Someone must have complained

Well, the BBC has form for inappropriate governance..

TBF, I don't think his comments are out of line. From that isolated article I don't think he is saying Hull FC shouldn't be able to use the KCOM, just more sensible scheduling should be considered. He might even accept that the argument cuts both ways, Hull FC as a Professional Sports Business should not be playing on a pitch with less than 24 hours recovery time as well.

City knew about this fri/sat problem, if it is one, five months ago.

He should just have spoken to the Tigers board about it and left it at that.

Not go mouthing off to the press where his comments could get misinterpreted.

And how many other games have been played on the pitch in the last week or so?

As I understand the Tigers reserves have played a fixture and their has been some meaningless friendly against a foreign team.

Everyone knows football damages pitches more than rugby, but I get his point re turn around time. However, he just just shut it and get on with winning matches. City are a turgid terrible side, and if the pitch was a mud fuelled trench it would not have any bearing on how they perform. FWIW I really hope they stay up, but this anti rugby nonsense grates on me

Agreed.

It's not that long ago that on one occasion both clubs played at home on the same day.

The situation clearly arose because of Sky scheduling. Take the Sky money away from both RL and football and both codes are shafted.
Mr Silva needs to understand that the filthy lucre will always come off best - and it's also the reason why his salary is substantially more than at Olympiakos. Get over it son.

Footy players from the 80s would think they were in paradise playing on a pitch like that.

To be fair to Silva, and in no way condoning his quote, but our game would have been better played after theirs. We give them back the stadium after our season ends in 100% perfect condition, we have the mid summer break of a clear month when the pitch gets revamped and we suffer ie heavily sanded etc. The pitch on saturday was`nt bad at all and as earlier quoted the older players would have loved to have played on that surface week after week. A bit of a cheeky swipe by the Beeb.

He might have been misquoted by the BBC but the thing that angers me is the fact that we had to play on a pitch that resembled Bridlington beach last year in the CC quarter final against Catalans and the mess of the pitch we played on after one of Allam's squash tournaments. It worries me a little with what happened with Wigan. Warriors told 2 matches can't, shouldn't be played on consecutive days due to bad weather and Wigan Athletic should take priority due to their season and league position. Then before kick off they water the pitch!? Surely there is enough time to schedule to make sure this can be avoided. But then again City reserves playing and a meaningless friendly don't help the pitch either. But I feel City will always get priority due to Rugby League been seen as a minority sport!