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if you read his first entry it is deffiently the clubs view
In another of our new blogs for the 2011, the voice of the fans, Phil Back, gives us his take on the new season. Throughout the year he will be conveying the opinion of those that grace the terraces!
Another big take up of season tickets by the FC fans appears to have seen our ticket sales up there around last year’s record levels again. If a measure of our loyalty as fans is needed then you only have to look at how our season ticket sales compare with the average total gate of some clubs in Super League.
Not that I am gloating of course, but it has to be a glowing endorsement to the passion and long suffering commitment of the fans around the terraces of the KC. I know that the club continue to tell us just how appreciative they are of our support, and we should be proud of it as well, because we must be as a body of people one of the most loyal sets of fans in the game.
This closed season we have made four new signings as the club attempts to consolidate. It’s sometimes easier to see how you can get loads of season ticket holders when you have been out there splashing the cash on 4 or 5 big name imports or have a recent playing record like say the Saints, Wigan or Leeds fans have enjoyed.
It’s also easy to stay away in your droves when times are hard like the good people of Salford and London do on a regular basis despite the best efforts of those clubs and their players and officials to provide first class entertainment. In fact it’s probably easiest to commit when your club drops their prices to a ridiculously low level as a ‘Loss Leader’, like Bradford have done this year.
Here at the FC, however we are just fans, who love our club, sometimes we feel aggrieved and badly done by, because as fans that’s out right, we pay our money and are entitled to our opinions but in the end we just believe in supporting our team ‘In Any Kinda Weather’ and at times like these when the fans are experiencing hard times and have varying opinions on our playing record, I am still just as proud to be part of that great community.
These are tough times but loyalty is a great thing in a fan base and perhaps something that the newer clubs in our competition will find is hard to develop in the short term at least.
It is something that is historically built on the bed rock of years and years of celebrating isolated but glorious success in a desert of general mediocrity and disappointment.
That’s what the last 50 odd years at Hull FC have been like for those fans who have weathered it. As a fan I know once said, it’s invariably the bad times that make the good times so good, and though gates will fluctuate with our on field fortunes, there are many of us who stick with it just for that reason!
Even in our seventies after a life time of trudging the country watching the Airlie Birds we just can’t bear to be anywhere else when the FC are playing!
