They are different. Would City fans turn up en-mass and at a FC game and support the opposition like they did at Boothferry Park? I don't know any City fan who 'supports' another towns rugby league club, not one. I know plenty of RL fans in Hull who hate Hull City with a vengeance, and I mean hate, they are willing us to lose, and yes, they all cling onto the coat tails of other cities successful premiership clubs. I don't know many RL fans who support Hartlepool or Torquay though. The FC fanzine ran a long campaign to rubbish us when the KC was being planned. 'Hull City will never ever be more then a Third Division club and if you want to fill the KC Stadium for a football game then we suggest you invite Leeds United to play there' That was the editorial, and 'Hull is a rugby town' Remember all that ****e? Also success in the tiny world of RL is relatively easy compared to football. Which is why both the local RL clubs attracted support when City were struggling at the foot of the Football League, yet still despite winning nothing in over 100 years all the big crowds in this city of Hull were for football and games involving Hull City. Rugby League held Hull City back for years. Read you history books.
Fully agree with this, the fact that it magnified Happy's pure ****ishness is simply a very large bonus
Whatever happened to Jim Gardner and Vince Groak? I suggested that RH asked them on as they and the HDM gave them plenty of time and space when they were calling for a 15,000 stadium with terracing and a stand named The Threepenny Stand and stating that was big enough for FC and City would never get more than that to see what they have to say now. Typical examples of the small minded, insular thinking which holds this city back.
What kin what kind of person dances with joy to see people lose their jobs He wants to be careful what he wishes for coz it could be City before that get into trouble before they do Look at Leeds and they're miles bigger than us Completely brainless idiot
Kinell, calm down princess, I'm sensing you're an FC fan. Hull City your second team eh? I echo CC's comments in response your act of posting ****ery.
No I go to watch rugby maybe once a year Pass holder fir City but thats not the point. Anyone who lives in Hull and likes to see businesses go bust needs to seriously look in the mirror
There are a few reasons why which I could go into in some depth, but basically the League structure as it was was killing the game, no one could get relegated and teams finishing in the bottom half could qualify for the Play-Offs and in theory win the League. That meant that matches were virtually irrelevant until the business end of the season. The structure has now changed (rightly or wrongly) and the RFL's marketing has revolved around an 'Every Minute Matters' kind of theme to try and combat that. Only time will tell if it's right or not or whether it works.
I done generally enjoy RL, but problem from outside seems RFL seems the structure is always changing. They wanted no relegation so clubs would risk using youngsters instead of average foreigners with passport loopholes. The structure most of changed 5 times in 20 years of SL.
What rubbish North Ferriby Tiger!! If these so called Premier League fans are really fans of the big clubs then why are they still there when we are playing the likes of Palace, Stoke, Leicester etc? Don't you remember our crowds of 20000 plus in ALL the divisions? As for eggchasing fans, I have never come across one who doesn't support Hull or Rovers. Sadly I have come across loads who laughingly support football teams from other cities rather than the Tigers on their doorstep. Personally, I find both codes of Rugby rubbish. I get the impression, with your constant defending of Rugby, that you and that other idiot Southwest Corner, are really RL deviants. You should be banished along with a few other clowns that talk rubbish on this website.
Oh dear, you are scraping the barrel now North Ferriby Tiger!! In that mickey mouse game of Rugby League you crazily say the Hull clubs would get 5x more fans if near top and in the Play Offs. What rubbish!! FC'S last play off gate was around 4000. They, like Rovers, have had some awful play off and cup gates. When FC finished second in Super (LOL) League their average gate was barely 10000. Indeed during the long history of RL in Hull there has never been an average seasonal gate higher than 14000 ( Hull City have averaged over 36000 in Division THREE NORTH and over 37000 in Division TWO). You say we will lose 6000 fans if relegated. How do you know that? Last time we were relegated we still averaged 21500 in the Championship despite struggling. You say our gates could average 7000 If we fall below Championship level. Here you are talking rubbish again. In ALL divisions we haven't fallen below an average of 16800 for ELEVEN years. It's been THIRTEEN years since we had a league gate under 10000 ( a game against Boston at a falling down Boothferry Park). Yes our attendances have fallen slightly this year. But we are still averaging over 23000 despite having a struggling team, high ticket prices in many games and long running off the field problems. Indeed neither rugby club would never come anywhere near averaging 23000 in a million years. Please stop embarrassing yourself with such statements North Ferriby Tiger. Maybe you should concentrate on eggchasing and leave football to the real fans!!!
You will never convince the RL apologists. I have often asked why in a rugby mad city that the highest average for FC was 14,000, and that was relatively recently. Rovers highest is of course less. All the largest crowds in Hull have been for football. The most hilarious reasoning is that Hull is a rugby city because the rugby teams have won more. The rugby club in Leeds has won more than Leeds United yet ?I have never seen anyone claim Leeds is a rugby "town".
No I don't go to more than 2 matches of rugby a year I just don't begrudge other people enjoying whatever sport they like. And by the way there are plenty of Hull Fc pricks kicking around as there are City and Rovers. I consider myself fair end of My favourite sport is NFL actually so !!! Next question or insult if you like not really bothered either way Actually when you reAch puberty you might start thinking before you post Goodnight chuck
You're right with what you say. These RL apologists, including the local media, are depressing. Also if it hadn't been for Hull City in the 1950s loaning Hull KR Boothferry Park to play the Derby games, then Rovers would no longer be. Both the Boulevard and Craven Park were dumps compared to the spatial palace that was Boothferry Park in its heyday. I'm sure we both remember some shocking attendances at Hull Rugby grounds, including 900 for a league game at the Boulevard. Like you, I also maintain that Leeds is more of a Rugby City than Hull is. The record rugby attendance in Hull is 28000 for FC against Leeds. Yet in Leeds the record rugby attendance is 54000 for a game between two Leeds teams (Leeds v Hunslet). Leeds also has three RL teams (Bramley as well). Leeds United's gates are nothing special when you consider they are the third biggest City in England. Leeds fans disappear more than most when they go out the Premier League. They also rely on so many fans outside their catchment area to boost their gates. Even now they rely on gloryhunting fans from across the country, whereas many Leeds people shun them. At least Hull City have remained a local club with our support coming from Hull and East Riding. I still maintain had we had that success that Leeds United had in the 1960s and 1970s then we at that time would have had bigger crowds than they got. Indeed Boothferry Park would have needed to be expanded. We would certainly have been a bigger club than Leeds United are now because people in this are love football more than they do in Leeds.
Hit a nerve have I Southwest corner? I left school many, many years ago. My gripe is against the many RL fans in Hull who hate Hull City, and those RL ******s who follow other football clubs rather than Hull City. Sweet dreams, dear!!
Dea Deal with it sunny I watched City in lyrics and more turned up to watch Man City v arsenal than City That's a bigger problem than bickering with rugby fans It's called football snobbery
I bet most of those football 'fans' watching Man City v Arsenal in Lyrics are also Hull or Rovers RL fans.
No coz I knew 3 of them They where Liverpool and man utd fans who supported hull city for a couple off years the. Went back to their premier league teams
