I would rather defend them than straight out condemn them when I don't know them all or their circumstances.

People have their reasons, whether you agree with them or not, and standing in judgement on them wont convince them to attend. It's a waste of time and energy that would be better focussed on what could be done to get them out. And ultimately the crowd was always going to be down, I don't think there's a club in the land that wouldn't see a drop off in attendance for a game like tonights.

We got 8k regulars now? I'd have said round 7k judging by our crowds this year to date.

I was at Siddal watching a NCL game.

Not quite sure why anyone has to justify which games they attend, maybe £21 on the gate puts a few off at Easter time.

Meast was not there tonight !!!!
i actually thought for a Tuesday night 7pm kick off with about 56 away fans and many people missing due to work, family commitments etc it wasnt that bad a crowd.....dont forget 7/8 years ago we just about got this kind of crowd ona sunday v Bradford or Leeds with 70% away fans !!

Hmm pretty good count! You must've been bored! Were the other 5 in the toilet?

Well said.

Easter weekend/Tuesday night/weather/live on Sky/work/family commitments/families on holidays/etc aren't really good excuses. There were 27,000 at Stoke City last night. The wild fluctuations for some teams are hard to get your head around.

Why aren't they good excuses? Because to you they aren't relevant? Well to other folk they are because they stop them attending. It doesn't really matter whether or not you think they're important or if they'd stop you attending, so get over yourself.

A football attendance is completely irrelevant to this discussion. This is a different sport. Were there any special offers for that game? Don't football regularly host Tuesday games? Different sport, different marketing, different regular fixture times. Apples and oranges, but don't let it stop you talking rubbish and criticising for the sake of it.

Interesting.
When attendance was announced I was disappointed. Salford looked like the 42.
The number of fans matter - as kens programme notes say every single week - in terms of the commercialism of the club. More fans = more money spent, via dodgy hot dogs, programmes , merchandise , and for our club to be sustainable longterm we need to be as good off the pitch as on it. LODs contract needs us to sell a lot of replica shirts.

My comment would be we are better on field , than commercially off it. Look at hulls app, saints websites, and hulls fans surveys and phone a director nights etc etc.

Anyway, I bought 4 over priced warm beers to help us.....

Ps took my little lad last night, but evening kicks off not good for us fertile parents supporters....

attendance wasnt bad for a tuesday night , but still not good enough imo we were trying to get back to the top of sl, i would have hoped for a 8k attendance, i for one blame the rfl fixture planners for this , why were we not at home good friday and away monday as per usual , especially after viewing towns fixtures which were out long before the sl fixtures. I understand about people having other things on, my daughter and boyfriend missed due to on hols and they are both season ticket holders.

So how many for our home games in fax???????

And to continue my theme of club not maximising commercial opportunity - they have told us about exchanging tickets for vouchers etc for weeks, but why not put on a laod of coaches and treat it like a short of mini away trip - to encourage the home game only fans to see what fun it can be travelling in a coach other fans.
They could do a deal of book for 2 trips and get the third free etc. - that would really help fax attendances.

Davy is great, but feel around him directors are narrow minded and are viewing fax as a problem - which it is - but missing another opportunity to promote the club, make some extra cash, and make it a pleasure being a giants fan.
They need to realise they are not competing against other SL clubs off the field, but against all other entertainments, hobbies, pastimes, xbox, tv , the wife that fill up busy peoples lives off it.

Rant over.

I didn't go last night...I have other things to do on a Tuesday night. But are you, Eaton, suggesting I'm not a real fan? Seriously?

Are you for real?

i thought it was a decent crowd lastnight

wasnt long ago we would of had about 3000 for this game....oh how times have changed

few posters on here didnt even go to the game part timers