Most do though. Wakey sent out over 2k.

25% of over 2k over 10% is a good few thousand extra to us. Those kind of followings will be replicated several times over the year. Cas-especially. .Leeds..And even cross county if day/none sky. Lot of money over a season to us. Really pleased with it. Really do have a sense of being ripped off when we can take 1.5/2k to saints..salford and wire for games and wire for example don't even manage 1k to see LLS Lifted (effectively a final)

Issue will be replacing Ellis and Mini like for like, but again a successful season would make all the difference in terms of how players regard Hull as a destination.

Thought I read this thread as it appeared to be good news about the club! Only fellow FC fans could make me wonder if it really is!!

Indeed, you'd have to wonder what some would think constituted a good result

I think if you hadn't won at Wembley you would have made the grand final it seemed a case of job done once you'd won the challenge cup

Don't know what you mean

to compensate for the loss of the derby, i would like to see Hull promote one of the bigger games as a 'challenge 20k' type game, where there is a big promotion to break the 20k barrier. wigan do something similar to this i believe. even if we don't get 20k it should result in a bigger than average crowd. the trick is to market one that isn't on sky, something like hull v cas or hull v leeds, where we can also tempt a decent away follwing

good idea, id go for the fc v leeds game as our game v cas on a saturday is on tv i believe

Completely missed my point, what I meant was there is still work to be done to get revenue and profit up, Pearson has made good progress but it isn't job done as yet. You can't run a business on the basis that you may make a final, you can get a bad cup draw, an injury crisis, a sickness bug in camp on the eve of the semi final etc we need to get to a point where we are making a decent profit just from a standard final-less year.

How many clubs that don't own their own grounds manage this?

I agree it is a wider issue for the game, but as we play in a sport that has a cap on the biggest cost (player wages) that hasn't increased for some time, and the biggest source of income is also stable and guaranteed for a few years (TV rights) it shouldn't be too hard to achieve. Crowds have had a boost, its retaining them, adding some more and getting some bigger sponsors on board that needs to be the next target.