Joined: Feb 12 2008 Posts: 842 Location: East Hull
Wellsy13 wrote:The funny thing is, you can't even generate enough home fans for your biggest game of the season in your most successful season in decades to match our home fans in our smallest game of the season in our worst season in a decade. That is the disgrace.
The thing is, it is YOUR ground, and YOUR couldn't even sell out the North Stand either. You could have sold tickets to Rovers fans in that stand, could you not have? But because you're such a small club, you didn't have enough fans to.
Yes, and we took more to Headingley and Wheldon Road. That says more about Craven Park than it does about Hull FC fans' loyalty.
Yes, your ground is a disgrace. If it wasn't, then how come you lot can't muster up 10,000 fans on your own in it? The fact that you only attracted 8,500 home fans to your biggest game of the year is either a testament to your support base or a testament to how poor your stadium is. Take your pick.
Our attendances this year have been pretty consistent. Using the state of the ground, which by the way isn't as bad as you make out, as an excuse doesn't wash with me as you've filled your allocation in the past.
cheeky charlie wrote:I never heard these excuses last season, its fact you knew you were going to get beat,
How does that FACT that we also knew we were going to get beat last season (you know, after finishing 11th, the week after the Cup Final, the inevitable Cup Final hangover, and having nothing to play for) go with your theory?
Surely if the reason we didn't sell out our allocation was because we thought we were going to get beat, we wouldn't have come last year as well?
Maybe the FACTS lay somewhere else, like perhaps the people that have been gullible enough to pay nearly double the normal price to go in that stand didn't want to come again, and finally after a few games there you have run out of gullible people to take them up?
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Wellsy13 wrote:How does that FACT that we also knew we were going to get beat last season (you know, after finishing 11th, the week after the Cup Final, the inevitable Cup Final hangover, and having nothing to play for) go with your theory?
Surely if the reason we didn't sell out our allocation was because we thought we were going to get beat, we wouldn't have come last year as well?
Maybe the FACTS lay somewhere else, like perhaps the people that have been gullible enough to pay nearly double the normal price to go in that stand didn't want to come again, and finally after a few games there you have run out of gullible people to take them up?
Selective reading syndrome seems to be a real problem in East Hull. Possibly even bigger than Swine Flu
Joined: Feb 12 2008 Posts: 842 Location: East Hull
Wellsy13 wrote:I never said the whole ground was a disgrace.
Wellsy13 wrote:The funny thing is, you can't even generate enough home fans for your biggest game of the season in your most successful season in decades to match our home fans in our smallest game of the season in our worst season in a decade. That is the disgrace.
The thing is, it is YOUR ground, and YOUR couldn't even sell out the North Stand either. You could have sold tickets to Rovers fans in that stand, could you not have? But because you're such a small club, you didn't have enough fans to.
Yes, and we took more to Headingley and Wheldon Road. That says more about Craven Park than it does about Hull FC fans' loyalty.
Yes, your ground is a disgrace. If it wasn't, then how come you lot can't muster up 10,000 fans on your own in it? The fact that you only attracted 8,500 home fans to your biggest game of the year is either a testament to your support base or a testament to how poor your stadium is. Take your pick.
Barky wrote:Our attendances this year have been pretty consistent. Using the state of the ground, which by the way isn't as bad as you make out, as an excuse doesn't wash with me as you've filled your allocation in the past.
You have run out of enough mugs to pay money to go in that stand from the West of the city to fill it. If Rovers had 10,000 fans of their own, I bet they wouldn't go in that stand.
The "we knew we were going to get beat" repeatedly used by your lot doesn't wash as it was the same situation (if not more so) in the derby game after the cup final last year, but we sold out. I think fans are just fed up of going in that stand. The novelty has worn off. We aren't THAT desperate for the derby to go to a ground and sit in a stand where we can barely see the game.
From an away fans perspective, the ground is as bad as I make out. If the away stand was the East Stand, we'd have filled it.
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