I for one will never be worried about rovers being the bigger club in Hull when it comes to attendances, never have been, never will be. A cause for concern is the fact that Allam has mentioned a merger before, if he gets us all under one roof, who knows where this could lead.

never say never.

I agree even back in the old days fc had the bigger crowds but tbh i would rather have smaller crowds as hkr than bigger crowds as fc.

If fc want massive crowds let them,we are hull kr and proud of it !

Fair comment, so would you leave your home to play in West Hull? Do you think Allam might have an agenda?

I think the hdm have written the article to sound like Rovers might decamp wholesale to the KC. It is possible that is what Hudgell means, but what he says is much less specific. He talks about 'resources' at the KC - which could mean playing there, or maybe using training facilities or maybe something else (though I can't think what).

You do realise that Rovers ALREADY pay rent don't you!!

Do the Rovers fans think all 8k regular fans would head west?....Pretty sure if Hull were to move into New Craven Park a fair few fans would refuse to attend.

of course Allam has an agenda....its called a power trip ....... if he can get all 3 teams in the kc........ either owned or otherwise his threats of moving to melton if the hcc dont sell him the stadium carries more weight.
however it could also backfire if both kr and fc are not owned by him and choose to keep at the kc.....

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personally i feel we should stay where we are and not play along with the allam power trip.
stick with and too our own development plan .

and for the record...
i would not ever support a merged team..

A permanent move to the KC is out of the question at least to me it is.

But I would not be averse to playing our home derby there. Just one crowd of 23,000 would almost turn our annual loss into a profit, as indeed it does for Hull FC.

I dare say not many will agree with me though.

Would it?

Take the 10k fans off that you'd get at NCP for the derby, take out the cost of hiring the KC...Can't see the monies left being anywhere near 400k.

Absolute dribble.

Nice of you to come on with your usual rubbish Rommel,but shouldn`t you be more concerned about the Saints at the moment rather than Hull?
You know full well a ground share is as about as likely as you becoming chairman of Radford`s fan club.

Lets get this merger sorted if we go to the KC,

1) Things taken from Hull FC ...The name HULL
2) From HKR we take the Kingston Rovers

The new name would be HULL KINGSTON ROVERS

Colours taken

Hull the White from the Black & White
HKR the Red from the Red & White

The new colours would be White & Red

Players at couches desecration?...Max 3 from FC rest from KR
Also on a side note HKR would then be a Grade A club ... easy

All the above is in jest so read it and take it with a laugh

If Hudgell were considering a move to the KC, surely this would mean ground developments at Craven Park would be put on ice. Last month Mike Smith was clear that it was all full steam ahead, East Stand to be completed shortly, North Stand build commences June, Craven Park unrecognisable by end of July. This is clearly just a rent negotiation bargaining chip.

Is this what Larry was referring to BTW?

I think both clubs at the KC have a veto against new ventures so that idea will be dead and also can you imagine the state of the pitch it would be shafted in a weekend.
In the broad strokes if KR did move it would end a in a merger for KR & FC you cant support 2 rugby clubs and 1 football club at one stadium.

I think it all comes down to business at the end of the day and money talks and if the magic 10k support do's not appear then what?.

He isn't. There ends that line of argument.



Does (the terribly imaginative user name of Larry Billey, aka, Barry Lilley) know what [ihe himself[/i is referring to?

With the lack of evidence so far provided by Larry/Barry himself Occam's Razor would suggest no.

Unless he thinks a 10% discount on the Rufus range of products or the kick-off vs Leeds being put back to 3.15pm will de-rail the club.

Only if you are actually Hudgell. In which case he/you are like Sally Field.I bet you're not even aware of each other.


For starters, his name is more imaginative than a rubbish one like "Beverley Red", "Bransholme Red", "Barham Red". And it works because Larry is actually a proper name, albeit a bit effeminate. And secondly, Larry does have a bit of form on the inside track, even if he is a bit surly. You can imagine my disappointment waking up to a post suggesting Rovers imminent demise and, as MR points out, finding the only "announcements" were something to do with the winning raffle numbers on Sunday. Took the wind right out of my sails, let me tell you.


I think what's happened is the's heard there's a rumour about Rovers going to the KC which is only a bit true and over-reacted which you might do at 2.20am. The only thing we've really learnt is that Larry's not a big fan of Morgan. Are we bothered? Don't know really.

I was wearing a bib when i typed it !

Don't add to the uncertainty.

Ermmm!

hellooooo!

What was all this dribble not so long ago spouted from the K.R FAITH-FULLS about [size=150"owning their own ground" ?[/size

We all know we don't own our own ground. We pay rent but are in charge of all income streams coming into the club and can develop Craven Park how we wish. Take out paying a small rent and we may aswell own the ground.

I heard a rumour Kingston Droolers is about to defect. If so we'd also have Simply Red.

So in a nutshell your club does not own its ground !

sidenote - small rent (for now ) !

seems worrying that the club claim that they need crowd of 10,000 avg to break even,yet can't even get that at a home game on a sunny sunday afternoon, with the debut of "the David Beckham of the rugby league world " surely not all the other 2/3 thousand "supporters couldn't all have been at church.

worrying times for rovers if there cant pull over 10.000 in with there marque signing and fc away,hudge the budge cert doesnt look happy on the back page of hdm

=#FF0000This line of trolling has been deemed 'boring' and would be banned under AUP 5.1, if I could be bothered to create an announcement thread.

The ground needs better facilities - this [umay[/u increase crowds and revenue. The covered parts of the ground are generally pretty much full, so the chicken-egg argument that bigger crowds are required to justify extending and improving the ground carries little water, IMO. There is no guarantee that Rovers will hit 10k even when the stadium is finished, but I'm pleased that it looks as though we will at least get to find out. You look at the boosts other clubs have received and it doesn't seem especially improbable to me. It will require attracting 'new' fans though, as I'm not sure the remaining pool of latent support will be big enough by itself.