[TheWorthinGer]

I am sure its a source of frustration for every club who does not manage to sell out their ground for regular league games.  I also would like to say I don't like the term "fair Weather fans", by the descriptions on here I would be one of them but I am by no means a fair weather fan, just one who cannot get to games regularly.  People don't go to ordinary games for all sorts of reasons, its up to clubs to provide initiatives etc to attract them more but ultimately its success on the field that always draws more fans to games and Hibs have been a little short of that recently!!!

It's all about scale. I don't go to every game. 3 games last season and 3 this, but it's a 1000 miles round trip. Family work and finances don't allow me the luxury of following my team the way I did as a boy.  No doubt there will be hibs fans travelling equally long or greater distances or with responsibilities that make commitment difficult, but the vast majority I would wager live and work within distances that make the regular support of the club all too possible yet don't. They are fair weather fans.

It's not just Hibs of course, all clubs have them in abundance, still you have to feel for a club that would be challenging for honours far more regularly than they do if just 25% of these cup final attendees that don't go to league games did so.

In Scotland a huge fraction of a club's income is derived from ticket sales and not TV money.

And, while football is an entertainment business, it's one that depends on the participation of the audience in creating and improving the product.