Oh really! You turn up, out of the blue, on a rugby forum, wearing your Tiggers shirt and assert that the Hull City Council should gift ownership of the KC stadium to the owners of Hull City Football Club?


Now, that is a request I would only expect from a person with the mental orientation that Standee suggested you possess.

Come back when you find where I assert that the Council should gift ownership to anyone at all.

No they weren't and it wouldn't make any difference.



Your solution is a posibility and certainly worth a discussion, if only someone hadn't locked a door that needed to be opened.

If gifting is on the agenda, then yes it could be the crux, as it isn't....

As it stands, he's not asking the Council to give him something. He's proposed a joint venture, one possible option within it has a suggestion for how the Council could pay for its share. Another would be for the Allams to buy the stadium complex (at what seems an inflated price) and the council to use that money to buy a share.

If you went to the Council with a £150 million scheme, I'd expect them to listen and to weigh up the options, but if you think these sort of schemes start of with anything other than broad generic values based on previous builds, there's little wonder you're confused.

As for being diligent, not even listening properly and discussing the options on an area that's going to need funding is far from that.

Has Allam put in an offer to purchase the stadium and land then?

One elected member of the Council has made the unilateral decision that the land's not for sale, which is surprising as his own leader had previously suggested a discussion to hear the options and a referendum. As it stands, no offers of any kind either of gifts or purchases have been made, merely a broad outline of a proposed concept.

Are a few squash courts, a gym, Hull City's new training facilities, a Burger King and a whole load of commercial buildings standing empty 'cos nobody want to rent them a conceivable income generator to maintain a council chuck-away of 40 Mill and a mortgage of another 80 Mill?

I suggest Assem waits until all the commercial lets in the much more asthetically appealing Humber Quays complex are rented and Albert Ave swimming pool, Costello, and the Pearson Park bowling green are buzzing to the extent that further investment is necessary. He may gain a bit of credibility to his argument that the lack of a few sporting and commercial facilities are all that are "holding the city back".

Face it, a housing and minor commercial development is hiding behind the smokescreen here.

You're not thinking of the kids. The huge Tescos on West Park will see the number of Asbos in the city drop by 80%. Honestly, woman, don't you listen?

What's with the mans obsession with Squash Courts. Always had this down as a sport which would probably not be played by street corner hoodies. Is there some sort of underground squash movement going on that we're not aware of. Hmmm, maybe Allam is more 'down wid it' then we give him credit for

I recall similar arguments offered when, after sending public money paying way over the odds for the Boulevard, over £40 million more, some from public funds was requested for a stadium for 10,000 RL fans 15 days a year with RL contributing nothing but shortsightedly pressing for a limit on capacity.
At least they waited for the proposals to be on the table.

Tsk. Silly me. They can form a partnership with the non-Asbo-saved kids rescued by the sister branch Tescos a couple of hundred yards down the road in St Stephens.