All we are missing here is a few over-dramatic Hudds fans with a persecution complex. Oh, no, wait...

Step away from the loom.

Not sure what you hoped to achieve by posting the lowest attendance at a challenge cup final since the return to Wembley, but it gave me a laugh....cheers

Do I get a prize for being at all 3 games mentioned (plus Scorpions at Halifax where the Fax turn out was very unimpressive to be fair).

To be honest the Wigan v Crusaders game had a terrific atmosphere with both sets of each clubs noisiest fans in together and both making lots of noise and that should be what the cup is about to be fair.

Still going


i have a question,if our crowds are so bad that we are a disgrace, if our support is that much of a joke and embarrassing for the sport then where are the threads attacking us all season? Come on??



No thats right,one poor crowd in a competition reknowned for poor crowds and your all over us like a fly round ! You've all been waiting for this and my how your all lapping it up, im sure other clubs will post poor crowds in the next few months and im sure there will be as much bashing of that club on here! Oh yeah i forgot it only counts if its huddersfield lol sad acts, hope you're all ready at the keyboards for the magic weekend

I only joined in because, as usual, Londons lack of away fans popped up.
Sorry.

I have always said that Huddersfield Giant were to be applauded for growing their crowds, no matter how they did it.

BTW.......P&G, the worlds largest advertiser, believe that a consumer is a consumer for the first 6 times they purchase a product.......but the 7th time they buy it, they become a CUSTOMER. P&G will spend heavily to get you to the 7th purchase stage, then spend more wisely and more often retaining you.

Not saying the giants cheap ST's are the way ahead, but once you get into the habit of buying one, a 10% increase year on year becomes easier to swallow......50 becomes 80 over 5 years.....and in 5 more years 130........and 210 5 years after that.

If you start off with 5,000 ST holders, your revenue of 250k would become 1 Million in 15 years.......300% growth over 15 seasons.....

But hey, back on thread.........this is Huddersfield and that gate was terrible

Think some of you blind idiots need to get a bit of knowledge about the Giants season tickets.......i've been a season ticket holder for years and only had a reduced one twice and have never paid £50 for it ....like i said, find out some facts 1st cos everytime one of you spouts out how we all get £50 tickets and do every year your way off the mark ............but hey, dont let that stop your sad childish little pokes at our fine, progressing club !!

Maybe I was just unlucky that you posted after me....or maybe you just didn't understand that I was explaining the LONG TERM BENEFITS of what Huddersfield were doing.
I believe 99 notes was the cheap ticket offer.....but like the "not one London fan turned up" post, it got lost in translation

Dont think anyone has a problem with the lack of london fans gutterfax, the KO time,the live tv put paid to that, massive thumbs up to any who did travel, our issue is that yes it was a poor crowd, i've yet to see a giants fan who has tried to defend it, but when all factors are taken into account the crowd although low was as bad as other clubs crowds,but ours is the only one getting slaughtered, like i said previously it was a one off cup game on a sunday night with no away support and live on tv, i would understand the if we posted crowds that poor every game but we dont,people are using this one gate to justify slagging off a club who have made massive improvements on and off the field, as for the ST's, i agree,we need to encourage these new supporters to keep coming back.

This victim mentality from the Hudds fans is a little pathetic. I've seen loads of threads on here slagging off other clubs' attendances. Get over yourselves.

Anyone know which Super league team has the 4th highest sales for the Magic weekend at the Etihad ?

Actually, the vitriol from the likes of you is actually whats pathetic

Poor crowds for the cup are endemic - as they are for the playoffs
Do you have a constructive answer?

I think there must be an underlying thing here: why do other fans dislike Hudds Giants so much? One view is they're a plucky little (sort of) club who have fought back from the depths of our sport 20-odd years ago to being competitive and (sort of) successful. It's a view not many of us choose to take of them, me included - but why?

Deflection!!

i suspect its because a few years ago we were denied our rightful relegation place because the teams winning the nfp didnt meet the criteria for promotion, then the whole merger saga,but i really think the fact that we have built our crowds up,we have become a competitive side,and those teams fans who were so used to thrashing us now know we are no longer the laughing stock,we, rightly so,we were regarded as, it still grates with people.
As for the victim mentality,what rubbish,as i said no giants fans have defended the poor crowd,but the hatred towards our club and the general bashing of huddersfield is pathetic.

Interesting that Giants are perceived to be disliked (not something I have found in the real world just via forums) but if they play Wigan or Leeds in the Final virtually every neutral in the stadium will want them to win.

Funny old game.

Vitriol? You'll have examples to back this up, I'm guessing.

Personally i think its because of the progresssion we have made ...........back in the late 90's/ early 00's we were a poor team, badly run club who had very little going for them - and the fans accepted that but carried on supporting them nonetheless, but the general Rugby League public took great delight in having a go at anything and everything about our club then, and there was plenty to pick from.

As we have progressed and slowly transformed our entire club some of the bitter ones simply wont accept or choose not to, that Huddersfield are not what they used to be and therefore will use the slightest little thing to keep the digs going - eg 1 bad crowd in a cup game with the same reasons other clubs used for acceptable reasons for a low crowd but those same reasons are not acceptable for Huddersfield.

Our crowds now are no worse than what Wigan, Saints, Wires were 10-12 years ago but what was obviously acceptable then as ok crowds aren't now.


ATEOTD some people will never ever praise our club whatever we do and will always look for a stick to poke us with, that's how its alays been, i've no problem with that but what annoys me is the way people make things up and exaggerate things to make us look bad to satisfy there desire to ridicule us.

Haters will hate and nothing will change that, were 2nd in the league looking for a 4th consecutive top 5 finish, were in the cup semis for the 4th time in 8 years looking for our 3rd final in 7 years - i'll take that !

I'm not "hating" Giants - I wish my team was as competetive as them!

It's very success that you state that makes Giants an attendance basket case - why won't the public of Huddersfield follow them???

And be clear, the thread is about the CC attendance (your league gates are vastly improved on the "old" days).

Listen, us, the fans that do go, have been asking ourselves that for years........we know the answers but its pointless listing them because people dont want the reasons, they just think that people will automatically come because of the team we now have, i wish it worked like that but it doesn't.

I think the main reason for the poor attendance was the footy play offs. What would worry me more if i was a Giants fan would be who is replacing Brown as head coach, promoting the assistant doesn't always work, ala Mcnamara at our club. If you get a poor coach or have a poor start your fans will come back to the Bulls in the droves.


P.s. I think I know the reason why some fans dislike you, they remember the couple of seasons ago when it seemed like you wanted to enter wrestlemania rather than play in super league.

You are <insert generic gangsta rapper name here> and I claim my fiddy cents.

2nd time this has appeared on this thread. Can you tell me the source of this info?

That simply isnt true in the case of Wigan and Saints. Until recent times though Warrington have never been that well supported and Huddersfield are exceeding what Warrington did 12 years ago.

Huddersfield's attendances have risen dramatically though and they should be commended for how they have improved both on and off the field. When it comes to attendances I think they suffer from playing in such a big stadium, for the attendances they get, and their crowds always look fairly poor as a result. If they were getting 7,000-9,000 at say the Halliwell Jones they wouldnt get half as much criticism and would probably get more fans going with a better atmosphere etc. The JJB is a similar size and anything less than 13,000 seems empty to me and there is a severe lack of atmosphere.