Sounds like your trying to convince yourself, don't worry, small clubs are allowed to have a good season every now and again.

Yeah I sure am.

It really makes me laugh all the Hull fans supporting a failed team, think that calling Rovers a small club is in some way going to pacify their childish anger.

By the way both of our histories show that neither one of us are a big club, but one of us is going in the right direction.

Only bit I disagree on mate - would class us both as massive clubs in the world of RL.

Well i suppose we are, we have a state of the art stadium, a large following, made a profit 3 seasons running, have a good youth set up (as you well know

) and we are overhauling our flagging team so yeah thanks for mentioning it.

And Saints have a worse stadium than us, simlar crowds. and have been losing massive amounts of money, so according to your criteria they are a small club, you really are a D!ck.

But there's one big difference, Saints have had a bulging trophy cabinet for the last 10 years earning respect throughout the RL world and you've had sod all.

Other than that,they would be a small club too.

Like your bulging cabinet

, you like us are in a rented stadia, have virtually nothing to show for 13 yrs in Sl, with the exception of 2 promoted club (1 who knocked you out the CC) you are bottom of the league, can't hold on to your best youth players.
wake up and smell the coffee, your wanna be's whom everyone is laughing at.

You keep mentioning team performance because that's the ONLY thing you have over us and that is only temporary, bigger picture is, you are so far behind in everything else it's laughable, small club, big egos.

Cant hold onto our best youth players

R Horne,P King K Yeaman, D Washbrook,D Houghton,M Bennett,T Briscoe,J Briscoe,R Lynne, the list is endless

Hodgson may have potential but he may not, lets wait and see

Back on topic, Morgs is a coach only you lot can dream of ,a tactical genious, who comes up with the tactics to blow you out of the water almost every time we play you, unlike Agent Agar, "[ieerr mate ..we know mate that Cookie & Dobson are a threat mate , have we a plan to stop them?..errmm no mate , it's us job mate, but no mate we haven't a plan to stop them mate[/i"

Conclusion Cookie & Dobbo ripped you apart



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And that is the only real thing that matters t!thead






Unless you are saying that your piece of paper with an A printed on it gets you a wildcard playoff place that is?
Who is to say you will have a better year next year?, Oh wait let me guess you are an 'We are FC so we have a god given right to be in the playoffs' type of fan
Are you that deluded?

Brilliant response

fantastic youth pack-o'meley, berrigan, cusack, manu, fitzgibbon, lukai (however spelt) moa...........thats what i call youth development!



add to that long, turner, tansey, calderwood, dowes, tickle, raynor....all adds up to a fantastic youth system!

Our diverging fortunes are both in the correct direction IMO .

Ask Leeds Utd and Southampton which they prefer

Or Leicester City, Newcastle Utd, or even Middlesboro, tell you what I think, they would rather be $hite and have new stadia with loads of money

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I can feel a poll comming on, would you rather be supporting a successful team?, or jacking of to a piece of paper that says 'A' on it?

All those teams were relegated, you have more chance of being relegated than us under the present system. Your also assuming you're going to be fantastic from now on and we're going to be crap, let's just see how long that lasts.

Well said mate. Acceptance is the 1st step to rehabilitation.

If we are such a "small club" compared to FC why do we bother you so much? Why all the interest?

I am quite happy supporting a "small club" if it means watching the team improve season after season, looking forward to the weekend, enjoying the atmosphere at matches (win or lose), knowing that our players, coaching team & board are 100% committed to the club.

I guess the old adage really is true, Size really doesn't matter, but then again you better check with your Mrs about that

We all know that a new or modernised stadium will improve attendances, you only have to look at the SL stats page for the seasons FC were at the Boulevard, when they were 6th they were attracting crowds far smaller than we are now, in fact we have not had gates as small as some of theirs since we got into SL. Hull FC are no different to other clubs, they have attracted a new following since they moved to the KC, most of whom had never seen an RL game before (not condemning it, that great and what we should be doing, but its all the calls of 'glory supporters' that make me laugh).

In the past 40 yrs when both clubs have been on equal footing, they have historically had bigger crowds, we all know that, but prior to that we are much better supported. Its up to Rovers to improve facilities to attract new support (plus the ones that used to come, who now don't). Having a winning team will help this cause, but its the ground we need to improve to attract more fans (as well as away fans. Not worried about the whiners who cannot be bothered to travel a couple of miles on a bright sunny summers afternoon, they are and will remain to$$ers).

We had the chance to play at the KC, but quite rightly we turned it down to preserve our heritage, having done that we now need to get on with improving the ground and I am sure that we will be averaging 10,000 + soon, especially if we get a trophy or two in the cabinet.

i know this will upset a few,but i really dont think he's the great coach everyone thinks he is,look at tonight if we cant beat wakefield with our supposed great players against there better coached no name players then we are going nowhere in the playoffs.This might sound negative but we should be playing better than this the week before the playoffs.