i believe we keep the first 7000 of the gate and anything after this is split 50/50 with SMC this deal was set up by shane richardson on the basis we would average 10,000 crowds but i also believe we get a pretty poor return on food and drinks but to pay£ 630.000 for a rugby team is to much and if mr allam does want to help HULL FC then he should look into reducing this cause SMC is making good money from us and city it does not cost 2million to run the stadium for FC and city on match days they also get good revenue from other souces like rents from offices and the pitches and indoor area

You believe wrong my friend. The original agreement was renegotiated a while back now.

I'm a little lost. How can Mr Allam claim to be gifting us use of the KC facilities when the facilities are property of KUHCC?

TBH that's a fair point but he is, I believe, chairman of the SMC (?) so effectively manages the stadium. Although him "gifting" us the use of the KC when he doesn't own it is a bit of a leap of faith. A bit like saying I "gift" him the use of my seat there because he once looked towards it. Its not [umy[/u seat in the same way it's not [uhis[/u stadium.

I don't think 600K a year is too bad to shell out in the grand scheme of things, other SL teams will be paying far more just to keep their grounds up and running. And at least we can budget fairly accurately for the rent costs, and not have any unexpected costs like roofs caving in, boilers breaking down etc.

Saints new ground is costing around 24million.

Indeed. The rules seem to be that he's allowed to claim what he likes without challenge, critique or even mild eyebrow-raising by our local "journalists". Just print what he says with a nice big headline. Lovely.

My thoughts also. I think that the deal with the Saints ground is a lease too, albeit a very long one.

He sounds like our very own Fidel Castro.

I assume by paying the SMC we also avoid the hefty Security and Policing bill that goes with matchdays?

Hey..... Lets just go back to The Boulev........errrrrm Eh, ah......i guess that anenue has been well and truly shafted LOL

BUT......The Idea of having something like Wire or Saints have......On that site would please this fan immensley. (it would have to be oval shaped though

)
Now.....Has anyone got a spare 30 million quid ????

Not exactly blessed with journalists the quality of the Watergate lot, or the guys that got Jonathan Atkin on perjury are we.

Having seen the stuff the HDM print realting to the work I do I'm pretty well of the opinon a bunch of monkeys mashing away at a typewriter would produce beter quality print. Bunch of clueless s the lot of them,