With the right pricing and with a clear statement that we are "City", we could definitely make sense of a larger stadium even outside the Premier League. I mainly go to away games as I'm 3 hours drive away from the KC but at the right price, I'd love to be a season ticket holder again. (Especially in a noisy safe standing area- despite the fact that I'm an old fart). I don't avoid the KC on principle in any way but the whole "Hull Tigers" saga and other nonsense has just tarnished my enthusiasm enough to make the trip to Hull sometimes difficult to justify to myself. It's nice being in a big City crowd. I'd love to experience it again.
Well Mr Shropshire if you go we increase the gate by one....and theres room among plenty of old gits in the North Stand who sing shout and leap about. Its a start Half season pass for Christmas ?
I agree unemployed shouldn't get special prices. But not necessarily for the reasons you think they shouldn't. You could argue 18-22 year olds shouldn't as some of them will have more disposable income than people in their thirties with mortgages, rent and kids to fork out for. Same with disabled. Being disabled doesn't mean you are necessarily poor. I know a lad classed as disabled after an accident who got over £500,000 compensation. The only case is for anyone who needs actual help getting in and out of the stadium. Then there are pensioners. With my state pension and company pension I have more than my lads would get if they did a 60 hour week. And as my house is paid for I don't have the outgoings for a roof over my head they do so my outgoings are less. And there are plenty more in the same favourable position.
Handled properly - pricing to suit the demographics and marketing to attract the necessary casuals - it would be a bloody shame not to consistently fill the theoretical "35k with a premier league team" ground as the city is at the centre of a million people within a 45 minute drive before you get to any other club. Read that yonks ago. Unique.
I wouldn't argue any of that. I think it's right they get the concessions they do. I'd go further for pensioners personally.
This is a somewhat weird thread in that , and I could be wrong, I suspect no one here would prefer CIty to NOT be able to attract larger gates than we do or can at present. Or are some people really convinced that the extent of our potential support will never or could never rise above the 25,000 mark ? You only have to cast your mind back to the Swansea game in 2003 when thousands were locked out of the KC yet the north stand housed only a couple of hundred away fans. That was a case of those who built the KC at a time when we were only emerging from the worst period in our history being guilty of short sightedness. Today we are no longer regarded as a joke club a minnow. I agree though that until we resolve the issue of the ludicrous Mexican standoff between the Allams and the council no expansion is likely to even be contemplated and should we as I hope get promoted we'll be stuck and unable to ever realise what our true potential as a club could be
Can't see why I should get a ticket cheaper than someone in their thirties with less income and more outgoings because I am a pensioner but there you go. I don't get beer and other essentials cheaper because I am over 65. The problem is of course not all pensioners get the same. However neither do other groups of fans. And means testing is not really an option.
The Swansea game was at a time when there was a feel good factor due to a charismatic new chairman, a new stadium and the first success on the pitch after the worst decade in our history.Most of the ones locked out could have got in with a better designed stadium and of course a less inept police force. To be honest there isn't a lot of evidence, just supposition, that we would average more than 25,000 consistently.
I think more were going in the 40s-50s say. I suppose you could say with some people being a lot richer and it thought fashionable to go that a surprising number of people will go now. But I wonder if much of that is just skin deep, it's fashionable for some. I definitely think it's a waste of money anyway, and I'm happy as an armchair fan now.
As I wrote, the top flight figures were the highest for over 60 years. And, there are less teams and therefore less games in that division now.
I think a lot are living in dreamland here. Last March we played our 1st FA CUP Quarter final for over 40 years It was £20 and a tenner Theres was 16,000 city fans in the ground On a lovely Sunday afternoon.
Never forget that home game against Milwall - 40 +k and won 1-0 (own goal), only to lose 3-0 the following day at The Den. Still we had the last laugh - beat 'em by 4 points to end up champs. Great memories, great season, great crowds. Oh for a repeat. Even lost 4-1 at home to York City in front of 20 K, York ending up bottom that season. And the double over Scunny - sweet.
castro ' i hate the city of hull and always complain, and calls our fans ****' coffin you are boring as **** literally all you do is complain about the city being **** and not like european cities, and that our fans are **** compared to sunderland and middlesbrough zzzz
