just out of interest, what was the price for the cheapest season ticket in superleague? are they adults or kids?

hull fc were selling season passes for £150 for adults albeit only 150 for our 150th anniversary

Cheapest behind the sticks were £120 for early bird. Gone up now to £270.

That sounded a great deal, if i wasnt able to afford a pass for the sides of the ground i wouldnt turn my nose up at them prices and seats, at least i would still get to go to games

have some very fussy fans here at the giants, wont go anywhere near behind the posts no matter what price.

we call them season tickets here by the way not passes

as does everywhere else in the country apart from Hull.... strange folk

we wont get any numbers from the club on how many we have sold but think we should be aiming for 3,000?

cas have sold 3500 upto now.

Richard Thewlis indicates that sales are mirroring last years, looking like coming in at approx 4000. In league weekly interview.

Target for this season is 8000 home average (which he would be 'delighted with'.

Good interview, worth seeking out.

any links?

thats great news, prices have gone up and sales are about the same as last year when we won the LLS so thats very good after a relatively poor season

Sorry mate, no link. In the 1st December issue of league weekly. There's a 2 page interview.

Some points from it;

3 community officers starting in January, with aim of developing fan base etc.

Current crop of youngsters felt within the club to be strongest since cudjoe - Bruno - jerry.

Club target to be a top 4 team consistantly as minimum.

Club were not fussed about world club championship. It would have cost club to enter. Interested observers of how it develops.

Targets for 2015 and onwards are to be playing in big finals, and they would "to attract an average home gate of 8000 supporters next season would be a wonderful achievement for us".

Club attracts players much easier now. "We don't ring them any more, they ring us".

Recruitment all done for next season.

thanks for that

good news about the community officers starting in jan

i agree about the youngsters, we have seen connor and johnson come through and expect to see the likes of dickinson next

so it was the club that didnt want to compete in the world club challenge not the rfl who changed the rules!!
bit disappointed with this from the club, shows lack of ambition? they say they want to compete in the big games and win yet dont want to be involved in this. But sure it was down to money in the end and wanting to spend elsewhere.

think we have already achieved being a top 4 team in the league, we all know its the play offs now where we need to make an impact.

good piece on leroy cudjoe in rugby league world magazine too this month, saying macnamara said he looked tired and needed a rest as to why he wasnt selected for england... he certainly needed a rest did cudjoe, expect to see him back to his best this time which is very exciting!
Cudjoe has his theory why we lose in the play offs, saying we dont compete at a high intensity week in week out, not putting games to bed and playing for 80mins at our pace.. then we fail to raise our game like the other big teams when it matters.
worth a read

Was a glorified friendly really seen as a 'big game' though ? yes it would be a novelty thing for the fans to see an NRL team but there was nothing at stake ans it was going to cost us ? excellent decision in my view !

there is cases for being in it and cases for not being in it.. for me id have liked to have been in it, we earned the right with the 3rd place finish, good exposure for the club too..we always need this with our lack of support.

anyway the big clubs are in it apart from leeds, the usual grand final and cup winners are in..we arent. we could have changed that.

I'm sure if there was a trophy or something to be won the club would have thought differently though, ultimately it is a high profile friendly game with nothing to play for. and one that we would have had to pay for the pleasure of hosting !!

A real shame we turned down the opportunity to play against a top NRL side. Would loved to have seen that match. Maybe it is a glorified friendly, but the other top English and Australian teams think its worth while. I honestly believe it would have helped with the players gaining a bit more big match experience too as well as raising the clubs profile.

1 of the top teams has the chance to be crowned World Club champions !!!!! the other 2 are rich enough to be able to fork out the money for this without it affecting their budget, at a guess i'd say it would be a chunk out of ours ..or were people expecting Ken Davy to simply pay for it himself.

And as for the Aussies thinking it's worthwhile....well they can only be bothered to send their 8th and 11th placed teams so hardly their 'top' ones.