FC's crowd on Friday

[HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)]

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 ?

To be honest you've got me completely wrong.

I'm one of the RL fans that accept its a minority sport, in fact its actually one of the reasons I like it. I also don't care who gets bigger crowds, the two are simply not comparable.

The local media bias doesn't bother/effect me because I don't live locally so I never see it.

To me Hull's not a rugby city, its not a football city either as there's no way of quantifying it, its entirely down to opinion.

I find the idiots in RL as embarrassing as the idiots in football and find the irony of their mutual dislike quite amusing.

As someone that likes both I'm actually the only one out of the two of us that can be impartial and don't let preconceived ideas or unjustified rage dictate my opinion.

 

[Barchullona]

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.

Just because a football team does it doesn't mean a minor rugby club does. Football clubs always know the amount of travelling fans anyway. The idea that Huddersfield were directing Hull fans through home turnstiles for marketing purposes is laughable.

 

[Amin Arrears]

Just because a football team does it doesn't mean a minor rugby club does. Football clubs always know the amount of travelling fans anyway. The idea that Huddersfield were directing Hull fans through home turnstiles for marketing purposes is laughable.

The idea that a chairman would change a clubs century old original name to something tacky and crass is laugh able, but a senile old man somewhere in the world is trying his very best to make it happen.

 

[Barchullona]

The idea that a chairman would change a clubs century old original name to something tacky and crass is laugh able, but a senile old man somewhere in the world is trying his very best to make it happen.

And what has that to do with the price of fish?

 

[Amin Arrears]

And what has that to do with the price of fish?

It's like a game of dot to dot, or simple mathematics.

 

[Edelman]

To be honest you've got me completely wrong.

I'm one of the RL fans that accept its a minority sport, in fact its actually one of the reasons I like it. I also don't care who gets bigger crowds, the two are simply not comparable.

The local media bias doesn't bother/effect me because I don't live locally so I never see it.

To me Hull's not a rugby city, its not a football city either as there's no way of quantifying it, its entirely down to opinion.

I find the idiots in RL as embarrassing as the idiots in football and find the irony of their mutual dislike quite amusing.

As someone that likes both I'm actually the only one out of the two of us that can be impartial and don't let preconceived ideas or unjustified rage dictate my opinion.

Good post
I'm baffled by the hatred football fans have towards rugby and rugby towards soccer.
It just makes them look petty narrow minded and drags the sporting city down.
Just bloody grow up for gods sake.