Hull KR to KC...???

Maybe they could just split the city down the middle, so that that say, the people who live on the West side (including posh places such as South Cave, Kirk Ella etc) can follow FC without prejudice (negating the few tits who popped up when KR became Super League again) and the rest of Hull follow Hull KR. Maybe use the river as a breakwater? Nah, just kidding, that'd be ludicrous.

 

Ludicrous indeed.
Hullgarians from the north of God's own acres, or Eden as it's more formally known, cringe at the lower types with this west east mullarky.

 

I have friends from the east side of the city, and they're constantly banging on about west Hull / east Hull and being all tribal about it.

All my friends from any other part of Hull couldn't give two ****s.

I knew nothing about any rivalry until I met and started working with these people.

It's a Holderness Road sized chip on the east Hull shoulder, and it's baffling.

 

I live east of the city - in Sutton and to have to listen to the parochial egg chasing dinosaurs this side of the city is fooking embarssing I can tell you.

As others have said the Preston Road, IRE, and Holderness Road types would have a nose bleed if they had to 'travel' as far as the KC to watch Rovers.

Egg chasers thrive on the rivalry of the city which for the size of Hull is pathetic - I accept it goes far back to the days when to go to west Hull was seen almost as a day out.

As an East Hull lad I went to Grammar School in west Hull in the 60s and two buses a day each way seemed to emphasize the 'distance' to the other side of the city.

The fact of the matter also is the eggchasing community is economically much less well off than supporters of City and Rovers supporters in particular would in general not have the funds to support a club based at the KC.

Our support comes from the whole of the city as well as the East Riding (and I don't mean our wealthy west Hull suburbs BTW)

So then.. Rovers supporters are skint, they hate anything to do with west Hull and moving to the KC (the home of Hull FC) would be tantamount to merging with the black & whites.. hell to freeze over first!

 

I'm a City and a Rovers fan hence my name, but I stopped going to Rovers when Super League started, I haven't been to a rugby game since. I've watched games on the box but that's about it. The reason is, that's when Sky took over the sport with their millions. It was also because the game over here was chasing the Aussies and Kiwis for years, they just didn't have their standard of play. When the millions rolled in from Sky every Super League club went out and bought Aussie and Kiwi players instead of putting money into a fund to build an academy to bring our young players on. They still buy from abroad to this day after all the years it's been running. I don't watch the sport as much as I used to, i've lost interest rapidly, mainly because it's going the way of the Prem albeit on a smaller scale. I think the two clubs would have to merge eventually for either one to survive and I wouldn't have said that years ago!!

 

The only way the two Hull clubs would merge would be if the SL expanded as a national game (tried many times outside the M62 corridor and failed) and the two clubs fared much less well -bit like Sheff U and Wednesday and the two Bristol clubs. But like them its never gonna happen.

Should Rovers be squezzed out, their supporters (or what remains of them) would continue to support an East Hull team - they way in which they did for years outside the SL.

I am pretty sure the RFL ideally only wants to see one Hull club in SL - they just daren't say it (Lindsey suggested it at the advent of SL and got pilloried for it)

 

Super League 'more entertaining than NRL' say Australian stars

Kerrrrrr-ching!!!

 

the key to this spin is in the names and clubs of those who are quoted!

 

could this be the start of the beggining of the end for HKR ? move into the KC and then merge with Hull FC down the line.? if Rovers leave Craven Park then i fear for there long term future.

 

There's already a thread on this mate

 

What's with the DullFC stuff?

Shouldn't that title be "Are DullKR joining DullFC at the Dull City Council owned KC stadium (where the K in KC stands for Kingston from the city name Kingston upon Dull)?

It's as annoying as Mussie slagging off supporters of other clubs for calling us "Hull" when, quite clearly, if they are from somewhere like Manchester or Bristol they should be referring to us as "City".

Edit: In fact any fan whose own team is something City.

 

Maybe it's because they're not really Hull FC...

 

Of course they are, even if they were "John Smith, trading as Hull FC."