As the council seem to be in a generous mood in Hull, and with the good vibrations coming from East Hull in their attempt to buy their stadium.

I wonder how much they have to pay for the land, if we could have the same terms please, can AP not throw his hat into the ring, after all it’s council owned.

It's clear there is development potential in the land hudgell is looking to buy which, I presume, will fund the purchase and development costs. The real question should be whether the council will sell us some land with development potential at a knock down cost allowing us to build our own stadium? I said ages ago our lack of our own stadium would see us falling behind financially

Was there not some form of covenant on this land which Hudge is after Jake, or am I mistaken.

Dunno, but without selling some of the land on for development I fail to see how rovers could possibly afford the purchase and build

I heard 3 or 4 years ago that Adam Pearson wanted to buy the old Birds Eye site on Hessle High Road to build a new stadium but the Council wanted to keep it for industrial use. Where the funds would have come from is anybody's guess.

It was one of those silly rumours that does the rounds.

As a point of clarification as I understand it the lease on the Stadium for both Clubs is a 50 year one (2052). It is however, up for an interim review after 25 years (2027), I believe the management of the Stadium and setting of user agreements was signed over to the SMC in total as part of the original deal. In exchange for every aspect of its running, maintenance and charges to the clubs being in the gift of the SMC the council handed over full control and therefore rid themselves of any liabilities that would come about in future years when having to maintain an aging stadium.

The Stadium maintenance is therefore solely down to the SMC, as stated its fallen behind and it really does needs millions spending on it.

As for buying it, The Council indicated in the heady days of the Allam's that they would sell the Stadium to them (or anyone else) at market value, but not give it away with the adjoining land as the A's wanted. To give it away would anyway be against local Government law, as it was built using the authorities capital assets and therefore public money.

I firmly believe as well that there were concrete plans (all be in in the very early stages) at one time to build our own stadium (Birds Eye was a silly rumour but this was on another West Hull site) but the capital costs just didn't stack up and so that has long since been abandoned.

Don’t worry Wilf, when I win that 167m Friday night, I’ll build us one. 25m on stadium 5m should see Pearson of and will all be mine

Thanks for the clarification Wilf, no doubt the SMC is a sticking point for anyone buying Hull City if that [ihas[/i to be part of any deal.