I'm glad you agree that you should support your home town team. Quite frankly I'm surprised you agree with me but well done for being honest with yourself. It took courage and I'm really proud of you. Well done.
I missed **** all plastic. I just put up the five years it took us to get from the bottom tier to the top tier. If you want the years since, it's 21,168, 18,790 and this seasons so far(without having played any teams with decent travelling support) is 15,575. Do you really want to get into a debate on a relative support? We've never won anything, we're only supported by people from(or with a connection to) Hull and we still get decent support. Half the people on your board have been to Leeds less often than I have. Even the OP of this thread has said he manages to attend one to three games a season. If I did less than three games in a month, during the season, I'd be ashamed of myself. Fact is, nobody who's not from a place can ever understand the real passion involved in supporting their local club. It's inbuilt, it's inherent, it comes from being born into it. We have some part timers, we have no complete fakers.
I was born into supporting Leeds, and I'll die supporting Leeds, but Leeds have never been my local club. It's possible to be a true supporter without having been born within 50 yards of the ground and having been able to attend every game.
I just made a cursory glance over the Wiki average attendances, so it's quite possible they're wrong, whatever the drop is, it's enormous, therefore rendering his point completely pointless.
down 3,000 a season ay,you really are a plastic lot aren't you.passion ? sure you go mod,no passion in dull apart from doing your gay thing.
I remember when Hull had small gates - one of my favourite games of all time was at BP in 1988 - 17 years old and off my head [video=youtube;T78HateCdRA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T78HateCdRA[/video] The official attendance that day was 10,811 - we had at least half of that
Some are falling worse than that mate - Leeds since getting back to the Championship - 2010/11 27,299 2011/12 23,302 This season 21,609
I wasn't born in Inverness and none of my family have ever supported them, so why the **** would I do that?
On the subject, I have never understood people supporting a team outside of their county let alone country. Bermondsey by birth, Millwall by the grace of God
I was there to see Billy Bremner's debut, once he finally showed some ambition and moved to a big club in 1976, though I'd seen a fair few games by then. Though I wasn't at that game in 1988, I'd moved to London to look for those gold paved streets.
In all fairness if, as a family , we moved to say Norfolk or Inverness my son would still support Hull City. It's in his blood and I would expect him to defend his club. It's where he's from and who his whole family support. There's a difference in those circumstances and one where you just side with a team because they are in a cup final or have won the league. Everyone knows that.
Will always remember coming out of a pub in Hull that day and there was an estate agents next door - one of my mates said "look at how much it is to rent up here - £6k a month for a 3 bed semi FFS - then we realised it wasn't for rent
I've never quite understood why some try to claim kudos because they pay a lot for not a lot. The quality of life around here's excellent. Cheap housing, cheap booze, beach, sea and Countryside on the doorstep, no ghettos or no-go areas... Did you make any of the games at the KC? One of the local pubs lets away fans in, and a group of Londoners were being a bit stereotypical, trying to pull a fast one on the provincial barmaid by ordering six pints, taking one off the bar and then asking for the sixth so they walk away with seven. What they didn't realise was the provincial barmaid had seen it all before and had been charging them for ten pints each round anyway. Plastics? They look blue. please log in to view this image
Less than 3 games a month I'm sure we all wish we had your financial resources to be able to afford that! Unfortunately I'm a student and food is considered a luxury at the moment. Does that make me a bad supporter because I can't afford to get up to Elland Road 3 times a month?
