It drew attention to the failings of West Yorkshire Police and made it far less likely that fans of other clubs would have to suffer the same ****e that we did. It's what real fans do.
I only arranged to take my daughter out for dinner in Manchester, as I planned to be in Huddersfield, which is three quarters of the way there.
There's a page of posts laughing at people biting to a quite obviously sarcastic comment yet you still reply to it and make a tit out of yourself, good effort!
Bad example when Hull FC took more to the Magic Weekend than City did to play the PL champions. Your point is completely correct, you just used a silly example.
Or when City played a FA Cup Semi Final on the same day as the (not very) Magic Week-End). Over 100 coaches left the KC for the football, 250 miles away, and 2 left for the rugby 70 miles away, on the same day, from the same place. Are you sure you are on the right forum because you spend an unhealthy amount of time on here defending eggchasing and splitting hairs in an attempt to convince yourself that rugby league isn't a regional minority sport that is dying on its feet.? Tell me, what is 'magic' about dragging all your local derbies to a football stadium miles away and playing them over week end with only two of the stands open ?
Well you don't seem able to grasp the concept. So I will put in simple terms for people of limited intellect. 4,500 Huddersfield fans pay in the home turnstiles and 3,000 FC fans pay in the away turnstiles and the crowd is announced as being 7,500. 4,500 Huddersfield fans pay in the home turnstiles, 1,000 FC fans also pay in the home turnstiles and 2,000 FCFans pay in the away turnstiles and the crowd is announced as 7,500. So there is no difference and only an idiot would think it boosts anything to attract investors, sponsors etc.
As I have said the crowd is the same however you gain entry to the ground. How does it alter what potential investors or sponsors think? So how does it affect how these deals are structured? You really are being stupid. Do you know any 5 year olds who could explain it to you?
When a club approaches a sponsor/advertiser they compile these statistics as its usually of interest (especially for small, local companies) as to the the number of local people their advert will reach. They also give break downs of the demographic and geographical location. How that effects the deal/terms is down to the companies priorities I guess. I only know because a friend works on the marketing team for Reading and that's part of his job.
He is probably using the same logic FC, the fans and even Richard Tingle trotted out in the HDM at the time when the 'Super' League idea was still been tossed about and the clubs allowed to be a part of it was being discussed. The deluded said that FC should be allowed a franchise, not because they have a team/club who should be in based on ability and league position etc. But because they take more fans to away games. Which in itself is a complete myth because it all based on guess work. Even recently we saw BBC man Simon Clark make up his own figures, turning 2,300 ticket buying travelling away fans into 'Probably over 4,000' They have always manipulated the figures to suit themselves. If RL shrugged off the inferiority complex it suffers because of the popularity of football and to a lesser extent Rugby Union people like Airlie Tiger would have nothing to do all day, and the sport might stand on it's own two feet a bit more. Who knows even the 'mighty black and whites' here in Hull wouldn't have needed the subsidy they somehow arranged for themselves from Hull City ?
The cock waving over this is daft. Rugby league is a minority sport, even in Hull. That's not made up, it's a simple fact.
