Where will the games be played if this happens.... boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tn ... 2123636343 Also, looks nailed on that the capacity will be extended to 35,000. Will this completely kill the atmosphere at Hull games with roughly only a third of it being full for most games.... www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... ticle.html As mentioned in one of the posts, the atmosphere is still better with the stadium half full of FC fans than it is full with City fans, don't think they like that!!

Where will the games be played if this happens.... boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tn ... 2123636343 Also, looks nailed on that the capacity will be extended to 35,000. Will this completely kill the atmosphere at Hull games with roughly only a third of it being full for most games.... www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... ticle.html As mentioned in one of the posts, the atmosphere is still better with the stadium half full of FC fans than it is full with City fans, don't think they like that!!

All other sports are likely to suspend their fixtures for the duration of the world cup in the host country so it won't be an issue. RL will be played upto around a week before and won't restart til a week after. If the KC is chosen, our last couple of games before a recess could be away games - or we could always take one on the road to Doncaster - that would be easy if we took say Catalans there. Maybe the Council or sponsors could provide free buses as part of their world cup funding!

It would be great for City for the city and for RL in Hull. Surely a venue for internationals?

I think the actual ruling they are looking at is no other major sports fixtures can take place in the same city, not just the stadium , which is why teh NRL are facing a problem if Sydney gets the 2018 cup

Or Rotterdam/Amsterdam with sponosred ferries

Wolfie's fun ferry

Right, a number of points:

1) Minns knows they are likely to be out at the next local election anyway.
2) It is a promise to "look into funding" not a promise that the Council will fund it.
3) There is no caveat about City having to be in the Premiership, which is daft, if they were to get relegated once, even twice, then a 35,000 seater would be stupid.
4) And if they DO go ahead and find funding and don't include the rail interchange, then they want shooting.

Instead of wasting peoples money on this type of thing, and the bid for City of Culture status, why aren't the politicians in Hull lobbying for investment to create jobs, to get the thousands of 16-25 year olds without work into meaningful employment?

Got the bus,had the plane,so why not

as much as i'd like Hull to win a world cup game, i still find it unlikely.

there is more to a world cup bid than just the ground. Hull's transport is poor (try getting a train out of the city after 9pm for example) there aren't enough hotel rooms and other corporate facilities for the FIFA gravy train and geographically we are out on a limb.

I think the 'yorkshire' venue is nailed on for Sheffield or Leeds.

as for the KC itself, I think 35k would be just about the maximum for City. And i'd like to think that any ground increase (that HullFC have said they'd support on several occasions...which some City fans forget) would just be an incentive for us to grow our fanbase further.

it would be the perfect time for the NRL to promote itself around Australia and east Asia playing games 'on the road' in places like Perth, PNG and even Hong Kong and Tokyo are feasible.

Quote ="Eric The Viking"Where will the games be played if this happens.... boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tn ... 2123636343 Also, looks nailed on that the capacity will be extended to 35,000. Will this completely kill the atmosphere at Hull games with roughly only a third of it being full for most games.... www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... ticle.html As mentioned in one of the posts, the atmosphere is still better with the stadium half full of FC fans than it is full with City fans, don't think they like that!! '" This old chestnut again.

Quote ="Eric The Viking"Where will the games be played if this happens.... boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tn ... 2123636343 Also, looks nailed on that the capacity will be extended to 35,000. Will this completely kill the atmosphere at Hull games with roughly only a third of it being full for most games.... www.thisishullandeastriding.co.u ... ticle.html As mentioned in one of the posts, the atmosphere is still better with the stadium half full of FC fans than it is full with City fans, don't think they like that!! '" This old chestnut again.

I disagree i think 35,000 is to big for City it would be very seldom full. Anyway England has got to win the bid yet and with a joint Spain/Portugal bid Blatter and his corrupt lot might decide they want a bit of sun.

Anyone know how he manages to keep the job?

He seems to win favour with the european leagues by shafting the english league where possible.

There is virtually no chance of England getting the World Cup.

Based on?

City wont get 1 0f the grounds as the other clubs all ready have plans for upgrades and are way ahead of us as a city as well......1 of the hotel chains in our area has just gone t1ts up and the transport system ios terrible and fwiw...i couldnt give a flying one about the world cup being here as the normal bloke on the street will be simply priced out.

The reputation, past and present of the Tiggers fans will stop this. Even the cages they built to shepherd them from away fans didn't work.

Will that stop Leeds then???

Didnt stop Germany getting a World cup and thier fans are notorious as well.

Read Agars "How to win friends and influence people".

This country is fooked enough without blowing billions more on a World Cup we have no chance of winning. It's bad enough paying for an Olympics just so we can win a couple of medals on a bike. How much is it costing? £12bn? I'd sooner the money went on our shafted NHS and helping companies through a recession. Possibly helping grass-roots sports too.

Rant over.

Have a look at Manchester and see what the Commonwealth Games brought, they are truly community and public events (as are the Olympics), which sets them poles apart from the World Cup, as someone else has said (fcbaldy I think?) the average fan will get priced out of attending the important games at any World Cup event.

Just think, the UK will be coming out of recession towards the end of next year, and just as it's gaining pace mid 2011, BOOM, a massive shot in the arms for the economy from the Olympics, what concerns me is how the legacy is managed, I wouldn't trust the idiots at the various "forward" quango's as far as I could throw them, M2002 was a Ltd company, we were allowed to make a profit, the government didn't interfere much, which is why it worked.

2012 and the WC bid are so political it's untrue, which is what could cause them to be percieved as a failiure, and then we'll show how it [ishould[/i have been managed when we deliver Glasgow in 2014.

Is Glasgow commenwealth or City of Culture Martin?

The selection process etc. for the "true" Eurpean Capital of Culture is to change from 2012, preseumably so that the "president of the EU" can select it themselves.

Nothing justifies £12bn+ on a 3 week sporting event that will leave a massive stadium, pool and other infrastructure as its legacy. Not to mention a sporting village and media centre.

I'd sooner see Police, Nurses and Carers given the benefit of massive funding than someone I've never heard of collect a silver medal for archery.