Negative. You might as well say 'back in the old 4th div we got 24,500 at the KC' How many Championship games did we get 14,000? and how many did we play with more then that in the ground? A 14,000 gate in the Championship was a rarity, gates above 20,000 were the norm. The KC was originally planned as a 35,000 capacity and the sooner we get it the better.
AA not only wanted the stadium giving to him for nothing but also wanted grants, loans & incentives to develop the stadium/site. Stadium expansion would be secondary until the sports village (sorry later revised to sports/retail village) were up & running, so we would still be looking at 5 years down the line
We sold out every home game during our first two season in the Premier League and last season only a handful of games didn't sell out. We cannot do anything about the away section if they don't sell out. I would suggest that since we have been a Premiership club we have sold out about 75% of our home games which isn't bad when every one can be watched for free in pubs throughout the city.
No it was Patrick Doyle. When Geraghty was leader of Humberside County Council Don Robinson offered him (the council) the shirt sponsorship deal, even putting the Humberside CCC crest on our shirts for free. Geraghty put council money (mine and yours) into a game that was totally alien to this area, ice hockey, and enjoyed the free hospitality on offer at the home games. It was subsidised beyond belief until the plug was eventually pulled on the Geraghty/Humberside CCC gravy train. Has anyone ever seen TG show any alliance to Hull City ? Serious question, has anyone ever seen him at the KC when Hull City have been playing? He did say recently, in his sneering way, that Hull City couldn't even sell out in the Premier League.
Out of interest, who told you the bits in the first paragraph? It's just I've heard a version that disputes that, and from several different sources, most in an excellent position to know.
It never got as far as being discussed in detail, so nobody really knows if he was willing to part with cash for the stadium or not. What AA wanted was an agreement that the council would contribute to the development, be that the land, the stadium and assurances on planning, but he didn't get any of them. Geraghty didn't look at the bigger picture, he just said the fair needed to stay and that AA had to make a cash offer for the stadium, but without an agreement on the rest of the development, there was little point in buying the stadium.
I don't care how much incentives and grants AA gets. Think big or don't bother. Go hard or go home. The country has been built on initiative and enterprise. People get rich off the back of making jobs and feeding the economy. I don't begrudge anyone making a profit if they create employment. The whole stadium area could be made into a thriving business area with transport links, facilities, and a bigger stadium. Or it could be a pan flat dust bowl. Roll on the revolution.
I'm led to believe he offered money on a number of occasions during the meetings. Albeit the offers were part of a bigger scheme. Funny how Geraghty scoffed at an Olymoic size pool and Ice Arena, yet is/was in the running to be chair of the arms length company set to run the Olympic size pool and ice arena for the Council.
Possibly because such a pool would in effect be built at no cost to the City's taxpayers. True he should not then be allowed anywhere near it unless that company ended up as a joint venture
Which one? The one part of the stadium complex could well have returned a profit for minimal outlay if it was done right.
AA thinks he had no interest in what's good for the city, all he was interested in was getting a paid directorship of a joint venture company, he basically thinks he's a crook. When he talks about him, he talks with utter hatred, in an ideal world he'd like him strung up by his bollocks in Queens Gardens. I've not heard hatred like it, since someone last asked me about Simon Walton.
The joint venture company was to develop the sports village and the council would have put money into it to make sure it happened. Yes, Geraghty would have got his £10,000 a year director's fee but what company invests millions, gets a director on the board, and only gets £10,000 a year remuneration. The freehold of the KC wasn't included unless he made an offer. According to Assem Allam the falling out with Geraghty was because he was rude. Which may explain the hatred. All water under the bridge, but the simple thing is Assem Allam gets the KC for nothing and will do until the lease expires. He doesn't have to talk to the council for decades.
Nope. HCC are useless. They have no long term vision and the main cancer TG is an FC egg chaser who wants to keep things as they are capacity wise. Without any doubt John. Hull City in the PL will always mean big gates. Plus the expansion would allow us to get more away fans into the ground and scrap the segregation nonsense that keeps many seats empty for no reason at all other than the local fuzz / elf n safety clowns dont know what they are doing. The KC is never full even when a game is SOLD OUT. But that is not the clubs fault. Agreed. The sooner that safe standing is approved again then we could increase the KC capacity(from what it is now 25,352) by taking out seats which would be a useful start. Without a doubt. TG Should have been removed years ago.
Back to Plan A then- sulk like a turd, miss out on city-wide celebrations for promotion, civic receptions for the FAC, change our name out of spite, alienate the real fans, humiliate the club in the football world, shun any fan-parties etc in West Park.
