Are you a goer, or not?

Not sure how we were meant to hold on to Maguire and Robertson, thought time Curtis, Hudds and Elmo left, so I don't have much of a problem with the clear-out. They held onto everyone (more or less) the last time we were relegated, so it was never going to happen again.

 

what, are we a big club now? Do we 'belong' in the top division?

 

There was a period when we were getting about 4-6,000 and the 2 rugby clubs weren't getting 6,000 between them but the soeedway was getting 12,000+.
A young lad at work, one of those Hull types who latch on to every new fad, especially if there is a bit of success involved as well, used to take great delight in pointing this out. Didn't last long though.

 

Vikings regularly got 12,000 and more. FC in the mid to late 70s had crowds which went below 1,000 and Rovers weren't much better.

 

Gives food for thought for those who say we need a bigger stadium based on the fact we used to get 30,000 every week. Apart from when Carter was here we have never been anywhere near that. That myth is based on tbe fact we had a 40,000 crowd once in tbe 1960s for a league game and o at 40,000 twice for Cup games. Last time we had over 30,000 would be in the 1966/67 season, or 67/68 one and for a Cup game in 1973.

 

Should the memory veer from reality to nostalgia a check of that site gives it all perspective

 

Did they really get 12,000 at speedway at one time ?

I went once as a young kid , I doubt there was more than 1000 people there

 

Yes, when Ivan Mauger was there.

 

It was around 6,000 they used to get.

 

They got more than that on quite a few occasions. Unless the Daily Fail were incorrectly reporting the attendances.

 

So the reason the stadium isn't bursting at the seems is 100% Allams fault. ??

 

Whose fault is it? Who has contributed, by their actions to the decline in our fan base? HCC? City Independent? Trump or Brexit which get blamed for everything? Not 606 forum.. The OSC? HCST?
Or the Allams?

 

If the stadium not being full is solely the fault of the Allams why was there only 18.500 there when we played Bristol City that game where if we won we went into the Prem.????

 

I'm afraid the people that think 10,000+ will suddenly appear when the Allam's ho are gonna be disappointed. TWT

 

Well I agree with that , some people will come back and some will have found something else to do on a saturday afternoon

 

Marketing or PR if you prefare of a football club enjoying the success we have had in the past 10 years should be a piece of piss.
Hull FC had a shop outside St Stephens
Going to schools and giving free tickets
Have open days at the weekend
Link up with City of Culture
Conncessions for kids
And so on, there's loads of things the Allams could have done but didn't and quite a few things they did which they shouldn't have.

 

Yet some people think it isn't nearly all down to the Allams. Funny old world.

 

Exactly

It's literally been dream worthy in terms of what the cities football club has achieved in the last decade.. it should have sold itself. The allams are a disaster

 

I thought the rugby revival happened in the late 70s. By 1980 we had that all Hull final.

As for the speedway getting 12,000+ "regularly" : prove it.