I hope England do get the world cup in 2018 as a football fan, but first and foremost im a Hull FC fan and i believe if Hull was to be chosen as a venue and the KC was extended then i believe it would be too big for us to play in.

Yes its a purely selfish point of view but its on the basis i want the best for Hull FC so i wouldnt lose no sleep if Hull wasnt chosen as a venue.

I can see London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leicester, Sheffield, Newcastle, Leeds, Sunderland, Nottingham, Derby all above Hull in the pecking order anyways due to the history of football in these areas.

In the event the KC is chosen, Just wonder where that would leave FC for a home ground in the duration of the World Cup.

Considering the Australia's bid is threaterning to cause havoc in the NRL. My guess we would have to play about 4 or 5 home games elsewhere.

Expect 1 game would be switched to the start of the season. For the rest, I would think the Keepmoat or so the club stays in the city, how about getting the Boulevard up to a resonable state for the short period. I know which I would prefer.

How long do you expect the tournament to last? Cant imagine it would impact on us too much at all as I would think a lot of the games are midweek which, with a bit of foresight, can easily be planned around. As for redeveloping the Boulevard, it aint gonna happen.

Capital of Culture 2013 would be much better though.

Right. This is part of the report in this weeks league express on the Aussie world cup bid.

Under conditions demanded by FIFA, all major sporting grounds would be OFF-LIMITS to other football codes for around 10 WEEKS the height of the Austrailan rugby league season.

To me,thats 6 weeks for the tournement & 4 weeks prior to get the pitchs right. And it means we cant play home games at the KC while the world cup is on. My feeling it will be the group stage games & a last 16 game at the KC, which would make out of bounds to FC for around 7-8 weeks.

KC will have to expand to host any World Cup games. 40,000 is the minimum. This effects us as you get points on the current franchise system for been within a certain percentage of the grounds capacity, so we will drop points. Wouldnt be too fussed if the KC did or didnt get a couple of games. Selfish, but I care more about FC than a couple of group games between lesser nations which I probably wouldnt want to go to anyway.

I have nothing against football and think it would be great for the city if we did get the nod for the world cup but i just cant see how we'd be before leeds and sheffield as the yorkshire venue. i presume there would be only one yorks city chosen to host games and our transport infrastructure and amount of hotel rooms just isn't up to scratch, we may of had a few more built recently but still onlyabout 10 "proper" ones as opposed to 20 odd in sheffield and 40 odd in leeds.

Never gonna happen !

I will run along Freetown Way in the nude in 10 minutes if Hull get it !!!

for anyone interested the announcement is live on humberside now

SSN no to hull plenty of either ors thou

Oh well thats that then !!!
Suppose it ends the Drovers speculation that we would be forced out of the KC I suppose !!!