Fc will be relegated in the next couple of seasons and go back to getting crowds of sub 3,000 They will have to move because they won't be able to pay any rent. or they will go bust . Or merge with KR and play in east HULL. Rugby league is in a sad old state with only 4 or 5 decent clubs . It's a dying 'sport ' The game is doomed as are FC and Rovers unless they merge in the near future
Panic panic panic !!!!!! What the **** is wrong with some of you The pitch will be spot on come new season
And what will the lottery numbers be tonight? Seriously though how much utter bull**** can you fit in one post you cretin?
Probably a lot more mate. It doesn't take much to realise why Hull is held back when you read some of the comments from the brain dead sector of the public
Lol I knew that would get you Airlie with you being an egg chaser AND an fc fanatic. Seriously though I think the future is bleak for rugby league London and Bradford have one foot in the grave FC and KR lose money and can't get into the top 6 of a small league The futures bleak for super league imo
Its because the decision to dig the pitch up was taken after the Rugby fixtures were released. Hull were due to have home games against Wakefield and Widnes over the last 6 weeks as well but had to have them reversed. I'm not sure why Warrington couldn't switch the fixtures around as well though Also, the football pitch will now use the in goal line as the goal line (the back one) instead of the try line as it has since the stadium opened, so the pitch will be longer this season.
I didn't take it in properly but I don't think it's THAT much longer, a couple of yards at either end probably. The in goal areas for rl are much shallower now though.
I raised that whole point or week or so ago and when you challenge it there is no proof that anyone has ever said that with any evidence or sound reasoning. I'm guessing it was some friend of a friend of some Rugby fans down the pub one day. If you actually watch football and then Rugby the visual evidence suggest that Rugby damages the pitch far more.
Having two sports teams playing puts more wear on the grass than having one team playing, not ****ing difficult is it
You've never watched rl have you? Speak to the groundsmen and they'll tell you it's the football that does the most damage of the two. Just look how many divots have to be replaced in football compared to Rugby and it'll be obvious which does more damage. Clearly though having two teams on the pitch causes more wear than one.
No I'm saying we all move on by 1. Binning this ridiculous and totally false 'Divided City' bollocks. RL doesn't divide Hull and the river Hull is not a barrier, the two clubs should either merge or ground share. We might get a decent team between the two of them then. Hull could support three professional clubs 30 odd years ago when the annual turnover of all three put together was under £1m but today things are different. Also having three professional clubs in the same small city produced three mediocre clubs, none of them really made the big time in there respective sports. so 2. By move on I mean expand the KC to a proper size, about 35k would be sufficient, sell it to the football club, develop West Park/ Walton Street and move the Fair to East Park. I am not suggesting Hull City move to Melton at all or anywhere outside the Hull boundary for that matter. But a Premier League football club that has serious intentions of remaining as such should own it's own ground and be allowed to develop it.
I know some have taken **** from egg chasers for years, but I never have, for me it always just **** from plastic football fans that picked a team to support based on their success. For that reason, I don't have any RL hate, it's a sport that doesn't interest me, but as a Hull lad, I'm happy for us to have a successful RL team. That said, I'd prefer it if we were the only club at the KC. I don't think the rugby damages the pitch more than the football, but two teams using the pitch obviously damages it more than one and those **** pitch markings are really annoying. I know the two teams won't consider merging, but if they did, we'd probably be the most successful RL city in the country and Craven Park would be packed every game.
They pay rent, a portion of which should have been set aside for outlays such as this. If Allam has had to pay for this out of his own back pocket that's his own fault for not managing the SMC income properly. Just so you know, Hull City aren't paying for this either.
To be fair, the allegation is that previous regimes didn't spend SMC money on repairs, and the paperwork covering the guarantees is seemingly not what it could be, so any mismanagement of the SMC's not necessarily down to the Allams. Do we still subsidise the rugby?
I've never cared enough to check to be honest. I'm sure someone with a strong enough dislike for rugby and enough spare time on their hands will tell you.
Out of interest, whose decision was it to shorten the pitch? Can't imagine it's something Steve Bruce requested like Tony Pulis did at Stoke. Seems unnesscary really.
