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Football needs a wake up call

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by City Man, Nov 13, 2016.

  1. HCAFC (Airlie Tiger)

    HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) Well-Known Member

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    Thanks but you've got to give yourself more credit, you do the hard work for me by writing idiotic stuff, I just point it out.
     
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    Our average crowd increased four fold between 1998-2003 and six fold between 1998-2008, thats a hell of a lot of new fans that never knew the 'old' football way and have only ever experienced modern football.

    There can't be many clubs with such a high percentage of 'modern' football fans, I'm not saying thats the only reason but it sure as hell can't help.
     
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  3. spesupersydera

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    Nail - Head - Hit ........ :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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  4. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Good post. Plus I think we've always been fickle ****ers. I've looked at attendance stats and from 1967 season to 1968 we lost 10000 fans in. A Season!!!
    And that was with waggy and chillo etc...
     
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  5. Barchullona

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    Agree to some extent. Brighton are probably the only club with a bigger increase in fans in fairly recent times.
    Though the young fans of some other clubs seem to have standing up and getting behind them imbued into them.
     
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    Yeah that's a good point of Airlie's and it shows in our fanbase. There's loads of people who defended the Allams for years as they dismantled the club, but the final straw was when they stopped spending on players. That was what really upset a lot of people. How modern football is that?

    You see it just looking around. The kids have all got tablets in case they get too bored by the football, someone on Twitter the other day said David Meyler was our worst ever player ffs.
     
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    Four years on from that we were down to 4,000. From 20,000 plus to watch 2nd division football in 1967 to 4,000 to watch us in the same division some 12 years later. That's a mass exodus by any stretch on the imagination.
     
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  8. City Man

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    Those charged with the management and administration of the national game definitely need a wake up call.
     
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