HULL CITY AFC's global appeal.

Currently sat in Dublin Airport waiting for a (Hopefully - looking outside it may not be) peaceful flight back to the land of Green Ginger ('Ull).
During the time I was in the city centre, I was wearing a Hull City scarf with full badge and "City 'Til I die" writing. I was surprised at how many people recognised it when I talked to them, now this may be due to our Irish contingent; but however surely it shows that the football club has an international "knowledge" base or fanbase?

Another example of this has to be when I was in Australia, and saw at least 5-10 "Hull City AFC - Black and Amber Army" stickers plastered in cars, and 2 or 3 in Brisbane.

I don't want this to be one of those threads that just brings on more argument; but I just thought I'd point out these observations about how the club is actually fairly well known abroad!

 

Would the people of Dublin have known a lot about us without the name change proposal?

 

Name changed not mentioned once. Talking to 2 elder gentlemen (who admittedly supported Celtic) I heard the names "Wagstaff and Chilton" mentioned.

 

I'm surprised you saw so many in Brisbane, in Sydney no one has heard of Hull.

 

I think there are quite a few Hull folk and Hull City fans in Sydney. Admittedly my son is the only one in his school who plays footy in a tigers shirt - but that will change I'm sure!

 

No one is an exagerration, but for a visitor to spot five or six people who follow City in Brisbane is quite surprising.

 

There's always an Irish tricolour up in the West Stand.

And someone in the East Stand, over the Christmas games, had an Ireland shirt with McShane on it.

I'm sure I used to see a Polish flag with Polski Tigers on it, a few seasons back.

I dunno if that can be classed as a following though.

 

When I lived in the suburbs of Melbourne nobody cared much about 'soccer' it was 100% "Aussie Rules". When I went into the pub on a Monday evening after work and Hull City had won over the weekend I would shout out at the top of my voice Hull City 2 (and whoever we played) 0! I did this once shouting Hull City 3 and before I could go any further some wag bawled out "Buckingham Palace 4"!

 

It's better that people have heard of us rather than being like Accrington Stanley but to go from that to selling a mountain of shirts in Tazbekistan is a big step.

 

Oh that famous Aussie sense of humour.

 

The global appeal hasn't reached Preston yet, i've never seen anyone wearing anything Hull City related, infact if i wear my shirt sometimes i get looked at but nobody has ever come up to me and spoke to me about the club.

However i have seen Hull City shirts worn by people in both Benidorm (Don't ask) and Florida (We had Altidore at the time so not sure if this was anything to do with it)

 

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Looks like it's not been updated in a few months but we have a Polish fan site

http://www.hullcityafc.info/

and Russian one

http://www.hullfc.info/

and a Croatian one

http://www.hullcitycroatia.com/

 

Yeah, haven't seen Artur for a while. He used to post on City mad and also go on Dazed's match day site. Perhaps he doesn't like the prem. Perhaps he's Mussie!

 

All prem clubs have global appeal simply due to the global exposure we all get.

Any shirt can be spotted in any country and all supporters will claim their club is massive.

What I think is worth examining here is how we can exploit this exposure, and not with a pointless name change either as the spotlight is already on us. Apart from temporarily having an Egptian or Irish playing contingent to generate revenue in those countries, something again we failed to do, the obvious country for us to foster support from for us is Holland. We already have groups of Dutch supporters coming over for Prem games several times a season, they have been for quite a few years. Some City fans help organise this yet often struggle to get blocks of tickets, the club should be far more helpful. We have dayly ferries to our twin city of Rotterdam yet can't get a friendly organised with Feyenoord. The clubs could forge links and sell merchandise in each others club shops and we should try pop up shops in the centres of Rotterdam and Amsterdam. We have a massive football nation right on our doorstep.

 

Good, I didn't know that, we should be planning incoming Dutch Dash weekend packages with NSF's, hotel and match ticket, especially for City Of Culture 2017.

 

My Australian group has something like 60 members, tad inactive though.