I would agree, i would imagine crowds will be down a touch on all these Thursday night games compared to last years equivalent fixtures over the weekend.

Here's some perspective on Hull FC's attendance of 9,515 last night.

1) It was the 2nd time in succession that Hull had failed to achieve a five-figure regular season home attendance. The previous home game in Round 7 attracted an attendance of 9,821 and it wasn't played on a Thursday night.

2) Prior to Hull's last two regular season home games, they had achieved 97 successive five-figure attendances dating back to 15th July 2006 when 9,247 turned up for the game against Warrington. Last night's attendance was the lowest since then.

3) [uHull FC V Huddersfield Attendances[/u
SL 2014 - 9,515
SL 2013 - 10,986
SL 2012 - 11,142
SL 2011 - 11,274
SL 2010 - 14,520
SL 2009 - 11,191
SL 2008 - 12,420
SL 2007 - 12,094
SL 2006 - 10,642
SL 2005 - 7,962
SL 2004 - 9,706
SL 2003 - 8,337
SL 2002 - n/a
SL 2001 - 5,621
SL 2000 - 5,553 and 4,080 (V Hudds/Sheff entity)
SL 1999 - 4,066
SL 1998 - 4,031
SL 1997 - n/a
SL 1996 - n/a

Disposable incomes have been squeezed quite significantly in the last few years.

There are other issues and we shouldn't stick our heads in the sand, but RL doesn't operate in a vacuum and this is hardly a huge surprise.

I always boycott the KC Stadium so no suprise of the low attendence last night

Awful, awful game of rugby.

Ive seen junior games with more intensity and skill.

Regards

King James

I imagine you werent the only Saints fan boycotting the KC last night.

Huddersfield were poor. Hull had the game won after 20 minutes and were just content to beat Hudds up down the middle. Can't imagine it was very exciting for the neutral, but I was very happy with our pack.

Why (apart from the fact that you aren't a FC or Huddersfield fan) ?

The KC is probably the best Stadium in SL (apart from its pricing policy)

I still don't see how this is deemed a low crowd???

Low for Hull maybe. But it would be record breaking at other clubs. If anything Williams list of 97 consecutive 5 figure attendances just shows how well supported Hull FC have been regardless of not having a matching amount of silverwear over the years.

Imagine if they won the damn competition??

Not sure but there was a tandem chained up outside. Was their (non) attendance part of the Bentham boycott?

I imagine a lot of Hull regulars are fed up with mediocrity, they'll probably come back if the club starts going in the right direction again which it seems to be now.

Our away following was shocking and the form our players are in it certainly wont help seeing that hardly any (apart from 100 or so of us) of our 'supporters' could actually be bothered supporting the team !!.

But it was never going to be anything other than a shocking turnout as soon as the game was announced !