Did you tell him he was only coming because there is nothing to do in Portsmouth, Portsmouth is ****, their fans are ****, the stadium is **** and they will lose 3-0?
City have always appeared to have a stronger representation at England level than clubs with a similar sized fanbase. To me that just supports the idea that there is an appetite within the city for top level football but for decades upon decades we weren't able to meet that demand. Hence Hull folk going to Leeds, England or just getting a sky subscription instead of following their home town club.
Their away end is ****, that would be our of four, hopefully two come Saturday night. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
We have a fans liaison officer who used to organise buses to Old Trafford, Other clubs didn’t have top flight football but don’t have the numbers supporting other clubs. We had people going to Man Utd and Leeds in the early 1970s. Admittedly some of them because they had better mobs and it made the sad inadequates feel hard.
Nottingham - Forest, County and the Championship Union club although I don't think think that many attend
One could make up excuses, but one has to admit to ones errors. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Bristol Bears get 20,000. Nottingham’s rugby doesn’t compare to a top flight one. And, of course Nottingham is a lot larger than Hull. I suppose technically Manchester has more than 3 clubs and Liverpool does with Huyton RL but totally different scenarios to Hull and the effect two top flight rugby clubs have on the football club.
The FLO who organised football trips to everywhere but City games before he got the job was Dan, he left when Nigel Pearson did. Our current FLO is a Hull Fc fan. Our biggest rival for support and everything else in this city is rugby league and it isn't a summer sport as orange claims. We have about six weeks when they are not playing. Personally I'd sooner have another football club in the city as a rival because then at least it would be a level playing field as far as winning silverware is concerned. People follow a winning team and if 'we' have two clubs competing in a twelve club league and you can reach a Wembley Final by winning three games as is the case in RL and the case in Hull, then being involved with a chance of winning something is far easier in RL than it is in football, therefore the RL clubs appear more successful. That is the argument I've heard for years from people in Hull who chose RL over football, and in virtually every case the same people also latch onto a more successful club than Hull City for the same reason.
It is a summer sport. They specifically changed their season to clash less with football. I agree there is a significant overlap, but it occupies a different market position to football, both in terms of product and price. And how often do city and one of the RL clubs play at the same time these days? It's not like years ago when they all played more or less simultaneously on a Saturday afternoon. I agree it is about chasing success with their affiliations though, whether that is with RL, England, another league club or being an armchair sky supporter and that's the constant theme running through this debate. It's far too lazy just to say it's all down to RL . As I've demonstrated, plenty of other clubs have historically had similar competition but managed to keep a loyal base, something City seem to struggle with more than most. Our supporter base seems to be far more conditional than most. I don't think for a second if RL went bang tomorrow we'd get another 10k potential fans wanting to come to City. If you like football as well as RL you probably already support both. Most RL fans I know actively sneer at football and hate it.
I have read an FC fan saying Hull is a rugby city because the rugby teams have won more than the football one. On that basis Leeds is a rugby city though they don’t have people deluded enough to come out with stuff like that.
The fatties watch it because they like to see chubby blokes clatter each other that’s all, the women like that especially - ‘real men’ aren’t they? We used to do it when we weighed about 11 stone - didn’t have women chasing me then , still don’t LOL
I've had this argument when they bring up our lack of trophies, that it's far easier to win something when you're just competing with a few one horse towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire. But they come back with the likes of Blackburn, Wigan, Burnley, Stoke, Huddersfield etc having won things (albeit a long time ago for most) and it's difficult to argue back as to why they've been far more successful than us, without basically admitting we are from a "rugby town", competing with them. But given the competition they should certainly have won more between them over the years
