Anthony Gardner

Anybody else see tommy lee and danny houghton there at the end???? Some would say [size=59(standee)[/sizethey should of been at home thinking about the game on Tuesday or training constantly.

Hull City v Manchester United - Attendance: 55,019. 26 February 1949.

Hull City 0 - 1 Manchester United Attendance: 24945 24th May 2009



Amazing how many rugby fans have a football team.

Amazing how many football fans post on an RL forum.

Shouldn't you be busy celebrating?

It's a thread about Hull City.

Yer mentioned that yest too, but Baldy thought i was having a go! Maybe City staying up got him sooo angry he couldn't think straight!!!

I don't know if anyone else saw it, but SSN were talking to an academic football finance specialist earlier, talking about what the implications are surrounding relegation and survival. He said as well as City pocketing another 30 million, the local economy will benefit to the tune of 40 million.

That's right, 40 million bones



Of course, some of you more embittered jealous types will be along to strongly refute this fact and dismiss it as "Bo!!ocks", etc., but seeing as this was a bloke with letters after his name, and posessing half a brain, i'll choose to believe him

The problem though is that if the cash goes where the majority City support resides, it won't end up in Hull, rather Market Weighton, York, Driffield etc.

I think a good wedge of that cash is generated on or around matchdays, hotel use, bars, restaurants etc.

Believe it or not, Hull's becoming a bit of a good spot for a weekend trip.

Doubt that will apply to Hull.

Difference between Prem and Championship gates is an average of about 6000, made up of mainly away fans. These are bussed to the ground, then bussed straight back out.

The extra 6000 fans in the stadium will hardly make a difference to the city of Hull itself.

The only winners are the shareholders of City who will see the massive difference of income.

Oh and i have letters after my name too!

With very few hotel rooms of any quality

who needs quality, cheap and cheerful anytime due to the fact normally only aboyt 3 / 4 hours max spent in them on a weekend trip

Completely agree with that; city will have to spend well in excess of £20 million to compete next season

Newcastle squad's transfer value was £140 million + which shows how much of a big team they are and how much of a disaster it is for them to go down

City's squad being around £20 million highlights how fantastic it is just to compete at this level: in theory City should have been worse than Derby

Sorry but this expert IS talking BOLLOCKS. The figure for extra local (local been inside the city NOT outside) economy spend would be in the figure of £4M - £6M per year
I would like to see how the figure of £40M was come by.

Say the difference in fans between been in the Champ. to the Prem is 6000. Of this 1/10 of this number (as away fans) stay in a room & spend on average £100 each incl room/food/beers the rest are non stayers spending an average of £35 each (beers/food), we do not include match tickets as part of the local economy nor any food/beer bought in the stadium as this goes straight to the club/Duffen/shareholders. Nor any extra money from SKY, sponsers etc.
Multiply this by 19 games and you have a ball park figure of £4.5M so to say £40M is utter rubbish unless the expectation is that every single fan that doesn't come if in the championship spends on average £350 on a match day!!

And yes I've got a few letters after my name as well as real world financial analysis experience too..

But they paid over the odds for those players as they are not worth it.

Stoke spent nothing in comparrison and stayed up in comfort. By your reckoning they should have gone down as they not 'a big team' like Newcastle

Thank you

is very very poor). But well done as they had a remarkable start to the season, going to be an interesting summer as I don't think the City of Hull will attract decent football players and neither will Phil Brown imo who has looked out of his depth since Liverpool away.

Cant believe that shower of $hit stayed up now we have duffen saying we wont be able to sit in our part of the stadium while they increase
the capacity

i hope they go down next year

I watched the game and my god i was bored if thats what you call entertainment i for one am glad i arent a fan!!!


Maybe next year

Is there a link to this? Is the building going ahead?

Which part of the stadium is our part of the stadium?



Any link to this BTW?

Where did Duffen say this?

In Coach's head by the sounds of it.

and that is exactly what City fans would be saying about us if any of them watched us against Warrington

i bet you hate city more than rovers; its quite sad really

I'll always hate Rovers just a little more than City

Well done to City, need massive improvements for next season though both in personel and management.

Anyway we let this run so can you now use 'Other sports'.