2000:
Hull FC v Warrington - Attendance: 5,667 9/6/2000

2009:
Hull FC v Warrington - Attedance 10,997 16/5/2009

TBF

Hull FC v Swinton 2nd March 1997 - attendance 3,373

Just over 6 years later

Hull FC v Bradford 8th June 2003 - attendance 19,539

You've just proved to yourself every club has a bandwagon. Give yourself a pat on the back

You're not comparing like with like there though, are you? We were already in the top flight in 2000.

Yeah well done.

I never denied that. You stated:

"they've gained 22,396 in 10 years? Your telling me that Hull havent gained and lost as many of the years"

Hull City have a more than the average share of band waggoners and their average attendance has gone up 1060%. You never saw Hull City shirts in Hull before, infact I know a friend who get ripped for supporting Hull City when they where in the third divison by people who are 'City till they die' now...

Do you mean i can get banned if i say "I hope City go down" well an afternoon in the garden calls because - I hope city go down.

When did City have an average crowd under 3000?

That speaks volumes about you I'm afraid, personally I want ALL Hull teams (except Rovers when they play against us) to do well.

COME ON YOU HULL!!!

Right City wrong colour!!!!
How can you support any team that plays in red????
True Blue

Why are you bothered? You don't live here



Positive news for our city would've been the RL international being staged at the KC.

Instead, the unelected CEO of our community stadium seems to believe it is primarily an asset of Hull City and wields his power to ensure, as far as he can, this exclusivity. I do not like or trust Duffen, and his recent speeding exploits and dismissive arrogant comments following his ban after being convicted of doing 55mph in a built up inner city area:

"Outside court, he told the Mail: "Obviously, excess speed is a safety hazard. But I think the proliferation of speed cameras on our roads is becoming a means of revenue rather than a safety measure.

"It is wrong somebody who covers more than 30,000 miles a year is subject to the same tariffs as someone who covers 3,000 miles.

"I will now have to make decisions about how much time I spend in Yorkshire." "

...only reinforced my opinion of him.

For this reason, I hope City go down. It might help him reach the right decision and stay away for good. Sure as eggs he's only here for himself and "the good of the city" is the least of his priorities.

Similarly, people ask me how I can support Newcastle and wear black and white, whilst also being a Rovers fan. My response is that black and white stripes, and black and white hoops, are two entirely different things.

In that case C'MON CITY.

You don't live in Hull, then?

You don't like Paul Duffen (with good reason) and that makes you want to deprive thousands of kids in Hull the chance of seeing top flight Football in the home city?

Maybe you should try to lose that chip on your shoulder.

When? Certainly not in the last 3 seasons at Boulevard we wasn't. Despite blatantly lying to the taxman, our lowest official gates were around 5 and a half thousand and our biggest gates were around 9000. Anyone that turned up could see that the crowds looked much greater than the official gate. I don't get why folk try to make our history look worse than it is!

C'mon City.

I am not a City fan, nor a football fan, but I wish the team success, because it is good for City of Hull. I will also say the same for Hull KR.

I wish success for who, or whatever helps to raises the profile of the place I was born and raised.

Hardly a fair comparison is it???

Not sure the out of town bandwaggoners who joined the party last year are "thousands of kids in Hull". Thousands of local people were deprived of a rugby international though....

Local kids have always had the chance to watch City. They just chose not to for the last few decades

Why isn't it? All it shows is that ALL Clubs gather support when they do well.

Is that the same bandwagon that a lot of Hull FC fans have jumped on since our move to the KC?

Anything that raises the profile of our city is good news and welcome.

btw. City had an average crowd of 18500 in their last season in the bottom League.

I'm not denying that! I just think comparing a competitive league game at home to local rivals Bradford to an expected easy win in the cup against Swinton is a daft comparison. The last 3 years at Boulevard our crowds were decent.

But yet others compare City playing Orient ten years ago and a full house against Manchester United today.

No difference.

Were our crowds anything to write home about before we were promoted to the Super League?

ALL Clubs gather support when doing well.