There was a relatively minor fluctuation in attendance?

You alert the papers, ill prepare the bat signal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would agree, i would imagine crowds will be down a touch on all these Thursday night games compared to last years equivalent fixtures over the weekend.

Here's some perspective on Hull FC's attendance of 9,515 last night.

1) It was the 2nd time in succession that Hull had failed to achieve a five-figure regular season home attendance. The previous home game in Round 7 attracted an attendance of 9,821 and it wasn't played on a Thursday night.

2) Prior to Hull's last two regular season home games, they had achieved 97 successive five-figure attendances dating back to 15th July 2006 when 9,247 turned up for the game against Warrington. Last night's attendance was the lowest since then.

3) [uHull FC V Huddersfield Attendances[/u
SL 2014 - 9,515
SL 2013 - 10,986
SL 2012 - 11,142
SL 2011 - 11,274
SL 2010 - 14,520
SL 2009 - 11,191
SL 2008 - 12,420
SL 2007 - 12,094
SL 2006 - 10,642
SL 2005 - 7,962
SL 2004 - 9,706
SL 2003 - 8,337
SL 2002 - n/a
SL 2001 - 5,621
SL 2000 - 5,553 and 4,080 (V Hudds/Sheff entity)
SL 1999 - 4,066
SL 1998 - 4,031
SL 1997 - n/a
SL 1996 - n/a

Disposable incomes have been squeezed quite significantly in the last few years.

There are other issues and we shouldn't stick our heads in the sand, but RL doesn't operate in a vacuum and this is hardly a huge surprise.

I always boycott the KC Stadium so no suprise of the low attendence last night

Awful, awful game of rugby.

Ive seen junior games with more intensity and skill.

Regards

King James

I imagine you werent the only Saints fan boycotting the KC last night.

Huddersfield were poor. Hull had the game won after 20 minutes and were just content to beat Hudds up down the middle. Can't imagine it was very exciting for the neutral, but I was very happy with our pack.

Why (apart from the fact that you aren't a FC or Huddersfield fan) ?

The KC is probably the best Stadium in SL (apart from its pricing policy)

I still don't see how this is deemed a low crowd???

Low for Hull maybe. But it would be record breaking at other clubs. If anything Williams list of 97 consecutive 5 figure attendances just shows how well supported Hull FC have been regardless of not having a matching amount of silverwear over the years.

Imagine if they won the damn competition??

Not sure but there was a tandem chained up outside. Was their (non) attendance part of the Bentham boycott?

I imagine a lot of Hull regulars are fed up with mediocrity, they'll probably come back if the club starts going in the right direction again which it seems to be now.

Our away following was shocking and the form our players are in it certainly wont help seeing that hardly any (apart from 100 or so of us) of our 'supporters' could actually be bothered supporting the team !!.

But it was never going to be anything other than a shocking turnout as soon as the game was announced !

It's not great playing it on a Thursday night but ateotd it's an hour on the motorway. You can be home by not much later than 11 which shouldn't effect you working the next day. Like you say when the team are struggling on confidence a bit they need to see the supporters are behind them, and your following last night was a bit disappointing.

Yeah. I wish our support was that bad.

Hull FC's average attendance is currently 10,221 which represents a 4.80% downturn on last season for the same fixtures when the average was 10,737. Last season their attendances held up pretty well and were only 1.73% down on 2012 when the total attendance figures for SL as a whole were down by 10.40%. I'm of the opinion that a successful Hull FC club would comfortably average in excess of 15K.

Hull's crowds grew very rapidly between 2005 and 2009 so it doesn't much surprise me that a few years of mediocrity have burst the bubble a little. Over 10k is still not a bad average but I hope they can reach their 2009 level again some time in the future.

You're missing another obvious drain on local finances - the team we share the stadium with is at Wembley over this coming weekend.

I'm certain some people who follow both clubs, and have limited finances, would see a trip to the big smoke as a distinctly preferable option to a Thursday night game against Huddersfield, a fixture which hasn't a history of thrilling entertainment in my experience.

14.5k in 2007 off the back of a grand final appearance in 2006 and silverware in 2005, and prior to the banking bubble going pop will remain a high water mark for a while, I fear. That was with two home SL derbies when they were still a novelty too. Hull is a decent-sized second-tier provincial city. It does well to support 3 professional 'football' teams as well as it does. I'm struggling to think of anywhere of a similar size that does... Bristol I suppose, with their City, their Rovers and the RU team. All struggling at the moment.
Hull KR, when we were averaging over 8k, worried about needing to add roughly the same number to the gate that we've now lost.

Edit - even in the RU premiership, where the fans are relatively economically cosseted (or so it is widely perceived) attendances peaked at an average of 13745 in 09-10 and have dropped steadily, down to 12175 this season.

Yes yes, but we're not here to deprecate rugby UNION attendances, ffs

Hey, stop talking sense! There's repetitive trolling to be had.

What kind of percentage increase would that be?

No, I just like to have a dig because I know you always bite.

agree, even though there looked to be less than that actually in the stadium, we were saying pre match how impressive hull's support is, considering they have only 1 major trophy to their name in 30 years,imagine if they had been succesful what crowds they would get.
also thought the noise was the best i've ever heard at the KC, (although outsung for the majority by the 80 giants fans

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for a thursday night and against a team with virtually no away support it was a good effort from hull fc!

speaking of which, got to the gate last night expecting to pay £20 as that is the price that was advertised on the official websites of both clubs to find the price was £24, i know it's "only £4" more but are clubs allowed to increase prices on the day without giving prior notice?