A few years ago before the merger with gateshead we was a shareholders club and shane richardson said he wanted to have a share issue again so us the fans have the chance to purchase shares. However this has not being forthcoming under the present regime this is the reason we never really find out what our present fianical situation is.

In the past there was an AGM every year and everyone who had shares was invited to this meeting where the accounts were produdced for every one to see not like now were the only people that seem to know is kath and the croonies.

On the back of a challenge cup win a grand final apperance increased attendances,merchandise and coparate on the increase year after year why do they find it in them to continue to fleece us the fans because all that seems to happen is they put season passes and merchandise up to get even more money off us despite them raking it in.

If were not making money theres something wrong which just goes to prove we are run by a set of idiots who are just intrested in making money for themselves and fleecing us and proves what a bad management team we have at the helm i wish we could fing a big investor who could buy the club back for us the fans so we could invest again with a share issue.

We need somebody on the board who knows a bit about rugby league who is well respected in the game a CEO who deals with rugby issues not buissness leave that to the marketing or whoever deals with that sort of field or appoint someone to solely deal with that

Hull FC to me is first and foremost been turned into a business. Less for the fans and more to the favored paper, If hull are losing money then it is being spent in te wrong departments, year after year they make so much money, I paid 30 quid for my son (2yr) to have a shirt.

Although a club is a business, they do there best to strip us of every penny e.g. this weekends ticket prices.

Round of a applause!

how much would the club cost to buy?

Think was around the 2.5 million mark(oh to win the lottery)

is that all, let me raid the jar

Great only 2.499.99p to find now

Surely 2,499.98

Plummer got asked that 2 years ago, he's just taken his shoes and socks off

The way i see it we have 2 choices we sit back and take the crap off the board, or we start a campign to do something about it after all we will be here long after they have raked the money off us and gone

people like you make me appreciate our current board.Well done

People like who?

Anyone lend me a pound?

brother

Why's that then

To be fair i have and i know others too have not being happy with two club bosses living uder the same roof, the only reason gateshead merged with hull was due to the fact they could make more money off us then they ever would up there! im sorry to say i feel like our club view’s us not as human RL fanatics but as walking, talking, living pound signs.

Totally agree they have never being in it for the love of the club but to make the money back they invested in gateshead

Because you make statements and allegations that are no more than your opinion and then compound it by saying the current board are incompetant with no evidence.
Because to fairly criticise you need to be in possesion of all the facts and unless you are on the board you have no conception of the problems facing the club.I have no problem with your criticism based on facts but your generalisations are just not thought through.Well done for buying a shirt for 30 quid,but nobody forced you.
Your assumption that money recieved by the club is snaffled by the board is just not true.
Us speccies want success,success costs money, without a benefactor the club need to maximise revenue to put out a decent team.At the beginning of the season we nearly all thought we had a good team and would possibly finish in the top two,this hasn't panned out but the board did thier bit by assembling the team.Now we are in a position where the club is taking a lot of flack for poor performances.This is not all down to the board, so to blame them for all our woes is ludicrous.
The team we have is at least equal to most of our rivals but we are lacking the organisation we need,the team are low in confidence and the result at the weekend was awful,but you cant lay all our troubles at their door.

I hope you mean Zimbabwean dollars and nor pounds sterling?

i paid the cash, and to be honest they make sooo much profit it's unreal, i would be happy if they had a better commitment to US the fans! i have no problem putting money into the club, but i expect back more than a rugby match, how about a club that talks properly to us, lets us know were in the black or how much in the red. im gutted our board is sooooo quite because im sick of the rumors.

Ok, is it fact time?

This board blundered over Cooke at some point
This board broke salary cap, twice
This board (Plummer) did say ex Super League shares would be availiable to fans
As a club we have no real financial clout, although we should!

Turkish Lira or Japanese Yen?

until they realised they would have to be voting ones !

the club will have to raise a share issue, but not until the day our accounts go into the black

Factually correct I agree with your points.

Just to add a point or two :

How many of us would/could invest in a club with no return on that investment? I had shares in Hull FC and my footy team too, when the footy team got a benefactor the shares were bought back at less than I paid and no dividend had ever been paid.

Secondly, what clout would a few thousand supporters purchasing shares have ? none I would wager, we would have no more say than we do now.

The club employes many people so called professionals in their field however mistakes still aprrear to happen.

Its time for another Roy (RIP) he always had our clubs best interests at heart I am not so sure others have.

The board fleece us plain and simple they have let us down big style they have let an asset(or ) whichever you prefer walk out of the door for possibily nothing, we the fans are so secluded from the truth its unreal they know were always going to back our team no matter what.

But the truth of the matter is that sooner or latter things are going to have to change after the recent success they should have built on the feel good factor but not one of them is a people person who the fans can relate to they keep to much information from us.

Take plummer he wouldn't do live debates on radio blunderside, i was involved with a fundraising event for steve presscott when i took the money raised in to the club he didn't even know that fundraising event had being going despite the fact it had being advertised in the local paper.

We want a board of directors with the finger on the pulse that are inovative forward thinking and are going to help us grow as a club and as a buissness and i for one don,t see this happening under the present board