I ain't no thug, just a sports fan who loves Hull City AFC and Hull FC. Football on the pitch and off the pitch is littered with thugs as is RL. Unfortunately every team in our city has a thug element .... don't know about Ice Hockey though!!
Well done to Hull FC. But hearing Cllr. Geraghty and some of the Hull fans ringing up RH – they’re living in an odd dream ridden world. Geraghty was talking about putting Hull on the map nationally and at least one caller was saying that it was game ‘that could be shown around the world’. What Geraghty and other RL fans must realise that success in RL actually (and unfortunately) enhances negative images of the city and when people nationally talk of a ‘rugby town’ they are talking pejoratively. As for the comments about it being a game to be shown around the world, perhaps some of the expats on here can tell us how that match is going to rock their part of the world.
Imagine you are an East Hull RL fan who supports HKR in rugby, but LFC/MUFC/CFC/AFC/LUFC in football. ****ing loser
Basically mate as a RL fan who loves Footy .. I have to say your mostly right but I don't see it as being negative for the City.... As for RL rocking Qatar Naa nothing rocks this place although we have a Rugby club. Not a bad pint just not during Ramadan.
All I mean mate is that nationally RL is perceived as a parochial sport and in other parts of the country the term ‘rugby town’ is sometimes used as a synonym for backward. Geraghty was saying on Look North that it puts Hull on the map nationally, whereas I’d say it doesn’t and unfortunately may even reinforce stereotypes about Hull. That said, I also think RL’s regionality is part of its charm and the renaming/franchising of the clubs in the 90s was a great shame e.g. Bradford Northern becoming Bradford Bull et al. I don’t want this to sound like I’m deriding Hull FC’s success in the cup – fair play to them and I do think its good for the city in a regional sense rather than a national sense. For me, RL’s greatest achievement is the film THIS SPORTING LIFE and the time that dog was on the pitch for half of a televised game (possibly a Challenge Cup Semi).
Who mentioned March 2013? And it's not an excellent turnout for a one city derby in the top flight of their sport - only a rugby fan could say it is. Will City get a lower crowd than that in the whole of next season against ANY team, never mind a derby? (We don't have a top flight derby)
I think any other sport in the country would be happy with that attendance with the exception of football.
Rugby league is **** Go anywhere norf or sarf and i try and engage into people hull has two professional rugby teams unfortunately they've only ever heard of hull city (everyone ive spoke to has heard of them) i've been in some remote places with some strange non islander folk Ergo rugby league is a non entity
Horse racing, motor sport, higher cycling events, rugby union to name but a few that would be concerned at such a low attendance.
Why can't you support more than one team? No matter what sport it is they're all teams from this great City. As I said before, I'm a Rovers fan but was impressed with FC yesterday. I hope they win it now but I won't be cheering for them on.
At the end of day its good for the City. When City were in the old third division then that was the time when as a football fan you looked at the rugby teams and wished you had there success, that was a time to feel jealous but not any more. I don't think the rugby supporters or many of the people of Hull even thought we had a football club because we were so poor. Now look at it this way we are a sporting City if you like both sports enjoy them both if not stick with the Tigers and enjoy the premier league its such a fantastic achievement the biggest success this City as ever had. We as football supporters realise how much more difficult it is to win things in our sport but when you do the media attention is so much bigger through out the world. Having said that its nice to be proud to come from Hull and other football, Rugby, boxing supporters look at us with respect rather than laugh behind our backs. Up the Tigers
I never envied them their 'success' as it was not real success. Hull demolishing RL div 2 in 78/79 against Workington, Rochdale, Hunslet, Keighley, Swinton, Whitehaven etc...the sum total population of that whole league was less than Hull's. This is the essence of the problem- too many people in this city just want to see a 'winning' team. They don't worry about detail. This RL cup 'success' ...there are only 12 teams in 'Superleague'....so it's like City starting the FA Cup in round 5. It's 'success' , but as Michael Mouse would know it.
Where did 17000 come from? Considering I've supported City since 1955 I'm hardly a rugby supporter.Clearly rugby league does not have same following levels as football but relative to their game I'd say 17-19000 was a bumper gate. Looking at Stanstheman's avatar reminds me I was at Morty's first game for the Tigers standing in the Well, with a crowd of 25000 others,a friendly against Blackpool. I recall it was either 4-4 or 5-5 ,he scored a hatrick and was carried off.
All of those have a broader geographical coverage and all struggle with attendances, except for the odd marquee event which draws non-partisan support. Not a good comparison.
It's in a direct response to someone making the comparison between RL and all other sports, so the comparison's theirs.
