With the north stand closed the lower bowl holds about 16k with blocks E1,2 & 3 set aside for away fans (according to the season pass brochure) I recon that's about 1000-1500 empty seats give or take a few so if we have around 12k of home fans we should all be sat quite close together which should create a cracking atmosphere

From what i recall.

Lower bowl is 19k
North stand 4400
East 6000

Which means the east will be lucky to hold 4k Hull fans, (remember that unreserved must be sold 10% under capacity). So its really not a big story the club peddling the old "east stand sell out" line

11000 crowd on Friday

The middle five blocks in the east are reserved which looks more than half on plan so say there's 3k reserved that should give us around 1200 or so unreserved after the taking the 10% off

Not a mention of our game on the kc stadium website on the upcoming events section but lots of football fixtures

There's a KC Stadium website??

I think we'll bring a decent following for this game. Decent for us anyway. I think this game could be a real cracker, with your home advantage probably giving you the edge.

Lets hope so but I have to say in general we don't do home advantage very well at Hull FC

Talking to the ticket office today regarding my own season ticket & tickets for some mates and they told me that at the moment, they have sold around 13K tickets including season tickets obviously lol, hopefully we'll get that many, will be a great game & great atmosphere.

With it being the first match of the season I would hope that almost all season ticket holders will be in the ground.

Hope it's true - please FC, don't burst this bubble at the first game.

East stand un reserved sold out only a few left in reserved E4 & E8 according to the Facebook page

Well lets see if thats true then. As AP stated last season the attendance given is tickets sold for the game

so if they announce less then whos lying?

I wish the club wouldnt crow about the smaller than last years east stand selling out

I doubt very much we have sold that many in advance anyway!

Being 3/4's full on Friday will probably be more than they had for every game last year baring the Derby so surely that's a good thing?

Wasting your time, he's desperate to slag off the club at any opportunity.

How have i slagged the club? I wish they wouldnt set them sen up for a fall.

At least im on about our club and the game we have rather than bleat about the shower from the east, unlike some on here

People have different opinions but I'm glad its almost sold out, I sit in the west so I'll post a photo to show how it looked lol

and i thought retard fred was bad lol

How have they set themselves up for a fall?

A lot of talk on Twitter regarding scarfs/flags etc, sounds like a group of fans are working very hard to get the atmosphere going, well played to them and let's hope the rest of the fans will get behind it, I'll certainly be taking my scarf to hold up and wave about.

Would be good to get a rendition of old faithful going just before kick off with scarfs aloft and flags waving just like at anfield when they sing YNWA.

Seen that also we are going to dig our stuff out and try do our bit the excitement is building

Talanoa back in the mix: m.hulldailymail.co.uk/Lee-Radfor ... story.html

Talanoa back in the mix: m.hulldailymail.co.uk/Lee-Radfor ... story.html

Think putting away fans in East Stand will make a better atmosphere and I reckon we will get at least 12k IMO

Looking forward to your 19-man squad announcement Ellam