What's 'small town' about it? Incidentally I haven't lived in Hull for 17 years so not sure what impact my thinking is having,
There is a lot more small town thinking where rugby league is concerned. Agree there is a lot of small town thinking in Hull in general though.
What isn't small town about it? Wishing ill of a teams that have absolutely nothing to do with you to compensate for having no real rivals of your own. And some deluded belief that we'd have 40,000 fans at every game if the rugby clubs didn't steal our fan base. Where you live now has nothing to do with it.
Totally agree, its almost certainly worse in rugby circles, although I think that's more understandable with it been such a regional sport with inter-city rivals. Its a real shame but I don't think it will ever change.
Twatish of me maybe But I would be elated if Both FC and KR Went bust and ceased to exist. Yet I havent even been to one game of Rugby in my life. Makes no sense I know.
I think we are looking at very stiff punishments here. Lifetime attendance at New Craven Park being mentioned.
I don't understand why anyone would want local people to loose their jobs or to take away a past time thousands of local people enjoy. I get you might dislike some of the fans but given you live in Filey I doubt you interact with many on a day to day basis anyway. Just seems a bit childish to me, I dislike Rovers (more than a non-rugby fan could understand) but would never want them to go out of business.
Id be quite happy if all 3 teams went bust. Id also be happy if Reckitts,Smith n Nephew, Ideal Standard BP, BAE Systems , Siemens Aunt Bessies , and all the sizeable businesses pulled out of the City. Id also like to see HCC sack all of their workers and all the shops in the City centre close down. On top of that id love it if all of the museums where closed and all of the pubs went out of business. Itd be even better if everybody lived in abject poverty and we got a right good desease sweeping the City killing 100.000 people. Twatish of me i know but there you go.
I wouldn't like to seeTWS go out of business. Condemned to forever yo-yoing between the Conference and League 2 is another matter...
I remember Wigan won the week before and got sent 35,000 tickets. Hull won the week after and got sent 25,000 which sold out straight away so complained to the RFL and got sent an extra 4,901. The capacity was normally set at 95,000. Apparently they could have sold thousands more between them which would have made it a world record RL crowd. Hope this helps.
Wigan had nearly half their population of 80,000 thousand there? Now there is a rugby town. A bigger game than FC v Rovers. Twickenham often gets 350,000+ applications for tickets which would be a World record rugby crowd.
Yeah i watched a programme before about England at Twickenham. Ticket touts set up software to bombard the Ticketmaster website which is why thete seems to be massuve demand.
Of course. Nothing compares to RL. Mind you, they wouldn't do that for a 90,000 stadium if there wasn't such a demand which means they can sell them on for a massive product. Fortunately rugby league doesn't suffer the problems of touts snapping tickets up. There were over 300,000 applications for each of the two games played at Brighton's ground, an area not renowned for rugby union in the RU World Cup involving neutral teams. And the prices were horrendously high.Meanwhile in the RL World Cup 2 games in the rugby mad capital of rugby league each attracted under 8,000 for games involving neutral teams.
Not sure what youre getting all het up about. You do seem to get yourself into some Tizzy little headspins at times
I was at 1980, 1981, 1982 + replay, 1983 and the 1985 finals. 1985 was the last final i attended. 1985 was the best final ever at Wembley.
I went in 1973 on the school trip. We ended up at a west end show. Great experience for a kid going to the smoke without his parents. God knows were those 43 years have gone.
