I remember going to Rochdale one year in the micky mouse cup, we lost on pens can not of been many away fans that day!
it was pretty dire in the late 90s , im sure the biggest difference as a percentage between home games would/could be around the time we played Scarborough at home to a full house of 12K plus bits , i reckon either side of that would have been around the 5k mark possibly less.
We came from half the globe away to see the Wembley match.For my husband, who has supported Hull City since 1946 but saw his first Hull rugby league match before then, it was "no contest". Still have the Hull green Sports Mail souvenir edition of that day here in the house.
My lowest attendance was... That Chester game!! At least I think I was there. I was there for a Tuesday night Autowinscreens game where the only stand open was the family stand and there was bugger all people there, but I had Cambridge in my head. As for away following. Probably Mansfield about 98 or so. It when we had Walters and Kyle playing for us I think. There were so few Hull fans they put us in the little mini-shed type thing behind the dugout that the players were using (Mansfield had only 3 sides to the stadium at that point - I haven't been back to see if it has been updated since). I sat next to an injured Mark Greaves for most of the game, and Whitmore sat behind me.
Wonder where the other 35,000 are now who went to wembley...plus the other 8kish that joined us at the kc for two years But for away games we've not exactly lost alot...still take good numbers
I was one of the handful. Four of us went down by train after a row about places on the minibus, which left them with 16 on. Met a couple of Royal Navy blokes in a pub who had a few bottles of white rum on them as they had just got back from the Caribbean, no searches going into the ground in those days, so a good time was had by all. So that, with you, would make about 24 in total. A common occurrence in those days, just one bus or less, even though we were getting 20,000 for home games. Got signed into the supporters club after the game by Tom Courtenay and Terry Neill after sticking up for Neill when some Irish loonies were trying to brink Northern Ireland politics to things and shouting and spitting at him.
Ram the yardstick up your own arse. My yardstick was people who opted to go see the egg chasers instead of City. I wouldn't say you opted to put City second but opted to put your mother first, which most sons would have done. Here is hoping if we ever do get back into the Premier League they have a proper loyalty scheme and don't ditch people like hey did last time. Then we will avoid things like a woman asking a mate of mine at the Emirates(who was sat on his own as he was the only one in all his lot, who had followed City home and away all through the years we were getting 3,000 and less at home to get a ticket) who had managed to get 4 tickets for herself, another woman and a couple of 10 year old kids, being asked if he would tell the kids the names of the players as it was their first ever much and they didn't know as they didn't go to football and were only here because their kids wanted to see Arsenal.
Same here. See people who nod when we bump into each other and whose names I don't know who I've seen about since the early 70's. Saw one at Wembley who I haven't seen for years, getting on now and not in good health so I was delightEd he had seen our biggest ever day. Strange how you somehow seemed to see the same people at BP , mainly because you went into the same area for years, but then never see since moving to the KC.
This is the one I was thinking of, a very wet night, didn't realise there was so many people there, from what I recall I was thinking about 5-600. It's the only time I have ever left before the final whistle, in fact I left with 25 minutes to go as it was really that bad. I do recall meeting a very nice girl in a bar though, so not all bad! http://www.11v11.com/matches/hull-city-v-scarborough-09-november-1993-292243/
I went Chester with for an Auto Windscreens Cup or whatever it was called at the time. Wood and Brown were our strikers. We lost. The crowd was 700. We sat in the corner by the away end. There were so few in our section that the food counter hardly sold anything at half time and the man who ran it came round in the second half and gave us all free pies and burgers. The match did not live up to the hospitality. I wrote a report that went on City Independent. I think I was the only there who could be bothered.
I went with a few mates to that. Think Stan Collymore slated us and Wigan on the radio afterwards, for downplaying the FA Cup.
You do get get up when someone responds to your post about City fans with ones about RL fans being just as bad, don't you?
No mate all i do is defend peoples right to like what they like. I dont go to more than 3 Rugby games a year to be honest and half the time your sat with people that know **** all about the game. At the same time when i go to watch City theres plenty of city fans that talk ****e and can play and manage better even though they never even owned a pair of boots.
Used to go to rugby games when I lived in Hull. And speedway when the Vikings got more than City, FCand .Rovers combined for a brief period. Like most sports except for American, Gaelic and Australian versions of football which don't involve much contact between a ball and a foot, baseball and basketball. So, basically association football and both versions of rugby. One thing I like about watching union at a local level is nearly everyone watching has played the game at some level. Mind you, even they have trouble keeping up with all the rule changes they bring in regularly. RL isn't any better in that regard, I have posted on here before where I showed up some supposedly long term FC fans who were sneeringbabout City and their fans in The Avenue just before the FC v .Rovers final over their lack of knowledge of things they should have known if they had been going for only 2 or 3 years.
me and my mate hitch hiked and took a tent up to Scotland to see pre season friendlies against Ayr United on the Saturday and Clyde or Clydebank on the Monday in the mid seventies - I think there was less than 10 City - beat that
