Clever marketing isn't going to compensate for having a clueless to$$er in charge of the economy. Ordinary folk are getting poorer - it's what Tories do. When you're struggling to buy food and heat your home a ticket to the rugby isn't really an option.

SHould have called it Fani



Wonder if iFan is infringing on Apple in some way.......

Definately. People focus on marketing and exciting/winning rugby because their club have some control over them, but it's swimming against the tide at the moment.

I do agree that the state of the economy makes getting a crowd in a massive challenge at the moment, but even as a passholder who has paid for next year, I wouldn't begrudge free/discounted tickets being given out to kids and amateur RL teams to fill the KC up a bit.

I also think that offering a discount for buying ticket say a week before the game is worth a try, several crowds last year were affected by our injury crisis, with fans waiting to hear the latest injury news/squad announcement before deciding whether to go. Same with the snow/frost/sleat that affected our first few home games last year.

so the previous years under Labour











were a major sucess then ,

We might as well blame them for Greece, Spain and Portugal whilst we are at it.

Mmmmmmmmm turning into a debate on labour v conservatives .. Both a$$holes

After recieving my pass card on the leaflet that says free print with new shirt bought , can you use it against this years shirt that I bought last month or does it have to bought on the day ?

Given that's all the choice there is realistically, who should we have in your opinion??

Vote Pedro

I've bought 3 more passes this weekend, purely due to my salary being paid early or it would have had to wait.

The downturn this year will hit ALL clubs hard. I reckon 2 more will be in big trouble next season.

Getting closer

Whilst the actual number of season tickets is lower that expected there are a couple of factors which might need to be considered.

- in previous years the season tickets I believe were issued by the Stadium and not the Club - when re-newing my fathers season ticket we were asked to ensure that proof of age was provided to the Club. This has never been asked for before and so it begs the question how many supporters were last year using consessionary tickets and now can't re-new. Are they buying tickets at full price?

- the same goes for junior/student tickets - how many people were getting in on a student ticket whilst not actually studying? Are they buying tickets at full price?

- there is then the simple state of the economy and how many supporters have lost a source of income within their household over the last 12 months

i will be buying 2 possibly 3 passes next month how many more people wait until after Christmas

Up to 7,922 now, so close to triggering the next prize (VIP tickets to the Magic Weekend, CC Final and Grand Final)

for those who need to know, the kids passes increase in price after this Saturday.

Got our 2 passes today Also an hoody a late Christmas present.The bad new going to a funeral tomorrow a big Hull FC fan Bill Wilkinson.Sat near Bill and his family since the Kc Stadium open (South Stand Behind the post )Bill wish would be that every body to wear Black and White.

Are the sales up or down on last year?

Would assume down on last year, as it has been a while since the club have stated that we are having 'record sales' etc

We did just over 9K last year, and sadly I can't see us selling 1,100+ before the season starts.

i would agree, it now looks unlikely that we will beat last year. witch is a surprise in my eyes. thought people would get behind the new look team. i suspect had we bagged Chase and kept hold of manu we'd have been pushing 10k by xmas. anyway, thatll do for the 'what could have beens'

the only thing that sands in the way of us reaching the sort of gates we know we can get is wining silver. and our best chance of silver will be the cup. and that ant gonna change for a few seasons yet, so its about time we started putting some much improved cup runs together

The lack of disposable income is really starting to bite in rugby IMO.

The target of 10,000 was always a very ambitious one. If we start the season with between 8,000 and 8,500 then that is still not bad going given the continuing poor economic climate. I'm sure the figure will compare well with other clubs. I've not seen many claiming record sales.

Wigan claim to be breaking records.
Passed 8,500 on December 7th

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That they may well be doing as they have had a bigger average attendance over the last few years (16K reportedly) and have also seen a period of challenging for all the trophies, GF winners in 2010, SL leaders in 2010 & 2012 & Challenge Cup winner in 2011, success on the pitch brings in the fans.

Hull FC & AP have done well to get at least 8K pass holders after the crap that has been served up on the pitch over the last 7 or so years before AP took over. Also you can not ignore the fact that this region in particular has been hit very hard by the economic climate in the last 18months. You only have to look at Citys lower attendances compared to recent seasons that the economy in this area is biting and biting hard.
So all in all I think its not a bad figure at all to reach and agree 10K would have been a push even if we had kept Manu and got Chase.
I am sure during the season if Gentle and the team play attractive and consistent rugby and we are up there or there abouts then walk up numbers will increase and next season pass numbers will increase.

You would imagine that Wigan and Leeds will continue to set the standard, although I'm not sure how sales are going at Leeds. They are not shouting about records on their website from what I can see.

Warrington have referred to 8,000 sales last season but I've not seen a figure for 2013 pass sales.

Quote ="ComeOnYouUll"You would imagine that Wigan and Leeds will continue to set the standard, although I'm not sure how sales are going at Leeds. They are not shouting about records on their website from what I can see.'" About a week before Xmas, we (Leeds) were allegedly up 5% on the corresponding figure from 2011 www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5237202 Not a huge upsurge and certainly fewer than several years ago.

Quote ="ComeOnYouUll"You would imagine that Wigan and Leeds will continue to set the standard, although I'm not sure how sales are going at Leeds. They are not shouting about records on their website from what I can see.'" About a week before Xmas, we (Leeds) were allegedly up 5% on the corresponding figure from 2011 www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-5237202 Not a huge upsurge and certainly fewer than several years ago.