The KC user agreement is not for general reading, some of us have had the contents of it relayed or had chance to have a little look at it. Kosh is quite correct in that the two main stadium users (City and FC ) have the right of veto on anyone else using it. KR where offered the chance to use the KC they declined so thats the end of that.

I may be mistaken, but I thought KR rented Craven Park from the "GAIN GROUP"

how conveniant!

a heck of alot! Even since this picture the East stand (stand on Right) has been extended right down to the North stand and by April time will have been extended again to fill the length of the pitch. You can see how the pitch width has been extended to bring the sidelines much closer to the stands. The Stand directly in middle of this pic will be moved to the big space closest and the new development and stand built where the Nth stand currently sits.

Capacity will be up around 12,500 with around 5000 standing and 7500 seats. Not bad effort in less than 8 years!

Some?!

Even I've got a pretty full and fair idea of its contents and I'm pretty far out of the loop on most things. As the US state department and staff at Rovers' shop have recently found, secrets shared soon cease to be secrets.

Surely nobody thinks that the veto would ever have been exercised, as Hull fans were always so quick to mention Rovers opportunity to play there when help was being sought to make improvements at CP.

Prefer the latest artist impressions compared with the last lot that where done.

..but they decided to only include the english players in the image

Apparantly the RFL have tried to throw a spanner into the works of Widnes' SL bid. They've drafted in a new rule that states any club applying from outside SL must have a stadium with a capacity of at least 14,000. Widnes have moved swiftly to counteract this and produced the following artist impression that shows the re-developed stadium.




The move by Widnes is rumoured to put their stadium development plans ahead of both Castleford and Wakefields stadia plans.

yeh could have been a bit bigger but still 12,400 (with 11,200 of that being under cover) will be sufficient for the next few years. There is still room to expand the main West stand at each end and eventually replace the South temp stand with another full stand which could in theory take capacity to 17,000+ should we ever need it. Hats off to the HKR management, the ground will be unrecognisable from the 1/2 built tip that I frequented for many years.

As a Hull fan, I hope it works out well for you. It will look a bit of an odd ground, but I suppose that's what gives them a bit of character!

Just the South Stand and the South-West corner to go after this then I guess. No need to rush that I guess. Might as well see how the new capacity holds out for a while.

Where have you gotten the 17,000 capacity from, by the way?

basically the 12400 +
Extending Roger Millward stand at both ends = 2000 new seats
New South Stand of 3800 (existing1200+2600 new seats)
Ideally they would come up with a way of wrapping the new Sth stand around to join the East and RM stands with seating all the way around, thus creating a barrier from the freezing Humber wind!

As said this would be way down the track and prob not necessary for another 10 years or so unless we see a massive surge in interest and popularity of RL.