Well they quickly forgot the handout that is 'the New Craven Park' so i'd guess they'll quickly forget this handout too.

Anyone would think you lot got f'ck all in the way of handouts, when in fact you have had a damn site more from various sources.

Difference been, we acknowledge we had a handout. You were offered to share it and turned that down. You've since moaned that you get nowt when actually you've had a hell of a lot off the council too. Thats the bit thats amusing.

No arguing today please. Its a good news day.

Of course we did, its about as conveinient as you playing every other game at the athletics stadium in Gateshead! Did that ever get seriously considered?

Not quite , just a re-distribution of the council tax paid.

I hope we rent some of the office space back to the council at a suitably extortionate rate!

Don't think it was ever seriously proposed TBH.

Exactly. I don't think Rovers playing in West Hull was given any serious thought, and quite right too. Clubs struggle out of their heartland, it will be interesting to see how St Helens cope gatewise in 2011, and also how Huddersfields crowd holds up for the 3 games at the Shay in June/July.

Surely theres a flip side to the arguement that it will generate work for builders, electricians and the associated infrastructure. Once the 'hub' is in place it will also generate jobs and investment in the city.

It's a decent point. You could also argue that things like Yorkshire Forward and other iniatives that are been stopped to save money also bring the same benefits to the area.

Don't know if you ever dealt with yorkshire forward but all the dealings I had went more backwards than forwards.

And the NHS are progressive because...?

Wasn't that the role of Yorkshire Forward?


The "hub" is a load of bollox. It's free operational infrastructure for a private limited company that the council have bailed once already by buying back NCP and which is not a going concern without directors underwriting it's losses. See the handout for what it is. Fantastic negotiation all round to get £4m of your money into a facility that in reality will be used for 30 odd hours a year. Enterprise hub my @rse.

Except you choose not to include the FACT that this is no handout, its being repaid, like a mortgae, over 30 years, along with partners in the project like Sirius and the University of Hull and Hull Adult Education and Hull Training etc.

So once again the "handout" stays firmly with yourselves.

Once again the only bollox being spouted is from a bitter and twisted female obsessive who may as well be called Mrs Wikpedia.

Where did you get that info from? The article states that the council will meet 4.2m of the bill but will look to reduce that through euro funding.

If it is a loan as you suggest then what kind of favourable agreement will that loan cover? That in itself is still a handout. I'm yet to see evidence though that this is a loan and not a grant.

Nice to know that you'r not bitter about it love!

I hope it is a grant and not a loan. I would prefer to see my fellow Rovers fans take a bit of banter/stick rather than have the club saddled with more debt!

this would have been great news if it was done at the Boulevard back in the day, but i guess that as its happening across the city the green eyed monsters all come out.

maybe the NHS dont want to build a new building and find it more convienent/cheaper to use as existing facility for there centre?
Anyone who doesnt like the idea of this money being spent in this way should take it up with the NHS, not Rovers.

What's the North Stand got to do with the NHS?

Which would be great if they employed local builders, electricians etc but as we saw in the floods most of the workers were from out of town.

From the council meeting itself. I think if you ask nicely they will relay the information to your goodself aswell

The council effectively acts as a guarantor, so it can't really be characterized as a hand-out.




So would I, but that'd be a hard sell. Costs will be shared with two other partners though. And there is an European Regional Development Fund grant application too.



This is, technically, the East Stand thread. So much progress, it can get confusing.

this thread is about the East stand extension, hence the "funding released for the East stand extension" title, does my post even mention the North Stand?