Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:17 am  

Lebron James wrote:

Awful, awful game of rugby.

Ive seen junior games with more intensity and skill.

Regards

King James

Huddersfield were poor. Hull had the game won after 20 minutes and were just content to beat Hudds up down the middle. Can't imagine it was very exciting for the neutral, but I was very happy with our pack.

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:28 am  

Rommel wrote:

I always boycott the KC Stadium so no suprise of the low attendence last night

Why (apart from the fact that you aren't a FC or Huddersfield fan) ?

The KC is probably the best Stadium in SL (apart from its pricing policy)

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:32 am  

I still don't see how this is deemed a low crowd???

Low for Hull maybe. But it would be record breaking at other clubs. If anything Williams list of 97 consecutive 5 figure attendances just shows how well supported Hull FC have been regardless of not having a matching amount of silverwear over the years.

Imagine if they won the damn competition??

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:34 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

How many Hudds fans were there (compared to last season) ?

Not sure but there was a tandem chained up outside. Was their (non) attendance part of the Bentham boycott?

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:05 pm  

I imagine a lot of Hull regulars are fed up with mediocrity, they'll probably come back if the club starts going in the right direction again which it seems to be now.

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:06 pm  

Our away following was shocking and the form our players are in it certainly wont help seeing that hardly any (apart from 100 or so of us) of our 'supporters' could actually be bothered supporting the team !!.

But it was never going to be anything other than a shocking turnout as soon as the game was announced !

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:17 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

Our away following was shocking and the form our players are in it certainly wont help seeing that hardly any (apart from 100 or so of us) of our 'supporters' could actually be bothered supporting the team !!.

But it was never going to be anything other than a shocking turnout as soon as the game was announced !

It's not great playing it on a Thursday night but ateotd it's an hour on the motorway. You can be home by not much later than 11 which shouldn't effect you working the next day. Like you say when the team are struggling on confidence a bit they need to see the supporters are behind them, and your following last night was a bit disappointing.

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:18 pm  

Bruce_Forsyth wrote:

Hull FC have easily the worst support in SL.

Yeah. I wish our support was that bad.

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:24 pm  

Hull FC's average attendance is currently 10,221 which represents a 4.80% downturn on last season for the same fixtures when the average was 10,737. Last season their attendances held up pretty well and were only 1.73% down on 2012 when the total attendance figures for SL as a whole were down by 10.40%. I'm of the opinion that a successful Hull FC club would comfortably average in excess of 15K.

Re: crowd at Hull : Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:52 pm  

Hull's crowds grew very rapidly between 2005 and 2009 so it doesn't much surprise me that a few years of mediocrity have burst the bubble a little. Over 10k is still not a bad average but I hope they can reach their 2009 level again some time in the future.