It's a constant source of amusement to me, certainly.

Great new



Things are just so good at our club,

Sounds good, the "board" have took some stick in recent times maybe..just maybe they aren't so bad afterall !!
Touch wood !! Watch it we'll go bump next week...................

TBH you hardly need to put spin on a 5th consecutive year of profit, it speaks for itself. Particularly in the context of other clubs' financial performances.

Correct and well done, lets hope you make a profit now you've decided to actually field a team on the pitch that appears to be able to compete

this is the key word here. it will look more impressive when we get to see the results of the other superleague clubs profits later in the year, much later for certain clubs

Would imagine that may actually increase our profits, draw more crowds, sell more merchandise etc...well run buisiness is Hull FC

When we spend a bit more on players the fans do their bit and we sell another 1000 seaon tickets worth around £200,000, that and the takings from record shirt sales are in the bank! Another profit next year almost guaranteed already! This is the time of year that you have to make your money if you do, then you are OK, whatever happens, but you need to sell shirts merchadise etc. in large amounts to set you up for the season!

watch and learn!

Well considering we're at record season ticket sales and have sold 7,000 shirts, we've not made a bad start to the financial year. I'd imagine we're ahead of budget after 2 months.

Oops, didn't realise you'd posted virtually what I had. Couldn't hear you above the ringing of tills in FC's shop and ticket office.

Would you say that we competed in 2005 and 2006? Because we made a profit in those season as well. In fact we've made a profit in each of the last 5, and the only season where we underspent the cap by any significant amount was last year.

Keep clutching at those straws.

Don't worry you'll be fine. Now you've installed a system theat allows the same ticket through multiple times you will have 16000 gates in no time.

as tony the tiger would say "hull fc, there gggggggggrrrrrrreeeeaaaaaatttttttttt!!!!!!!!!".

These figures are a credit to the Hull fans for sticking by their club through difficult times on the park. Fair play to you.

Well done to all the board members and the staff within the club who have all contributed (shop and ticket staff also)....credit where credit is due.

well done to the club espcially james rule who has taken some stick from people but to be fair the man has taken on the chin and has put the club in a great position and i can only see a bright future for the black and whites. hopefully we can have a sucessfull time on the pitch and who knows we may make an all time profit good times

could someone please explain what the nett liabilities are please? What do they consist of? Thanks. Hats off to the club, very pleased by this news!

Nice to see the high 'cash at bank ' figure . Well done Fc

Hull City have a Net liabilty, he's know as Myhill

He blamed it on the 'spin' as well.

FAN-tastic news....I don't know whether I can cope with any more (good) news, I'm starting to feel sycophantic.

I think Kath plays a big part in the financial success and stability at the club. As we all know her PR and public speaking are not her greatest asset but she is a hard nosed no nonsense businesswoman who manages a business within its means. Not like the last Hull City chairman or the green eyed chairman of a rival local super league side. Well done Kath

Message board rule 11b
[iThou shall not knowingly write anything nice or positive about FCs chairperson [/i



The club have done very well in face of the recession and some very bad results last year, on from 2008s ( Wembley excepted ) poor pitch performances. The day to day running of the club is down to Sir JAMES RULE I reckon and credit where credit is due I think he's doing a brill job.

Hull Fc have to be applauded for the way they have turned in a profit in a sport that doesn't exactly lend itself to profit making. breaking even seems to be an achievement very few teams can manage.
I thought this coming year could have been a challenging year for you lot after the disappointments of 2 years of underperforming (wembley aside). It could have taken a big outlay to get a team capable of performing and a potential hit in season passes to turn a few fans around. But credit where credit is due the signing of Long was a master stroke from a PR/marketting point of view (one mans spin is another mans PR) and it managed to focus the fans view point on the future rather than the past, sell a lot more passes and moved on a lot of merchandise.

The marketting of the new signings and rebranding of some of the existing (the Tongan mafia thing) has been very well done and generated interest when it would have been easy for the fans to dwell on the negatives. Obviously this needs to be backed up by performances on the pitch and getting off to the start you have will have been a massive relief to the board at Fc. The way FC run their marketting / shop must be benchmark in our sport, certainly it is somewhere we need to look at and learn, we are a way behind FC in years in the SL but we need to be showing at least some improvement on this revenue stream.

So although it pains me to do so (it doesn;t really as I wouldn't want any RL club to suffer financially) well done FC (just hope the wheels com off on the pitch tonight

)

Any truth in the rumour that rovers were planning to market wheeldon and cooke as the longhill mafia but changed their minds when they had a visit from the real longhill mafia?

Good unbiased post.