: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:33 am  

roughyedspud wrote:

2 pictures of that famous day




the top picture does'nt look right

look at the gaps in the 2nd pic - could have got another 50,000 in there - and didnt odsal look so much better in those days with 2 roofs

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:44 am  

Looks like people are stood right upto the pitch.

I seem to remember Halifax held a 50th anniversary do in 2004 for the game, got some of the surviving players along and people who were there.

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:03 pm  

HKR's

Attendance Record: 22,282 vs Hull FC (Craven Park) 7th October 1922

Attendance Record: 16,084 vs Hull FC (Craven Park) 20th April 1984 (Post war record)

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:06 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

HKR's

Attendance Record: 22,282 vs Hull FC (Craven Park) 7th October 1922

Attendance Record: 16,084 vs Hull FC (Craven Park) 20th April 1984 (Post war record)

Didn't rovers play a home game at boothferry park at some point against Hull FC and get 27k?

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:08 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

Attendance Record: 16,084 vs Hull FC (Craven Park) 20th April 1984 (Post war record)

gutterfax wrote:

Fulhamcrusaderbroncoquins RL:Largest attendance (Challenge Cup): 15,013 vs Wakefield Trinity at Craven Cottage on 15th February 1981.

1,071 more than us Did they miss a decimal point or some zero's off Surely some mistake from the biggest fan-based team in this or any other universe.

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:09 pm  

umm, we played a John Player final there but not sure about a "home" game. Possibly, one for the historians!

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:14 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

1,071 more than us Did they miss a decimal point or some zero's off Surely some mistake from the biggest fan-based team in this or any other universe.

We did take 90,000 to Wembley in 1980 (Fc took the remaining 50 or so) but that doesn't count as a home game!

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:18 pm  

GIANT DAZ wrote:

look at the gaps in the 2nd pic - could have got another 50,000 in there - and didnt odsal look so much better in those days with 2 roofs

They don't seem to be from the same game IMO.
The stripe that runs along the smaller stand isn't evident in the other , plus gaps in the crowd of both pictures don't seem to match up.
Not that it should detract from such a momentous occasion in our sports' history.

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:28 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

We did take 90,000 to Wembley in 1980 (Fc took the remaining 50 or so) but that doesn't count as a home game!

Give it a year or so and both wembley and OT will start to feel like home

: Wed Mar 04, 2009 2:55 pm  

July 16th 1950 World cup final at the Estadio do Maracana,Rio De Janeiro
Brazil 1 Uruguay 2
Attendance 199,500*

*It is a well known FACT that the majority of the crowd was made up of travelling East Hull conquistadors whose purpose was to convert the masses and lead them to the new world-Caravan Park