Yeah I use Fotmob and annoyingly they do not have total tackles. They do have an average tackles per 90 and Drameh is our top player in that with 2.8 ‘successful’ tackles per 90 (70% success) and is in 7th place in the Championship. Coyle is our next player with 2.0 successful tackles per game and is in 28th place. Some of this is misleading as some of the players have played 1 game or just a matter of minutes but their average is high for that one game. There’s only really de Souza Costa at Sheffield Utd that is out performing Drameh over a period of games at 3.2 tackles average per game and 74.5% success rate.
Because that was how many was there. Are you criticising our wonderful fan base? Last game of 80/81 season in Div 3 I was one of the 2039 there for the last home game of the season.
Yes obviously I clearly stated 4k was there Im asking why such a low attendance for a mid table 2nd div game? Im surprised Few decades prior, 30k+ would be there Myself, i wasnt born
There weren’t 30k + crowds there for mid table Div 2 games. When we went up in the 1965/1966 season we had a good start and some 30,000+ crowds, 2 in fact. The average was 24,700. The 35,600 against Huddersfield on Boxing Day was our last 30,000 crowd ever. (Apart from the West Ham Cup game in 1973.) The average for the season was 24,700. We didn’t have a 25,000+ crowd from 71/72 season until we moved to the KC Stadium. And that last crowd was against Sunderland on the Xmas fixture, 26,091, which included a lot of Sunderland fans as can be shown by the fact that the next home game was 12,600. In Terry Neill’s first season when we had our highest league finish for 50 years and reached the FA Cup Quarter Final we only had one 25,000 crowd, 25,091. Our fan base has never been good in my lifetime. I have heard people in a pub claiming we used to get 40,000 regularly.
Without looking 4000 must have been mega low for 2nd div? Or were attendances just lower across yhe board But i reckon there was loads more to do in hull then Loads of discotheques etc
For a period there were generally lower attendances. But ours were particularly poor for a long while. I was there as much as I could. I played Saturday football, but had a bad injury which kept me out for a few years. The upside (debatably) was watching City more regularly.
Discos on a Saturday afternoon? Yes, sure. They were lower across the board. Season before, Chris Elton’s book finishes there, some away games there were less than 10,000 at Leicester, less than 5,000 at Birmingham, 10,000 at WBA, 8,500 at Crystal Palace, 10,500 at Stoke, under 15,000 at Sunderland. Two largest were 17,000 at Leeds. (not as many MOT in those days, and 20,000 at Man City. Most of the others were sub 10,000.
Ditto, pity I didn't know you then, I could have sent you to the north stand bar. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
There are many reasons why attendances were lower in the late 1980s. One of which was the widespread oppressive controls put in place as a result of violence amongst fans - controls that culminated in totally avoidable deaths at Hillsborough. There was a minority of a generation of fans that were in some ways the makers of their own misfortune, which the entirety of the following generation also had to endure. Basically, attending a football match became a right pain in the arse for a time and only the most committed kept it up.
Economic decline right from the early 80’s was a major factor also Big clubs were massively down on crowds
