in what I have read as someone who gets it from the average fans point of view, again something that is less common than it should be. Of course your future really hinges on getting out of the Championship, you have been there too long already and if you want to achieve what she says she wants to then you need to be in the top flight asap!!

[hfcbounce]

Leanne Dempster is like a lot of other people who have worked for HFC not realising how big the club really is.
But now LD has been taken aback with the size of the club she is clearly working on bigger things for HFC which can only be good for the club @ fans.

The thing I find with LD she's honest and takes time out to talk to the Corporate People or the ordinary guy who pays his money there's no differences everyone is treated he same. And people respect that in her there's no doubt she's going to take us forward once were back in the SPL things will move along nicely I feel

[hibeejim21]

As far as executives in football go then Leanne Dempster seems to be a breath of fresh air.  Aside from the obvious fact she is a woman in what is still a male dominated arena, she comes across in what I have read as someone who gets it from the average fans point of view, again something that is less common than it should be.  Of course your future really hinges on getting out of the Championship, you have been there too long already and if you want to achieve what she says she wants to then you need to be in the top flight asap!!

Sadly she has also had to endure a lot of abuse from homophobic arseholes,and some of the shite she got on twitter after the cup final win was totally out of order.

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Football is still sadly riddled with these kinda antics and I can't see it changing any time soon apart from confronting and policing the worst elements of this kinda unacceptable behaviour in the civilised society that we live in!

[St Charles Owl]

Its not only football that sees this sort of anti-social behavior. The advent and prevalence of social media, most with a lot of anonymity, has seen a rise in this behavior across multiple areas, especially in politics these days with the US election, Brexit referendum and your own independence referendum being prime examples.