There's no denying that rugby league is more physical or that 'some' footballers go down too easily, but what many RL fans that despise football/ers seem to forget is that footballers are usually running at full pelt, at sprinter style speeds, unbalanced - even the slightest of touches to your feet is going to completely unbalance you and send you to the ground. The whole myth about football being for fairies is a myth trotted out too - in rugby league, it's body-to-body with good contact - in football you've got someone coming at you at top speeds with metal studs going into your fragile ankles. The smaller the surface area, the bigger the impact.
There's some soppy **** on there called DobboHullFC, I think he might be special needs, in which case I'll leave him alone, but if anyone knows where he cashes his giro's, please let me know.
"Even though city been in the premier league is a good thing (City of Hull reasons), i was hoping they wouldn't go up and then be hit with the financial fair play next season. Then see what Dr Allam did then." Like I say, there are people in this city willing us to fail.
And a lot support FC or KR and some football club from another city that they latched on to because City weren't doing well at the time. They are the real twats. You don't see City fans supporting St Helens or Wigan because pour local rugby league teams aren't doing well.
Somebody should point out Steve Bruce's face to them.... Oh - and it is much easier to stay upright while somebody's grappling your waist than it is when you've had your feet wiped out.
Somebody should point out Steve Bruce's face to them.... .... and perhaps explain it is much easier to stay upright while somebody's grappling your waist than it is when you've had your feet wiped out. It's to do with your centre of gravity not being below your knees, and is called "physics". I'm quite sure that it would be easier to knock a rugby player over when trying to control something with their feet than err - carrying something FFS!
I think the problem lies more in the fact the anti-city rugby fans suffer from 'bite off your nose to spite your face' syndrome. They'd rather see City falter than see the estimated £100 million boost to the local economy that City's promotion brings. I want all Hull teams to do well, what ever the sport. I may not be a fan of certain sports, but would applaud said teams achievements and wish their success to continue. The firm my dad works for used to do meetings with potential customers in a box during Hull FC matches, so every now and again the club would bung them some freebie tickets when attendances were low - certain times nobody at his work wanted the tickets so me and my dad went. The mentality of some rugby fans is incredibly backwards - I remember once being stood in the concourse getting a drink when a fat bloke with two fat dumpling kids filling their faces with pies were next to me - one of the kids said "dad, some of my friends don't go to rugby, they go to football games instead" - the dad replied: "Remember what I said about football?" - kid: "Football is for puffs!" - the kid said it in a tone like it was their life's motto... I never understood how rugby fans pounce on the "it's a family sport" tag like it's something precious, then openly do the "We're hard, football's for puffs" routine <very family-orientated. Recently when City lost to Barnsley, I had a few older people in the age and mentality bracket as many of our local councillors (that know I am a City pass holder) say to me: 'Oh you should give up on football, start watching a proper sport like rugby!' - I replied: 'You can't go up or down though', they said: 'see, even better!' - I didn't bother carrying on - now that was a 'Whoooosh!' moment if ever you wanted to explain one. I saw a post on the HDM site the other week by a Hull FC fan: "Allam must be stopped, he is trying to destroy Hull FC due to his hatred of us" - Where on earth (other than his own paranoid little world) would he have got that idea from? I see all sorts of rumours posted as fact against the Allams (a lot of Hull FC fans have posted stuff on Twitter bordering on racism against the Allams too). The Hull FC fans cannot seem to grasp the fact he is subsidising their club, or that his success with City brings millions into the economy, including much needed jobs. The council seem to have the same insular-minded mentality - they'll jump straight in at any problem with rugby (including ones between two private companies that had nothing to do with them - ala Johnny Whiteley pictures), but aren't so keen to jump in and help City. As Assem Allam has stated, he no longer wants the KC Stadium, so it is up to the council to provide an expansion in capacity of the KC - the football club needs it; to sustain and guarantee a healthy football clubs long-term future it needs to consistently be performing at the top of it's sport - The Premier League. To do this, it needs all the money it can get - namely a larger capacity of paying customers - £5-10 million to sustain the economy being boosted by £100 million every year is peanuts, but the council won't see it like that and will instead see it as a threat to rugby in some strange way, shape or form. As I said; bite off your nose to spite your face syndrome - they'd rather see City fail than see the city of Hull prosper from it's achievements. Very backwards. There is a bloke on Twitter who started a profile called @PattieButty - gained a load of Hull-based followers then lost loads with his pro-rugby/anti-City tweets last weekend during our promotion. He Tweeted something about there being lots more things in Hull that bring publicity to the city and blabbed on before finishing with 'Rugby League all the way' - I simply responded: Never seen rugby league on the front pages of numerous national newspapers #greatexposureforthecity - all I got was a sarcastic response. I agree with who ever said earlier - 'they just need to accept rugby league for what it is'; see the greater good for Hull with regards to City doing well and enjoy what they enjoy. I see rugby league as a game that can be exciting to watch as a match, but as a league it's less exciting than the SPL. Instead of moaning about what City are doing, perhaps they should be looking at the bigger picture and concentrating on what those in charge of rugby league are doing - they've turned it from a competition into a laughing stock. Can't attract a sponsor, Top 8 can win the league, usually the same top 8 every year (bar 1 or 2 every so often) - the rest just make up the numbers every year, no relegation, win 4 matches and your in the final of the Challenge Cup (shouldn't it change its name to Not-Much-Of-A-Challenge Cup?) - not great is it? You can see why not many outside the M62 corridor take it seriously - it needs a massive overhaul. I think Adam Pearson has realised this.
