Then do a survey at Leeds to see how many people there are who used to follow us 2000 -2006 ish.

Fans jump ships, it happens in every sport, at every club.

Although there's still not many jumping on the Giants ship, even though you are now a 'big club'

No-one says you can't but some want to win the crowd contest more than they do the real contest, maybe they just don't believe there team has it in em!!!

So as I said good luck with the crowd comp

I don't think there's many who would rather win the crowd one than the SL title.

Having a good crowd behind your team will really help in the big matches though! So it could be more improtant to success than you think.

If been better than Bradford puts you in big club status then yes we are, me myself prefer to win sommert before we become big club, once thus happens the glory hunters will come crawling back but even if they do the crowd comp will never interest me

Don't doubt having a big crowd doesn't help, Huddersfield is now a football town unlike Bradford where the football team come second, we will not see the gates we used to in the 60's but we can live with it, sure like I say if we win owt some will come crawling back but I like to see a successful team not successful crowd!!! We took thousands to Wembley in 2009 for the challenge cup, where did all them come from?

But being a big club requires more than having a decent team.

If you'd prefer to win something before being a big club, you may be waiting a while. Not saying you don't have a good team - you're certainly top 4 quality. But imo Wigan & Wire have better squads than you, and in the big games the experience of Sts & Leeds will shine through too.

You say the crowd comp will never interest you. Surely it should interest every fan. You want your club to be as well supported as possible. You need crowds to generate income. Sugar Daddy's will not stand by forever, and their moneypot is not endless.



The 'fans' that go to GF's and CC finals dont count as proper one's



That will be their only match of the year. Or for some only match in 10 years.

Dint you have a big crown against Wigan a couple of weeks ago,what was the score

There is a difference between wanting to be well supported and it being the be all and end all, which it seems to be of some of the clubs who, shall we say, are struggling on the playing front ala Bradford and Wakey who for the last few seasons have only had the crowds to get at us with!!!

Maybe that's it and I have hit the nail on the head?

lol Aiii but they get 2 points in the crowd comp

Never heard anybody so full of garbage.

Great, a week of Huddersfield fans on here. I can hardly wait.

coming from someone who predicted the Dulls would be champs in 2010, did you spellcheck it and it auto changed from CHUMPS?

Dont wanna disappoint you but we don't have a weeks worth of fans just a couple of days

You mean to say that they have some?

Where's the prediction?
How did you guess that I was talking about you by the way?

Youve started this tread off by saying its a dead atmosphere, well seriously how can bull fans even state there is a dead atmosphere and where else?
Look at the state of the atmosphere in osdal yesterday, me and my mates started a chant off which we all do a bit each off
its goes

Rip his spliene outtt
eat his kidssss
screw his wife

and every body look at us like your not aloud to shout anything!

Its a shame

the "they" you refer to is a minibus full?

What do you expect? It doesn't rhyme & the timbre of the intonation is all wrong.

Back to the crowd comp

So you don't recognise that your ability to attract supporters is an issue and is closely related to your medium to long term ability to compete?

Whats a spliene?

I don't know if it is Ken Davy is a very rich man after all.

Yes he is and I suppose we can only guess how much money he is prepared to put into the club

What does our average crowd have to be then before we've 'attracted' fans ?
not trolling just wondered as we used to get this when we averaged under 5,000

I understand you're not trolling and likewise I'm not having a needless pop. But the club should be striving (and I'm sure they are) to get an average well north of 10k. I say this because your spending is high and Davy's contribution can't be guaranteed and the club as a business needs stand for its self. In some ways there are parallels with the Bullmania era but instead of a sugar daddy substitute a poor business model and the 'never never' plus we won something. My personal feeling is that Huddersfield have a limited amount of time to achieve success before Davy stops funding the club to same levels. How long this is, I will never know though