Sexual Deviant wrote:Having considered the aforementioned, i know a lot of you have shouted down MUH, but he's right when he says an awful lot of you need to be in posession of valid facts instead of letting your obvious anti-football bile cloud your judgement.
Let's say for argument's sake, we got the game at the KC, and it's England versus Australia. England turn up, all bullish and bristling with intent, Australia turn up quietly, looking a bit half-ar$ed. By half time Australia are 30-40 points to the good, a capacity crowd are more than a tad cheesed off, and vow never to waste an evening in such a way again.
The simple fact of the matter is RL fills the KC once, maybe twice a year. Football is filling it twice a month. This immediately blows the 'blow to the local economy' argument clean out the water.
One way to demonstrate to the SMC (not Duffen, the SMC) that RL can be a commercially viable activity is to fill the ground this Friday. Will it happen? I think we know the answer.
It's not about how often RL fills the KC, it's about having the KC available for an International game that will attract a capacity crowd of RL followers in this area and from the rest of the RL community across the M62 corridor.
It's about having the KC available to the rest of the sporting community, not just Football. It's about the Chairman of Hull City AFC holding the head position of the SMC and not being 'available for comment' to explain his decision.
You had a crowd tonight of 24750, according to Radio Humberside there was a following of approx 2000 from Spurs, so you were 22750.
If the SL fixtures were so planned that both Hull teams played at home on the same weekends we would collectively attract crouds of approx 23000 as we did for our opening home games, pretty even don't you think?
So where is your arguement that you are 'bigger' ?
