Speaking as a long time supporter i am extremely pleased at the progress Rovers have made in the last few years.....and as for the poster who reckoned 70% were newbies, i would think all clubs who have either gained promotion to Super League or moved to new stadiums fall into the same cateogary.

I think a merged team would easily attract 10-12000 fans pretty much every week. There are plenty of rugby fans out there who don't subscribe to the tribalistic rivallry that many supporters of both clubs currently do.

Long term one club in the Elite division is the aim imho, thats if the game hasn't gone bust by then.

depends on sky

Thats a big point. I dont live in Hull and therefore dont subscribe to the hate fc above all mentallity. If (big if) one team emerged and was going well it could well attract more fans from outside the city limits.
Someone mentioned salary cap, but if you have a team to compete and attract 15-20,000 a week then you attract the Haslers and the Kearneys and Bellamys of this world, who would work the miracles within.
Nice dream but will never happen.

No a definite nightmare



I would genuinely just stick to amateur if that nightmare ever happened.

it would be surprising how many fans could/would turn their backs

No you wouldnt.

The passion would go, it would become a franchised, manufactured and souless club in my opinion. I for one could not feel anything for such a creation. I have friends who are FC fans and we have great rivalry with the rugby, this would be lost if we all started supporting Hull United or whatever the name might be, probably playing in black and red and more than likely at the KC.

Hull KR and Hull FC are what makes this city unique in RL in this country, I don't like FC, but I sure as hell want them to continue for as long as I am alive, the same as I do my club, the rivalry is REAL, forget any other so called derby, this city has the ONLY one and long may it continue.

Sadly I would, you have to live in the city to understand we have a long history, made worse the last few years by your bitter chairman.

Don't get me wrong I have a lot of friends who are rovers fans, but is a big no no for me.

You mean by grabbing the club by the balls, getting it into SL and bringing in a coach, players to beat you regularly (when we all knew it was 8 easy points for you). Give me a bitter chairman anyday if thats the result.

Fair comment..

Great post

Excuse me? supported Rovers for 30 years in dark days and not so I certainly know what the history is.
A little patronising I think.

A little patronising?

Sort of like telling someone they would go watch a merged team after they've already stated they wouldn't you mean?

Top post, we are unique, we are the only true derby, with season long rivalry, no matter what them on sky say!! hope it lasts through all my lifetime!
and for the record, i wouldnt support a united team, id follow West Hull

She inferred I didnt know of the rivalry because I didnt live in the city, patronising.
I said she would go to see a merged team (allbeit eventually). Opinion.

and a chairman that has saddled you with a £3m debt???

Lets face it, theres probably about 6000 or so fans at each club who are not blooded in the same way that a lot of us are.

oh and these Id never go lot would soon be back at the first sniff of a final

But she may not go see a merged team, as alot wouldnt, me included, I often go watch West Hull, and would continue to in earnest if we merged, I couldnt/wouldnt accept a merged team, i was brought up down Subway St down Hessle Road, started going to the boulevard with my grandad, when my dad was at sea, Hull FC was and still is a massive part of my life, and memories of being with my grandad on the terraces is a memory ill cherish, i would hate to see Hull and Rovers disolve to make a "super team", and wouldnt support it, im a black and white, thank god itll never happen!!!

Which he and the board have underwritten, during a period of rapid growth and investment. Sunday was bad moment in a good era for Hull KR. You'd have to have a fairly over-developed sense of entitlement to deny that, as a Hull KR supporter.
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some fans are obsessed with finances, as long as my clubs ok, i really couldnt be ars*d with another teams finances/accounts! some have way to much time on their hands