Admittedly they don't have the Allams but those things apply to Sheff Utd and they have managed to sell over 10,000 tickets more than us and will have a sell out. The reasons are pathetic. OK, it is a Sunday but people will turn up then for a PL team. FA Cup apathy? Apathy about reaching a semi-final for only the second time in our history? This city really does not deserve a successful team. Money? Is Sheffield awash with the stuff? In any case money won't be a problem for a final if we got there, even with all this FA Cup apathy. General apathy? During our best season ever? Again, this city does not deserve a successful team.
We kicked off at virtually an identical time and day when we played Liverpool at the KC last December,a game that was also on TV... Premier League football and the plastics turn up in their droves....Cup football and they can't be arsed.
And they will be the ones quite happy to our name changed. Changed to anything as long as we are in the PL.
I think the single main reason is that our club doesn't engage with the people of Hull and East Riding. There are thousands of armchair City fans that the Club seemingly has no ambition to entice to the ground. Don Robinson or Adam Pearson would have had cup fever in the City all this week with their spin and PR. Yet instead we get told that the fans are only worth 7%, great way to drum up the support!
Absolutely right, we should be turning people away every week at the moment(in the league or the cup), we simply don't engage with the local community at all.
We do, and what that misses is that sponsorship and advertising income is linked to the number of people viewing. A drab atmosphere from a poorly supported club will not encourage the floating viewer.
I know a few people not going because they want to watch it on TV and save there money to me they ENJOY going to City but are not passionate enough about City. IF we needed to win an important game i would get there some how no matter were it was in the world how ever to some people going to City is a good day out they support the team on that day and then thats the end of it until the next game, they don't go on about it they have other things going on. Down my street i talk to loads of people about City but they don't go but they have an interest in them. To me its like a drug and when i look back over the years i have gone in right moods at times, if we lose Saturday night is spoilt and Sunday is flat i wish i could get over it quicker. Thats all because i have that passion but at the same time the one's who don't have that passion i still appreciate that they go and support the team. I think its now time we accept that Sunday will not sell out and concentrate on getting the lads to Wembley because lets not forget the fans who are going are in the main the passionate one's so bring it on. If you want to be there in a full house then next weeks your game but for me at this moment in time Sunday 2pm is for me
This game like the other three will be shown round the world, and from the Allams point of view we are in the shop window. What would all the uninformed tiger-crazy billionaires in Asia think of a 3/4 full ground and a subdued flasker crowd? "**** I must invest in that vibrant club, with its fanatical support and popular owner"?
Spot on. I've said it time and time again but it's far too much effort to go to City for the first time. It's easy when it's your ritual but how does someone uninitiated know when the next game even is? I definitely wouldn't know if I wasn't already a fan.
I don't want to bring it back to the name change but I think it is a factor. I was more excited about the first game of the season against Darlington in 2004(?) than I am about this game and that's partly because I don't feel the same affinity with the club (not the team). It's not that long ago when the HDM were telling readers that the club needed their support, now we read that it doesn't. Tv is definitely a big factor also but having been there in 1971 it's shameful that we can't fill a 25k stadium.
We've filled the ground in all our home games this year apart from Brighton and come Sunday it'll be full again or there abouts, club PR would have helped of course.
Local BBC radio tonight. Sportstalk. Who was on ? Adam Pearson talking up RL and how fantastic FC are going to be this season. And Somebody Murdoch another RL spokesman talking up the game. Tomorrow what will be on ? Live rugby league. Who is talking up our FA Cup Quarter Final ? And I have been asking this question since last week?
To be fair, Humberside have been advertising the game with a jingle(highlights of the games that got us here) and they've been running it throughout the day for the past couple of days. It would probably be a big topic on Sportstalk too, if it wasn't for that arsehole Lloyd.
Hall Rd Rangers and NFU run rings round City even if the scale is vastly different, the basic principles are identical. Make people welcome, make people buy into it. The club has no heart and soul at the moment. The people running it feel they can apply the marine diesel generator principles in football. Wrong. It's an utterly utterly different universe, which at least the owners admit ' we are not football people.' They seem to forget that local people have a choice and vote with their feet (unfortunately). So the problem is how can you get people to buy into Hull City? The answer is : In a thousand ways. It certainly isn't: 'You can die as soon as you want' and 'I'm holding the promotion party at the KC stadium on a weekday night with only 5,000 people there' If we could get an extra 5,000 regular fans we would fill the KC stadium every game, and fcuk the plastics who have shown again this season (where were you last year?) to take the spare places.Instead we have 15 to 20,000 die hards. Why don't the Allams aim to get our hardcore up to 23,000- it's an achievable target That's distinct from 18,000 die hards and 5,000 rubberneckers like we have now. Then we might see more of a fortress, more noise, fewer away fans in the N Stand, more of a feel of a purposeful ambitious well-run club that the locals buy into.
