Give me a mo, I'll get there eventually...

I think the two clubs should merge. Twice a year we get a larger than average crowd that puts up the SL's figures but if you add the Rovers and FC crowds together you're suddenly looking at really good attendances every week (even with a few not wanting to cross the river to the KC). In a few years there would be an entire generation that never knew the two separate clubs and would bleed black, red and white if you cut them. Forget all this pettiness between the boards and supporters and concentrate on creating the best team in the league, whilst making room for another club to join - say, from France or Cumbria.

no, no and thrice no.

I we ever even considered a merger with KR than I know many people who would walk away from the sport, fod good.

Don't know why your bothering they will always carry on like that.

I doubt you'd get either Clubs fans agreeing with this let alone the boards of each club

They say that but look how quickly we adopted the Sharks theme as supporters. Just a rebranding that takes the emphasis away from which club plays the biggest role would quickly change things. If people love live RL in Hull (which I'm assured they do) then they'd go to the KC to watch it because there wouldn't be anywhere else.

And I just can't see how Rovers can continue indefinitely on the gates they get with the facilities they offer both home and away supporters.

Does a £1m loan not now push the 10,000 'break even figure up? also how would the £6.5m loan from Europe affect this?
Will Rovers need to hit say 12,000 to break even, or more??

I could of course ban you from this forum for a while to think about what you're doing, but I doubt it will have any effect

No idea, a £1m cash injection may even affect the eligibility of the club to recieve the loans from other sources, if I were HCC I'd be asking for my loan money back.

I'm pretty sure you're right, but I think people ought to take a logical stance on this and move on from wha,t in the end, is only history. As Alan Bennett said "history is just one fooking thing after another". Why can't this be just one of those things. After all, we're not called Hull White Star anymore but I don't hear of many people arguing to bring that back (as a cheeky example) because, frankly, none of us remember those times.

You cannot compare the 2 situations.. AT ALL..

I WILL NOT go to a merged Hull team. I would either, as Standee has pointed out, walk away from the game or travel to Cas when i can and support them...

I would much rather go watch Cas.

I think the old boy might just be hedging his bets here. How about the deal for the KC falls through ? Allam then turns his attention to Craven Park. He's ingratiated himself into Rovers good books with a no strings cool £1M gift. How about he re-develops Craven Park and moves City there ?? The site already has a stadium built on it. He buys the lease from the council on the understanding he'll develop the surrounding land like he promised at Melton. Spends a few £M on bringing CP up to Premier League scratch, hey presto, he ends up with his own stadium at what I would expect to be less cost than the either building new at Melton or buying the KC from the council.

Yeah, that's right, bring back David Lloyd and Peter Walsh cos that's only history.

And Alan Bennett is a die hard black and white. HATES Rovers

Unfortunately Money Men do rule RL already. RL is in no different a position now then the position of Ice Hockey you quoted. If Murdoch decides to pull the sky plug RL is dead in the water. As much as we like to think there is an element of self sufficiency if sky decide to half there investment all clubs would go to the wall.