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.
