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Gone For A Walk said:
"Until the Allams took over, the SMC had always recorded a modest profit. After their takeover, it never once made a profit".
Odd that isn't it!!
The Arena is part of the SMC. They took on the job lot. The job lot had made a profit every year until the Allam's rocked up. To my mind, irrespective of the benefits to the club we support, there's no escaping the fact that what they did with the Arena (and other things around the SMC) was a ****s trick and morally wrong.
Thankfully now water under the bridge, they are gone and we have an owner who appears to know right from wrong.
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So if acun continues with it as it is he’s a **** too?
 
PLT said:
It was strange of the article to reference his wealth in that way, which is irrelevant, I accept that.

The reason Acun is mentioned throughout the article though, and nobody else, is because he's the owner of the SMC. He bought the club and the SMC and with that comes a contractual obligation to maintain the stadium and the arena. The intent of the lease agreement was that the arena be kept in community use, but we've already had it proven that legally, that's not really enforceable under the current lease as it's worded. Whether Acun could be arsed to go over all that old ground and look at changing its use again purely in the interest of righting a previous wrong, I think we probably all doubt. Long term it's what should happen, but I suspect it's unlikely under the current lease arrangement.

The lease, we keep hearing, might he reviewed soon. FC have made noises about wanting longer-term security from it and City have made noises about further investment in it, for which we'd probably also want a longer lease. Hopefully the terms around upkeep, use and responsibility can be cleared up a bit for everyone's benefit.
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The arena is 'in community use' I am part of the community and I use it, as are every other person who uses it. It is run by a the Tigers Trust, who are a charity and who do a tremendous amount of good work in the community. I don't see what the problem is that Angus Young and the HDM are trying to dig up?
Best wishes to everyone for 2023 by the way.
 
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Urika Peece. said:
The arena is 'in community use' I am part of the community and I use it, as are every other person who uses it. It is run by a the Tigers Trust, who are a charity and who do a tremendous amount of good work in the community. I don't see what the problem is that Angus Young and the HDM are trying to dig up?
Best wishes to everyone for 2023 by the way.
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For what it's worth I disagreed with what the Allams did when they kicked out other clubs.
It was fairly clear that wasn't the intention when it was set up, regardless of poor / vague contract wording.
However it's long done, and Acun bought the club with the current arrangements in place, so I've no idea why he/City should be expected to change back to something he's never even known. And presumably if it was done then the cost should be shared by both clubs that use the stadium?...
Tigers Trust are doing a cracking job as far as I can see.
There's always knock on consequences too. Presumably the clubs now pay rent at their new homes. That's hardly fair on those owners if it's switched back on a whim.
The fact the library closed and Hull College moved out are interesting (I used the gym in the College section, but always thought it was odd having a gym so close to the Airco) Presumably just economic / business decisions which probably reduced access to facilities for a far more diverse group of people in the community?

Odd position from Angus, unless he knows something already...
 
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Cityzen said:
Good to see we aren’t the only ones who have this crap inflicted on us.
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it's sad how utter ****e modern journalism is
gone are the days of fantastic indepth articles and in are the clickbait utter ****e for the declining iq of society
 
I was watching something the other day about AI being used for articles, you just type in a topic and how many words you want and the computer searches the internet for details and writes the article for you. Apparently it's quite common for articles to be put together with no human involvement.
 
originallambrettaman said:
I was watching something the other day about AI being used for articles, you just type in a topic and how many words you want and the computer searches the internet for details and writes the article for you. Apparently it's quite common for articles to be put together with no human involvement.
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John Fieldhouse was doing that decades ago. :emoticon-0100-smile



The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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bradymk2 said:
it's sad how utter ****e modern journalism is
gone are the days of fantastic indepth articles and in are the clickbait utter ****e for the declining iq of society
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Depends where you look. For football, there's plenty of absolute rubbish but then there's The Athletic which does really good in-depth stuff.

I think it's a bit unfair to talk about journalism as a whole on the basis of clickbait local paper website stories.
 
originallambrettaman said:
I was watching something the other day about AI being used for articles, you just type in a topic and how many words you want and the computer searches the internet for details and writes the article for you. Apparently it's quite common for articles to be put together with no human involvement.
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I wasn’t paying that much attention, but glanced at a post from a teacher talking about using it for lesson plans as well!
 
Appearing on Good Morning Britain today alongside hots Susanna Reid and Ben Shepherd ,not a very professional way to describe a couple of journalists.
 
You stay classy
Ffs


West Hull versus East Hull: Is one side really more 'rough' than the other?
Hullensians have strong opinions about which side of the river you're from but in reality, it's more complicated than that
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A generic view of Southcoates Lane in east Hull
The divide between west Hull and east Hull is perhaps one of the most baffling things for newcomers to understand when they arrive in our city.

It's mostly good-natured, from slightly-drunk strangers in nightclubs demanding, "East Hull or West Hull?" in a madcap way of greeting, or banter from others saying west Hull is "stuck up" or east Hull is "rough". This rivalry might be rooted in rugby but some of the stereotypes have lingered.

One of these is that east Hull is somehow "not as safe". I'm completely disloyal and, after spending a year in north Hull, and then a period of renting in west Hull, I finally decided to buy my first house in the Southcoates area of east Hull and was surprised at how many raised eyebrows the news received.
 
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