I am not a City fan, nor a football fan, but I wish the team success, because it is good for City of Hull. I will also say the same for Hull KR.

I wish success for who, or whatever helps to raises the profile of the place I was born and raised.

Hardly a fair comparison is it???

Not sure the out of town bandwaggoners who joined the party last year are "thousands of kids in Hull". Thousands of local people were deprived of a rugby international though....

Local kids have always had the chance to watch City. They just chose not to for the last few decades

Why isn't it? All it shows is that ALL Clubs gather support when they do well.

I'm not denying that! I just think comparing a competitive league game at home to local rivals Bradford to an expected easy win in the cup against Swinton is a daft comparison. The last 3 years at Boulevard our crowds were decent.

But yet others compare City playing Orient ten years ago and a full house against Manchester United today.

No difference.

Were our crowds anything to write home about before we were promoted to the Super League?

ALL Clubs gather support when doing well.

My point was that most of the "new Hull City fans" aren't Hull City fans at all. They're Premiership star spotters who jumped aboard to watch Man U, Arsenal et al down at the local stadium. My next door neighbour, a Blackburn fan (?? (I know! )) cheerfully admits he's one of them. And I reckon there's another five or six thousand such "Hull City" fans stealing the seats from the "poor deprived local kids"... NOT!

And you're right. That rugby international would have raised the profile and local economy of our city and that would have been welcome.

Why did your chairman block it, again?

Super League star spotters? Desperate to see the likes of Wakey and Leeds? Or Hull FC fans?

Go figure.

Good lucky city i'm going for a 1-1 draw but we'll stay newcastle will lose
Kc gets expanded if city stay up doesn't it?

Mixed feelings on this today.......I don't 'do' soccer, i've never been a World Cup 'sheep' or an FA fanny, and get really p!ssed off when I buy the HDM on a Monday only to find that they seem to have bought a job-lot of black and amber ink from Del Boy! even when they lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I Hate the fact that an important day in the RL calendar was scrapped at the KC because Duffen and Co created obsticles , I can't be doing with all the 'new age' City Fans that you see and hear everywhere you bleedin' look these days. These idiots have been saying that Hull is a football town and has never been a Rugby League City.....Yep....Idiots!!!!! Then.....above all that.....A handful of these so called city supporters were slamming the fact that Clive Sullivan was gonna have a statue in his honour on the CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY They were saying 'why should he be honoured, What did he ever do???'....Again IDIOTS!!! They reckon Deano should be there instead.....But.....HE HAS NEVER ACTUALLY DONE ANYTHING OTHER THAN SCORE A GOAL AT WEMBLEY.......Sully was a real legend in our lifetime!

Now....the positives.....errrm......It'll keep the pubs busy next season with sky sports and all that.
Then theres errrrrrrm.......nah....stuck now!
To sum it up......Could't give a kippers eyelash what they do!

TBF, the first match I went to was only to see Richie Barnett Jnr, it was always my dream to see such a high profile person.