Where is all this cash coming from.?

City in the premiership this year have done fantastically well, but next season once the first season new boys tag is over and they have been found out will be different. The novelty will be over for some " fans " and the chances are that the season tickets will not all be snapped up. Credit crunch etc will affect city next season if its still going on.
As a watcher of the premiership I notice grounds increasingly with empty seats. Christ even Man U are not selling out every match now. Once that starts to happen you know that the cash is not around.

Those companies that sponsor football clubs will soon start to pull the cash flow. Can you honestly see Barclays sponsoring the game to the extent they do now, in a year or two.?

The champions league in Cricket has been pulled, because ESPN have not been able to fund the £600+m they were paying for it. Money is drying up.

So why oh why would city after 1 good season in the premiership want to increase the capacity to 35000. Look at the crowd at the Riverside now for the visit of one of the best teams in Europe.

Also why would we / our board who are running the club like a business want to move to a stadium that we would have to run at considerable cost.?

Half of our much publicised cash problems pre KC were created by the costs incurred in keeping up the stadium.

As for atmosphere as someone who did not stand / sit in threepenny I do not feel the atmosphere is any worst at the KC. If the team perform as they did in 2006 we will have the atmosphere. If we perform as we did last season then whereever we play we will not have an atmosphere.

As for Radders. He should be sacked from the captancy role as this kind of comment is not sensible at all. As has been said he should be looking to the future. We have A grade licence because we have the best stadium in RL and to go back to the Boulevard would consign us to the also ran status of the likes of our near neighbours.

The first part i agree with . Secondly ,The housing issue around the stadium wouldn't be a major problem as many are due for demolition within 5 years. Gordon st & Airlie st ends would be flattend with new stands built nearer the pitch freeing up space for cars.
I dont know whether the current 3d stand could be converted to an all terraced area like they have at Warrington's ground with a new Best stand with seats.
But like you said , where's the funding for this going to come from.

nice seeing you in a hull shirt radders

Right, first off I don't think for a minute you will leave the KC. I don't think Hull City even want this particularly. The KC can cater for two clubs, especially when their seasons only overlap a bit at each end.

However, if City did want the place to themselves (again, I don't believe they do), they could offer FC, what by RL standards would be a massive amount of cash. Redeveloping the Boulevard probably wouldn't cost much more than a good Premiership striker. I just think City would rather have the the good striker than the KC empty during the summer.

The atmosphere in the away end when we are there is great. But thats the whole point some seem to be missing, its not the place its the people there who make the noise.

Hand on heart Chewie, but when was the last time the 3d really put the frighteners up the opposition on a regular basis? There was always the odd one off, but not since the very early 1990's has it been that imposing.

A return to the Boulevard would mean an entire redevelopment of the site which would mean it wouldn't be the old Boulevard so many seem to crave.

Exactly, there is no benefit for Hull leaving the KC for Hull City as it would instantly up their costs.

On the other hand, if City want a 35000 seater stadium why don't they move out and build one on Boothferry Park.

They can have their spiritual home back and their train station and we can enjoy ourselves at the KC.

I dont think it would up their costs as they pay rent and im sure they have an agreement on the lease

I think it's ridiculous that the club feel they have to comment on every half @rsed rumour on here and out-of-context quote in the HDM. It's getting to be a full time job.

It is odd how the Club Captian was asked for his thoughts on the matter, why not just say "nah it wont happen end of, would be nice tho"

But What Radders said sadly puts him up for a public flogging on here, but why?

I'm sure if Gary Neville went in the media and said "i wouldn't mind a 39th prem league game to be played in Dubai" he would not be expected to be sacked as Club Captain of Man U or the club itself would not feel the self importance to comment on the matter.

So is this Hull FC's board testing the water?

Possibly rebuild Boulevard back to 15000 (lets admit at the current prices we have hit the crowd max for us i'd say) and play 2 derbys a year in a 35000 capacity KC so us and Rovers can get the maximum income from the minimum effort? Rovers could stay as they are as 9k is probably their max crowd so no more redevelopment there.

2 monster games a year?

70000 watching Hull v Rovers a season?

Me too.

Using what money?