and according to someone who had the official figures for that stand it was 2,100 !!! i know who i will believe

All you need is eyes in your head, the knowledge that the away end capacity is just short of 4.5k with all the coverings off and a shred of common sense to realise that there is no more than 2k or so. Is it a great following? Yes. Is it 3.8k? No, absolutely not.

When talking about getting 10% of ticket sales when sold up front through our club shop he said " its frustrating to see 3800 of our fans at Huddersfield when you have only sold 600 tickets up front ". So I would assume he was talking about the most recent game.

Who said anything about which game it was? I know which game he's on about and I know there was nowhere near 3,800 FC fans at the game. I don't care what your CEO said with regards numbers because, as I have previously said, I know how much that end holds and I saw with my own eyes how many were in it. As Daz has also said, there are posters on here who have access to the actual turnstile figures and it was ~2,100.

maybe he 'presumed' you would fill that end - after all we were told by FC fans on here that the stand wouldn't be big enough cos you were bringing AT LEAST 5,000 so if your CEO is thinking like that then the fans will too

3,800???????????

it looks like the hull CEO uses the same calculator as the fans!

see my picture on the previous page to see there is clearly nothing like 3,800 hull fans in a stand that had a 3,500 capacity or whatever it is for unreserved seating

I thought this conversation was pretty much dead in the water after the mighty and loyal support of Hull KR at the Galpharm last friday,

The self - proclaimed 'best away fans in the game' ?
i said at the time they will still say they had more than FC and outnumbered us !!

Last Friday was the lowest KR have brought to ours in their time in the super league. I heard the usual excuses "oh it's on Sky and it's a friday" Well last season it was the same ie on Sky and on a friday and they still brought 4 times the amount they brought last week! Not as bad a following as Cas this season but still our second worse where we've opened the South Stand!

Interesting that they've not come on here telling us how they are good followers, but then again. Those that did visit though are the true fans!! And also many I spoke to are quite embarrassed at their fellow fans boasts about bringing so many to all grounds.

Well tomorrow we'll hopefully be taking a fair few over although the few that are put off by simple things like the weather will see that it's due to rain and stay away!

you know what, even though people call our away support, and sometimes with justification because we'd all like to see it improve, however i would say we have some of the most loyal hardcore support in the game, fair enough we might not have the numbers like other clubs have but our figures dont tend to fluctuate much compared to other clubs.
i would say our support this season has ranged from between 200 and 700,with the odd figure slightly less or slightly more,and has been like that for years,whereas some clubs might take 3,000 to one game and then only a few hundred to another,take wire for example,they brought nearly 3,000 to our place in the cup but only took a few hundred to bradford the other week, hull kr too usually bring at least 1500 to ours but last week less than 500,cas the same,usually bring 1000 but this year brought less than 200.
so i would say that our away support is usually the same at each ground year on year give or take an extra/less 100 at some games, so to me its not about numbers its about quality

Just look at the cup game earlier in the year for the difference between the ease of been able to get to a game on a friday and on a saturday. Both where televised yet the followings where vastly different

Yeah we can look at the cup game but again it was free! I was comparing like for like! ie friday night and on Sky.

It's alot of messing about on a friday night for some people, i think i've even read on here that your home crowds suffer on a friday because alot of home fans won't/can't go on a friday

We have away games on Fridays too you know.

Yorkshire Radio comment on how good our away support is at Castleford.