...and yet the pubs I generally use don't show it at all and especially not in preference to football, so perhaps your local has most of the TV watchers? Really, this 'rugby mad' thing is pure media myth perpetuated because the local media spoon feed it out. I truly can't understand why they (mainly FC) need to try to compete with football. If they were realistic, there's far more benefit to be had in working together than there is in competing.
I am in favour of melton although I cant see where the finance can come from unless support as i have suggested is fortcoming. With regard to your comments: "...For those advocating this I suggest you seek the views of Bolton supporters at City's next away game on building the Reebok outside the town of Bolton and halfway down the M61 in Horwich.....", maybe you should speak to a few Brighton fans regarding their views on Farmer. They would be at odds with Bolton I am sure
the local media consolidate this myth simply because rugby followers, however limited as a proportion of the sports viewing local population, are their market place. that is how they stay in business!!
The vast majority of the Trotters fans I come across really like the Reebok. And it isn't half way down the M61, it's about 6 miles from the city centre, about the same distance as The Ketch in Willerby is from Hull City centre, a short hop on a bus.
Once the SMC is handed back to the Council, if they take up Ehabs offer,the council will offer to sell it to the Allams because theres no way on earth they will want to foot the bill for the shortfall
Giving up the SMC to the Council will certainly cause them a financial headache in these particularly difficult and auster times, but even if they do this they will be loathe to sell the KC to the Allams without getting FC and its supporters (and voters) on board.
Given the ****wits at the council, it wouldn't suprise me if they're busy in search of a middle easter oil thief to sell the stadium to, just to spite the Allams and the football club. What's the chances that if the Allams bought Hull FC and ploughed £50 million into them instead, the council would pass the ownership over faster than you could blink with an honorary statue built outside the town hall?
Assem Allam vowed never again to discuss buying the KC with the council anyway. I believe he wouldn't ever do so unless the current council lost control and a whole new set of people are in place. I think he felt insulted by Geraghty and his cronies who questioned his motives.
I would think this is already sorted. I think when it comes to forethought the Allams will show how backward thinking the Hull City Council actually are.
He'll discuss it alright with them if he feels it will be beneficial. Papaa said before Chritsmas in an interview with Burnsy that there was no more money to spend and yet he goes and finds £3.5m for Brady, Meyler and getting the two Egyptian lads on loans. Lot posturing still to come.
That backward that the Council had the foresight to build the bleeding KC in the first place. Can't see Parnaby and his cronies having the money to help fund a stadium in the East Riding - they may however go as far as supporting a site for planning so long as its not in the built up area and likely to offend his voters.
I'd rather stay in Hull, and i can't be arsed with this moving lark. Melton's a small place and the residents will whinge having thousands of football fans coming every other week. The KC will be left to get run down, and you'll all whinge it hasn't been kept in shape by the council. So attracting people to the city will take a nose dive. If not people will stick their noses up at us further. If FC can't pay their way, then it's them that should **** off not City.
Despite it being pointed out several times that Mr Allam doesn't own the food concessions, some FC fans are planning to avoid buying anything in the ground as protest. I beat them to that protest by about 6 years, but for more logical reasons.
One plus for Falmer is that it had an existing railway station right next to it and other transport links because its very close to the University, (although those of us who queued in the pouring rain to get on the Brighton train after the match were not that impressed) Also match tickets include free travel for fans, either bus or train, within a specified area. Does Melton have the possibility of developing similar facilities - from memory there's a station there but does it still function??
Yeah, you're right I suppose. I mean it hasn't been on tv, radio or in the papers or anything. It's our little secret, right? In fact this thread doesn't exist.
No worries. Just extend the K-U-H boundary to include its outlying villages, and the stadium stays in Hull.
The plans for Melton had a proposed 'halt', similar to that at Boothferry. Assem's been very clever here, he's started off looking the vilain, then has rapidly become the saint. He's made the likes of Brady and Geraghty look like imbeciles(not that it was difficult) and now the agenda has grown to cover who pays what and how **** the council are. I still doubt he stadium will move, but I have no doubt that a major stadium, with a hotel and retail, just five miles out of Hull would receive a massive amount of funding from ERYC. The useless twats at HCC have really fallen into a hole with this one, it might well have got Assem his stadium.
