It's misleading because they seemingly just count ticket sales. At no point are there 30,000 people in the stadium. Each game in total gets less watching than if it was played at a normal venue. It's all just money sucked out of rugby league. As a scheme to attract more followers to the sport, the spectacle of a few thousand people in a big stadium seems to portray an event that even it's on clubs don't really buy into.
It's nothing to do with that for me. When I grew up in the 80s and supported City, being one of only 3 kids in my year who went to games and wore the kit for football practice, I was laughed at by Egg Chasers on each monday morning when we lost. When i wore a City shirt on the street people openly mocked me perpetually asking why i "watched that **** when i could watch Eff Cee or Rervers? And I was always asked "who do you support in the first division (as then, history kids)". The mocking got worse when I said nobody. So I've always wanted them to lose every game they ever play as some kind of retribution. You might say 2 wrongs dont make a right, but it feels like they do... And of course when I have occasionally seen these mockees at recent City games or taking about us and celebrating our success on social media I always remind them. ****s.
Ditto Also I always found Hull FC attracted more glory supporters who were the most vocally anti-City when they had that run of moderate success in the 80's. Never really got slagged off for my City loyalty by Rovers fans and now Hull FC are back down to their hardcore they now know their place in our sporting hierarchy and don't knock City as much, take note local media who still aggrandise the myth we are a rugby town. Of course a lot of the rivalry with the tubbylards was due to City not having a sustained football rivalry with a nearby club.
Its a moot point because Sky have extended their current contract by another 5 years so it's signed sealed and delivered until the end of 2021. Premier Sports would definitely take the rights if they could, though how much they'd be able to put in is anyone's guess. I think BT Sport would take the rights too. How many other sports would be safe if the main broadcast partner pulled out though - probably not very many at all.
I think it would be the best thing to happen to it. Revert back to being a semi pro sport. Played in winter. With proper scrums. Instead of the steroid fuelled ****e it is now.
I agree. For me, part of its charm was being a northern parochial sport. It had a working man's dignity. Now, it looks crass, fake and gaudy. RL fans aesthetically donât lend themselves easily to razzmatazz. Bring back the old names and it should pride itself on being a northern minority sport.
Do sky still have it in the same sports category as table tennis for their sponsorship/advertising deals? I remember some indignance when it was revealed a few years back.
I also like how ****ing grim it is. Passed the Rovers support the other day, just filled me with melancholy. However, it would surely ultimately benefit City if the two clubs were destroyed.
I honestly didn't imagine RL getting that much cash from Sky. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Sky-...ing-new-deal/story-20528172-detail/story.html http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/04/marwan-koukash-salford-rfl-sky Sky must make a 'loss' on this coverage?
I could have made almost the exact same post, except it was TWS fans and Liverpool fans trying to mock me. I say trying, because the conversation always went something like this.... Liverpool fan : Who do you support then ? Kempton : Hull City. Pool fan : Laughs, Hull City ? They're **** ! Kempton : Well yeah i know that, you think i don't know that ! Pool fan : Why not support Liverpool then ? Kempton : Coz i'm not a **** ! Pool fan : ..... silence Don't remember any bother from rugger fans tbf, don't think we were interested in each other.
Same thing happened for me when I was at school, out of the entire year there were only two of us that supported City. How sad is that?
Yeah but i think at the same time, we can feel proud about it. Edit : And maybe even a little bit smug
Out in Hull today saw as follows: -plenty of windows with HCFC flags and scarves in em - two kids aged 8-10 playing football in this season's LFC kit - dad in this season's LFC shirt with his lad in this season's City strip - kid in his 20s with vermin Macron shirt (tea coloured second strip) working in his car with vermin sticker in back window It will take time to eradicate this menace but I believe the tide has turned, especially given this month's historic game.
The rugby league v football argument goes a lot deeper then some of your posters think. During the 60's Hull's professional sports clubs were known locally as 'The Big Three'. There was no favouritism or hatred (jealousy) from fans of RL towards the football club and vice versa. The real rivalry set in when City were really in the doldrums, early 80's, and for the first time rugby league became the number one spectator sport in Hull. The all-Hull Final in 1980 was the peak of this little trend and it died away as quickly as it came. FC tried to capitalise on City's misery by rebranding themselves as 'Hull's Premier Sporting Club' City's sponsors were approached and offered better deals at the Boulevard. I know this to be true. Sponsors of football were offered all kinds of deals by FC with the lure of more coverage on television and the chance of Wembley Finals, also really forcing home the point that Hull City were a lower league club with no chance of ever been on the television and even less chance of appearing in a Wembley Final. This continued right into the mid 80's and re-appeared again when Pearson bought Fc and somehow all City's passholders were suddenly being emailed with offers of cheap tickets for the rugby. I once received a cold call from Fc, as I was on City's sponsor list and I had taken tables at City fund raising dinners but I was still a very small fry sponsor, but Fc still wanted to win me over to them. They were not even discreet about it either, it was on the lines of 'Hull City are nobodies and rugby league is the major sport around here and we are the biggest club...' At the time the local media was pushing the 'Hull is a rugby town' myth at every opportunity. I don't believe it is like this in Leeds but I have read Wigan FC have a very similar battle with the local RL club, the two do not work together. I feel as though Fc are now holding the progression of our club back and a successful football club is not good news for them. If a decision was made on only sound business sense then either FC and Rovers would merge, or Fc would share Craven park with HKR. It is not good business for a Premiership football club who are now in Europe to be ground sharing with a rugby league club, the situation with the pitch alone makes it unworkable. But it looks as though we are stuck with them and they are stuck with us.
