What I cannot get my head round is, A few season ago I posted WHY don't Rovers play they home
game with Hull F C at the K C Stadium so more fans have a better chance to get to see the game .I was shoot down in flames.
The reason other posters( more Rovers fans) stated why should they give up ground advantage.
But now that they are in trouble it's a good idea to ground share .They had there chance way back to ground share now they can take a run and jump for me.

Why should Hull Fc Bail rovers out,

because if i remember rightly..

Wasn't Rovers in trouble when they had the boulevard?? That's why we bought it off them and they went to craven park??

They are a cap in hand Club

Didn't you know it's customary to have a domestic out in public? This is the internet version of arguing out in the front garden

i Wonder how rovers would feel if we needed to ground share with them??

The board or the players?

I'd think they'd snap up the chance of extra revenue personally.

They still wouldn`t get the crowds needed .

I think when FC are on Sky and one of our players is voted MOM and asked who's charity is going to receive the £100 then they should say "Hull KR ground fund"

Let the dobbins rot as they would us in the same situation and have done in the past.

Let Allam bail them out as east hull needs a badminton stadium.

As for ground sharing, I hear Wakefield are after a new stadium and their coach likes Hull.

Tut Tut

Just looking it from a Rovers perspective, I wonder whether their fans would follow them and if so what gates they would average?

On one hand I think their support might drop, however on the other hand with better facilities, all sides under cover etc their crowds may go up.

If they do move in, I think it will become permanant as I can't see them wanting to move back to NCP and having all that upkeep and re-development work.

Let's be honest, KR are a small club, they cannot manage over 9,000 when their ground is in their "heartlands", moving to the KC would be more expensive, and if even 20% of their fans found the move unpalettable then they'd really struggle to afford the rent.

This story is about KR attempting to put pressure on the council, a council that have much higher priorities in terms of civic/corporate responsibilities than a loud mouth ambulance chaser and a dodgy bloke from Egypt, and if KR think HCC are in any position to try and bulle the various EU establishments that are allocating the monies then I suggest Grudgell and co have a think, which is more important, Caravan Park or the Siemens Energy Park?

I know which I'd rather the council concentrated on.

www.superleague.co.uk/article/ro ... haul/24329

www.superleague.co.uk/article/ro ... haul/24329

If I suggested that you'd rather the council spent £8.2million filling in a single pot-hole with solid gold than on the development at Craven park, would you deny it?

Sounds like it's all on again anyway, so as were were. Prezza's being drafted in as a a go-between.

I reckon Rovers need a £500k p.a. uplift in profits every year to break even, ie to cover the current losses and the incremental outgoings on £2m quid of loan repayments plus additional operating costs. That's a lot, isn't it?

I certainly wouldn't be wanting to take on a loan of that size, having racked up losses of about £2m already, on the strength of an imagined public demand to see Scott Murrell and Jason Netherton currently constrained only by lack of capacity. One-eyed optimism? I guess we'll soon find out...anyway, the reliable Hull taxpayer is on the hook for payment defaults by any of the proposed tenants.

I suspect this story is a load of old tosh which may be designed to put pressure on the council / whoever is stopping KR develop their stadium.

All 3 Hull teams playing out of 1 stadium sounds like a sensible decision on paper, but I don't think the pitch could hack it, and KR fans would not want to move to West Hull.

No change there then

They don't have to move to West Hull, just attend the games there.

I got told today by a rovers fan that they wont be moving to kc now..

reason being they would get the same deal we get..

kr would keep the money of there average attendance, anything over smc get it.. and there average attendance is about 8k (im not sure) but then they would also have to pay rent..

so they would lose money..

(Thats what my mate said.. don't no how true??)

If your mate said it then it's 100% true.

Glad we got it sorted.

Wish Was That Easy All Time.. is there any truth to it..???

God forbid it's a commercial one. Praise the Lord for the benevolence of peppercorn

Hudgell is losing money, you know, all that spending on fancy training camps and 11 overseas players contracts is expensive. The council need to understand that unless they build him a stand and underwrite the repayments, he'll leave Rovers in the doo-doo. Has it not occurred to anyone that he could actually spend a bit less, break even and wait with a big of dignity for the council to work with ERDF - [uon his behalf[/u - to build him this palatial facility? Deary me.

Would Rovers fans rather Hudgell spent less on the squad and remain at Craven Park, or continue to go to cap and play at the KC?

No wonder they bill themselves as "The Community Club", the community, or more specifically the ratepayers, have been bankrolling them since the late 80s

Typo



I think the term, "Living beyond your means" comes to mind.

It's funny that as far as I know, no credible paper or radio station has actually picked up on this story. I mean: The Sun and Humberside.

How many "credible" papers or radio stations cover RL significantly to be fair?