Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:51 pm  

nick hkr wrote:

Nice to know it is legendary, just shows you notice, maybe a more accomodating kick off time would bring service back to normal? Along with lower fuel prices and cheap tickets???

To be fair, some of your fans have created a rod for your own backs with their boasts of away support numbers. A few years back a HKR fan got very het up walking out of Knowsley Road when a mate of mine did not think that you'd brought much more than 1000 if that.

On the Lomax/Briscoe collision, I thought they both went up to win the ball and collided mid air. No problem with the pen as they tend to get given, but didn't think he actually tackled him in mid air.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:57 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

On the Lomax/Briscoe collision, I thought they both went up to win the ball and collided mid air. No problem with the pen as they tend to get given, but didn't think he actually tackled him in mid air.

I had a good veiw of it, and Lomax jumped for the ball fair and square. I also didn't think the penalty given against Gaskell for similar was right either, I thought he timed it well to hit him as he landed.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:50 pm  

Winding up Hull KR fans aside.

Saints will struggle to get many away fans with Friday night kick offs end of.
Widnes joining the SL will help next year, but any team travelling further than Manchester it's a 50/50 call if you leave work at 5 get home to see the kids and then hop on the Motorway. You can't get the family groups to attend. I understand it's better for the locals from a Saints point of view. In the end if Saints can grow their own fans then rightly they do not need to consider the away fans. It's more telling that those teams who need the away fans tend to run more of their games on a Sat/Sun.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:27 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

To be fair, some of your fans have created a rod for your own backs with their boasts of away support numbers. A few years back a HKR fan got very het up walking out of Knowsley Road when a mate of mine did not think that you'd brought much more than 1000 if that.
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I think I was there that game too and in all fairness we did take more than 1000 and your mate clearly underestimated the numbers. For coaches alone I think we took around that figure and there were plenty more cars. But I ask would you rather "only a 1000" fans or Wakey, Hudds, Quins, Catlans, Crusaders...etc travel every week and bring a mighty 10-100 away fans??

If all those 1000 fans bought their tickets from HKR that is £18000 minus the £1800 Rovers got for selling the tickets it would mean You get £16,200 out of Hull KR coming over. I don't doubt you'd rather a game against Warrington, Wigan and possibly Widnes because they will bring more over on a Friday night. But the fact still remains St Helens are probably yet to bring more than 500 away fans to Craven Park.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:16 pm  

nick hkr wrote:

I think I was there that game too and in all fairness we did take more than 1000 and your mate clearly underestimated the numbers.

Really, you've got a remarkably good memory, what was the score?

For coaches alone I think we took around that figure and there were plenty more cars. But I ask would you rather "only a 1000" fans or Wakey, Hudds, Quins, Catlans, Crusaders...etc travel every week and bring a mighty 10-100 away fans??

I've never seen 20 plus coaches from any team at St Helens, which would be the minimum required for that number.

If all those 1000 fans bought their tickets from HKR that is £18000 minus the £1800 Rovers got for selling the tickets it would mean You get £16,200 out of Hull KR coming over. I don't doubt you'd rather a game against Warrington, Wigan and possibly Widnes because they will bring more over on a Friday night. But the fact still remains St Helens are probably yet to bring more than 500 away fans to Craven Park.

All nice, but absolutely nothing to do with HKR away support being good, but not as good as you think it is.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:02 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

Really, you've got a remarkably good memory, what was the score?


I've never seen 20 plus coaches from any team at St Helens, which would be the minimum required for that number.

All nice, but absolutely nothing to do with HKR away support being good, but not as good as you think it is.

If it was the game I think you meant it was our first visit to Knowsley Rd in years in 2007? 42-14 to you guys and I think Dyer scored one for us but cant remember exactly.

I think our away support is in bigger numbers than at least 8 other SL teams, I believe chairmen accross the league look forward to the teams with bigger than average away support coming. If Saints were to bring 10% of their home support (from the Knowsley Rd days) to Craven Park as we often have to your ground Rovers may actually get their much needed 10k attendance figures.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:18 pm  

nick hkr wrote:

If it was the game I think you meant it was our first visit to Knowsley Rd in years in 2007? 42-14 to you guys and I think Dyer scored one for us but cant remember exactly.

I think our away support is in bigger numbers than at least 8 other SL teams, I believe chairmen accross the league look forward to the teams with bigger than average away support coming. If Saints were to bring 10% of their home support (from the Knowsley Rd days) to Craven Park as we often have to your ground Rovers may actually get their much needed 10k attendance figures.

If you could actually see the game from the away end you might get more!

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:42 pm  

nick hkr wrote:

If it was the game I think you meant it was our first visit to Knowsley Rd in years in 2007? 42-14 to you guys and I think Dyer scored one for us but cant remember exactly.

Actually I think it was the one you won 20-19. You may well have brought more than 1000, but it was the blokes real upset at the thought that someone might not think you'd brought half the crowd that was amazing.

I think our away support is in bigger numbers than at least 8 other SL teams.

I think it probably is, it's definitely one of the biggest in the league, I just don't think it's as good as some of your fans make out it is.

Re: Hull KR Match Thread : Tue Apr 05, 2011 7:52 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

If you could actually see the game from the away end you might get more!

You can