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They still get bums on seats despite being in div 3 whilst their rivals are 2 divisions above them. Sunderland is a football city, which you sometimes wonder if Hull is, deep down. The media concentrates or rugby league, as do a lot on the council. And places like Sunderland have nowhere the number of inadeqates supporting clubs from other cities there are in Hull. If there was only one club up there crowds would be even bigger as the catchment area would be larger.
I've been going since 65 - went most games for many years until I left Hull and lived 200 miles away and bringing up a family took priority - however I started taking my two sons to the odd game - I remember going to WBA for a midweek game and my youngest crawled under the turnstile whilst i paid to get in - he loved it and both of them have gone ever since - i once camped in Scotland for three nights to watch City play Ayr and Clyde(bank) ? in 75, hitching lifts both ways, had the coach pelted with fruit at Todmorden, had a mass brawl at a pub before a pre season game at Mansfield and was on the pitch at Stockport. Bolton and many more - been there done that - i think i've every right to call out the Allams - I love following Hull City but this pair of ****s have done everything they can to ruin the experience - well **** them
The cheating on show last night was appalling. Watkins penalty appeal (gtf) and even worse Aaron's (?) pretending the ball smacked him in the face, laying down as if out, when replay showed it hit his arm, nowhere near his head. Trying to avoid a handball Disgrace. Should throw the book at such blatant cheating (yes, even if it was our player). Next minute they're backing 'respect' or whatever. **** off, just play football.
Hopefully our incoming owner will be putting 'buns' on seats too...Could bring a few tubby stragglers in
While I remember the lows of the Christopher Needler tenure and those that followed I can't quite recall any of them muttering those immortal words when referring to the fans 'THEY CAN DIE WHEN THEY WANT' .. I say again they could and should have been at the helm of a greater legacy for the club, and revered, however because of their pettiness, their ignorance and their down right lies they will be remembered by most in exactly the same way of most of the sheisters that have held the reigns of OUR club. Can't wait for the door to slam them on their 4rses on the way out tbh.
On recent form, yes. Had he wandered by mistake into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and caught them on a bad day, his chances of buying an English football club in the near future would be zero.
I said they get fantastic support. They still have MU supporters up there but they have a larger number who go to games. They don't have Rugby League which whether you like it not gives people other options. Carlisle and Plymouth have massive catchment areas but they don't get fantastic crowds. Hence my saying about the rivalry. It's just my opinion. It doesn't mean I'm right or wrong.
The reality that awaits all new owners, from their first day to their last day owning a club. Take it away Robert Browning I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day. II The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels— But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, "And afterward, what else?" III Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun To give it my loving friends to keep! Nought man could do, have I left undone: And you see my harvest, what I reap This very day, now a year is run. IV There's nobody on the house-tops now— Just a palsied few at the windows set; For the best of the sight is, all allow, At the Shambles' Gate—or, better yet, By the very scaffold's foot, I trow. V I go in the rain, and, more than needs, A rope cuts both my wrists behind; And I think, by the feel, my forehead bleeds, For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year's misdeeds. VI Thus I entered, and thus I go! In triumphs, people have dropped down dead. "Paid by the world, what dost thou owe Me?"—God might question; now instead, 'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.
Typo lol. Now corrected. Would be great if it was buns. I'll have a custard tart. You can't beat a good tart.
The amount living in the catchment area if there was only club up there would be huge. We have a large catchment area where we are the nearest club but don't get massive crowds. Agree about RL. Most cities you either go or don't depending on fluctuating circumstances. We have not only one RL club but two where bit of easily attained success is possible if you don't mind being a large fish in a puddle. As for our local media went to have a look see if anything about the takeover. The first sporting story on the first page is about a Wigan player followed by one about Catalan Dragons squad numbers. There is a rugby league section everyday featuring clubs which have nothing to this area at a time when it is the football season. Caught Sportstalk the other night as .I had to go out in car. It is the football season, takeover in the offing, City with a game coming up and no rugby ones. Guest was Pete Smurthaaite, chairman of Brid Town. 20 minutes into the programme they were still talking about Rovers. Switched off as granddaughter was in car and didn't want any expletives being uttered in front of her.
I remember getting off the train at Paragon after we'd beaten Bristol City at Wembley to reach the PL for the very first time. Headed straight to Tigers Lair thinking it would be party time. It was like a morgue in there, couple of old blokes propping the bar up, one of whom came over to our table and 'said you were lucky today pal weren't ya'
Agreed 100% with you on the Rugby coverage. HDM think only Rugby exists. Hopefully they get on board with the new owner. Allams don't want Humberside coverage so Humberside probably think **** you. They still show bias towards rugby though. We differ on the only team in catchment area but that's okay.
You'd be hard pressed to find many pubs in Hull showing Castleford V Warrington, but any with sky/Bt will show Leicester V Brighton. There's a far bigger general interest in football in Hull than rugby. We had too little to get excited about for too long so people (and I'll never get it) supported more glamourous teams on tele. If you counted up the number of different people from Hull who have attended City matches at one time or another in the last 15 years you'd be talking 40-50,000. Sadly nowhere near than many are actually fans.
If you build it they will come. Maybe not as many as Newcastle or Sunderland ( football with mates on a Saturday afternoon is endemic in the culture - it's part of the social fabric where they'd work in the factories and shipyards on a Saturday morning then all out to the pub and the match on the afternoon), but if City can sustain a bit of success rather than show in flashes what we're capable of as a club and city then there's no reason why we can't fill the ground on a regular basis. It took the Allams a long time to get pricing right, but if they stay at a similar level with a bit of success then we can punch our weight. North east clubs will always punch above their weight relative to catchment though due to the difference in local culture up there. That said though, I suspect we won't be too far away from becoming the best supported British club in Turkey - which is an international marketplace not to be sniffed at.
