it's made my day at work a little more fun!

"They also show £1.7m owed by the companies that run Hull’s home ground"

Interesting

Someone was on sportstalk last night going on about that. It didn't sound good!

www.hull.vitalfootball.co.uk/for ... mentid=955

www.hull.vitalfootball.co.uk/for ... mentid=955

Sounds to me like fingers in the till. They haven't spent enough to be skint!

edit: already mentioned in the above link

Tickles me that he slagged off the rugby supporters of the city much to the delight of the footy fans and now he's turned on them!

I'm with whoever it was who mentioned the the CEO of The SMC should have no allegiance to either the football / rugby team.

Nothing against Duffen but the position he finds himself in, he could quite easily become another Lloyd and who can blame him?

Sorry to piddle on you chips ladies, but that Private Eye thing's been doing the rounds for many months and has been roundly put to bed even by the most rabid negative types. If you work with some City fans that are getting jumpy about it, they must be poorly informed or simply humouring you.

As for the rest of it, some of you really need to get help for ther chips on your shoulders. Why you can't be happy for the City of Hull to have a succesful football team and get on with following your own sport is lost on me. It smacks of envy.

Nice to see a few othes that have a more mature attitiude. Maybe they don't have to justify why the chose a football Club to follow that just happened to be in the top flight. Funny how people from Hull don't apply similar logic to follow Wigan or St Helens though isn't it?

Eh up MUH is back, did City win yesterday by any chance?

Are you trying to say that there're only silly comments about City on here when we win?

I haven't got anything against city and go to watch the odd game, however they aren't "successful"

Really......I think whats been around for many months is the wait for city to file accounts. Have they been put into accountants hands many months ago, or fairly recently?

The only thing I have against City personally, are the "new" rugby hating fans and your moronic chairman.

Precisely.

So in the highest league they can be in and being solvent's not succesful? How odd.

The accounts were mentioned in Private Eye at the back end of last season, the reasons for the hold up are well documented in a number of interviews and financial statements have been accepted by the Premier League and the results published . Sorry if that spoils your excitement.


As for "new" fans, our gates have gone up quite gently since the change to the new stadium, even though Premier League away fans don't seem to travel. There's a fair amount af fans that used to go to some games, that now go to most, but yes there's some pillocks that've latched on, I just thought they'd jumped over from FC. I don't think too many City fand hate RL as plenty have a lot of time for Rovers. I suppose the more mature attitude of their fans has something to do with that.

As for Duffen, I don't really understand why you hate him, bet then again, looking at what you've put about the RL's mess up with the Internationals, you seem to prefer to dislike Duffen rather than face the truth about those that run RL.

They've never won a trophy.

Ignoring the fact that City have won trophies, my local pubs won lots of trophies, does that make them more succesful than Hull FC?

What trophies are they then ? Please don't say the ty one they got for the play offs.

Okay, if a prize worth a minimum of £60,000,000 is rubbish in your eyes, there's little point me listing the others.

mainly from tv money, and which you were unable to spend on players as they kept turning you down

small fish in a massive ocean thats what hull city are atm

enjoy it this season, because i can't see them staying up again

In relative terms, yes. Have City won anything since being in the premiership? No.

Also, there aren't many fans (of any sport) that use the balance sheet as a measure of success.

I didn't use it as a measure of success, more just to highlight the stupidity of the other guys comment. You seem to be trying to add a bit to his stupidity by adding a qualifying point to his post that wasn't there, but makes no difference anyway, unless of course you're just trying to drift the thread off topic to get it locked.

wouldn't be a bad thing

Bit rich.

As this thread is about the imminent departure of your eminent chair, it's your unexpected rants about the imagined hatred you appear to think we harbour for your insignificant team that have caused any diversion.

We aren't bothered about your club. As Duffen is also chair of the SMC we do have an interest in him and his operations which affect our stadium - if his consortium goes bust we are going to speculate on how that could affect us and the future management of the stadium.

In my opinion, that will be for the better - adieu, Mr D.

Stoke finished second that season, got promoted and got the prize money, but they didn't get a trophy. I know I'd be more happy as a Stoke fan.

The trophies with any prestige in England are the Premier League, FA Cup and Carling Cup.

Same in English Rugby League, theres the Super League and Challenge Cup.

Well, where do I start with that pile of nonsense?



I've not ranted and if you read, you'll find I'm not anti-RL and simply responded to some rubbish someone posted. I hope that clears that up for you.

As for the Chairman going, I too have read this rumour but know little more about it. What you seem to be missing is that both Duffen and Pearson served Hull FC well. FC had the opportunity to get on board and chose not to. The RL screwed up the opportunity to have the International here despite the efforts of the SMC. Should the SMC be sold, it'll quite probably be sold 'as is' which would mean you could well have no more input to the SMC than you do now.

Be careful what you wish for, it could just come true.