For someone to label others who have a different view to you is ludicrous and pompous. There are fickle and not real supporters, they really do exist. They're the ones who turn up to the big games with there shirts from 20 years ago, making out they go to all the games. You occassionally make excellent posts but marr them with your Radford bashing. As I have stated before, everyone is entitled to thier own opinion without others labelling them as idiots, pompous, stupid or anything else that springs to mind. By the way, I do think your posts of late have been upbeat, keep it up

Increasing fan base is difficult anyway when you have an area that is still on its heels and financial decisions as to whether you spend x on watching your sports team or spend less taking the kids somewhere where you know they wont come away disappointed and/or cold.
Local population ethnicity swings even from 2001 to 2011 has an effect as some from certain backgrounds are typically just not interested in RL in the slightest.

As for Radford, so far he has done nothing to change those fans views and has a very very long way to go to do so.
His attitude of the last two seasons has polarised so many. The crud he came out with on public radio criticising fans openly was appauling, add on top near relegation and some dreadful dreadful rugby.

It's not so easy to forgive someone that made you feel like you didnt care whether you came or didnt to a club that you might have supported a very long time.

I'll be back. It seems the Widnes game (and the first hour at Rovers) was a blip and not a reflection of where we are.

Armavinit...I've said what I feel, I always do. Ive not beung hyper criticaloft Radford this term, i've continued to say what i hope he could do or what in my opinion i would like him to do..rightly or wrongly, it's a forum so people post what they think.
I think It IS pompous and lazy to label fans fickle, how can you know any one persons individual circumstances, even if they can afford to come why is it wrong to not want to watch rubbish and be continually dissapointed and then come back when the entertainment/feel good factor returns?

And turning up for a final/semi with a 20 year old shirt is wrong why? Why does that matter that for whatever reason they don't attend regular season games..might it be that that occasion is a treat and they cannot afford to come except on rare/special occasions. Why should we judge anyone over whether they attend or not?

I've always stated I'll come to as many games as I can no matter who is in charge and how i feel about the way they are going about things or how we are doing, that's me though. What others do is their business, being critical of 'fickle' or "not proper" fans is pointless and serves no purpose whatsoever.

Well this is exactly the point isn't it. Widnes was a blip, we lost two games by the finest of margins and have won the rest. Our next 4 games are very winnable and we could be going into may with 8 wins on the trot and 20 points from 26 and 10 wins from 13. But lets not get carried away

Not me I'm afraid.
I'm a stay away fan, and will be for the foreseeable future, but that's purely because of family reasons.

But if purple are stating away because of boring rugby, i think it's about time you start going again, from what I've seen and heard, it's been some exciting stuff

on a side note, what great noise and great following by the black and white army again last night

I went to the game last night and enjoyed the win immensely but one thing that let us down was idiot fans throwing drinks bottles, why pay the large prices for the drinks to end up throwing them on the pitch and also at our own fans, just don't understand the mentality of it.

First year I haven't had a pass in 15 years but due to finances.
I hopefully be going next week and helps with the turn around in form

I've give he club much stick over the last few years (most of which I still feel was justified) and this year is the first time in approx 20 years without a pass but I'll be giving them another chance on Friday.

The Rovers game last week was a good example of the jeckl and Hyde nature of HullFC, the first 60mins was dire, dreary stuff that has driven thousands of fans away, the last 20 showed flair, commitment and effort that will get the fans back. It's up to the players and coach to keep this run going and repair the damage caused of years of decline.

The Wakefield game was dreadful to watch but at least we won and maybe their recent form puts our performance into context.

1. When did we nearly get relegated? I must have missed that one.
2. Show me the link to the "scientific study" with regards to home advantage. If playing at home has no advantage then why of the 10 sporting divisions that I have just referenced do 80% of all teams have a better home record? You are quoting rhetoric with no basis on fact.

Here's a dictionary definition of fickle:

"changeable, inconsistent; inconstant in one's affections"

What's pompous and lazy about defining supporters who only attend when the team is winning as the above ? It's exactly the right definition. Nobody is saying it's wrong to be changeable or inconsistent with support - but there's no denying that there are several thousand people who fall into this category. It's the same at most clubs and always has been and will be. People who fall into that category shouldn't be too sensitive about being labelled as fickle. In the same way diehards shouldn't worry about being labelled in that way. It's diehards who keep clubs afloat when they are not doing well. That's undeniable.

Yet the diehards are often classed as the happy clappers by a few on here.

I also think the same could be applied to the display against rovers,they were actually very good for that first hour and they have followed it up with 2 good performances,how many teams could pull that game out of the fire.