Regardless of anything else, if we go up this season, the scrutiny of Assem and Ehab by the national and international media will go up exponentially. They better be ready for it. Hiding away in Melton with occasional bad tempered media sound bites/threats is not an option.....
I cannot give an answer as to what is the best option. Isn't discussing all available options the way to do it? As there is clearly a root cause as to why people have decided to stay away. Is it just that Hull City have a lot more fair weather supporters than we think? The attendance has been slowly decreasing since it became a case of mid-table Championship football we have been getting used to.
He had to accept their offer as the club was only 45mins from going to the wall. The club was in such a mess that no one knew what the true figure was.
I think the Brady bunch ought to think about redeveloping the area around the Davis Store on Bond Street , which has laid empty for about 40 years and now has a tree growing out of the second floor window. Leave matters relating to the KC to people who have some IQ....Small minded Labour politicians (socalists living in a fantasy world) have not done much for the city over the past 30 years and I don't suppose anything will change in either the short or the long term. When someone with money wants to invest in the city's infrastructure, during a double dip recession call it a depression, you don't put obstacles in his way. Agree a deal on the stadium to pay for the development referred to above and move on. Its not Rocket science. BRADY OUT!!
Maybe not putting it across properly but basically what I mean is could we be in a situation something like in the past when we were locked out of Boothferry Park. If the Council own the stadium then that cannot happen and wasn't this the reason the supporters were happy with this arrangement 10 years ago.
On the day the local media go big on the "ten years of the KC celebrations" the owner of Hull City comes out and states he will never enter into a joint venture with HCC and intimates he can't wait to get out. Only in Hull.
Countless schemes have received planning permission for the former Edwin Davis Store site and this still remains an eyesore. Not sure how you can blame the Brady bunch for that.
A fist of automatic promotion, get a brain you dumb ****. Do you wear a cloth cap? What a first class pair of tosses you and that other dumb **** ****tyArsehole make.
I hate all socialist, pinko halfwits. Sell the stadium, redevelop the toilet that is Walton Street, and use the money to push through other developments. After all infrastruture projects creates jobs.....Politicians in the council are just a clique of herberts still living in the 1970's and going on about how great Hull was when Hessle Road was the centre of the world! Pathetic.
I agree that the KC gives a level of security, but everything changed when we hit the big time and then lost bucket loads. The KC was a benefit when we where in the lower leagues, but now it prevents the funding of a Premier League club. THe money that has been poured in does not fund our future in two or three years time. The financial support will run dry. To fund a high level club in the future we need more than just the gate and the tv money, we need an asset that provides a long term income stream. Some clubs have hotels, some supermarkets and some plan sports villages. What he Allams suggest is for the long term good of both parties, the club and the Allams and I see nothing wrong with that.
The idea is that by sorting out the clubs marketing and PR, we aren't going to be this poorly supported in the future, and we're going to get promoted in the next few years so we'll be filling the place again.
This is simply a case of either sit back and let the council bully us, or make sure we get what's best for the club and that includes a stadium we can expand to suit our needs and make money from. I'm surprised anyone is against Papa Allam on this, what he's saying is only in the best interests of the club. To those who think Ehab is any better than Assem, I don't think so. Assem is a bit mad but he's passionate about the club. Ehab doesn't give a ****, he's in it because his dad's in it and he doesn't care about football at all. I think when Assem is gone the Allams will be gone.
I think neither the council nor the Allams have the club's best interests at heart. They both put their own first. Don't think it's an 'either... or' argument. Compromise needed for the club and its fans to win out.
That's the issue though. I have no problem with people coming to the games after a sucsessful period. I understand every club needs sucsess to grow their fan-base. My main annoyance is the fans who come for the glory days and then disapear. If you're part of the Amber Nation you come to the games whatever the weather, current squad, current manager or current league position.
But what compromise is possible from the club's side? The council won't sell, and even if they changed their tune it'd be a referendum which is just a copout which would result in it not being sold (we have too many stupid people in this city). If they won't sell what can the owners do apart from look elsewhere or sit and take what the council say?
Happens at every club though and is unavoidable. If they aren't fans in the long-term then they aren't proper fans like everyone on here but financially they pay the same as everyone else and in terms of revenue and capacity it counts the same as a proper fan.
The Allams are not the club, and the club are not the Allams. The fans support the club (not the owners who change every few years). What is in the best interest of the Allam family and what is in the best interest of Hull City may not be the same at all. (Remember David Lloyd?)
The club needs to stay within the city and that's that. I don't care how it is sorted out, who is wrong and who is posturing.