Ok I'm obviously going to have to read that rugby league board thingy to find out what has got you lot so hot under the collar. It means nothing to me like I aint worried about what fans of lawn green bowling or tennis think about city. DMD was right it was a whoooosh moment so I'm going to do some research and find out what the hell it is that gets everybody so riled up. It better be worth my while cos if its just about some tubby lards calling us names, I'm going to mad as hell for wasteing my time but if it turns out that Hull FC and the council are really holding us back you can be sure that I will be on the blower tomorrow with Burnsy at humberside asking questions about it.
Oh there are some right twats on there, hoping city don't get promoted, what the **** is that all about? I get it now somewhat but that really is small town mentality and quite frankly a little embarssing. We are all from Hull for crying out loud surely we all want the best for our city no matter what sport you follow!
Still a puzzler to me why Adam Pearson switch sports after his stint at City, or is it just a business to him and the sporting side is of no consequence?
AP has limited funds + limited ambition. He was fantastic for City in the lower leagues, but no way would we ever have reached the Premier League if he were still in charge. Eff Cee will not win Super League with Adam - but they will probably be financially sound.
That pretty much sums up this entire debate, from the **** wits on the rflfans board to their equivalents on here.
What more can you say about RL supporters in this City that hasn't been said before. Of course FC supporters in particular want City to fail, it justifies their decision to watch this sad regionalised game that will never expand beyond its M62 heartland. Summed up by a diehard RL bitch when someone commented about my wearing of a City shirt after the Cardiff game in my local that 'they would come straight down anyway' - very positive and supportive of what we had just achieved (again)
In what way is looking for ways to progress upwards a small town mentality? What about mentioning some of the commonalities? We share a stadium. In my opinion we should continue to do that. We support a team that represents Hull.
Unfortunately a lot of the rugby fans do not want success for City and actively wish their local football team to fail, which you don't see in Hull. You want to see how many cars drive around with a sticker for FC or Rovers in the window and alongside it a sticker Man Utd, Liverpool or Leeds. One of the moderators on the FC forum used have a signature stating "Hull FC and Leeds United-pride of Yorkshire". Mind you, that disappeared after a couple of seasons outside the Premier League. Last time we were in the Premier City were playing at 3 o'clock and a pub was full of people watching a Liverpool game. A mate asked one of them shouting for Liverpool why he didn't support his local team and he turned round and said " In do. I support Rovers". A lot of rugby fans justify this sort of thing by saying you support your local rugby team but you don't choose a football club it chooses you. How lucky for them they never seem to get chosen by the likes of Rochdale or Crewe. There are people who support City and one of the rugby clubs. There are people who like rugby and take no interest in football. These are fine. What I, and others, can't stand those who hope City fail or who support a club from a different city they have no connection with. I used to go to rugby and football, although City was my main interest. That all stopped, as it did for others I know after the game against Brentford in 1981. Anyone who was there will understand. If you were living here you would understand the antipathy a lot show to supporters of our rugby clubs.
Some of the deluded FC fans actually believe they are the senior partner in the KC. not that they actually know what senior partner means.. I never wanted to share a stadium with RL - I valued BP for this reason - but having been gifted a £43m stadium by the Council as a then League 2 side we couldn't afford to look a gift horse in the mouth.. Times have moved well on since then though to the extent that our manager is now criticising the state of the pitch (not wholly down to RL but it surely doesn't help) and the fact that we share the stadium with a rugby club.. I was horrified to find out that FC were playing on the pitch the night before we played Cardiff with £120m at stake - this arrangement cannot continue surely?
How strange, this has to be unique to Hull. I have lived all over the world in many different cities and I have never come across sets of fans watching different sports being rivals. San Fransisco Giants ( baseball) don't want San Fransisco 49ers (football) to fail. I wonder if Leicester Tigers fans would want Leicester City to not get promoted? I'm pretty sure Salford have no problem with Man Utd or Man City, how about Wigan, do they have a similar problem there? The two sports are totally un related, I just don't get it, but I will get to the bottom of it. I have friends from Wigan I'll ask them if they have a similar problem between sets of fans but I'm pretty sure its just a Hull thing
