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TheCasual said:
20,507 was a decent attendance.
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I don't understand how it is decent. Both teams have more than 10,000 regular attendees to home games and there must be about 7 miles between the grounds. If City got under 21k for the biggest game of the season in the second tier it would be seen as a poor attendance, so how is this in the top tier decent?
 
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Bum_Chinned_Crab said:
I don't understand how it is decent. Both teams have more than 10,000 regular attendees to home games and there must be about 7 miles between the grounds. If City for under 21k for the biggest game of the season in the second tier it would be seen as a poor attendance, so how is this in the top tier decent?
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Except they don't both have over 10,000 regulars. Rovers have been getting less than 8,000 recently.
Somebody has done a good job actually as they had over 20,000 when both teams are getting smaller crowds than when they got 18,000 for the biggest Derby in the universe and everywhere else.
 
Bum_Chinned_Crab said:
I don't understand how it is decent. Both teams have more than 10,000 regular attendees to home games and there must be about 7 miles between the grounds. If City got under 21k for the biggest game of the season in the second tier it would be seen as a poor attendance, so how is this in the top tier decent?
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Because it's rugby league, where the average attendance is 9,600.

I don't know what KR's average attendance is, but they only had 7,300 against St Helens.

According to Sky Sports, the highest attendance this season was 14,132 at Leeds, though the site has a match report for FC v KC showing over 20k.<doh>
 
Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
They may well share the same roots, but Football is synonymous all over the world with the round ball game we recognise today.
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I hadn't realised until today, that rugby started off as a round ball game...

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Nor was I aware that FC used to be the East Hull club and KR the West Hull club.

You live and learn...
 
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The whole Webb Ellis thing's a myth too. There's a few articles blowing holes through the fantasy of how Rugby was invented.

Ironic, given the Gateshead link that Hull FC were once Hull NUFC*. <laugh>

*presumably Northern Union Football Club. They do seem to distance themselves from the league tag in the name.
 
Apparently the Northern Union Rugby Football Union clubs did actually play rugby league and changed their name to Northern Rugby Football League some time in the 20's.
 
ettaman, post: 7801465,strange 1000044"]I hadn't realised until today, that rugby started off as a round ball game...

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Nor was I aware that FC used to be the East Hull club and KR the West Hull club.

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I have always found it strange that the rugby teams are named FC.
 
I learned something about the ruggers today, I'm not sure if anyones aware but one of the anthems for the proper (union) national team is swing low sweet chariot, that was started by my local village rugby club.
 
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Always remember this poem I just made up and you'll be fine:

In football you strike,
In rugbeh you punt,
Football is for top lads,
Rugbeh is for ****s.

Sorted.
 
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