Match Day Thread Play Off Final. Hull City v Boro

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pierredelafranchesca said:
Our injury problems are well talked about, and when you actually look at the numbers.....it's ****ing incredible that we did as well as we did! Of the players who played in the final the games missed are below, bearing in mind these are our best players and only 1 player, Egan was ever present with every other outfield player (McNair aside) missing a chunk of games, 7 of them missing at least a quarter of the season

Pandur, McNair and Egan had a relatively injury free season missing 1, 1, 0 respectively......after that tho

Coyle/Slater/Crooks - all missed 4 games due to injury
Giles - missed 10 games to injury
Ajayi - missed over 20 (incl time away at AFCON)
Hughes - missed 5 games and played through a double hernia
Millar - missed 16 games (10 at the start 6 later on)
Belloumi - missed >20 games across his initial rehad from ACL then 2 further injuries
McBurnie - missed 6 games in a 6 week period

Of the subs
Gelhardt - missed 8 games over the busy xmas period
Yu - missed 8 games
Lundstram - missed 14 games across 3 months
Drameh - missed 13 games
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Add the lengthy lay offs to Matazo, Clayton, Amir, Joseph, Famewo, Jacob, Destan and probably some I missed who were close to the first team during the season.
 
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During the 1966-67 Football League Second Division season, Hull City recorded an average home league attendance of 24,730. Over the course of the campaign, their highest home league attendance reached 35,929, while their lowest league attendance at Boothferry Park dropped to 16,480.

I'm quite surprised. It seemed like I would regularly turn up to 35k crowds. Maybe that was including FA Cup games.
 
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Hull City recorded an average league home attendance of 19,737 during the 1970–71 Second Division season.A more detailed breakdown of their crowds that campaign is as follows:League Average: 19,737Away Average: 17,028Key Home Crowds:v Blackburn Rovers: 23,976v Bristol City: 22,178v Leyton Orient: 19,320v Stoke City (FA Cup 6th Round): ~25,000 to 30,000 estimated.
 
During the 1972–73 Football League Second Division season, Hull City recorded an average home league attendance of approximately 9,405 spectators at Boothferry Park.Throughout this season, the club experienced a significant downturn in crowds compared to previous years, posting end-of-season numbers as low as 9,223. By the end of the campaign, their average gate dropped to around the 9,405 mark. This steep decline was a notable trend for the Tigers during the early 1970s, as gates previously hovered closer to 20,000 in the late 1960s and early 1970-71 season.
 
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During the 1972–73 Football League Second Division season, Hull City recorded an average home league attendance of approximately 9,405 spectators at Boothferry Park.Throughout this season, the club experienced a significant downturn in crowds compared to previous years, posting end-of-season numbers as low as 9,223. By the end of the campaign, their average gate dropped to around the 9,405 mark. This steep decline was a notable trend for the Tigers during the early 1970s, as gates previously hovered closer to 20,000 in the late 1960s and early 1970-71 season.
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probably coincided with constant trouble at games between rival boot boys
 
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Charon said:
probably coincided with constant trouble at games between rival boot boys
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Our crowds were on the slide as we slipped out of the promotion race towards the end of the 1970/71 season. I always thought the average attendance for that season was 21,000, we kicked the season off with a 34,000 crowd for the Watney Cup semi final v Man Utd, which was basically a pre season friendly and ended the season with a crowd of about 12,000. The main reason for the decline was we stopped winning games.
I also remember a significant increase in admission prices around that time when prices rose alarmingly with the introduction of decimalisation. As we entered the 70's our crowds dropped off a cliff, and crowd trouble will no doubt have been a factor, but the main reason was the public had lost faith in the club. The belief that we genuinely wanted to get promoted evaporated as the feel good factor of the title winning and record breaking team of 1965/66 fell away as the team aged and was broken up.
The death of Harold Needler was also a factor because none of the men who stepped into his role put the investment and backing into the club or showed the enthusiasm Harold had and the fans knew it.
It took a couple of generations before our crowds picked up again which makes the crowds we have attracted and kept since we left Boothferry Park all the more remarkable and perhaps it's time to look at increasing the capacity to cater for this new generation of fans?
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Our crowds were on the slide as we slipped out of the promotion race towards the end of the 1970/71 season. I always thought the average attendance for that season was 21,000, we kicked the season off with a 34,000 crowd for the Watney Cup semi final v Man Utd, which was basically a pre season friendly and ended the season with a crowd of about 12,000. The main reason for the decline was we stopped winning games.
I also remember a significant increase in admission prices around that time when prices rose alarmingly with the introduction of decimalisation. As we entered the 70's our crowds dropped off a cliff, and crowd trouble will no doubt have been a factor, but the main reason was the public had lost faith in the club. The belief that we genuinely wanted to get promoted evaporated as the feel good factor of the title winning and record breaking team of 1965/66 fell away as the team aged and was broken up.
The death of Harold Needler was also a factor because none of the men who stepped into his role put the investment and backing into the club or showed the enthusiasm Harold had and the fans knew it.
It took a couple of generations before our crowds picked up again which makes the crowds we have attracted and kept since we left Boothferry Park all the more remarkable and perhaps it's time to look at increasing the capacity to cater for this new generation of fans?
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Good point about decimalisation.

It's fair to say that nothing went down the way(my big sisters knickers aside) and everything went up disproportionately.
 
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