Good post Chris! I expected this sort of thing with the new appointment at Hull City and made my personal views about it clear in the Diary this week. For me if ever there was a battlefield into which the fans of the FC should consider planting their flag and digging in, it is the private ownership of the KC! It would be a disaster for our Club particularly if it was the football club that owned it.
But fear not.....Its all Just posturing again isn't it? It all goes back to Mr Allam offering the Council under £1m for the Stadium and all the surrounding ground including the Park and the Fairground. What he was going to do with it was pretty unclear but whatever it was it was to be "A gift to the City"......... Right!
I spoke to a senior Hull politician who indicated that should anyone offer the Council around £40m for the facility which would give them the opportunity to recoup the residents investment in it in the first place, then they would have to consider selling and offer the decision to the public in a referendum. But they can't just give it away! As for the future of Hull City being elsewhere where is that then? I don't know who you are Basher but someone I hold to be a very knowledgeable soccer fan said to me at lunchtime that if a team like Liverpool with their attendances and backing cannot afford to re locate to a new ground how the heck are City going to do it.
Anyway if a new Stadium is to cost at least say £60m why not offer the full amount for the KC and get on with it? It was interesting to hear on Humberside today a procession of folks lamenting the lack of concerts and other events happening at the Stadium since Adam departed the first time as well, if it were used more then it would probably make more money being the concensus. Mr A obviously has a greenfield site in mind West of the City and as Frepenny boy said earlier I am sure that Those in Welton will welcome it with open arms, or how about a nice waterfront Stadium.....North Ferriby supporters be very affraid of your new owner.
But seriously its all Hot air again.......toys prams and dummies!
Perhaps someone should ask Mr Allam where exactly if not at the KC the future of Hull City does lie then.