Why Are Fans Staying Away?

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Why Are Fans Staying Away?

  • Boring Football

  • Lack Of Goals

  • Recession and/or Ticket Prices

  • Other

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a)Turnstiles dont work properly.
b)New turnstiles give an accurate reading.
c)Late holidays due to Euros and Olympics.
 
Erik said:
Attendances at our three home games so far have been appalling. For both the Brighton and Bolton games the ground was barely 40% full, with the crowd at both of those games being smaller than our average attendance in our 2003/2004 League Two promotion season (a healthy 16,811, the 11th highest outside of the Premier League and greater than Fulham got in the top-flight). Then there was Rotherham: Less than 5,000 turned up for a Yorkshire Derby in the first competitive game of the season - a 3pm Saturday kick-off - and that's including a healthy away following to boot.

Why is this? Is it:

A - Boring Football:

We're very good at retaining the ball, and have been for some time, but during the tenures of Messrs Pearson and Barmby we were 'treated' to game-after-game of sideways and backwards passing. We essentially had a team of Tom Cairneys. Are fans staying away because they simply - and wrongly (?) - expect more of the same? Do they have about as much faith in Bruce to change things as I do in the same man to win next year's Miss World competition?

B - Lack Of Goals:

Now, I actually don't agree that our playing style is boring because it's not easy on the eye. At times it has been very good to watch this season. However, we have struggled for several years now to put the ball in the back of the net, despite many desperate attempts under different managers, with different players, playing in different formations. The facts really do speak for themselves on this one though:

- Since beating Tranmere Rovers 6-1 on the 18th of December 2004, we have played 171 competitive matches at home. We have managed to score more than three goals just four times in that period, the last being the play-off semi-final against Watford on the 14th May of 2008, when we defeated the Southern bastards 4-1

- Since promotion to the Premier League in 2008, we have played 172 league matches. We have won just 16 of those by two goals or more (home and away - 14 out of 96 played in the Championship, and 2 out of 76 played in the Premiership)

- In the 2010/2011 season, we were the lowest goalscorers in the top-half (ten fewer than the next lowest scorers, Millwall); the 4th lowest goalscorers in the division; the joint lowest goalscorers at home in the division (with bottom-placed Scunthorpe); and relegated Preston North End outscored us by two goals

- In the 2011/2012 season, we were once again the lowest goalscorers in the top-half, the 4th lowest goalscorers in the division, and bizarrely we were also outscored once more by a relegated team whose name begins with 'P' (on this occasion, Portsmouth, by 3 goals)

C - Austerity In A Time Of Recession:

Is it really as simple as this? Have the increases in ticket prices made by the Allams really made that much difference?

D - Other

I might have neglected to mention a possible reason! <diva>
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I'm not going to vote as your argument is flawed in the very first line! Had we got barely 40% for those two games I think you'll find that attendances would have been 10000 not 15000. I'm surprised our large contingent of university newbees didn't pick you up on that. Football is about more than entertainment. It's about a passion for the team you support. If you want entertainment then go to the theatre. If you do get the entertainment you crave, at a football match, then count it as a bonus. If watching City was all about entertainment then TD and a few others before and since may well have finished the club forever.
 
Lets be honest we had a fantastic successful period with all the promotions, Wembley and the premier period and when people have that they don't want anything less which of course we do at the moment, the last two seasons has seen a lack of goals and price increases and many of the floating fans have voted to stay away, i am sure the ones who are no longer going are still listening to the tigers on the radio and reading about them in the papers and when they are ready or hopefully with more success and goals they will gradually return
 
I think generally there is an apathy with football after the European championship and with the Olympics going on. Moreover the financial situation is certainly biting, and people who bought season tickets before just cannot afford them now. Also the Barmby situation initially put peoples backs up, but gradually the SB era I think will slowly pull people back in. It is not just one reason, but as things improve with the economy and if SB era continues to produce good results attendances will improve.
 
They will come back, and in greater numbers. That match against Bolton was the first time I have see us attack another team for a very long time. That sort of excitement, I haven't seen it for a long time. No more boring 1-0 results where we scrape past another team. Another few results like that and the KC will be 20k+ every week. Fans are fickle, but I can understand why having had to watch that **** for the last two seasons.
 
Money , would rather spend it on beer and the other six days a week than cutting off my income for the sake of 1 day every 2 weeks roughly ... times are hard .. and City is a LUXURY not a requirement .. I still hear every game so Im happy enough ...
 
People got used to the big teams coming but now we seem to have goals in the team I can see numbers coming back. The last few seasons have seen a lot of good rebuilding without really a lot of goals but people go to see the ball hit the back of the net and it's looking good on that basis this season.
 
I have to say 'Boring', the last 2 seasons almost broke me as a fan, **** me they were 2 of the dullest non entertaining anti football seasons I have ever witnessed. Dolan as manager could have provided greater entertainment. Saturday v Bolton was a stark contrast, entertaining, plus we scored more than once! Hallelujah! I hope the fans staying away for entertainment reasons return soon!
 
tigers56 said:
I'm not going to vote as your argument is flawed in the very first line! Had we got barely 40% for those two games I think you'll find that attendances would have been 10000 not 15000. I'm surprised our large contingent of university newbees didn't pick you up on that. Football is about more than entertainment. It's about a passion for the team you support. If you want entertainment then go to the theatre. If you do get the entertainment you crave, at a football match, then count it as a bonus. If watching City was all about entertainment then TD and a few others before and since may well have finished the club forever
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I did actually mean to say 40% of the ground was empty. My mistake.

I'd quite like to know though why you consider entertainment to be a bonus when watching football, and not the primary reason for ever wanting to watch it, play it, or be otherwise some part of it? I'm definitely passionate about City. I didn't get my pass this year as I really can't afford it, though I've been to all of our games this season so far anyway because I just can't stay away (bar Blackburn, which I had intended to go to until the friend who was supposed to be driving me there pulled out at 3pm on the day of the game - just 45 minutes before we were due to leave for the match).
 
I dont think you can look beyond ticket prices myself, in 15 years its gone from what £10 a pop at Boothferry park to £28 a game, not including rises on petrol, beer, food, replica kits etc etc very expensive hobby following football teams.

I blame players wages myself.

Question.

Can City afford to reduce ticket prices with the current stadium capacity? (bearing in mind the wage bill city have to pay) And the future Fifa fair play rules
 
A mix of money and other. It's the first time I haven't had a season pass in 11 years so it has felt weird not going, but with a busy year ahead and a heavy work load to go with it it's not worth spending the money on the season card for the amount of times I'll probably go this season. I'm still hoping to make games when I can, home and away, and maybe in a couple of years if I'm sorted with a job I can look at getting a pass again.
 
Because thousands in Hull would rather sit in their armchair claiming allegiance to some ****ing premier league team they have no affiliation to, like that twat who won the 2m from Hessle.
 
Things could get worse yet, the Premier Club memberships are up for renewal in December and rumoured to be going up £60-100 a seat. The Premier Club don't have normal season tickets, they're for five years and though most people will still renew, there's a lot of seats in there that are spares that are used by companies for staff, customers, friends etc and I suspect a fair few of these will not be renewed.
 
Make me laugh the "sky sports " Generation, Loads of Liverpool fans i know, i ask "do you go much then", all you get is a sheepish "no i cant get tickets", "have you ever been to Anfield" i then ask, "eerrrrrm no" "so you aint really a liverpool/whoever fan you just watch it on the telly" hahaha

If you genuinely enjoy football, why wouldnt you go down to watch Hull City live?

I ask them and you dont get a sensible answer , cant understand this mentality.
 
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