Quote: Horatio Yed "I suppose different factors for different people.
1.It's not local
2.CC doesn't interest people unless it's the final
3.It's on TV
4.Late kickoff
5.Fear of Hull fans kicking off again
6.People at work
7.Lack of money
For me it's No.6'"
1. Huddersfield is not far away at all.
2. I love the CC, and we've done okay in previous semi's with attendances. But the fact we've had a fair few in recent years, some might be taking it for granted (I'm not, I didn't see us win a trophy in all of my life until 2009).
3. Don't see how that's an issue, if it is it's a real shame that people would rather watch a semi final on tele.
4. 18:00 is early evening, at this time of year it could be considered late afternoon. and it's the school holidays so it doesn't even matter what time people get home, which since it's only 18:00 will only be 22:00 at the latest.
5. Who are they,Serbian hooligans?
6. There will be a few, but not many people work Sunday afternoon/evening compared to any other time in the week.
7. Could be the case. I don't know many people who have much money at the moment.
A fair few might be on holiday around this time too, school holidays have just started and they might have booked hols now to be back for the final (IF we get there).
But it's all the same for Hull fans too.
I think back to us having 75%+ of semi-final attendances against Catalan and Huddersfield (probably 11000 and 7000 travelling support of ours respectively). We also had about a 55-45 split in our favour against Wigan in 2009. We also took 4000 to Barcelona a few years back, plus we take about 4000 to Wigan every year too.
We should be selling our allocation out.