So they are fans that would travel to attend a final but not a game against Crusaders at Craven Park.

Really passionate.

20,000

But you already are there old chap,simply by following Rovers.

That dosnt sum Hull KR upto a tee present day, i was saying that we're building the east stand extension to accomadate the fans we know will fill it then eventually build a south stand, finances permitting. We wont fill a brand new south stand with visiting fans from celtic harlequins catalans etc. so it is a lower priority.

The ground is a bad design and built on a limited budget from the proceeds of the old ground 20 years ago and mistakes were obviously made but in time and through a lot of hard work and determination the ground will be much improved, firstly for home fans obviously, we'll look forward to you travelling across when its upto your high standards, though like i said in earlier posts it dosnt matter about the view or facilities when i go away to support my team.

Neil Hudgel said the aim was to get the capacity up to around 14k and and try and fill it or get it as near to full as possible week-in-week out. This was mentioned about a year ago and he said they felt it would be realistic to aim for that within the next 5 years. It's not exactly a 14k 'average', but an ambitious project to get crowds up to that sort of level.

Don't get me wrong it'll take a great deal of hardwork and is totally dependent on the development of the stadium, but the catchment area is easily big enough to generate that level of matchday support so it surprises me that having gone from 2/3k to 8/9k in 3 years, people think it's unrealistic.

Not strictly true. If we develop the stadium and let the product on the pitch deteriorate then crowds will dwindle not grow. This is the reason why we can't just run at 500k below cap to redress the losses, without the standard being maintained (or improved) on the pitch, I'm not convinced we have sufficient loyalty amongst our current 8,500 regulars to stay with the club. Maybe 7,000 would turn up to watch every week (like in 2007 when we only won 3 home games), but the rest demand quality.

I didn't mean it like that, I meant without the development of the stadium it couldn't happen.

Fair point, well made.

I humbly apologise for grasping the wrong end of the stick.

Cheers. So seems that my mate knows more than most on here about the aspirations of your club ( surprised that our esteemed member of teh local press didn't know this one)

GML was refering to Hudge's recent comments that it is important to aim for a 10k average. That is the short term aim, but he has said that long-term we would be looking closer to 14k.

I disagree. Hull get good crowds because they have had some success in the recent past and the increased interest from rover being in SL. There will be an element of improvement due to the stadium but not that significant IMO. Hull are basically where they were in 1982/83 in attendance terms.

There are plenty of other sports teams in new stadiums who haven't seen massive increase in attendances

It's taken 8 pages, but you finally got 1 post that backs up your original post. Must be true then!