Staring into the abyss?

[Barchullona]

Hull has a much bigger hinterland. Close to around a million people, with no competition for top flight football if we can get up and stay up.

A lot of them are people with no connection to Hull or have moved here and have allegiances to elsewhere.
Of course it would help if the owners encouraged them. Maybe organising coaches like they do in other countries. And at Charlton. Despite Polly arguing to the contrary, we are the club with just about the most people as their nearest club.
Take away the people who live outside of Hull and the percentage of the population going to City matches is pretty poor.

 

[GLP]

I was in Manchester a few weeks ago. I was absolutely gob smacked. No exaggeration must have been 50 or 60 just on the main drag into Piccadilly gardens area. Virtually every doorway had someone asleep in it. There was even one woman in a sleeping bag laid asleep horizontally across the pavement with Saturday shoppers stepping around her. Not sure the cause of it but something has gone badly wrong in manc land

Yes, we went to see Adele and then had a meander back to the Malmaison via a few bars - literally every doorway there was loitering homeless people. I know some choose that kind of life, but bloody hell if this was abroad we wouldn't be able to provide enough financial aid.

 

[Barchullona]

We've got plenty in Hull, when i worked in Cambridge they did too.
Think if i was going to be homeless I'd go down to Devon and be homeless there

Not too many good ones in Hull though things have come on leaps and bounds in recent years.

You like Devon? I would move down there, or New Forest area except for the differences in house prices. It will need to be a winning a bit of money job.

 

[Barchullona]

Yes, we went to see Adele and then had a meander back to the Malmaison via a few bars - literally every doorway there was loitering homeless people. I know some choose that kind of life, but bloody hell if this was abroad we wouldn't be able to provide enough financial aid.

Maybe abroad should send us some financial aid as a lot of them will be from there.

 

[GLP]

Maybe abroad should send us some financial aid as a lot of them will be from there.

Doubt it, the one's I heard begging were 100% bonafide English, with English accents. Most probably Mancs. Let's be honest, if you were from out of town and planning a life homeless you'd head to a major tourist centre or the Capital.

 

[Barchullona]

Doubt it, the one's I heard begging were 100% bonafide English, with English accents. Most probably Mancs. Let's be honest, if you were from out of town and planning a life homeless you'd head to a major tourist centre or the Capital.

Maybe. Mind you lots of young people from abroad speak better English than our lot.

 

[GLP]

Maybe. Mind you lots of young people from abroad speak better English than our lot.

not with a Manc accent though!

 

[Carmine Galante.]

Get yourself to Norwich if you want to see a high concentration of beggars.

And let's face it why wouldn't you want to see a high concentration of beggars?

I bet it pisses all over Manchester.

They're all over the ****ing gaff.

 

[Polly13]

There's actually twice as many season ticket holders at City who live outside the Hull boundary and they're all over, Anlaby, Hessle, Cottingham, Beverley, all the West Hull villages, all the East Hull villages, Brid, Withernsea etc.

There are very few cities which have a single decent club within 30 miles, particularly in the Premier League, with a bit of sustained success and owners who didn't try and alienate the entire fan base, we could easily fill a 30k+ stadium.

This is my point, really. I suspect most of them reside within a few miles of the city. That's the club's real catchment potential, not East Yorkshire as a whole.

 

[Polly13]

Hull has a much bigger hinterland. Close to around a million people, with no competition for top flight football if we can get up and stay up.

A million people? Did you actually read that somewhere or just pluck it from the air?

 

[bobby ace]

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There are very few cities which have a single decent club within 30 miles, particularly in the Premier League, with a bit of sustained success and owners who didn't try and alienate the entire fan base, we could easily fill a 30k+ stadium.[/QUOTE]

Rubbish. As Castro's earlier post showed, we have NEVER had over 25,000 (on average) in the stadium. I've been reading this ****e for decades and remember how people said the KC was too small and we should build a stadium capable of holding 40,000. The most we can ever hope for is the most we have ever had. If we couldn't average more than 25,000 in our first season in the Prem than we never will.

As for the comments about how the owners have alienated the fanbase and that we should be doing better, I am forced to agree. They did a great job for a couple of seasons but, rather like their manager, they have run out of ideas and retreated to their bunker. Time for a change all round.

 

[DMD]

This is my point, really. I suspect most of them reside within a few miles of the city. That's the club's real catchment potential, not East Yorkshire as a whole.

EDIT, I've quoted the wrong one, I meant Middlesbrough rather than the East Riding, but I'd be interested in the answer for either.

You seem clued up about it. I was surprised when I read it was a relatively new place, and it got me wondering, at what point in their history did they start to acquire the extra fingers and other deformities?

 

[GLP]

A million people? Did you actually read that somewhere or just pluck it from the air?

Read it somewhere, it's got a massive pull from area, which will only get bigger the amount of bloody housing they are chucking up in Brough.

 

[Polly13]

EDIT, I've quoted the wrong one, I meant Middlesbrough rather than the East Riding, but I'd be interested in the answer for either.

You seem clued up about it. I was surprised when I read it was a relatively new place, and it got me wondering, at what point in their history did they start to acquire the extra fingers and other deformities?

As I said, I lived there for a few years, and taught Geography there, so did a fair bit of local case study work with the students. Like most towns and cities, Middlesbrough's history, though relatively brief in urban terms, is fascinating. Not sure about the extra fingers, though the deformities are mostly courtesy of ICI

 

[City Man]

Sorry, is this the sinkhole thread?

 

[Polly13]

Read it somewhere, it's got a massive pull from area, which will only get bigger the amount of bloody housing they are chucking up in Brough.

Well it's a bit inaccurate. The total population of Hull and East Yorkshire combined is only 600,000.

 

[Barchullona]

Well it's a bit inaccurate. The total population of Hull and East Yorkshire combined is only 600,000.

Once read sometime ago the two clubs with the most people where they were the nearest league club were ourselves and Plymouth. York may have been out of the league then which may alter things a bit.

 

[DMD]

Once read sometime ago the two clubs with the most people where they were the nearest league club were ourselves and Plymouth. York may have been out of the league then which may alter things a bit.

What about Carlisle?

(Yep, I know I could google)

 

[Polly13]

Once read sometime ago the two clubs with the most people where they were the nearest league club were ourselves and Plymouth. York may have been out of the league then which may alter things a bit.

Yeah, that's probably about right. For me though, this doesn't automatically translate to massive potential support, which I believe is more dependent upon the tighter urban catchment area.

 

[Polly13]

What about Carlisle?

(Yep, I know I could google)

Norwich, too, perhaps.