Bury ticket update

I got the late train back after the l##ds away game and I noticed someone who had been there supporting them! He had is scarf inside his jacket! Then I kid you not I saw him at QPR away supporting us!

 

Anywhere that takes credit cards.

 

Yeah we are
0930 train

 

Some interesting stuff on this link. Less than 20 years ago we averaged less than 4,000 for the second successive season. Not that many of the sit down brigade will recall those days as they tell people who were there to stop enjoying their quiet contemplation of the game by being so vulgar as to stand up or shout encouragement.
Interesting to see some of the crowds in years gone by for clubs which some of our newer fans disparagingly dismiss as smaller and who have less right to be at the top than ourselves. Especially as a lot of those clubs are from smaller towns/cities. Interesting to spend a bit of time tracking down the 13 clubs which have attracted over 40,000 average for acseason (and surprising how few times this has been done as some of them only did it once or twice, and one well known club not until fairly recently despite having a massive ground for years whichnsetban attendance record for. Game).
Anyway, here is the link if you are interested.


http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm

 

Plenty of those that were there then have now become the sit down brigade, believe it or not some dignified men in their elder years would prefer to watch a game of football than sing songs with a bunch of chavs.

 

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That's good, although as you say if we don't fill our second stand they'll have probably missed out on some home fans income

 

Interesting that Rangers are getting a higher average crowd in the second tier than Celtic in the top league.

 

I'd like to think I'm a dignified man (early 60's) - I'm in good health and, while being one who doesn't join in with every song, I like to sing a few songs and stand during the match and have my sit down at half-time. I understand there are people who are older or folks not so healthy who want to sit, it'll be good to see if the group who like to sit will occupy lower seats now they have the benefit of unreserved seating.

 

Alternatively, some miserable gits have forgotten what supporting a club means. Nothing dignified about people who dismiss whole swathes of people as chavs either. Pathetic and judgmental more like.
I can't stand for whole matches nowadays. However I don't sneer at people who stand or sing. I just wish more did. Neither do I plonk myself in the middle and expect everybody else to sit down and shut up, I sit where it isn't an issue. Or, if I end up in the middle of people supporting the team instead of acting like they were at a theatre, I stand up as long as possible and have a sit down when necessary. You can tell by the crowd when something is going to happen so you can stand up again and not miss anything of importance.
Looking at highlights at the weekend, every set of away fans seemed to be stood up with the exception of City, where most appeared to be sitting. Liverpool appeared to have a large proportion of over 60s, both male and female, stood up offering vocal support. I know which I prefer.

 

That's an interesting site CC, looking at our own stats I was surprised to see how marked the decline of our support was from 1972 onwards - it's hard to believe that it took us thirty years to achieve a five figure average gate!

 

I think thats the period when a lot started drifting off to the so called glamour clubs

 

You're judging a group of people whilst criticising them for judging others, irony at its finest.

 

Not at all. If you can't see the difference, well, I'm not surprised.

 

They were running buses to .Manchester and Liverpool in the early 1970s when City were doing relatively well.
Plenty of despicable inadequates were going to Elland Road as well in those days. The nineties weren't the period when that started at all. The early 1980s saw some City fans decide to jump on the RL bandwagon and the glory of success gained through being a follower of a big fish in a puddle.
Buses later on were run to Man Utd and Liverpool by people now claiming to have been life long City fans on forums and one who became the fans liaison officer amongst others.

 

Plenty simply stopped attending Hull City games. Of course we had, and still have, those who used to catch the buses on a Saturday morning outside YEB to watch Leeds and Man U, although they don't board outside YEB anymore for obvious reasons. Some days there was one bus chugging down the M62 to a City away game and we would be passed by three or four coaches full of Hull people going to the other two.
But the biggest draw on our attendances from 72 to the mid 80's was local rugby league, which peaked in 1980 with the all Hull RL Cup Final.
City as a club did little to keep the support we gained from 65 to 72 ish. Virtually no investment at all in the team and we sold every player who topped our goal scoring lists, one by one, season after season. We slipped further and further down the football league ladder and no-one seemed bothered. As we shrunk as a club both Hull RL clubs welcomed our disillusioned supporters, and it must be said that everything we didn't have as a lower league football club could be got at the rugby. Silverware, the reflected glory, beer in the grounds, no segregation, cheaper, no police or heavy handed stewarding, television coverage and a council and local media fawning over them. RL was fashionable in Hull at the time and we suffered as a result.
Also Boothferry Park suffered from a lack of investment and when the rest of football were redeveloping their grounds we did the bare minimum and sometimes not even that.
The capacity at BP was cut so drastically that we couldn't get more then 10,500 in the ground if we wanted too.

 

Judging by the queues at Preston when they made it pay on the day, I think a few more will be tempted to go to Bury - personally, I'd rather pay for this match than get in at some of their more esteemed neighbours for free; whatever the result, I'm really looking forward to this one.

 

Luckily i was able to go to both football and rugby and enjoyed both.
Enjoyment back then wasnt merely winning trophies.
Winning against the likes of Sheff Utd left me buzzing for a week.
This is why i dont have the bitter narrow minded attitude that some on here have as regards rugby league and vice versa from rugby fans.

 

It isn't a case of being narrow minded. I used to go to FC games back in the 60s and 70s if City weren't playing.
What started the rot for a lot of us was the Brentford game. For others it was the attitude of some rugby fans, predominantly FC ones to actively wish for City to fail and who sneered at the club. These tended to be the newcomers to rugby who jumped on the bandwagon and notbthe couple of thousand diehards each rugby club had not long before (for a period in the mid 1970s speedway got more than City, Rovers and .FC combined). For others it was turning up to an FC game in Leeds to support them after the City away game had been cancelled and being spat at and told to **** off football ****ers. Some of the twats doing that had been City fans themselves a few years previously.

 

People where sneering and wishing City ill before the rugby had its little period.
And they hardly dominated.
Hull won 1 CC Cup and 1 league title and Rovers 1 CC Cup and a couple of titles maybe 3 cant quite remember.
Thats if you discount the now defunct comps