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Smith Gary

00/1 - 05/6

Aberdeen

154

4

1

9

1

0

18

0

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2

0

0

0

0

0

When Alex McLeish offered Gary a short-term contract in July 2000 few could have imagined what an impact the former Scotland Under-21 internationalist would make. Mr. Consistency would have been a fair title for Gary as he showed considerable experience in his defensive duties. Gary can list Falkirk, Aberdeen (twice) and Rennes amongst his former clubs. He scored his fist Hibs goal in the Scottish Cup replay win over Stranraer.

Smith Gordon

46/7 - 58/9

Dundee North End

310

0

125

80

0

35

36

0

12

5

0

0

7

0

1

Gordon was arguably the greatest ever Scottish footballers. He joined Hibs in April 1941 and stayed until 1959. He won 3 league titles when at Hibs, then amazingly won championship badges with Hearts and Dundee.

   An outside right, he was as elegant and athletic a player as has ever graced the Scottish football scene. He was born in Edinburgh in May 1924 and was a Scottish schoolboy internationalist before joining Hibs. He went on to win a host of Scotland caps and 10 League caps.

    With Hibs he lost in both League and Scottish Cup finals, but with Hearts he won the League Cup. He retired from football in 1964 having played late in his career with Dumcondra in Ireland.

  One of the great gentlemen of Scottish football his name inevitably crops up whenever the more mature Scottish football writers speak of the truly magnificent players.

Signed in April 1941, Smith had caught the eye with Dundee North End and scored a hat-trick for a Scottish Junior select against a Hibs-Hearts eleven before his seventeenth birthday. Snatched from under Hearts’s noses, the gifted youngster responded with a hat-trick for Hibs in a 5-3 wartime victory over Hearts on his debut. Thus began one of the greatest Hibs careers of them all.

With his ability to run at players with pace, and carry the ball beyond them, he was feared even as a youngster. He benefited from playing in the Hibs’ wartime team, which frequently  included experienced guest from south of the border, such as the legendary  Matt Busby.

His goalscoring became legendary and he rattled in 170 competitive goals fro Hibs: there were 17 hat-tricks or better. When he topped the Hibs scoring charts in 1950, he capped a sequence that had seen him finish Hibs top scorer in seven out of eight seasons - not bad for a wide player. He scored five in and 8-0 win over Third Lanark in 1947 and by the early 1950,s was popularly appointed club captain.

In 1951 he was widely acclaimed as Scotland’s Player of the Year. Two years on and Smith had reached the 100 goal mark for Hibs and clocked up his 500th appearance. A  testimonial was richly deserved and a 7-3 win over Manchester United was the outcome in one of the most memorable games ever to take place in the capital city. Sadly  he broke a leg in December 1953 and was lost to the game for several months. Injury it seemed was the only thing that could apply the brakes to a remarkable career. Yet he bounced back and, even in his miid thirties, Smith was revered throughout Scotland and a popular choice as national captain in 1955.

Surprisingly Hibs gave Gordon a free transfer in 1959 and he went on to win League Championship badges with both Hearts and Dundee... A truly remarkable feat. Never before, or since has a player won Championship medals with three different clubs - noneof them being base in Glasgow

Smith, Robert Nisbet

72/3 - 78/9

Musselburgh Windsor

144

23

20

29

6

6

11

2

2

10

1

1

4

1

2

86/7 & 88/9

Leicester

Born in Dalkeith in December 1953, Bobby joined Hibernian from Musselburgh Windsor in 1971. He was to have two spells with the club and was extremely influential in his first spell. A very versatile player he was equally at home in midfield or at full-back.

  He made his initial debut against Arbroath in November 1972 and was an industrious midfielder who could play full-back with some style.

  Bobby came back during Pat Stanton’s reign in the early 80s as a loan signing. His third spell at the club came when John Blackley  brought him back north signing him from Leicester.

Smith, Thomas William

98/9 - 00/1

Clydebank

32

2

0

3

1

0

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

A bad injury ended Tom’s career just as he was making himself a feature in the Hibs side at left-back.

  Signed by Alex McLeish from Clydebank, Tom had been a Second Division Player of the Year and his career had started well with Partick Thistle.

  Much of his Thistle football was played in the Premier League before he moved to Ayr United where he won a Second Division championship medal. It was then over to the Bankies where he played only 22 matches before Hibs came calling in January 1999. He played only 5 games in the promotion campaign.

