Even better.

Great turnout from the fans considering everything. Hope it continues through the season.

south stand looked the fullest i've seen since the derby game

not the greatest following from the pies, but after last week and the weather who could blame them

It is when you take into account...

The poor season last year
The switch to friday games (although i think that will work out well)
The weather will have put off some Wigan fans travelling as well as some out of town Hull supporters.

To beat last years 13.5k (i think that was it) on the first home game, and we win and should really beat Celtic next week which may draw a few more out of the woodwork for cats game.

The Catalans game will be tough considering our record against them at the KC. Do you think the lack of an away presence means the crowd doesnt support the players as much which has a knock on effect?

Cannot really say too much as i have been an absentee for sooooo long (not out of choice) but i think the crowd tend to be more up for it when they have an opposition to swap banter with and trade songs with.
And when the crowd are firing the team on it can only help fire them up.

thought he said 14900. looked more like 16000 tbh

cant really blame Wigan for not bringing many, i wouldn't have driven across the pennines to the JJB in this weather

was a great crowd, a little quiet, but our 'confidence' has been shot from seeing such poor displays at home last season

I was quite suprised when they announced the crowd as I felt it was 15,500 to 16,000. East was full and they had to bring some people over to the West. South was as full as I ever seen it apart from the Derby and Play off games. Not many in the away end through prob 500 at best.

GREAT ATTENDANCE WELL DONE THE BOARD.

Hope I WON'T GET BANNED FOR PRAISING THE BOARD.

East & South were chocker ( i was in the south, arrived @7.55 and struggled to find 2 seats together).Did the figure include all the West stand feebies, and why was a large section behind the dugout cordened off??

Me thinks JR would have been rubbing his hands last night, a very encouraging start on and off the field!!

id say 700-800 is a good assumption

It was a respectable turnout from Wigan. 8pm kickoff at the opposite end of the M62 for a group of fans that haven't turned up in numbers to Hull in quite a while. I expected less to be fair. The Weather for the week would have put off a fair few anyway. Without that we'd have seen more, maybe a couple of hundred more.

Opening Game of the season was always going to see a decent turn-out anyway. Again the cold will have put a few off with younger kids. George didn't come with us, but at least we had somewhere for him to go.

To get 16000 with north empty west would have needed to have been full

example

east 6500
south 3000
west 6500


west was nowhere near full

I was sat in the West so can't tell how full it was but it seemed fairly full. I thought the breakdown was E & W 6,000, S & N 4,000 and Upper West 5,000 = 25,000.

W4 was very empty

Think a few of you are being abit harsh regarding Wigans following. They brought a good 700-800 I would say, and considering the weather, friday night, and last weeks result, who can blame them? Wigan are one of the few teams (if not the only team) that bring more to the KC, than we take to their ground. It wasnt the biggest following they've brought in recent years, but still a respectable amount considering.

I would say that we had around 750 fans in the away end. I think it would have been a few more but for that awful game against Wakefield last Sunday.

I agree with people who said the KC seemed a bit quiet last night. Only a couple of renditions of old faithful and even then that seemed a bit half hearted from what we could here. The chants of c'mon you Hull showed just what a noise the KC can have in it though.

Me too, each section holds 500 and looking at the spread across the North Stand I would say you could have squeezed them all into 1 and a half sections.

Was sat in W10,

The East and the South stands weee pretty much full. In comparison to last season the west stand had a lot more in it

Thoughts Wigan brought a decent number considering a few would have been put off by their Wakey performance and the vague chance of bad weather hampering their journey.

Not a bad crowd, thought the atmosphere was a bit flat tho i thought

Shocking turn out from Wigan tho, they only brought around 500/600

Gwyllam(sp?) reckoned on the way home that well over 14k Hull fans had turned out. I though around 400 fans from wigan. The number of fans looked about right. There were gaps in west stand, South stand as well and of course the North Stand was over half empty. Doesnt look like big gaps in South and East but if you look there are sometimes a lot of single empty seats which tends to make the area look full. I always remember a guy who worked in security saying to me that when the police look at crowds through a camera how many single empty seats there are even when a section looks full.

Atmosphere was a bit flat last night I thought apart from a couple of occasions. I do think the style of rugby chosen by both teams has an effect. The crowd got up when the only real line break from inside our 20m Hull took place and ended up the wigan half.

Wigan brought 674 fans...........I know cos I counted em all at half time!

Sado

I didn't expect to have to queue to get in. The atmos' was a bit quiet at times but it's the first game, people are still unsure about how good we are. As it turned out, the team led from the front and if we keep putting on performances like that the place'll be rocking. James Rule must be giving himself a good slap on the back. I didn't agree with fri' night but here we are and i'm pleased it seems to have been the right thing to do.