UllFC wrote:Agree that they have to try something different, the location isn’t ideal for Yorkshire clubs but then again only the John Smiths is centrally located and a decent size, and of course Huddersfield are in the running to be semi finalists so that would be a non starter.
Also worth remembering football fans have to trek to Wembley for a semi final regardless of where in the country they are from
Why should it? It doesn't give them any advantage in the slightest, it's not as if they would get more than 5/6k of their own fans, IF Hull did get through they'd take more fans to a semi at Hudds. In some scenarios noted in indoor sports it's said crowd density has an influence on the home team, correlation but not necessarily proving causality.
The reality is and as I've said a couple of years ago the outcome is not influenced by a vociferous home support.
Sports professionals are pretty much outside of the influence by fans, they can say before or after that the home support is great/what led them on to victory but when you are on that field of play it isn't the cheering/noise/wanting to let the fans down that influences what you do. You could say then on that basis that actually home pressure overcomes any advantage at home, real or imagined, there's simply too many variables.
You might as others have that we are unbeaten at home but there is simply no causality with respect to home ground advantage or support, this is the same for any sport. We had our best Olympics at Rio, couldn't be much further away from home. A pro athlete, one that is focussed on their job is in the height of battle not influenced by fans/arena.
Play the semi finals where it will get the most fans that is easier for all teams to get too even if that means x team are seemingly getting home advantage, except they're not.