Sneddon, Alan

80/1 - 91/2

Celtic

303

9

7

33

1

2

22

0

0

4

0

0

0

0

0

Signed from Celtic in 1981 Alan won both Premier and First Division championship medals in his first season with Hibernian due to his split of games between Easter Road and Celtic Park.

   He was signed by Bertie Auld, and few could deny that Auld knew a good defender when he saw one. Sneddon, who was 22 when he joined Hibs, quickly justified the faith placed in him although he did concede a penalty in his debut at Raith. He made over 300 league outings for Hibs. His reward came in 1991 when he enjoyed a testimonial match against Aston Villa.

Souness, James M

49/0 - 52/3

Edinburgh Thistle

4

0

3

5

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

Best remembered for a four goal salvo against Manchester City in a prestige friendly. He went on loan to Falkirk in January 1950 and joined Hearts in a permanent deal in January 1953.

  He was something of a sporting all-rounder enjoying both cricket and rugby in Edinburgh’s thriving post-war sporting environment.

Sowumni, Thomas

06-Jul

2

2

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Spalding, Derek

71/2 - 77/8

Butterburn YC

70

4

1

10

0

0

8

0

2

5

0

0

2

0

0

A young centre-half who was given his debut in an East of Scotland Shield match against Berwick Ragners in 1972. Born in Dundee he joined Hibs straight from school.

  Dangerous at set pieces he grabbed a couple of goals in Hibs cup run of 1976 that saw replays aplenty. Derek travelled to America to play with Chicago Sting after his Hibernian career ended, which could probably have been hinted at from 1975 when he married a girl from Chicago.

Sproule, Ivan

04/5 - 06/7

Institute

35

36

12

5

1

0

10

1

4

4

2

2

0

0

0

Ivan was brought to the club by Tony  Mowbray  from Irish club Institute for £5,000.  Was a bit of a clult hero and endeared himself to the fans with a hat-trick at  Ibrox as Rangers were ripped apart by a classy Hibs side.  Moved to Bristol City  during John Collins reign as manager.

Stanton, Patrick Gordon

63/4 - 76/7

Edina Hearts

397

2

51

102

1

14

38

0

4

36

0

8

28

0

2

It would be impossible to contemplate an ‘all time greatest Hibees’ list without including Pat Stanton. He played for the club between 1963 and 1976 and was quite simply a most accomplished performer.

  Signed provisionally in 1961 Pat was farmed out to Bonnyrigg Rose before being called up in 1963 by Walter Galbraith. He made his debut against Motherwell in 1963 and scored in a 4-3 defeat.

…His career never looked back and there were to be many highs in a Hibs jersey. He scored and captained the club to the 2-1 League Cup final win over Celtic in 1972 and was part of the side that mauled Hearts 7-0 on New Years Day 1973.

  Pat left Hibs to join Celtic in 1976 having played in 399 league games and made over 650 appearances in all competitions.

 . When his playing career was over he moved into coaching as assistant boss at Aberdeen and success there earned him a move to Cowdenbeath as manager. From Central Park it was on to Dunfermline. He managed Hibernian in the early 1980s when the club nurtured promising youngsters such as Collins, Weir and Hunter but in a period of transition Pat was unable to arrest a gradual decline.

Stein, Colin

64/5 - 68/9

Armadale Thistle

69

0

40

20

0

8

3

0

3

8

0

4

0

0

0

Born in Linlithgow in 1947, Stein joined Hibs in 1965 from Armadale Thistle. A bustling centre-forward he was only 5’9” but a very physical player none-the-less.

   Noted for being the subject of the first six-figure transfer between Scottish clubs, Colin was a Hibernian hero in the mid sixties. However, all that changed when he joined Rangers in October 1968 for £100,000 and promptly revealed his life-long support of the Glasgow club.

  Nevertheless, nothing should detract from the good work Stein did whilst a Hibs centre. Brave, strong and very alert around goal he was for several years the darling of the Easter Road terraces.

  He was a natural goalscorer and had that selfish streak upon which some forwards thrive. He certainly did not endear himself to officialdom and whilst his disciplinary problems came to a head whilst at Ibrox they first surfaced at Hibs when he was sent off in 1968 against Raith Rovers.

