The reason it is twice our lowest league crowd is because you can cater for that many people. I'm not saying we would fill your stadium, but your stadium is larger, hence the larger attendance?
This is a new season in the Premier League and Hull had a gate of @ 21,000 which is about 3,000 short of capacity isn't it? That suggests you'd never manage a gate of around twice that number such as the @ 43,000 we had yesterday.
I don't see the point on arguing about crowds, because we'll never win. Our crowds fluctuated ridiculously when we spent a bit of time in the championship. The day trippers didn't bother turning up. So our crowds are hit & miss. Our stewards ruin any chance of achieving capacity, because of the amount of seats used up in separating the fans. An issue easily avoided if they built permanent segregation/ barrier inside the ground, like they have at the Emirates. City fans would love to have a ground that holds 40K, but we'd never fill it. So what's the point.
Our lowest attendance(21,949) was against Cardiff and the majority of the away end was empty. We're pretty much sold out every game, but then it's not a massive stadium, so it's not difficult.
No, I hate having people who support the opposition in the home ends. Especially, if they're from Hull.
I'm usually in the home section at the KC but not through choice mate. My sons live at Mansfield so it's a close game for us but we can never get 4 tickets in the Sunderland section. I agree that it's not nice for the Hull fans but it must be really annoying if the 'fans' are from Hull. My mate went to a Hull - Chelsea last season, or the one before, and said there were away 'fans' in the home section singing in broad Humberside accents
East Yorkshire accents maybe but not Humberside. Humberside was an admin thing only. Cost millions changing it and millions to change it back. F*****g government!
Areas at the sides of rivers are commonly known like that ........ Merseyside, Wearside, Tyneside, Teesside etc so I tend to think of the Hull area as Humberside. Hull never seems like Yorkshire in the way Leeds or Sheffield does, more like a tougher brand of Lincolnshire. I'm not being offensive btw, just saying what I genuinely think.
Humberside is a swear word to most round here, following a failed government experiment to try and lump North Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire together, the phrase is never used locally. We're proud Yorkshireman, always have been, always will be.
The same word can have two meanings ........... anything on the banks of the Humber can be called Humberside to be fair. I seem to remember a Radio Humberside from the 1970's. In the NE people are fanatical about making the distinction of North or South Tyneside. Only those on the north bank use the term 'Tyneside' until you reach Gateshead where there's a slight change. Wearside is happily applied to both banks.
Hull might not seem like Yorkshire due to it being out on a limb compared to the Sheffield/Leeds and the motorway connection. But, it is part of the three ridings of Yorkshire (North , East + West). Lincolnshire folk have a farmers sort of accent. The Hull accent is a lazy accent and that's why we sound different to the typical Yorkie. Our accent tends to sound more like the Manc.
Nah, I really can't agree and don't think many would .......... there's a world of difference in the accents. Hull, and surrounding area, has a unique accent but it sounds, to an outsider, like someone from Leeds speaking to a Spanish waiter
Humberside was used as a term for the areas either side of Humber and is the name of the radio station as you've mentioned, but after the government tried to inflict a new county on us, it's meaning changed and people generally only use the term Humberside if they want to piss us off. Generally, people who live either side of a river are close together and are very similar, but the Humber isn't a river, it's an estuary, it's almost a mile wide and the people either side of it have absolutely nothing in common.
I doubt many people would realise, I certainly didn't ........ perhaps it's more in your mind than an deliberate slur.
I didn't think you would agree. But, the way I see it having spent time working in all of the major cities in Yorks and Lanc we definately sound more like Mancs then people from Hudd or Leeds or Sheff. How do you feel when people say you're a geordie after hearing you speak. Also, is there a big difference in the two accents?
We do tend to take it a little personally, even when it's not used deliberately, but if you see Leeds fans posting on our board, they'll always use it to wind us up. Still, we refer to them as TWS(The White ****e), so I suppose it's fair enough.
I don't agree because it's not the case and I doubt if any of your lot would agree either. I couldn't care less if people think I'm a Geordie. Why would I take offence if someone from Norwich wasn't aware of the various accents in the North East of England?
