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!

I think it ends in 2028.

No I think its a 50 year lease but it is up for review in 2028 then after 25 years.

I listened to the interview on the radio this morning. Silva simply states that the pitch was not good enough. He never references Hull FC or rugby for that matter. Even when pressed by David Burns he doesn't say anything rugby related.

This was a very poor piece of journalistic shoite stirring aimed at causing controversy when there was nothing in it.

As earlier pointed out, if the grounds staff had there heads switched on, they would not have been watering the pitch prior top the Hull FC game and would have had the heavy rollers on it immediately after our game had finished.

I understand that Hull City should have priority during the back end of their season as we should have priority at the end of ours. The fixture planners at both the RFL and PL could easily work around these issues.

David Burns stirring it eh...who would have thought it,he is just a crap reporter and commentator and just shows up Blundersides feelings towards FC.

You can't moan about the pitch, then let a under 23's game be played in there 2 days later, makes him look like an idiot.

Surely this game should be moved, wonder if we could complain publicly after Fridays game about the state of the pitch after City reserves are playing on it tonight

That is an excellent point. Get Radford to make an adverse comment about the pitch and see what Silva's reaction is. Or better still let him have a private word with him and he might see sense

It may be mischief making but he might realise they do not own it.

How come in the Hull (Kingston Rovers) Daily Mail report the pitch was described as "GOOD"??? I don't understand!

I wonder how they found all that out? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... y0WD0rs9Og

I wonder how they found all that out? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... y0WD0rs9Og