Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:22 pm  

Murphy

Jerry
Cudjoe
Wardle
Broughton

Brough
Ellis

Koppy
Lunt
Huby
Hughes
Ferres
Bailey

Robinson
Crabtree
Taai
Mulally


Seems most of us are picking same kind of side, which I think baloo will go with too. Expecting a tough game. If their pivots click, Hull will be a tough proposition.

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:28 pm  

we have beaten hull the last 4 times at home

last time out though they looked to be improving, if they have continued then they could turn us over especially with us having a disrupted pre season with fixtures being called off and teams pulling out

crowd?? 7500, anything above will be good

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:46 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

we have beaten hull the last 4 times at home

last time out though they looked to be improving, if they have continued then they could turn us over especially with us having a disrupted pre season with fixtures being called off and teams pulling out

crowd?? 7500, anything above will be good

This maybe so brearley but aren't Giant fans a little concerned that your team may be a little 'under done' considering your one pre season friendly and that against a Championship side ?
Hull have played four times already and have had ample opportunity to give their 'first seventeen' as many minutes as their coach deems necessary.
I think 7,500 is a little optimistic but hopefully you can get somewhere near.

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:06 pm  

Structured wrote:

This maybe so brearley but aren't Giant fans a little concerned that your team may be a little 'under done' considering your one pre season friendly and that against a Championship side ?
Hull have played four times already and have had ample opportunity to give their 'first seventeen' as many minutes as their coach deems necessary.
I think 7,500 is a little optimistic but hopefully you can get somewhere near.

yes if you read the rest of my post i said we have had a disrupted pre season and previous elsewhere said we could be under done for this.

think the 7500 is very doable on the first home game, we have around 5k turn up anyway and with a few promos on and hull fc maybe bringing 2k we could well be pushing 8k, we shall see anyway!

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:09 pm  

Structured wrote:

This maybe so brearley but aren't Giant fans a little concerned that your team may be a little 'under done' considering your one pre season friendly and that against a Championship side ?
Hull have played four times already and have had ample opportunity to give their 'first seventeen' as many minutes as their coach deems necessary.
I think 7,500 is a little optimistic but hopefully you can get somewhere near.

fwiw raford had chance to play his first team starting line up in 3 games! the doncaster/york was a double header! do keep up seeing as your more upto speed on fc than your own team!

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:58 am  

brearley84 wrote:

yes if you read the rest of my post i said we have had a disrupted pre season and previous elsewhere said we could be under done for this.

think the 7500 is very doable on the first home game, we have around 5k turn up anyway and with a few promos on and hull fc maybe bringing 2k we could well be pushing 8k, we shall see anyway!

I would just ignore Structured if I were you. He's a 100% Rovers troll. He posts more times on our forum than he does on their own. Hope next week's match is a good one. Good luck for the season.

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:49 am  

i think we would do very well for a crowd of 7,500, i know it's a sunday game but i still can't see hull bringing over 2,000 fans, they haven't done for about 5 years and only 3 teams have brought over 2,000 fans in the last 2 years.
i suspect we will be looking at 6,500 but 7,500 would be a good effort.

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:55 pm  

One thing I definitely think needs pushing if we want a big crowd is the BRING A BUDDY! My opinion was that it is a complete waste of time, however this year I have made an active effort to ensure everyone in my family uses their voucher. As a result of this, an extra 3 people will be at the game, 2 of which have never been to an RL game before and just watch on TV! Our group is usually 5 people now it will be 8. If every 5 people brought an extra 3 it would completely change our fortunes in terms of crowds! I know its not easy getting people to come along but a bit of hard work will get you there, also if you can't use your BAB then I suggest going on facebook as people are asking for extras.

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:21 pm  

The buddy vouchers should really be pushed more I think if just half of them get used its an extra 1500-2000 on the crowd.

Re: Starting 17 for Hull FC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:50 pm  

Yeah it's a massive difference! The fanzine put forward an adaptation to them which I though was a much better idea! It was part of an article of 5 ideas! 2 were used unfortunately it wasn't one of them!