I'd guess that if it was us playing at home on Friday night in those conditions, when the games live on sky, we'd have a very similar attendance. We should be laughing at posh, 6k!!!! And the roads were much better on Saturday. We took a mighty number along aswell I'd guess at least a quarter if not a third of that number was city fans...
Hull talking about attendances. If your attendances where higher then ours or even around the same then I could understand your mocking a bit more but considering your attendances are always much lower then ours its a bit rich. Despite our awful attandence we average almost 5000 more then you. Looking back we always average about 5000 per match then you other then your first year back in the championship when we still beat you by a couple thousand. Obviously you were expecting to return straight to the prem and these plastic fans have left you in the meantime.
We're further north, it's colder. The laugh is, most of us don't care about attendances, it was Leicester giving it the billy big bollocks and then getting 7k because it was frosty, that's the funny bit. All the Leicester getting uppity about it just makes it funnier.
While I tried defending you guys earlier your cocky post and bad grammar have made me want knock you down a peg or two! Leicester has a bigger population (329,000) than Hull (259,000), Leicester also have a higher average attendance (21,649) than Hull (16,688) this season. As a percentage of the population Leicester’s crowds are 6.59 compared to Hull's 6.44, making Leicester 0.15% better supported (hardly worth bragging about is it?). Factor in the levels of employment and average wages and you'll find Leicester are actually worse supported, despite being the 'bigger' club and having had a much more successful history. Other than that well done on a crap point, poorly made. As DMD said, were not really bothered about attendances and judging by that you lot shouldn't be either!
I care about the attendances a the KC. What we're getting now is ****e, we should be getting far more. We got more in 2003 when we were in the bottom division.
A sensible post Airlie - I actually live in Hertfordshire and was one of those 'ticket holders' that didn't turn up - couldn't get down the hill I live on never mind up the M1 - we sold over 19,000 tickets for that game - so, including the pay on the day guys, in all likelihood, in normal circumstances, would have had a 20,000 plus crowd for a Friday night game that was also televised - whilst for me it was just 'one of those things' given the distance - there were many Leicester fans who felt the club should have called the game off as it was all but impossible for anybody living beyound a 5 mile radius of the ground to actually drive there ..
Whatever. It was snowing like **** at Leicester v Toulouse and I'm sure it was live on Sky too. Perhaps they prepared better and had fans willing to get cold to support their club. Or possibly it's just LCAFC greedily snatching the Sky money and putting up a V sign to their fairweather fans who couldn't be arsed. It's a massive season for Lesster this year, their fans are obviously very excited to be in the promotion hunt for the Prem. Our lot are more blase' - we've seen it all before in recent times, and don't need hunting horns etc to excite us or tell us what's happening.
Lol I wasn't saying we were a really well supported club or your a poorly supported club. Don't have a hernia about it. My grammar may be bad but I'm writing on football forum not the FT or my book etc.
Haha. Ok thanks. Your from Hull, so I can understand why you would find correcting someone's grammar so interesting.
Bare in mind it was a friendly, many fans couldnt make it due to the conditions, like me and my girlfriend, we couldnt travel from sheffield in case of the change in weather because with things at work I need to be in early monday mornings at the moment...
'Whatever' - the last resort of the floundering argument, more commonly heard emanating from the mouths of sulky teenagers .. Yes the council were better able to prepare for a sporting event on a Sunday afternoon rather than one following on the back of the Friday night rush hour and with the first heavy snows falling amidst the traffic chaos - but I'm sure that you are right that it was merely that the rugby crowd have more fortitude, and love their team with greater passion than the stay at home (despite having paid for their tickets) footie fans .. I have small doubt that the game would have been called off if not on Sky and yes I don't think the football club came out of the whole debacle with much credit but unfortunately that is how football has gone generally ... indeed they have been quick to make several unconvincing apologetic noises backed by the weak mumblings of an equally profit driven FA. http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/story-17928881-detail/story.html ... but the facts remain - 20,000 tickets had been sold for that game but less than 9,000 could get to the ground on the night. That our rugby team is so well supported is a fact that I personally am proud of, but they have never, historically, drawn the numbers that the football club do when the football club has any degree of success - they are also prone to confusion - apparently 4,000 are under the mistaken impression that they have a game in Huddersfield this Saturday coming ... http://www.leicester.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=306099
Erm, point of order, but 20,000 tickets sold is a bit misleading, unless you don't have any season ticket holders.
Not sure why that would be misleading - the 20,000 would include season ticket holders - the more imponderable is just how many people might have turned up to pay on the night in different conditions ..
I work in Luton! - well a business park just off J10 of the M1 - now live in a small place called Wheathampstead just over the border in Hertfordshire - wouldn't want to disillusion you Strov but it's not that posh - although my girls have nice accents (compared to mine - you can take the boy out from the Saffron Lane etc etc) ...
FF you continue to amaze - an intelligent and articulate bloke from the Saff?! Didn't think such a phenomenon existed!
