It's not a fact, there's nothing to stop the stadium being sold before the end of the lease, if the council had wanted to do a deal with AA in the first place, they could have done so.
I did think the same actually. Surely the council couldnt be that stupid and this is just a way to get the stadium debate - which has gone very quiet - back in the news. Surely.....
"That really is embarrassing, utterly clueless." Not necessarily. Hull City Council have gone out of their way not to upset Assem Allam any further as was clear in the CTWD meeting with them. The area needs developing and Hull City Council would like, I'm sure, the KC to be one of the centres for 2017. A successful Premier League team in Hull needs a bigger stadium to increase our income, gate receipts plus match day sales. I think this is all part of the softening up process by which the KC goes back to the Council who will then expand the stadium and develop the surrounding area. If this is the case and agreement in principle has been reached then writing to third parties who may fund the development makes perfect sense. The application does not contradict anything that Assem Allam said in his recent interview about ticket prices.
I should know better than to attempt sarcasm... It's like the council had the following conversation: Councillor A: "It's been a while since we last had a spat with Allam, what can we do that will be akin to poking him with a stick?" Councillor B: "We could bring up the stadium issue again, the PL are flush with cash following the TV deal, how about we ask them for some cash?" Councillor A: "but wont that make us lookfoolish?" Councillor B: "Probaly, but it will be a laugh!" Idiots!
Expecting the Premier League to fund any club's stadium expansion is utterly clueless, whichever way you look at it.
As far as I know, the ACV only requires that any offers are publicised and other bids can be made. If the initial bid is the best, it wins. I doubt a bid would ever purely be for the stadium alone, so I suspect any competing bids would have to show the same over all benefit, rather than just matching the stadium element.
Reading about it would seem Swansea City are funding it. The council,meeting to approve their plans passed them in under an hour. Just imagine that with HCC. It would take months if not years. Swansea have 8,000 on a waiting list for season tickets. We haven't but would find enough fans to fill a 35,000 stadium apparently.
That's not correct, as things stand currently, if the council accept an offer for the stadium, then the Hull City Supporters's Trust would be given a fixed amount of time to try and match that offer. As HCST are the only community group to have registered the stadium as an ACV, we're the only organisation that apples to.
If other bids came in, they certainly wouldn't ignore them, and any competing bids would have to match the over all benefits of the main scheme.
No, but at least we'd know what was going on, which is the real purpose of us registering the ACV in the first place.
Its like if you win the lottery then your cousin who you've not seen for years shows up for some cash? very embarrassing
Jesus wept...do you need a degree in ****ing stupidity to be a councillor or does it come naturally?! What a bunch of mongs
They may not have expected the Premier League to fund it though. Showing the letter to the press may have been to tell the people of Hull the Council wants a 35,000 seat stadium and is prepared to try and find the money to do so. First attempt may have failed but what about the second or third or fourth?
I doubt other bids for a community asset would have been kept under wraps, but even if they were, my point was that other bids can still be made, the supporters trust don't get first refusal, they get an opportunity to beat the other bids.
It certainly gets the issue on the agenda, and opens the door for dialogue between the relevent parties.
AA isn't remotely interested, it hasn't opened the door to anything, it's just made the council look a bit daft.
Absolutely gob-smacked by this! If you take it at face value, it is an act of a complete lunatic. Firstly, what on earth has Hull City Council got to do with the Premier League? Secondly, why on earth would the Premier League fund one of it's members like that? and Thirdly, why on earth would anyone not think it the height of inappropriateness not to at least inform Hull City that this was going to be done? Even if you suspect an ulterior motive is somehow involved to somehow get one over on Assem Allam, how? The only result has been, by association, to make the people of Hull look ridiculous. The Big question is.............who is responsible for this?
You guess he isn't interested in the possibility of increased seating at the expense of someone else?
