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Citygirl said:
A proper City fan was at Fellows Park that day . Pete Skipper one Walsall nil .
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What a day that was.

Remember seeing a City fan stood on top of a coach spraying everyone Nigel Mansell style with champers.
Happy days (minus the Fonz)
 
Julian Edelman said:
We all know that plenty of people claim to have been at certain games when they really wasnt there.
Wasnt there 15,000 at the Torquay 1,800 attendance
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And 20,000 life long fanatics who went to Wembley in 1980 and hadn't missed s match for decades who were at the Huyton match when the turnstiles weren't working properly and only counted about 900of them in. You would have thought they would have fixed it but they malfunctioned against Barrow and didn't count 19,100 of themfor that game either.
 
over18and legal said:
I wasn't implying anything, i was asking a question.
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Prices can be huge for top college games, average price for some games over $300. Top,prices for Notre Dame tickets last year were over $600. Of course lesser games are cheaper. Though I know someone who was coaching football, our football not American, at Columbus University and someone said they could get a ticket for their team, the Buckeyes, if he wanted to go. Was gobsmacked it was over $100,and this was quite a few years back. Their stadium holds over 100,000. School games, schools not colleges, were getting 20,000 and more. He was amazed that something like 12,000 were here to see them playing soccer against another college. Americans identify more with college sides than professional ones as their are so few pro ones for such a large country

If you have time watch this college side. The place the stadium is in has population smaller than Driffield but a large college. If they didn't have a common name like Tigers, quite a few American teams have that name, they might get even more. Imagine a team leaving a dressing room here, travelling around the stadium by bus to make an entrance wt the other end. Amazed the Yanks SAG equivalent don't have a nervous breakdown at the thought of people standing up and hurtling down and over the edge from that steeper and higher than the West Stand tier.

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Castro's Coffin said:
Prices can be huge for top college games, average price for some games over $300. Top,prices for Notre Dame tickets last year were over $600. Of course lesser games are cheaper. Though I know someone who was coaching football, our football not American, at Columbus University and someone said they could get a ticket for their team, the Buckeyes, if he wanted to go. Was gobsmacked it was over $100,and this was quite a few years back. Their stadium holds over 100,000. School games, schools not colleges, were getting 20,000 and more. He was amazed that something like 12,000 were here to see them playing soccer against another college. Americans identify more with college sides than professional ones as their are so few pro ones for such a large country

If you have time watch this college side. The place the stadium is in has population smaller than Driffield but a large college. If they didn't have a common name like Tigers, quite a few American teams have that name, they might get even more. Imagine a team leaving a dressing room here, travelling around the stadium by bus to make an entrance wt the other end. Amazed the Yanks SAG equivalent don't have a nervous breakdown at the thought of people standing up and hurtling down and over the edge from that steeper and higher than the West Stand tier.

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Theyre more like State teams at Uni level.
You can go watch Miami Dolphins for £22 and not have to put up with 3 hours of the horrendous marching bands blaring out.
 
Julian Edelman said:
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.
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I did say it was a bit twatish

Think it comes down to various rugby supporters having took the piss out of Hull City over many years of me supporting them especially when we was not very good

I wouldnt love museums and city shops all closing down or anything else.
I never said that.

I only mentioned FC and Rovers nothing else.

You do exaggerate Julian
 
Clinching promotion back to the 2nd division at Walsall was ****ing brilliant, had no idea eggchasing was on on the same day.
 
CITYfiley said:
I did say it was a bit twatish

Think it comes down to various rugby supporters having took the piss out of Hull City over many years of me supporting them especially when we was not very good

I wouldnt love museums and city shops all closing down or anything else.
I never said that.

I only mentioned FC and Rovers nothing else.

You do exaggerate Julian
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It was tongue in cheek as you will know.
Whether i care about a club not existing or not there is always livelihoods involved in them.
People would like to see Leeds United not excist dont understand it.
Personally hate West Ham and Millwall a hell of a lot more.
 
over18and legal said:
So was I.
Back in those days, a Wembley weekend was booked months in advance (regardless of who got to the final).
I have not been to a rugby match since 1985 as i can't afford to go to both sports.
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On May 3rd 1980 Hull City played at home v Southend on the same day the two Hull RL clubs played at Wembley. It was a must win game for City to avoid relegation to the old 4th div. One of the most important games the club had played for a generation at the time.
You claim you were at Wembley, City fans were at Boothferry Park.
Remind me wasn't 1985 about the time the Hull RL clubs domination of their game ended ?
 
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tubbycitymanlard said:
On May 3rd 1980 Hull City played at home v Southend on the same day the two Hull RL clubs played at Wembley. It was a must win game for City to avoid relegation to the old 4th div. One of the most important games the club had played for a generation at the time.
You claim you were at Wembley, City fans were at Boothferry Park.
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I was at Wembley, coming from Aus, and took my widowed mum who was a Rovers fan and had never been to Wembley. So you can write me off as a City fan too as I chose Wembley over BP.
 
tubbycitymanlard said:
On May 3rd 1980 Hull City played at home v Southend on the same day the two Hull RL clubs played at Wembley. It was a must win game for City to avoid relegation to the old 4th div. One of the most important games the club had played for a generation at the time.
You claim you were at Wembley, City fans were at Boothferry Park.
Remind me wasn't 1985 about the time the Hull RL clubs domination of their game ended ?
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Yes, some chose a bit of glory hunting over their team. Fair enough when it was people who went to watch both City and arugby team , Gav K for example. But others, including one poster on CI who makes a big deal of his City support and has lectured others on it, went to Wembley despite not being a fan of either side.

Re 1985, someone reckoned FC sold 25,000 tickets straight out and the RL had to send 5,000 more.
They played two home games on the way to Wembley. Against Carlisle in front of 4,588 and Widnes in front of 11,411.
 
Castro's Coffin said:
Prices can be huge for top college games, average price for some games over $300. Top,prices for Notre Dame tickets last year were over $600. Of course lesser games are cheaper. Though I know someone who was coaching football, our football not American, at Columbus University and someone said they could get a ticket for their team, the Buckeyes, if he wanted to go. Was gobsmacked it was over $100,and this was quite a few years back. Their stadium holds over 100,000. School games, schools not colleges, were getting 20,000 and more. He was amazed that something like 12,000 were here to see them playing soccer against another college. Americans identify more with college sides than professional ones as their are so few pro ones for such a large country

If you have time watch this college side. The place the stadium is in has population smaller than Driffield but a large college. If they didn't have a common name like Tigers, quite a few American teams have that name, they might get even more. Imagine a team leaving a dressing room here, travelling around the stadium by bus to make an entrance wt the other end. Amazed the Yanks SAG equivalent don't have a nervous breakdown at the thought of people standing up and hurtling down and over the edge from that steeper and higher than the West Stand tier.

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College sport in the US a exploitative, corrupt system and shouldn't be supported in anyway.

Its absolutely disgusting the way the athletes are exploited for profit whilst the colleges make millions off them, some athletes have been known to be so poor they can't afford to feed themselves, yet the coaches they play for are on multi million dollar contracts.

They don't get an education, they are not rewarded for their efforts and they are cut the second they are of no use.

This video only scratches the surface but it covers the main points.

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