It's simple , relatively small city with 3 topflight teams to support. Don't rise to the bait of 'mines bigger than yours' mentality. Be happy with what we have got and do the talking on the pitch.
I don't know the exact figures but they were the worst since we came to the KC from Boothferry Park. Or does it sound more dramatic to say we were got a bigger aggregate attendance in the old Division 4, which is where we were when we moved to the KC ? Loads of reasons why the crowds are down this season. All well documented on here and other forums. But better days are ahead. No reign last for ever and the only thing that remains steadfast at a football club is it's supporters. Everything else changes and at Hull City it is about to happen again.
All those who stayed at home and call themselves Hull City 'supporters', whether watching the game in a pub in Hull or watching FC instead, should be last on the list of people who want to sign up for the membership scheme/get a season ticket. Unless you were ill, severely disabled, working or out of the country, if you'd rather stay in Hull to watch ****ing rugby or watch it in a pub or at home on Sky when you could have gone to Wembley to watch your team get promoted to the Premier League, you have to ask whether they are proper supporters at all.
Don't know what you are on about regarding the sitting down. Where we where in the stadium everyone and I mean everyone stood the whole match and not a moan from anyone. Highly disappointed with the sour grapes from a Neanderthal minority of Wednesday supporters at Stanmore and A1 Peterborough Services. Highly proud of the Hull City supporters that did not rise to the scumbags at the Services and cause trouble.
All the bickering about football n rugby is pointless. To me its the ones that support other cities teams that are the problem to me. Its time for us to get into the schools now and promote this pretty successful team of ours. Get the young boys and girls before they drift off to Glory clubs. Well done to all that went yesterday bloodybgood day. Even Sarrah Beeney was there with her kids down Wembley way. Hopefully tthese owners will be gone quick now.
I was double-booked but I have no interest in getting a membership pass. The PL holds no interest other than Hull City AFC to me. I'll return when the Allam's leave. Until that time, I'll follow them where possible with interest and the occasional away attendance and hope we do well. I've been a season ticket holder since before I was a teenager and will be a season ticket holder again when I feel I'm not selling my soul to the devil to follow Hull City AFC. I look forward to those days.
We took 2074 fans to Hullsborough this season. They brought 2092 here in February. Wonder what their 42, 908 fans who couldn't make it that night were doing?
Same as our 23,926 who couldn't make it to Hillsborough? 2007/2008 season, average attendance at the KC 18,024, Number of City fans at Wembley, 38,000+.
For the bread and butter games it seems we're on a level footing. However they have a huge nascent flock of plastic owls ready to swoop down in a dramatic chest-beating fashion and claim their life-long allegiance.
The scale of you being a ****er is best measured by: 1. Using the term 'proper supporters'. 2. Needing to pull rugby into your nonsense. 3. Not regarding disposable income as a factor. You might also consider that a good many of those non-proper fans will be shunning the membership scheme. Have to admit to being surprised at some of your likers.
Traditionally Sheffield has always been a football city, home of the world's oldest club whereas Hull had 2 rugby league clubs for a couple of decades before it got around to having a football one. Sheffield United in the same city got larger crowds than we did last season. This happens with every club, ours included. We had over 20,000 more there in 2008 than our average crowd. When the two rugby clubs emptied the city and the last one to leave was asked to switch the lights off (although there were 3,500 of us in Boothferry Park that afternoon who could have done so) they took 40,000 or 50,000 or even 70,000 according to excitable rugby league writers on the HDM. That season FC had averaged 12,000 and Rovers 8,000. As I said, it happens and not just in football and rugby league. Look st how many turn up st Twickenham for finals compared to the home crowds of the clubs involved.
I said in my original post if you were ill, severely disabled, working or out of the country then that would be a valid excuse not to go to Wembley.
If all of these big game Charlies from Sheffield had backed their MAHUSIVE club over the last 15 years, they would not have found themselves in League One all this time. For a mature football city like Sheffield, it must be galling to admit that they're as plastic as (or even more plastic than) everyone else.
