All true, but the point Oregon was making is that Newcastle/Gateshead is 475,100, while Hull is only 262,000 and if you expand that to the surrounding counties, Tyneside goes to 824,700 while Hull and the East Riding combined only goes to 599,000(and that doesn't include any of the Sunderland/Washington/Chester-le-Street areas). Regardless of history and popularity, we're never likely to catch Newcastle, it's a significantly more heavily populated place.
NUFC is treated like a religion up in newcastle where as until we got into the premiership most people in hull supported other teams i.e man u liverpool and the leeds scum but because of our two year stint we had a lot of people jumping on the band wagon thats the main reason y i think NUFC get more fans well that and they have a bigger ground! but i could be wrong on this!
I think the reason is that there's no big places near Hull. If you take Newcastle, for example, there's places with over 100,000 ver near.
I would have thought that Newcastle is safely the biggest populated area in the UK without any other clubs near. They have also had a long tradition of football support. Fans would take their children to matches going back to when they were successful. I started supporting City from before they were successful in the mid-sixties and I had to decide to go myself. My dad said he used to go to City but all I know about him going is when there were big attendances against Manchester United (before I was born), Everton (my first match) and Millwall (we went separately).
As a supporter for 40 years I don't get this BP atmosphere thing compared to the KC. In the dark days of Dolan & Fish in the 90's standing as I did week in week out on Bunkers I never thought a faded BP was atmospheric. In the final three or four years at BP I moved into Kempton and yes there was atmosphere but only because 2000 souls were crammed in there. The noise hardly reverbarated around the ground. You would have to go back to the heady days of Waggy & Chillo when the North Stand was still standing to witness true BP passion. The KC is a magnificent facility - yes it does get quiet during games but for me the KC wins hands down
simple solution bring back the terraces i miss standing in kempton even when we lost it was still a great atmosphere although i didn't think it was that bad in our first full season at the KC better then some of the away matches bar Yeovil!!!
Join the FSF campaign for safe standing, there's no reason why it shouldn't happen, also tomorrow there's a Hull specific campaign starting for a singing section, check tomorrow's articles.
i did see something about that a couple of weeks ago but was working at the time so couldnt look it up properly and untill now had forgotten lol cheers the whole ground should be a singing section makes for better atmosphere
Im sorry but some people on here are seriously deluded about the size of Hull. People often go on about Hul being the "7th, 8th, 10th - whetever" biggest city in England but it simply isnt true. On pure census figures Hull has a very small population - much smaller than Newcastle - and I suggest people stop using Wikipedia as a research tool. You do realise that can be edited by anyone dont you?
The government stats taken from the census are more reliable than wiki (I hope): http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fom2005/03_fopm_urbanareas.pdf From this the population of Tyneside is about 3X the population of the Kingston-upon-Hull region. What this proves about supporting a team or otherwise I can't tell you. When I was at Uni in Newcastle gates there had dropped to ~15,000. The biggest attendance for years was when Blyth Spartans used St James's for a cup replay against Wrexham.
For those who like to stand at the game - and that includes me - the visitor's end at Peterborough is still terracing. I'm looking forward to that one as it the closest game for me this season.
damn it i cant make that game ive only got chance to get to a few and they all down south! although dont think i have ever sat down at fratton park haha
The wiki thing I got simply referred to the stats from the last government census (2001). It won't be as accurate as the more recent estimations, and I'm sure Hull will have lost people in that time. But the argument is ridiculous here. If you add Gateshead or the surrounding areas as well then yes Tyneside is bigger but I'm taliking about Hull versus Newcastle. Hull is a bigger place with more people, now can people stop putting their own city down?
hear hear should be proud of your own city i might not live there any more but im damn proud to be from 'ULL and to be a tiger!!!!
Everyone in the country likes to pretend Hull is a **** city and some people haven't even heard of it, yet they've heard of York. I'd bet the majority of the country wouldn't think of Hull as being one of the biggest cities, but it is. As someone proud of Hull, I'm keen for more people to realise it's a bigger and better place than they think. Obviously size isn't everything but I just hate the city being looked down on as a pointless small one.
