Evening gents, just passing by and though I'd stick my oar in(again).

Soccer is indeed a historic term used to differentiate between rugby football and association football, just as it's used to separate between American football or Ausie rules in other countries now.

It was largely abandoned here, as the two sports were commonly referred to as either rugby or football and soccer became more a term of derision.

As for attendances, the Cardiff game was a sell out, for reasons that escape me, the Safety Advisory Group decided that almost 1,600 seats needed to be left empty. When we were last in the Premier League, pretty much every game was a sell out, just the segregation seats and a shortage of away fans reduced attendances. Though for some reason, for one game against Liverpool, it was decided that just a few hundred seats needed to be used for segregation, so that game ended up setting a record attendance of 25,000.

For next season, 2,500 seats have to be offered to away fans, 2,500 have to be sold as match day tickets and 20,000 can be sold as season tickets(all of those numbers are reduced by about 5% due to segregation). 14,500 season tickets have been sold already and now we've been promoted, I expect we'll sell the rest.

Just thought I'd clarify.

Congratulations on the win.

As one of your designated Hull City idiots(possibly the oldest) on this forum Standee, I could not resist a reprise of this post.

personally in my opinion people who post how they would like to give others a thump or a boot
are as soft as icecream.

i wish FC didnt have fans like you.

where does all this anti Hull City, anti Allams tripe come from ?

i am gratefull that the Allams have been part funding Hull FC.

Go on then, I'll bite,

Just how has Allam funded Hull FC ?

I wish Hull didn't have fans like this, and I also wish Hull City fans wouldn't come on here spewing out all the bile we've had to put up with. (This is not aimed at you, and those responsible will know who I mean).

We're not anti Hull City, but Allam has made it plain that he doesn't like Hull FC.

How is he part funding us, and why are you grateful?

It's plainly a City troll masquerading as an FC fan. I could probably guess which one. Doubt it'll be here long, so just ignore it while it is.