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I guess he's refering to the help Hull got in 1999, rightly or wrongly;
rlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/rugby_league/news/459986.stmrl
Hull Sharks and Gateshead Thunder have announced their intention to join forces for next year's Super League season.
The announcement from Hull owner David Lloyd came four hours after Sheffield Eagles and Huddersfield Giants proposed a similar plan.
It also arrived shortly before a Super League cash sweetener for merging clubs is reduced by £250,000 at midnight on Thursday.
Until then a £1.25m bonus from television money is available.
The Sharks are deeply in debt, and after the merger a club with Hull's name is likely to play in the division from which they escaped relegation, the Northern Ford Premiership.
rlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/gateshead-fold-as-league--agrees-merger-741473.htmlrl
Andrew Whitelam, a Super League spokesman, saidhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateshead_Thunderrl
Gateshead Thunder claimed to have lost £700,000 during their one year in existence and on Monday 15 November 1999 the board announced they would merge the club with Hull Sharks, accepting a £1.25 million fee from Super League Europe to do so. The Association of Premiership Clubs blocked proposals for the newly merged company to enter a separate Hull-based team in the Northern Ford Premiership [1] and so the new club would be called Hull and play all its home games in Hull. This was widely seen as a takeover simply to allow Hull to remain in Super League.