barham red wrote:No you're a newer fan than some, obviously some people would rather both clubs were averaging 1500 fans aslong as they were 'true' fans.

Success will bring in more people, the more people wearing red and white in this city the better and failing that the more people supporting RL the better.

Hull mved to a new stadium and more fans turned up, liked what they saw and kept watching, in fairness to them they seem to have stayed watching even during a poor season. Rovers got promoted, more fans came and liked what they saw so kept coming. No doubt if we improved our facilities even more would come including away fans and our gates would increase.

Surely crowds like these stick 2 fingers up to the detractors who said 2 SL clubs in Hull was unsustainable and is good for both the game and the city, add to that City's swell in crowds since promotion and about 45,000 people are watching the major teams in our city on any given weekend again a good thing.

So will every body stop quoting bandwagonners, stop living in the past and enjoy the crowds we have.

Mrs Barista wrote:You need to use the percentage though. I'm not arguing the point on the number of fans, we have more and over the last century it was (pretty much) ever thus so for a relative measure you need to use %s.

On the point of the attendances sliding backwards, hardly surprising since we've dropped 8 places in the league. Even so, the last 3 seasons are the 3 highest average attendances in the club's history (yes, going back to 1865).