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kiljoy | April 14 2015, 10:12PM
This work will have been planned for several weeks. Long before the offer came to talk to the Council about it. The contract will have been negotiated and signed for work to start today. A company cannot react at a day's notice for a job of this size. Therefore the SMC have simply not been negotiating in good faith. They have known all along that any talks were doomed to failure because they were going ahead today no matter what. How do Airco as sponsors feel about this? Doesn't this also bring their company disrepute? Has the HDM approached them about what they think about what is going on? And if this pitch is so necessary why not build one at Welton? This tells you everything that you need to know about the owners.
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His words say one thing his actions define the toad
 
Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
Begs the question why they didn't know this earlier.
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From an interview with Tony Pennock last October ;

"We explored the possibility of making Ideal Standard bigger but that simply wasn't available. The club was a long way down the line with Bishop Burton before I came into my post and we've just carried it on that way...

...All that is left for the Tigers to achieve Category Two status in a EPPP audit at Bishop Burton is to have an indoor facility at their disposal and there is hope that will finally be addressed in the new year.

Pennock meets vice chairman Ehab Allam every fortnight to deliver his progress reports and he said: "We're doing more than a lot of Category Two clubs are doing if I'm honest.

"The aim is to get Category Two next season and that's what we're working hard to get. But we have to have the indoor facility, it's as simple as that.

"We're constantly looking at what we can do and talking to people every week to see what we need to do in the short-term to tick that box."

http://m.hulldailymail.co.uk/elite-...ademy-Bishop/story-23147872-detail/story.html

Think they probably knew how this would play out months ago.

At the very least, converting the airco must have long been floated as a contingency plan.

One month notice to vacate building. Shabby as ****.
 
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Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
I've just had a squint on CI, and it reminded me of a question or two I keep meaning to ask.

Anyone any idea what went wrong at Bishop Burton that meant the facilities have had to be fragmented?

Are their any implications for the new arrangements at Bishop Burton? If they've fallen out over the 3G, I can't imagine the relationship on the rest being a bed of roses. Is that something the auditors may also pick up on?
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At the time it was reported that the potential development had 'strings attached', though I've no idea what those strings were.

One thing that was an issue, was that Bishop Burton would only allow new buildings which matched their existing one's. They didn't want a bubble pitch and wanted any new building to be a traditional one, which would presumably be far more expensive than the clad industrial unit type of thing that's normally used.
 
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Well ****ing get your application in earlier like everybody else would have to or just wait another ****ing year.

'timing is critical as the materials have been delivered and work is due to commence tomorrow". WELL WHOSE ****ING FAULT IS THAT?!? You shouldn't have arranged for this to happen without the proper prior approvals in place.

Our club disgust me.
 
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One other funny thing I've just seen on Twitter, it seems the Airco isn't actually big enough to meet the FA requirement...

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It's a funny old world. It seems like only yesterday some were saying the Council will do nothing and, the pitch is laid, the protesters no longer have any chance of reversing anything andthe club have a fifty year lease on the Airco, there's nothing there to affect the assessment.

And they say a week's a long time in politics.
 
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Well that is substantially different to what the council came out with. I guess no one will take them to task for their lies?

Beggars belief that the council would come out and publicly state Allams claims in such a twisted way. Now the truth of the demands is out and they just look like a bunch of bullshitting twats.

Why not just state the terms as they were and they'd have been fine? Those requirements are still impossible for them to meet.
 
Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
It's a funny old world. It seems like only yesterday some were saying the Council will do nothing and, the pitch is laid, the protesters no longer have any chance of reversing anything andthe club have a fifty year lease on the Airco, there's nothing there to affect the assessment.

And they say a week's a long time in politics.
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And good on them for not doing that. Someone, anyone, needs to show Allam(s) that, despite what he thinks, he cannot get his own way on everything in life just because he's rich and powerful. There are ****ing rules and you need to obey them .
 
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Well that is substantially different to what the council came out with. I guess no one will take them to task for their lies?

Beggars belief that the council would come out and publicly state Allams claims in such a twisted way. Now the truth of the demands is out and they just look like a bunch of bullshitting twats.

Why not just state the terms as they were and they'd have been fine? Those requirements are still impossible for them to meet.
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If you pardon the pun, it is an own goal. The letter itself makes Allam(s) look horrific, power-mad, crazed despots who will ride roughshod over rules and systems that apply to anyone in order to get what they want. it didnt need any further twisting. The council couldve just printed this on its website in it's entirety and it's job done.
 
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One other funny thing I've just seen on Twitter, it seems the Airco isn't actually big enough to meet the FA requirement...

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Without bothering to convert it, I guess 54m is roughly 60 yards so the only shortfall is the width. Knock one of the side walls down?
 
Mr. Hat said:
My mam n dad used to live there I think.

Isn't that the place that's just a row of about 5 white houses.
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It's about a mile from the end of the M62 and there's actually 3,430 people living there, but you don't see most of the houses from the main road...

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Mr. Hat said:
My mam n dad used to live there I think.

Isn't that the place that's just a row of about 5 white houses.
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Are you thinking of the row north of the M62 near Goole? I think they describe it locally as 'White City'.
 
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