know your history sunshine

whatever

Absolute rubbish, Rovers crowds in Nat 1 were at their lowest during the mid to late ninetees when the club found itself been run in to the ground by a very poor board of directors, who in most peoples opinions were the cause of Hull KRs demise during that period which subsequently resulted in the club going into administration, but even then Rovers took a decent away following.
The crowds started to come back in numbers around 2004 when the club was taken over by a new and dynamic board of directors headed by the present chairman and fanatical KR fan Neil Hudgell and i see no reason why the support will not carry on getting bigger as time goes on, The situation now is a very similar one to the late seventies and early eighties
During the late seventies and eighties rovers always took a huge following to away games, i know because i was there and the record books during that period speak for themselves.
During those same years, i remember Huddersfields away support was almost non existent and considering the amount of time you have spent in super league i would have expected it to be a lot bigger than it currently is today.

As for your comment about the crowds dropping off when we start losing, well'' how do you explain last year and even the year before?, we lost more games than we won but the crowds continued to increase.
It will be interesting to see how many Huddersfield fans will visit Craven park 13th April, hopefuly you will come in numbers and be extremely vocal though i wont hold my breath.

Well said

Is there something wrong with the quoting facility 'cos I seem to be credited (if that's the right word) with stuff I never said.

I noticed that. I found some of the comments most unbarnaclelike.

when u say this the seasons inbetween the late 90s and when hudgell took over where the making of the club today because the club got sorted out off the pitch when w.smith was chairman and he made no director get paid for the jobs they where doin as in the 90s the directors where takin allot of money out of the stuggling club. that set up neil hugell success to date as he could build on that also rovers gambled on getting into super league and luckly we wipep the floor with the league or we could of done what widnes did!!!!

our home support was non existant then, in fact the club was almost non existant, if you knew anything about RL history you'd know that though hmmm

as for our away support yes its poor we know that and we are striving to improve it, dont forget we have 10 clubs within a 20 mile radius all fighting for the shame supporters compared to you who have 1 within 50 miles

The only season the mighty Huddersfield could claim to have bigger support than Rovers was in 2002. This was for 2 reasons:

1. We were utterly garbage, and thus struggled to attract 1,800 to home games.

2. Huddersfield came down from SL, retained a FT squad and went unbeaten. It's easy following a team that is virtually guaranteed a win every week, as we know from our 2006 season.

Credit to them back then, they even outnumbered us at the Buddies final. However, this is 1 season, 7 years ago. Now back on a level playing field (apart from the subsidies handed out by KD) the 2 clubs support could not be further apart when it comes to travelling.

I scanned the RLE this week, looking for an article by the Bradford chairman, but he appears not to have praised the hordes from Huddersfield.

Perhaps they don't eat enough pies?

You're obsession with our support is quite worrying (yes even worse than the minority of ours

Catchment area is nowt to do with travelling support, that has more bearing on the overall level of support.

In fact, the statement you make about all the short jorneys you can make to support your club away from home just shows how much of a joke your lot are away from home. Derbies apart, its an hour to the nearest game away for us. You can reach just about the whole of SL in that time (Cats, Quins & CC apart).

Roll on Easter Monday, I will remember to bring my abacus.

Nah mate you'll be alright with your fingers and toes

just like we did 7 years ago with your "huge" following of 146

surely it was 146000

[as for our away support yes its poor we know that and we are striving to improve it, dont forget we have 10 clubs within a 20 mile radius all fighting for the shame supporters compared to you who have 1 within 50 miles'"

demographics not a strong point there mate

Like I said, in 2002 we stuggled for home gates above 1800.

146 of 1,800 = 7.8%

Applying that %age, I expect your travelling support to exceed 780 on Easter Monday, considering your current home average is above 10k.

Well, when I say "expect", I really mean you will fail miserably and bring your usual 100.

And a lot of them obviously gave up after 1 defeat

Just noticed on KR site that there's only North & south stand tickets left how many fans does it hold the north end,Don't know how many tickets have been sold at the Wakey club shop but due to work i have not been able to buy my ticket for the game,how much more space will there allocate in the north stand after the tickets have come back from Wakey, Think theres going to be a fair few from Wakey coming with it being on a Sunday & less than an hour away down the road
It should be a fantastic atmosphere & a great game between 2 up & coming sides i can't wait

just rang the club shop, there are still a fare few tickets left, should be ok on the day, get there a bit earlier tho.

Cheers



Will be in your club Bar

before the game

maybe when your "facilities" come anywhere close to super league standards we might, until then you can keep your cheap plastic stand with no roof and poor tannoy system and crap beer and food etc etc etc





i'll be there anyway so im sure i'll see some of you there

Strange the rugby league seem to think they do

Wakefield pre sold 350 ticket and sent the remainder back which i suspect went on sale to rovers fans

That's interesting the Wakey following tend to pay at the gate which is a shame cos the club get 10% but just like me i was unable to get to BV for a ticket so it will be interesting to see how many Wakey fans do turn up after the 350 intial tickets sold