   As a Hibernian player he was capped by Scotland at League and Under-23 level. He led the line with vigour and scored several sensational goals. Just how good a player he was can be gauged from the fact that he gave Leeds United’s then England centre-half Jackie Charlton a torrid evening in 1968 when Stein scored and almost inspired Hibernian to a famous European win.

  On his first outing for Rangers against Hibs he did what we all feared and scored a hat-trick in a 6-1 drubbing. Indeed he seemed to enjoy playing against Hibs and scored the goal at Easter Road in March 1975 that won Rangers the final Scottish First Division title before the Premier League began. Whilst at Rangers, with whom he had two spells, he scored in the 1972 European Cup Winners Cup final and earned the bulk of his 21 Scotland caps.

   Colin later played with Coventry and Kilmarnock in a career that was liberally peppered with sendings-off and suspensions.

Steven, Tom

71/2 - 73/4

Dunbar United

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Played a single game in the 1972/73 season as a right back. Hibernian had lost John Brownlie to a broken leg and manger Eddie Turnbull used A in a late season clash with Motherwell,

Stevenson, Edward (Eric)

60/1 - 71/2

Edina Hearts

255

1

53

72

1

15

15

0

2

23

0

5

11

0

3

An outside-left, Eric joined Hibs from Hearts in 1960. He was with Hibernian for many years before moving to Ayr United in 1971, signed by another ex-Hibee Ally MacLeod.

   He formed an excellent partnership with Neil Martin at centre, the latter netting many of his headers from Stevenson’s crosses.

   He was raised in Bonnyrigg and despite being a Hibs fan he joined Hearts only for the deal to falter at the 11th hour. Hearts were to regret this in one particular derby when both he and Jim O’Rourke scored twice in the first ten minutes of a 4-0 win.

  As John Campbell noted in the Hibernian match programme. Eric Stevenson could barely watch team-mate Joe Davis taking penalties. As Davis set himself to take the penalty, Stevenson had a habit of walking to the half way line, near the dug out, before turning his back on play whilst crouching down and placing his forearms on his knees, waiting for the crowd reaction to see if we’d scored and with Joe Davis an ace from the spot he was rarely disappointed.

  Eric left Hibs to join Ayr United in 1971, ironically just as his early mentor Eddie Turnbull was returning to the Club.

Stevenson, Jimmy

63/4 - 66/7

Edina Hearts

13

0

1

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

10

0

0

Born in Bellshill in August 1946, James was a Scotland Schoolboy internationalist. He was signed by Hibernian in August 1963 but managed only 13 league outings for the Hibees before falling out of the picture. He moved to Southend in July 1967 and played 33 league games for them.

Stevenson, Maurice John

61/2 & 62/3

Motherwell

20

0

4

6

0

2

2

0

1

5

0

3

0

0

0

Was moved on to Morton in July 1963, having arrived in May 1962. He had the last laugh against Hibs being part of the Greenock side that surprisingly beat Hibs in the League Cup semi-finals of 1963.

Spent a couple of seasons at Tannadice in the early 1970s.

 Essentially an inside forward he had skill and pace but lacked consistency.

Stewart, George A

76/7 - 80/1

Dundee

107

2

2

14

0

1

16

0

1

6

0

0

8

0

1

Edinburgh born, George started his career with Tynecastle Boys Club then joined Dundee in 1964. His commanding displays won a band of admirers and it was no surprise when Hibernian finally lured him to Easter Road in 1976.

  His move to Hibs coincided with Dundee’s slip from the Premier League. A move to Edinburgh was ideal as he lived in the city and had a dry-cleaning business in Gorgie. He came to Hibs as a 28 year old and formed a wonderful partnership in defence with firstly John Blackley and then Gordon Rae.

Stewart, Michael James

05/6 & 06/7

Manchester United

47

7

2

2

1

0

6

0

2

6

0

0

0

0

0

Stirling, Robert W

46/7 & 47/8

Dumbarton

2

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

When you play two matches in your first season and score two goals you are entitled to think you have found your niche. Alas this was not the case for Robert who fleetingly occupied a spot in the Hibernian first team in the 1946/47 season. His goals came in the last two games of  the campaign, away to Third Lanark (unusually at Hampden) and Falkirk.

He had joined Hibernian from Queens Park and returned to the south side of  Glasgow when he joined Third Lanalrk.

Szamaltouski, Gregorez

Free

2008/09

12

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0