Maybe he does on Morgan's planet???

According to Morgan Paul Cookes a good player!

Ipswich and city was not in the Barclays Premier League at the time

Did anybody else just hear Mr Duffen then on Radio Humberside at the Hull City Forum?

David Burns asked him if he'd been answering lots of letters from the people who watch Rugby League to which he responded "that can't be true because they cannot write". He giggled away thinking it was very funny, some of us actually think this is a serious matter.

relax

Burn [iall[/i of your bridges Duffer. Another toss er too late for Shrove Tuesday.

I cannot believe he said that.
Disgraceful if true. Anyway, just compfort yourself with the thought that most of the "faithfull" city stalwart fans are waiting to see what division they are in next season before renewing passes, at least at my work. Cretins!

He said it, even Burnsey said to him " I don't believe you've just said that Mr Chairman".

Whether he was joking or not he's not helping the situation by saying things like that. The City is losing out because of this decision and I feel like others it will hurt us in the future.

Well for someone in his position to be such an idiot does him no credit whatsoever. Agree with you on the City losing out, its a crazy decision.

Someone told me today though (not sure how true this is) that Wigan were also not able to commit a specific date but the RFL would wait until fixtures were announced and work round it, but we were not given the option? Sounds like rubbish to me, especially with what Duffen has come out with then tonight

He did it deliberately I'm sure, how nieve to think 'when he bought it' knob edd.

Morgan's column is ghost-written.

It has to be. Apparently us Rugby league types can't write.

I've said it before and i'll say it again, the KC is JUST the right size to fill and create a fantastic atmosphere for a League International. To play the World Champs would have sold out. Duffin is a cretin. To turn it down is to suggest dont ask us again.

Morgan also likes Cockayne

If Wigan get relegated , then they can place a request with football league for a fixture change . However if they dont get relegated then the request would go to the premiere league who would almost certainly say no unless it was to suit TV.

He is a business man too , and find it hard to believe he would turn away a large crowd which would buy stadium food , drink and other extras that the SMC would make money on . Also the only reason the KC was built is because Hull City would play there . With FC as sole tenant there would be no KC and so no Big internationals of RL or Football U 21's. So you are bad mouthing the Chairman of the club that meant the KC was built.

More SMC v Hull Citizens.

Problem is, Chair SMC = Chair Hull City who has just cited Hull City's POTENTIAL fixtures as a reason to deny Hull a major international sporting event.
Unfortuately, Chair SCM is paid to manage our community stadium - part of his remit is to attract major international events to Hull.

So IMO Duffen must resign as the head of the SMC as a clear, and presumably ongoing, compromising of interests has arisen.

How can we get access to the original agreement between the council and the SMC outlining their obligations to the community as MANAGERS, not owners of the stadium?



... sums it up perfectly.



I'm also waiting for my replies from the SMC and Carl Mince....

Yes heard what he said , was tongue in cheek , and as someone who watches rugby league and football it did not upset me . However I can feel uproar in the air from sections of the RL world who cannot take a joke .

Being a band wagon City fan means that you wont know about a man called Adam Pearson, without him and the council owned telephone company called "Kingston Communications" the stadium would not have been built.

You surely cannot be this naive?

The stadium would not have been built for City alone, so it works both ways. The whole point is that the project was only viable, and to an extent remains so, with both clubs using it. Something that both you and Duffen appear to have either forgotten or arrogantly chosen to ignore.

I normally steer clear of these arguments as I'm not really bothered about City one way or the other, but you're doing them no favours on here with your defence of the indefensible.

Christ you make me laugh.

One of the reasons I started to post on here was the absolute crud some of you posted about Hull City. The chairman makes one little joke and some of you are drowning us with tears. Get a back bone.
For those twittering about him resigning due to conflicts of interest, give your heads a rattle.

It's FC's board you need to be calling negligent because they've turned down every opportunity to get involved with the SMC. The plan was that they'd be equal partners, FC wouldn't do it. About the only input they had was to try to reduce the capacity. If they'd won that battle, you wouldn't even be having this debate.

Now, when all the works done you're expecting more say?

And out comes the

He would feel very safe in an audience 100% Football, although said tongue in cheak it was a very 'laddish' thing to say by a man who normally comes across with a fair share of intelligence, until now.

It also goes some way for him to feel justified in his (bent) decision and probably feeling comfortable being with that audience, there is no way he would have said that in front of a RL audience, he would have been lynched on the spot, and rightly so.

I honestly think that the man is so out of touch with this City, he is an embarrassment, the sooner the council get rid of him the better.

Someone who only posts on here because he gets upset about what's said about City think that RL fans are being over-sensitive?

You couldn't make it up.




IIRC the board at the time couldn't or wouldn't come up with the money required to take up the post. My guess is that situation is unchanged.

And people aren't asking for more influence for FC. They are in fact arguing for no influence from either club.

We don't expect any say.................the same way City Hull shouldn't have any say.

The SMC were given the task of running the COMMUNITY stadium and should do so showing no preference to either club that plays there