So this excuses the club not promoting Tuesday nights game anywhere does it ? I think the Allam bashing should be a separate thread don't you ?
Is it rate free too ? And self maintaining ? Does the grass cut itself ? Do the lights come on by magic ? FFS, 'don't pay a penny for use of the stadium' ?
Who said it excuses anything? The club is badly run, in all regards, that's a given, the refusal to host the Senior Cup Final is just another example. Allam bashing is acceptable on all threads.
We were told it was the people of Hull's stadium, built by the people of Hull's money. It was going to be used by the community.TFT was a big proponent of that. It was flawed from the start, in my opinion. There was no one on the council with business experience ( amazing that ex dockers and the like are in charge of multimillion pound budgets) free to run the SMC so they asked AP to do it and provide a £2 million bond. In all fairness he offered the chairman of FC the chance to join him but he couldn't raise the money. This led to the daft situation we have now. The council should have appointed someone, an outsider with the right experience, who would have been independent of City and FC to bein charge of the SMC on their behalf. As I said, only my opinion and others will disagree. None of which alters the fact that other clubs let their stadiums be used and they have the same costs. And their's are private companies, the sole property of the club ithout the connection to the community the KCOM tadium is supposed to have.
Is it a boring wet Thursday in Bridlington ? I don't know, I do know the costs involved in staging a game in Hull at the KComm and its not cheap. This thread was about the clubs lack of publicity for the game on Tuesday but that has been kicked into touch. Can we get back to that eh ?
How much are their owners worth and how much are they willing and have written off for their clubs. We're run by accountants who won't pay out extra for anything. That's it really.
But our stadium is a community stadium that belongs to the people of Hull, not a privately owned one.
This was from last year. https://www.not606.com/threads/what-a-sad-state-of-affairs.361717/#post-11717272 One thing from the first post in that, it says that the ERCFA owns (?) the site at Inglemire Lane. Is that the same place as the U23's are playing at. Some irony there if it is. "Nothing new there then and as a consequence the Cup Final will now be played at the ERCFA Head Quarters, Inglemire Lane, Hull on Tuesday 15th May, 2018 although my company built this facility I would not call it a stadium"
So, it doesn't belong to the community and the people of Hull as everyone said? Did everyone work of free, no charges for electricity etc when they were previously played at the KC and Boothferry Park. I should imagine the likes of Middlesbrough let them use the stadium for free and make some money through admissions prices and selling food and drink. And generate goodwill.No doubt the Allams would want to charge for all the costs of the stadium, make a profit on top and keep all the admission charges and profits on food and drink as well. Goodwill isn't in the Allams dictionary.
Definition of belong - be the property of, be a member of (a particular group or organization), (of a thing) be rightly placed in a specified position.
That was a late 90s Geraghty soundbite when we were Division 4 bottom feeders. We have all weather football and hockey pitches (for hire by community groups),free grazing on wasteland for local tatters, free open air drinking and drug taking in the shadow of the stadium. I havent even mentioned all the offices and business units housed at ground level around the stadium.
Indeed, but some things in Norwich are much more expensive (20%ish) than elsewhere, things such as manicures and podiatry. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
