Thanks Rupert, decent fans of all clubs appear to agree.

He's full of horse, and the HDN haven't asked any probing questions.

Pretty much as expected on both counts, then.

He may want to check that "the stadium has always failed to make money" before he says it on record too.

If he wants to run the stadium as an effective commercial outfit, offering a decent service to customers should be top of the list, not deciding to charge tenants extra. Taking the pics down and putting new ones up has a cost, leaving the ones that are up in place doesn't.

Utterly pointless and if this wasn't really happening, I'd think it was all a very silly joke.

Their hardly doing that posting consecutive losses in the 2 yrs that they have run the stadium

Exactly, when in the previous years a profit was made.

This bang out of order.
Johnny is a great guy.

Whats to say this will be removed from HDM by the end of the day????

Doubt it, just a repeat of the tripe the puppet came out with on Humberside.

Sorry but if that Wail article is what now passes for journalism, then my kick's a copper

Wonder what the KR fans would be saying if it was the Clive Sullivan Suite???? Bet half of them who comment on HDM wont know who he is anyway.

The City fans make me sick, and further enforce how much I despise that club. Football city?? Dont make me laugh. Join FC's and KR's attendances together and we are getting more than City are despite all 3 clubs having falling attendances. Their arrogance makes me sick

I fail to see how charging to put pictures up is going to generate enough revenue to make the SMC viable. If he wants to make a "profit" then I suggest that he starts to look at other avenues of genuine revenue. WE play in the stadium a maximum I would say 17 times a year. 17 days only. City play twice that number but I would suggest that at least 300 days of the year the stadium is empty.
I know of other stadiums which are much the same and generate massive profits due to using their facilities to the full. Lords cricket ground is one which makes a massive profit. The bulk of the time it is open to a few hundred at Middlesex games. Yes they are the most prestigious ground in world cricket but attendance wise its similar to the KC. They also have to bid for test matches not get paid to hold them.
Its time Mr Allam or a independent person started to run the SMC and get the maximum amount out of the stadium. Concerts, international matches of any sport, you name it it can be done. But charging a small amount to put up pictures is not a commercially viable option. The bad PR he has generated alone will cost the SMC massively.
If we as Hull fans and if the RL world in general really feel as strongly as seems then a complete boycott of all SMC controlled produce will cost Allam (SMC) a fortune. Not wonderful business at all. The guy should employ a PR company before he sends a mouth piece to talk for him again.

Had a reply from a few places, have replied myself with my take on what might be going on:

Thanks for taking the time to reply, my view is that Allam is trying to make the SMC look unviable without City, give the impression to the people of Hull that the Council really would be better off cuttting their losses by selling him the KC. In the previous years up until Allam buying City and the SMC the SMC posted a modest profit and made a marginal positive return to the Council, but the Council also paid a modest rental for the office space it used, so in effect it was a revenue stream, a small one, but it existed.

The Allams came in and priced just about everyone out, the Council closed the offices as there was general uproar when the HDM ran a story that the SMC was not paying much into the Council coffers (oddly, at roughly the same time as "Dr" Allam started to make noises about buying the KC), in the last set of accounts for the SMC they posted a loss of just over £400K, no dividend so no money for the Council, but the SMC had £1.2m "cash at hand" in the bank...very odd, to say the least.

Then we have the situation with YPI, Adam Pearson stated very publicly that he wanted to buy the Golf Centre and turn it into an indoor, all weather, training facility, "Dr" Allam then started bidding against AP, after 3 attempts AP gave up. "Dr" Allam has since been overheard, stating along the lines of "I don't really know what to do with it, maybe Squash, but they already have courts".

So, this great philanthropic hope that rode into the City on his trusty steed, vowing to "bring success and top level sport to the city", has so far:

Sacked Nick Barmby

Sacked Adam Pearson

Donated a £1m "soft loan" to Hull KR

Priced the hockey and basketball teams out of the Arena (which now has no sponsor)

Removed all but a small amount of FC's presence at the KC Stadium

Outbid AP for a property he neither needed nor wanted.

What was his vow "I can't just do something for one club, I am here for everyone"

That doesn't ring true, I remember "judge a man, not by his words, but by his deeds", I think it's fair to say any unbiased jusry would see through this for what it is, an ego driven agenda to get his hand on what he always wanted, the Kingston Communication Stadium and it's surroundings.

there has been a cricket match there before hasnt there? The stadium could be used for numerous events yet they are not interested. It still riles me that they are comparing Holdsworth taking 30 minutes to practice his kicking last week to the full City 1st team training on the pitch during the snow period!