just where and what is kath and the board doing with the money us fans put into this club

1. over 8,000 season ticket season sales
2. over 1 million spent in the club shops last year as reported.
3. the second best supported club(before tonight) in superleague.

All this on top of one of the leagues biggest sponsorship deals with p&o and sky money.

so, mrs hethrington, rule and the board, what are you doing with our money we spend?

1. you have in return given us 2nd rate coaches, agar and sharp, agar was cheap, we had the perfect opportunity last may when peter sharp ws given the sack to go get a good coach from OZ, look at hudds now, a young coach who has breathed new life into that club, we get jon sharp, who if what we have read is in charge of overseaing our coaching methods from junior level upwards! god help us!

2. 2nd rate players and poor players, (coaching staff, rule and hetherington all included), as much as i hate hull kr, at least they go out and target good players, who are worth paying that little bit more for, STOP TAKING THE CHEAP OPTION NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!

remember the old saying, YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, if you keep on as you are, signing cast offs, producing boring predictable rugby, fans will not come, then whose money will you be counting when fans say enough is enough, no more wasting money on watching second rate rugby=no money spent on merchandise and season tickets

couldnt agree more with this post

all the progress we have made in ticket sales, merchandise sales, corporate sales since the move to KC will be lost unless something is done

i can't imagine the marketing people at P&O being that eagar to part with more cash either (especially in a recession) when they agreed the deal they were sponsoring a CC winner who was featuring in big clashes on TV all the time

Just to add a point to the money debate, we've not sold much advertising this season. The amount of advert stands covered up is shocking!

to be honest its been like that for most non-TV games for the last couple of years, its not just due to our form

That stuff is worth nowt to the club, it's all Duffen, er i mean the SMC

The problem isn't [ihow much[/i we're spending on the squad - we spend close on the full cap. The problem is that we waste money signing and/or retaining average players on much too high a salary.

Think I can speak for a lot of us on here.
Money we can't really afford or could have gone on something perhaps more deserving?
Spent a frigging fortune on FC this month and with Edinburgh next month too.
My choice I know.
But what do you do?
All I want is the same commitment back!

[iThat stuff is worth nowt to the club, it's all Duffen, er i mean the SMC[/i

Not actually true the HKC. Hull FC do get revenue.

[ito be honest its been like that for most non-TV games for the last couple of years, its not just due to our form[/i

The crowd side advertising is definitely worse than last season, even for TV games, East Stand side. I spent plenty of time looking at it last season, and looks like this season is going to be no different.

that could correspond to point 2 onmy op, is coaching staff on the salary cap?

another point, imo, whilst kath hetherington is on the hull fc board, we will never be or close to leeds on the pitch and with success!

Why not put on free travel for all fans to the Wakey game away in June as a small token, to say sorry and thank you to us fans.

Yeah right, like they would do something that costs them money.

be realistic, stop this dreaming about Crocker and the other guy because its not going to happen after all these weeks of waiting.
money mentioned above + salary cap space + 100k if needed handed in another clubs direction --> the scrum half and top centre we need = jobs a good un

No way!!!! Would only cost them 2 quid to get us there......

Can't they do Catalans away just for us?



Oh and feel for me...I have work in Wakey monday....

Remember when Cas took 6000 to London for a quid each

Our situation is parellel to Newcastle I.M.O. An excellent support,money coming in from the punters,but run on a shoestring.

I'm not convinced we are run on a shoestring, more a case of just being poorly run, with average players being paid far to much IMO.

we are rugby leagues Newcastle, we even have the same colour scheme!

now which legend are we going to wheel out to 'Save us' then?

lee Crooks

they don't spend the money in the right areas

the coach is the most important role at any sports club...yet i can't even remember the last time we hired someone else's successful coach

Mcrae got sent here via a merger, Kear was his assistant, Sharp was just an assistant, Agar was his assistant, and no doubt we'll be getting Agar's assistant next too!

you don't get St Helens messing about like that, Millward, Anderson and Potter will have cost them good money