Quote: who needs flankers? "I can't believe nobody is even mentioning Hull KR and Bradford.
Hull KR - £3 million in debt. A hole of a ground. Very few youth players coming through (of their best 2 young players in the 1st team at the moment 1 is from Wigan and 1 from Cas). They have good away following and good finishing position last year going for them. They have also made the play offs this year.
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We're making losses and have an over all loss over a number of years but this is not a debt as such as its underwritten by the board and in effect is not any different from Hudds and wire (not sure of Wigans books but pretty sure you're running at a loss as well). The ground is far from ideal from an away fans point of view but is pretty good from the home areas and has been improved upon consistently in the years since we got into SL. New floodlights, Playing surface improvements, east stand extension, new training facilities even the temporary stand is and improvement on what was there. We have plans in place for a further east stand extension and a new north stand which shold tick all the boxes. Add to that if we get a re-arranged fixture or a play off we can actually use our own ground as well
(sorry couldn;t resist)
As for the geographical impact of 2 Hull teams, that argument would be more loaded against widnes as distances between the grounds are as follows
Wid - Wire 7 miles
Wid - Sts 7 miles
Wire - Sts 8 miles
with Wigan and Salford all within 20 miles of the each other.
Fc and KR are 5.5miles apart so there is very little difference between all of the clubs.