Seemingly lost in the name change debate is the fact that in six home games there have been a total of approximately 8500 empty seats in home areas. That's around one million pounds a season in ticket revenue alone. I would think filling those seats should be a priority for the club, easy money on your doorstep with almost no additional overheads. There was plenty of debate last season as to why the stadium wasn't fuller, the issue does not seem to have been addressed.
Get in the Premier League and they'll come back they said... It's not that easy, I've said it millions of times on here and I will again, you've got to work hard and engage with supporters to make them want to come, fans don't just grow on trees, you have to earn them.
Despite it being Premier league football this season it's still an expensive do..you can spend well in excess of £100 if you take the kids with you to the KC for just the one game,let alone a season,and some people just don't have the disposable cash in these days of austerity.. Things like multiple ticket offers and half season cards are decent incentives but ticket prices in this country are ridiculously high compared to other countries and until that's addressed clubs like ourselves,in parts of the country affected more by the economic downtown,will always struggle to gain extra fans.
We don't do anything. Nothing. When was the last time anyone got an email from the club encouraging you to spend more money? Anyone ever had a £5 shop voucher? Or a 'friend for a fiver offer'? How about Tigers Player for a discounted rate because you're a pass holder? Or anything that contains something to make you feel valued as a supporter and feels unique to you - even though it has probably gone to half the names on the database? Because I can't remember a time in the last 5 years.
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/announcements/hull-city-v-lfc-late-availability Good news - we're still called Hull City according to Liverpool. Looks like they're worried about a drubbing and have had returned tickets.
Whilst the financial situation isn't ideal there's definitely more than 25,000 who can afford to come to games. The problem is we can't get enough of them to come often enough. People are choosing not to come. PL football will get over 20,000 there every week but to fill the ground completely we need bigger demand. The market we should be tapping into is the many, many people in Hull and East Yorkshire (partciularly young people) who consider themselves football fans and know all the players but never go to games. These people need convincing and we do nothing to convince them.
There's a densely populated area south of Anlaby Road near the ground- is that a bedrock of support? I wonder if the club have a breakdown by HU postcode of where our support is (and isn't)?
To be honest,I think a bit of apathy has something to do with it as well...the PL is not the novelty it was when we were in the top flight first time round.
We can't have capacity, so the actual empty seats have averaged about 1,300 empty seats per game, including the away end.
Of that is the case the city of Hull does not deserve a football team, let alone a Premier League one. If we can't get 23,000 people to attend a Premier League match it is a matter of shame. There are 450,000 in the Hull urban area and probably nearly a million where City are the nearest team. Given a fair few supporters live in East Yorkshire the amount of people turning up is pathetic. Look at Sunderland, just as many problems there as Hull and a smaller population yet they get 40,000. 2 clubs in Sheffield in Div 2 and Div 3 are getting 40,000 between them. If the same percentage of the population turned up as they do in Burnley, a town surrounded by bigger clubs within easy travelling distance unlike ourselves we would be getting over 40,000. Cardiff are selling out. The apathy is understandable given the attitudes of so many on here. Maybe a PL place would be better going to a city with some passionate fans.
