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Honorary Trustees
Trustees will be elected by
the membership of the Trust at the end of the first year and each year
thereafter.
 Lawrie Reilly
The word 'legend' is often used in football, but hardly
begins to describe the way supporters of Hibernian feel about Last
Minute Reilly. The spearhead of Hibs 'Famous Five' forward line, Lawrie
Reilly is very much "Hibernian Football Club".
Through the 40's and 50's, Lawrie led the line for Hibs
through the most successful period in the history of the club. To
this day his passion for the club is unsurpassed and his friendship
with those surviving members of the Famous Five side is still very
much a part of his life.
The most capped Hibs player ever, Lawrie is, in his
own words, "honoured to have been asked to join the ERIN Community
Trust as a Trustee".
However, on that point we must take issue with this
living legend............... The honour - of course -is all ours!
 Craig
Paterson
39 year old Craig Paterson has a Hibs background second
to none. Born and bred in Penicuik, he is the son of none other than
Jock Paterson, Hibs legend from the Famous Five team. So you could
say Hibernian were pretty much in his blood from the start! Craig
played for Hibernian in the side of the late 70s and early 80s, winning
a Division 1 medal and playing in the famous 1979 Scottish Cup Final.
A defender acknowledged widely as having great talent,
Craig was recognised with international honours at Under 21 level.
Since leaving Hibs he moved to temporary employment in Glasgow before
playing for, amongst other clubs, Hamilton, Kilmarnock and Motherwell
- where he won a Scottish Cup medal.
Craig is over the moon at being involved with a Hibs
orientated project again. Whilst he dabbled for a while with management
in Junior football he has now moved on to become chief summariser
for the Radio Forth SPL match commentaries and is a sports reporter
during the week for both Forth FM and MAX AM. His father sadly passed
away early in 2000 after a brave battle with cancer, though he had
remained a season ticket holder at Easter Road for the great majority
of his life. The club expressed the feelings of the Hibs support with
a minutes silence and written tribute to Jock - he will indeed be
sadly missed.
On the Trust Craig says: "This is a wonderful opportunity
for the fans of Hibernian to have direct input to the club. A real
chance to make a direct and telling contribution to the future of
Hibernian. I am very pleased to be involved with the venture and believe
it will be a success because at the end of the day the only people
with the real raw motivation to make any club great is the support."
 Dave Shanks
A local lad from Penicuik, Dave soon
found himself a regular attendee at Easter Road, brought up on a diet
of Turnbull's Tornadoes and European football. Early memories include
meeting Joe Baker, climbing an eternity of steps to get to the top of
the East Terracing, and celebrating hundreds of goals.
Attendance's lapsed for the majority of
his school years, but College in the late Eighties saw an overdue
return to the East Terracing, now a shadow of its once mighty self.
The Skol Cup Final of 1991 and the home game against Anderlecht stand
out as more recent memories.
In 1993 wanderlust set in and Dave
spent a year travelling the world. Following Hibs from the depths of
Africa wasn't easy, but match reports sent out from home and some
frantic phone calls kept him up to date. Meeting up with members of
the Australian Branch made things a lot easier during a 4-month stint
in Melbourne, contacts that he still retains today.
Now in his mid-thirties, Dave has been
a regular attendee at Easter Road over the last 5 seasons,
occasionally providing commentary over the internet to the growing
army of Hibs fans overseas. "I'd like to see Hibs how I first remember
them" says Dave, "playing attractive football in front of huge crowds
and bringing trophies home to Edinburgh".
Herbie Cruickshank
38 year old Edinburgh born and bred, Herbie has never
stopped congratulating himself on being the family rebel! This is
on account of his entire family affiliation with another, much lesser
known, Edinburgh football club.
Herbie was only able to join the Hibernian legions 'for
real' in 1973, when a school friend ambushed his father. Since then,
he has enjoyed all the highs and lows that come with being a Hibs
supporter! Herbie has successfully added both his wife and young daughter
to the growing Hibernian throng through the Family season ticket scheme,
and the are also proud members of the Hibs 100 club. The choice of
Hawkhill as the family home was an easy one.
Herbie, an IT Project Manager for a major financial
organisation in Edinburgh, is presently heavily involved in ensuring
Year 2000 compliance in his company. He said: "My proudest moment
so far must be the League Cup final against the Pars. Even if it seemed
like the longest 90 minutes I'd ever experienced. Come the
Millennium
however, I look forward to many more days of glory for our club -
and any small thing I can do that helps towards that goal must be
worthwhile."
Lloyd Quinan
Details coming soon....
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Management Committee
The management committee will be elected at the every year
by the members of the Trust at the AGM.
Dave Shanks
Convenor
A local lad from Penicuik, Dave soon
found himself a regular attendee at Easter Road, brought up on a diet
of Turnbull's Tornadoes and European football. Early memories include
meeting Joe Baker, climbing an eternity of steps to get to the top of
the East Terracing, and celebrating hundreds of goals.
Attendance's lapsed for the majority of
his school years, but College in the late Eighties saw an overdue
return to the East Terracing, now a shadow of its once mighty self.
