An open letter from Ehab...

Number one son could not give a **** about you, only his money

 

How's about, just for starters, letting Geoff Bielby attend the supporters committee as a rep for the Trust. Eh Ehab?

 

Great post.

Reality check for some of the entrenched posters on here, blinded by perceived slights/insults/soundbites to the point where they can no longer focus on the present or the future.

 

Oh they were. Classic labour council do knowts stopping business
It’s why they’ve courted Allam so much since
And he been stubborn won’t have it

 

Some very good points
I remember John McGovern get interviewed back in the 90s just after wed played Shrewsbury !
He said that was a good attendance today but one bad result can knock 3'000 off the next gate !

 

Aseem did say the fans where irrelevant on Humberside 4 n half years ago

 

Very simplistic analysis that , definitely not just about a winning team .

I choose to still go and support my team but I know people who won't go now until the owners have gone
people who went to games before I was born.

 

Aseem reiterated it in an interview on radio !

 

What if they don't like the new owners either?

 

On the ebb and flow of fans, it'll be interesting to see how it pans out in the future.

When the numbers increased last time, there were a fair few notable voices claiming long term status, that were not recognised by anyone that was actually there.

 

That’s not true.

 

Agreedamundo.

No one will ever puff their chest out and brag "PL for life, I'm fickle me, I won't watch second or third tier" yet those people and that mentality clearly exists.

As for the 'missing thousands; and boycotts, HCFC ply their trade in a city with a catchment area of 500,000......countless thousands have been boycotting for decades way before the KC stadium was mooted. It's entrenched default behaviour round here, not some virtue-signalling moral high ground stance.

 

THE major part by a country mile!

 

We have always had fans who flit in and out. Look at attendances right through our history going up and down from game to game by thousands in many cases. Take the famous Millwall 40,000. 16,000 the home game before and 22,000 the one after. Last time we had over 30,000 for a league game was Xmas 1966 against Huddersfield. Last time we had a crowd over 30,000 was against West Ham in the FA Cup in 1973. Looking back I was at all 3 of those. Had an argument in a pub once with a fan saying we were bigger than this and that club. I asked him why he thought that he replied we used to get 30,000 every week. When, I asked him as I know we did when Carter here but you are too young to have seen that. We got 30,000 against Millwall was his reply. It was hard to get him to see that we didn’t get over 30,000 for any other game though we did for 3 or 4 games the following season but still averaged under 30,000. Mind you averages cause difficulty to some Hull folk. I remember a rugby fan on radio saying that Hull was still a rugby city when City crowds started going up as Rovers got 8,000 and FC 12,000 so rugby crowds averaged 20,000 compared to City’s average which was lower. Obviously doesn’t know the difference between totals and averages.

The owners have caused some fans to leave but a lot who have left were there to sit and watch because of the opposition, spectators not supporters, who aren’t interested in watching games involving the likes of Barnsley and Brentford.

 

Other than the first two, I would say they are not particularly good footballers, but that’s my opinion as a fan.

I appreciate the effort but in all the years since Pete Daniel we haven’t had many roll off the tongue, and that is my point. At least the Allams made an effort, but on the back of a tonne of TV money and a shadow of the Burnley’s, Swansea’s who used the cash to good effect.

 

A bigger catchment area than that. At least going by the HDM. In recent months they have written about a new store opening near Hull, a new attraction near Hull for kids and a swimming experience near Hull. These were in Castleford, Roundhay Park in Leeds and Scarborough. Bloody enormous area.

 

Who the hell are HCFC?!!!