can't bring myself to make a rebecca black joke, fridays for me

Fridays for me.

It ain't talking about the opinions of the forum posters, I'm talking about the attendance figure increase since moving to Friday rugby despite been in a recession and with poor forum on the field.



We moved to exclusively Friday night games for the 2009 season and saw an average increase of 1,104 fans, the year after a further 345. The year before we lost on average 385 from the year before, we had gained 1,569 before that but we were also in a Grand Final in 2006. Personally, I don't think it is a huge leap to draw a clear line between those figures and move to Fridays - not least since we were not exactly playing show piece RL at the time.



This year attendances have dropped a shocking 1,798 on average apparently (according to SLStats.org), but personally I think that is due to people have less money and the Rugby League we've been playing been frankly dull over a long period of time.

I don't think the very poor form and performances at the start of the season helped the attendances.



In any event we didn't have any Friday home games between April 22 (Rovers) and July 8 (Salford).

Sunday rugby is b*llocks, why people keep banging on about it I don't know. Atmosphere is worse and work the next day, hope they never bring them back. Shame Cas and Bratfut have changed to Sundays as those nights always used to be good crack.

It was never b@llocks back in the day when rugby was played every sunday at the boulevard and teams were intimidated to come to hull!! Love the kc personally but the atmosphere is sh!ite compered to them days mate!!

But 1985 was 26 years ago

FOR ME WE KEEP FRIDAYS KEEPS WEEKEND FREE AND ONE THING THE SMALL SUNDAY CREW FORGET IS THAT IF WE CHANGED TO SUNDAYS AND MOST OTHER TEAMS PLAY FRIDAYS WE ONLY HAVE A FOUR DAY REST PERIOD WHERE OTHER STILL HAVE 6 NOT LOGICAL , PEOPLE WILL THEN MOAN THAT THE PLAYERS LOOK TIRED.

I think that's more to do with what's (not) happening on the pitch; I've been going for 30 years and I have found it harder and harder to get myself motivated to go to the game, never mind actually singing or chanting.



Fridays for me, it leaves the weekend free for me to do what I/we like.

Not bothered which day personaly.Would rather they bombed out this stupid reserved only East Stand idea.

Fridays for me . Leaves the rest of the weekend free .

Just to be consistent I will say the sooner game day is back to Sunday the better. Weekends are c rap when we have been beaten. I only have so much cash to spend so all this talk of it leaving the weekend free to be with family etc is b olloxs as rugby is my choice of leisure with the family as it was for my parents and I can't afford to take family to both every other week. It also does exclude kids from going in a lot of cases school night or not. I also feel Friday nights restrict the match day experience. If done correctly we could generate a great experience utilising the Park and the ground facilities similar to in Australia if we played at 3pm on a sunday. The day could build from mid morning onwards. The SMC would be pleased as additional sales would come in etc. There are massive opportunities which cannot be explored at 7pm on a Friday night.

The players rest argument is b olloxs. If you actually go through the fixtures there is enough variation in the playing dates to show this actually balances out. It was an argument used at the time of the change which does not stand up to scrutiny.

The away support is diminished on a Friday night and also it restricts the home support to a parochial crowd who are simply local at the exclusion of those who have flown the nest as it where.

I appreciate it doesn't work for all, but a mix would be far better as it was thus allowing everyone to be included. I do suspect though that it will stay the same as Jimmy will always fall back on his scientific survey.

friday is better for me. also i wouldn't chamge it back to sunday on the back of the opinion of someone who doesn't go when times are bad. if we do a survey the survey should take into account whether your a true fan or not

Fridays on the dreary cold miserable evenings......



Sundays when the weather perks up a bit.