The Skol Cup Final of 1991 and the home game against Anderlecht stand
out as more recent memories.
In 1993 wanderlust set in and Dave
spent a year travelling the world. Following Hibs from the depths of
Africa wasn't easy, but match reports sent out from home and some
frantic phone calls kept him up to date. Meeting up with members of
the Australian Branch made things a lot easier during a 4-month stint
in Melbourne, contacts that he still retains today.
Now in his mid-thirties, Dave has been
a regular attendee at Easter Road over the last 5 seasons,
occasionally providing commentary over the internet to the growing
army of Hibs fans overseas. "I'd like to see Hibs how I first remember
them" says Dave, "playing attractive football in front of huge crowds
and bringing trophies home to Edinburgh".
 Simon
Wallace
Vice convenor
Simon's first season ticket for Easter Road was bought
over twenty years ago for the old enclosure in front of the North
Stand, he was only 9 at the time. As well as helping to set up the
ERIN Community Trust, Simon was also there to help kick off the initial
Hibs Internet Mailing List (started with 5 members, now numbering
over 300), and the International Hibs Supporters' Club (IHSC) who
regularly raise money to sponsor players' strips at Easter Road.
Neil Havis
Secretary & Assistant Treasurer
I
think I was destined to be a Hibs fan before I was born. When my
father first came to work in Edinburgh in the 1960’s from Newcastle he
had the good sense to get himself along to Easter Road to watch a
decent side. So despite being born in the county of old Midlothian
there was only going to be one team for me.
The
first game I remember seeing Hibs play was a Dryburgh Cup Final on a friends
colour TV in the days when they were still a big novelty. My first home
game was a 2-0 win against Aberdeen one cold December afternoon. My biggest
highlights in the next 25 years have been seeing the great George Best in a
Hibs strip, the Skol Cup run of 1991, watching Gordon Hunter break the
Hearts jinx at Tynecastle and every trip to Hampden to watch Hibs (not that
few more wouldn’t hurt !!) I joined the Trust committee to try and help the
club and ensure the fans have a physical as well as an emotional stake in
the club.
David McBain
Asst. Secretary & London Regional Representative
At schoolboy level, some thought Dave to be the next
Pat Stanton - unfortunately he was alone in this opinion, and once
educated in the finer points of the game Dave decided it better to
follow the best than try to become one of them. Living in the west
coast of Sutherland, where 95% of the football support is blind adoration
of Glasgow Rangers, Dave saw only one team worthy of his contrary
nature - and in the early 70's Hibs proved time and again what a fine
selection he had made.
The distance from Edinburgh meant that live games were
not a regular occurrence, so when it came to a choice of college for
further education, well lets just say the club decided.
Now living in Surrey, but travelling up to virtually
every home game Dave is determined to repay the entertainment Hibs
have given him over the years - Unlike some, I can't afford to buy
the club, but if I can do something - however little - to help ensure
the future of the Hibees.
Alix Stewart
Committee Member
 Alix’s first Hibs game was a 2-0
victory over Aberdeen in 1984, although her dad made sure she knew who
the best team in the world were from an early age. Alix tries to
travel to as many away games as is possible, and travels with the
Tartan Army and stayed in Athens over a week to ensure she didn’t miss
the AEK game.
Alix has just moved to
London but will be keeping a close eye on the committee to ensure the
best for the Trust in the months and years ahead!
The best player she has seen playing for Hibs is Frank Sauzee. Her
ambitions are to see Hibs win the Scottish cup and to see the ERIN
Trust play a greater role in helping the club.
Jim Gardiner
Committee Member
 Jim’s
first Hibs game was at Tynecastle in 1969, we won 2-0. He travels
to all Hibs games home and away, and usually manages to take in
most of the U21 and U18 games too. Jim’s favourite ever Hibs
player was the one and only Jimmy O’Rourke, the fantastic forward
who just loved scoring and pulling on a Hibs shirt.
Jim’s also a regular member of the Tartan
Army and follows Scotland home and away, and he’s also travel
convenor for the Stanton Branch. An Inspector of Taxes to trade,
Jim’s three biggest ambitions are to see Hibs win the Scottish
Cup, for Scotland to win Independence, and a third which involves
Sophia Lauren which we won’t go into in too much detail.
His
favourite games are the League Cup victory in 1972 & the greatest
game in history (seven-nil!).
Frank Sweeney
Committee Member
 Frank first started attending Easter
Road regularly in 1959, and was lucky enough to see all the Famous
Five (except ERIN Trustee Lawrie Reilly) play for the cabbage.
Frank has been at most of the
greatest games in Hibs’ recent history including 3-2 Barcelona, 2-0
Real Madrid, 6-1 Sporting Lisbon, and 7-0 Hearts but his favourite of
all time is the 5-0 defeat of Napoli. “No-one gave Hibs a chance that
night, including me. The Italians were up to all their tricks but
Hibs’ one touch football was magnificent as we put 5 goals past Dino
Zoff.
Frank is a member of the St Giles Branch of the Hibs Supporters club,
and there’s a family connection there as his mother is the secretary.
Alison Campbell
Committee Member
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