meast wrote:Barnacle Bill wrote:
and huddersfield had higher crowds than hull kr did for most of the years we were in the national league/1st/2nd/3rd division
we also have poor away support that is steadily improving my earlier point was that rovers' away support will die down once the novelty has worn off or when the defeats stast coming, ours can only get better
Absolute rubbish, Rovers crowds in Nat 1 were at their lowest during the mid to late ninetees when the club found itself been run in to the ground by a very poor board of directors, who in most peoples opinions were the cause of Hull KRs demise during that period which subsequently resulted in the club going into administration, but even then Rovers took a decent away following.
The crowds started to come back in numbers around 2004 when the club was taken over by a new and dynamic board of directors headed by the present chairman and fanatical KR fan Neil Hudgell and i see no reason why the support will not carry on getting bigger as time goes on, The situation now is a very similar one to the late seventies and early eighties
During the late seventies and eighties rovers always took a huge following to away games, i know because i was there and the record books during that period speak for themselves.
During those same years, i remember Huddersfields away support was almost non existent and considering the amount of time you have spent in super league i would have expected it to be a lot bigger than it currently is today.
As for your comment about the crowds dropping off when we start losing, well'' how do you explain last year and even the year before?, we lost more games than we won but the crowds continued to increase.
It will be interesting to see how many Huddersfield fans will visit Craven park 13th April, hopefuly you will come in numbers and be extremely vocal though i wont hold my breath.
