Joined: Jul 31 2003 Posts: 36786 Location: Leafy Worcester, home of the Black Pear
RoversTrace wrote:But let's face it, your support hasn't really been tested has it? Gifted a place in Super League and given a nice shiney new stadium. I wonder, had you not merged with Gateshead and therefore not got a place in SL, thus no doubt remaining at the Boulevard, would your core support have been much higher than Rovers core support during the same period?
Erm... You do realise that we were already in SL well before the merger, don't you?
Oh - and the move to the KC was not dependent on our SL status. Rovers were also invited, even though they were in NL1 at the time.
Hold on to me baby, his bony hands will do you no harm It said in the cards, we lost our souls to the Nameless One
Joined: Jan 23 2006 Posts: 15980 Location: Boulevard with my balls of steel!
RoversTrace wrote:But let's face it, your support hasn't really been tested has it? Gifted a place in Super League and given a nice shiney new stadium. I wonder, had you not merged with Gateshead and therefore not got a place in SL, thus no doubt remaining at the Boulevard, would your core support have been much higher than Rovers core support during the same period? All clubs have their die hard fans who go whatever, but new support or returning support has to be welcomed as a way of taking any club forward. What does annoy me are those who switch between the two. I watched the photographers taking photos of some of the kids at Headingley, one only two years ago was wearing a Hull FC shirt and chanting their songs along with the rest of the family. I just find that strange, no matter how bad things were at Rovers I would NEVER go over to the other side, and I'm sure most Hull fans would feel the same.
I'd love to know how we were gifted a place in SL?
My comment was TIC Trace. I just find it odd that anyone who gets to the point they will not accept what is happening at the club and refuses to go until it gets sorted out gets called for being a plastic fan or something but those who continue to go even though they aren't enjoying it are called blinkered mushrooms. I suppose it just depends what point you are trying to prove as to which one is true at that particular time.
Joined: Sep 26 2005 Posts: 3592 Location: East 'Ull of course!!
Kosh wrote:Erm... You do realise that we were already in SL well before the merger, don't you?
Oh - and the move to the KC was not dependent on our SL status. Rovers were also invited, even though they were in NL1 at the time.
And would you have still been had you not merged?
I am well aware that Rovers were invited to play at the KC and I'm 100% glad we didn't, cos we all know that at the end of the day that would have resulted in one team, probably called HULL
Joined: Jul 31 2003 Posts: 36786 Location: Leafy Worcester, home of the Black Pear
RoversTrace wrote:And would you have still been had you not merged?
Quite difficult for a non-existent team to play in any league TBH. However, that doesn't alter the fact that we weren't 'gifted' a place in SL by anyone. Both the clubs that merged were already there.
Hold on to me baby, his bony hands will do you no harm It said in the cards, we lost our souls to the Nameless One
Joined: Sep 26 2005 Posts: 3592 Location: East 'Ull of course!!
Kosh wrote:Quite difficult for a non-existent team to play in any league TBH. However, that doesn't alter the fact that we weren't 'gifted' a place in SL by anyone. Both the clubs that merged were already there.
Ok, so you were 'saved' by merging then. Weren't you languishing near the bottom of the table?
Whatever fans opinions on this scheme it will within the next few years be the norm for leading Super League clubs. Many of the premier soccer teams already run similar schemes....very succesfully.
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