No big works on the undersoil heating this year so two weeks should be enough for a relay. We will play on a sandy looking pitch for a few weeks while it takes hold anyway as normal. KC stadium all the way.

Its not two weeks. Rod Stewart is there on the 14th and the games start from the Thursday 23rd, so assuming the work gets underway on the Wednesday after Rod, that leaves from 9 days, not enough grass growth and more sand. Our next home match after the CC is July 8th which would have given just over 3 weeks which is suitable.

Hopefully something will be sorted. Still hopefully we can.play at kc

This fixture will be played at the KC, stop panicking.

Very much doubt it.

James Smailes tweeted

Nothing official yet, but I hear Hull FC are hopeful of playing their Cup quarter-final at the KC and have no intention of moving the game.

Donny on Thursday night would be great for me



Agree that the whole thing is a farce though. Not sure why "City" need to sort the pitch again this soon. Looks perfectly OK to me even with a season of football on it.

We shall see, do we really want to play on a recently worked on pitch?

It does now, wait until you see the state of it after having the Rod Stewart concert on it!

Are they going to flood it for "Sailing"?

I could reply really filthily but I won't!!

Not forgetting the Nitro Circus bikes churning it up too!

Forgot about those, yup..it's going to need some work doing to it!

Karen he only kicks 30 to 50 balls out to the fans not 90 mins of kicking grass.
lol

I suspect that's tounge in cheek



The stage will, if its anything like the last concerts, or the squash, kill off all the grass over about 20% of the pitch.

Dont they put boards down over the surface anyway??

If so, why not lift the current turf up before the concert, stick the boards down and lay the new turf afterwards giving it 10 days to bed in before our quarter final.....

I'm no horticulturalist mind

The stage and flooring shouldn't cause too much damage to the grass as it wont be down for long enough unlike when they have had the squash courts on it for a number of days.

Cant see why the KC needs to be relaid so frequently? I understood last time it was due to a disease in the grass that was killing it off.

Hearing it's at KC !!

Told you.

Challenge Cup Quarter Final
Published 09 May 2016
Following Hull FC's impressive victory in the sixth round of the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup, they have been drawn at home against Catalans Dragons in the Quarter-Finals.

The match will take place on the weekend of the 23rd-26th June at the KC Stadium, with the exact date to be confirmed imminently by the club and the Rugby Football League following discussions with broadcast partners.

Every year, pitch renovations take place during the summer months and both clubs are made aware of this in advance, as well as other summer activities taking place at the stadium.

The Managing Director of SMC has spoken to the Chairman of Hull FC and will be working on various option to ensure the pitch is the best it can be during the pitch renovation period.

We look forward to an exciting Challenge Cup Quarter-Final match and seeing Hull FC progress into the next round.

Yes, just confirmed by Smailesy on Twitter.

I should blooming hope so. Now I need any day but the Saturday as I'm working!!!

Got to be the Friday or Saturday as we play Hudds on the Thursday

We're Sunday the week before too which is why we could be Saturday

To be fair don't know where it came from that we wouldn't be playing at KC apart from all those in the know