City first game of the season against Wednesday - attendance 20410 - Hull v Rovers first game, attendance 20014 - not much difference really
Me too but I'd distanced myself from them way before that, The Brentford incident was no surprise to me at the time. Final, final, nail in the coffin for me was when Fc's commercial man rang me. At the time I was a very small sponsor of Hull City, I gave what i could afford at the time, as others did because the club was on its knees. Somehow Fc got hold of all of City's sponsors personal details and contacted us offering a better deal than City were offering. The 'deal' City offered was simply use of the sponsors bar where you could actually buy alcohol,' which usually was canned beer with the 99p price all over the can, which they'd bought from Grandways a couple of hours before kick off and they sold it on to us for £3 a go. I told the Fc man to shove it his offer where the sun don't shine. They are the enemy within and always have been.
Anyone know if this is accurate? I can't help thinking the claim for corporate is excluding City games and concerts. https://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=646525&start=350#p19551090
Mate of mine pays £550 for his membership to the Kingston Suite at Fc where they were dined with fish and chips last night. I'm sure someone on here can tell us what it costs for City games? One of his family is a sponsor of Fc and from the tales he tells me there is no way that Fc ( Pearson) is making anything like those claims from the sponsors suites at the MKM. The impression I get is that Pearson robs Peter to pay Paul but he also said Pearson had 'found' £2m somewhere which has been invested in four Australian players they have brought over. I have no idea if that is true or not or anything he tells me is true!. There has always been a bit of a mystery surounding Fc's contribution to the running costs of the stadium. The 'fantastic light show' they were all bigging up last night for example were the lights City had to install when we first reached the PL, like the Press facilities, the dug outs and the changing rooms. I have not heard of any improvements made to the stadium to comply with Super League rules. One minute Pearson is bleating about wanting better/cheaper terms for his club using the stadium then another stuff like this is fed out bigging up how successful they are with the corporate side. Meanwhile Hull Live today are comparing HKR with Manchester City.
Kingston suite was half empty at half time and after the game. 3 quarter full before game. My mate was in corporate as a long time sponsor and he has just text back to me saying it wasnt anything out of the ordinary up there last night so like most stuff on that rlfans forum it sounds like horse crap.
It might just mean the bar takings, considering they can carry on drinking all game (the corporate tickets are definitely cheaper than they are for City).
It was double that for City when I was in there and didn't include any food (though I believe it does now).
If it is anything like other stadium rental deals the catering will be an external company and they will only get a percentage of the bars so it is highly unlikely they make much out of corperate. It will be profitable but likley to a major income stream. Unlike a club that owns their own stadium and can negotiate their own deals with breweries for their wet sales for example. 4 Aussie players would be costing more like £600k not £2,000,000. They have a salary cap for a start and all the loop holes clubs used before are slammed shut now. Your wife earning £200k for a part time job in the shop is not an option now!! The million quid tv money would cover a massive part of the playing budget.
I did from 1998 onwards. From a distance though it seems different to being **** in football. Even in the 90s City would've always hoped of getting promotion eventually, and so it happened. Maybe if I was into FC I'd be able convince myself there was something to play for like there always is in football but from a distance it just seems such a foregone conclusion.
Lucky them. The way they played last night last night zero points scored will be the norm. They didn't look like scoring even before the send offs. You have to feel sorry for season ticket holders. Can they get refunds at any point?
my point is that those RL clubs in Group A can't get relegated. If Hull finish rock bottom of the table with ZERO points and say London Broncos finish 2nd from bottom with 6 points, London still get relegated. Its heading to the franchise sport. I bet you in 5 years, another city could buy Hull's super league franchise and move them out. To be honest I'd be happy to see them pi$$ off.
Had to google this as I didn't realise it worked like that. What a joke. Ridiculous. "Clubs across all three divisions would be graded A, B or C. Clubs Graded A would be eligible for Super League and be immune from relegation with the rest of Super League being made up of the highest ranking Grade B clubs who could be moved between Super League and the Championship depending on how well they were rated. Clubs Graded C would make up the rest of the Championship and League One. The overall goal was to have a Super League with 12 Grade A clubs."
Its the right way to do it in the short term. IMG can only grade what they see, clubs can improve or stay in the lower leagues. London Broncos dont deserve to be anywhere near the top flight when you judge their performance as a club and not just on the pitch. I spent two years trying my best to improve that including the CEO and I pushing through the move to Plough Lane against the wishes of most fans and the coaching staff (what a good job we did as Ealing would not have been acceptabe for Super League again) but the amount of repair needed there is mental. Whatever we did was just peeing in the ocean. They have hardly any supporters, a £22,000,000 loan in the business form the owner which increases by 1.5 mil a year, no sponsors and no Academy set up anymore. They will be, quite rightly, replaced by Wakefield next year and Super League should be a competative competition. Hull FC is actually a club with huge potential given the size of the fan base, the stadium and the catchment area of talent. I know many on here and in the City fanbase dislike them but if the right person took control they could be a real force in the game and probably a good partner in the stadium for City.
