An article in the National Daily Mail claims both City and Wigan are expecting a motion at the summer meeting of the Premier league to ban dual sporting use of stadiums in the top flight. The poor state of both pitches is seen by rival clubs as been caused by them sharing the ground’s with Super League Clubs

Good job it won't concern us then.

Nowt wrong with the KC pitch.

Would like to see the Premier League try to enforce it.

City can feck off then

Two words : Daily Mail

No. It looked in great condition yesterday.

What a sack of ........the pitch is worse when they play and we havent played on it for 4 mths.....

City would be the ones that would need to move anyway if the Premier League enforced it. We have a 25 year lease, i'd take a five million in compensation from City if they wanted to buy us out of it.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attle.html City don't have the cash to build a ground so I can't see it working

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... attle.html City don't have the cash to build a ground so I can't see it working

It couldn't happen, the monies invested by the Council and various sporting bodies would have to be repaid, in total about £100m would be needed (remember, the land the stadium was built on was a "gift" from the Council, so anyone wanting a sole sport use for the stadium would have to buy it, they'd also have to compensate FC, City cannot afford to do any of that, with or without the Premier League TV monies.

Edited for accuracy.

Edited for accuracy

The sky money goes up next season for city by a huge amount. They could finance it through that if they needed to i reckon.

You can see local politicians voting for this to happen, in a General election year? (if at all)

If it comes to making a decision that would keep city in the premier league or not with the extra revenue and profile that brings to hull i can see them voting to sell city the stadium. Doubt this full thing will happen but it may not be as unlikely to happen as is believed.

I don't think the local MP's would be interested and most of the councilors are City supporters

Whilst the money does go up city still owe around £18m even if they stay up, If there was any truth in this story surely bbc sky etc would have picked up on it

You'd imagine they would.

They owe 18mill. The sky money goes up by about 20mill i think so it would easily finance taking more debt on.

the premier league cant just kick city out of the premier league like that its not like they have franchise systems anyway, we dont need to worry as city will be going down, like someone said we have a 100 year lease with it looked at after 25 years so were in it for another 17 years. all i can say is the premier league and city can go and f&ck off

Can you really see Bartlett spending that money on satdium when the team has struggled to avoid relegation for two seasons (and thats assuming they survive in the top flight, which I see no signs of just yet)

There are very few football fans in the Hull City Council cabinet.

As it stands at the minute the Pearson has said that they have to borrow each month to pay wages, they plan to build a new training ground near goole if they stay up,

I'l be amazed if city have the funds or can get the finance bearing inmind what the accounts have said in their last 2 reports.

how very forward thinking.

Does anyone really think that FC or City could AFFORD to be sole tenant in the KC?

they going down anyway

The point here though is city will find the funds if the ultimatum is given to them by the premier league. An agreement would be found between FC and City via the SMC and i'm pretty sure we would move out to a new ground through hefty compensation. (it is likely to never happen but if the premier league did instruct City that they had to be sole occupants)