Quote Standee="Standee"If I were going on, I would invite the SMC to answer, by whichever public media outlet they chose, but in the next 48 hours:
How come the SMC was making a profit, and a nominal return to the Council during both Pearson and Duffen's stewardship, yet it has made excessive losses in consecutive years, despite having over a million pounds in it's account on it's last set of books.
Why hasn't the SMC organised a single event outside football or rugby since it was taken over by the Allams, how is that "maximising the commercial revenue", having a community asset empty 300 days a year is not a sound and
sustainable business model.
How much are they paying to use Johnny Whitely's name?
What is next, rent for the Jack Harrison memorial?
Since FC's memorobilia has been replaced by City, do they pay double?
What does the arena actually gets used for, now that the local community cannot, apparently, afford to utilise it?
Why did the Council and FC flags went up about an hour before the game on Sunday, was that because of a call from Cllr Geraghty?
My final point would be, does the Allam family not understand that the people of Hull are not stupid, his comments about Hull Fair, wanting to build a hotel, Olympic swimming pool etc etc have been seen to be a flimsy smoke screen for what is, in effect, a good old fashioned land grab, an attempt at an asset strip.'"
All good and fair points which need answers.
However in a 2-3 minute fans' TV slot the best way to undermine this is to 100% play the community card. When this Allam guy surfaced he made a point of telling us in every other sentence how he wanted to 'give something back to Hull' and 'encourage sport amongst deprived youngsters' etc. etc. How does removing the pictures of current and historical icons and events at the COMMUNITY stadium help achieve that ?
How does the removal of pictures of Hull RL icon Johnny Whiteley (please all note all the ley ending to his name) square with Allam's so called agenda ? Johnny Whiteley is a man who has served the sporting community in Hull for decades and done much to help the very people Allam was supposed to want to help. These are the angles that fans should take - the Council should be the ones asking direct questions of the SMC of the type that you list.
