Fans not returning to the club won't lead to closure, and nobody has said it would. Getting lower attendances every year WILL eventually lead to either closure or life in the lower divisions unless Pearson comes into some major money or can find a new, richer, buyer to sell the club to.

There will be no merger to save your bacon.

The only use we have for you is the rivalry and banter. Without that you are nothing. Hope you like the banter.

Surely if the likes of rovers,widnes,Wakefield and cas can survive with small crowds then we can and we don't have to fork out for everything in our stadium like they do, I would guess that what we pay in rates to the smc is a lot less then our out goings would be if we had our own stadium.

I think some of it is scaremongering by Pearson just to bump up pass sales, I just don't see how a drop in crowds could lead to the death of the club the reduced revenue will just mean we carn't operate at full salary cap anymore and us as fans will have to lower our expectations. As for the smc losing money from fc surely that's not our problem as we have a contract in place with them, yes they may shut the north and south stand because of it but it may not be a bad thing as having all the fans packed into just two stands may create a better atmosphere, at the moment all the fans are spread out and all the singing/chanting soon dies out because of it, and no I'm not one of the stay away fans I've already bought my pass for next year and had one for many years now, I'm one of those who will buy one every year regardless of how the club is doing because I just carn't bear not been at the rugby and having to listen on the radio at home.

Coming from a bottom-dweller I find this quite amusing.

Fair point from a team that has had so much success over the last 30 years and are in such a good financial position.

See, this is it. Why will lower attendances lead to life in lower divisions? Plenty of teams perform better than us with lower attendances. As for closure, it's silly talk, of course if nobody turns up then it'll lead to that, but do you seriously think that will happen? We'll just restructure and live within our means. There's thousands of fans that would watch the team play on Picky park, so i'm sure that if it came to it closure of a stand wouldn't be the end of the world, it's practically empty every week anyway.

Would it be the worst decision to close the North stand (apart from Rovers) for 2016.

Which teams bring more than 1500, which you could put them in the last two sections of the West/North stand corner.

Lower attendances will just help put the realisation into 90% of the clubs fans that your not a big club! seeing as it's the only basis they go on to claim it.

As I understand it the threat is that both North and South stands could be closed in 2016.

It must be the only amusing thing for an FC fan this week. Glad I was able to cheer you up.

For me there is no financial worry if the crowd does go below 7500, as we have GUARANTEED income levels of 7500, so even if the gates went to 3000 we would still have the levels of income as if at 7500.

Its in the SMC user agreement.

The only problem is if stands get shut, we will have a restricted capacity and ability to earn extra £££ and it WILL cost £££ to open them up.

Oh and for those saying “whats the problem if a stand shuts” this is NOT the first erosion of our tenancy. First it was the Whitely pics, then the pitch (usage for practice, condition after past times being done on it, no games in June (every year) and the reduction in size (no problem for some eh)) Charging more for using the ticket office. No fans forum at his clubs home

It all adds up to a right royal $h@ft!ng

Has Bailey told Cockaine what he missed out on in the big house?

Can anyone on here explain the significance of this statement by frepneyboy on the topic "fans forum"?

Think you may be mistaken here. What's in the User Agreement is a base level of [icharges[/i that we accrue for using the stadium and that was set at our crowd average at the time.

Or are you referring to the 'Club Hull' tickets that SMC purchase under the agreement?

The significance of a Rovers fan posting on a Hull FC forum?