Never going to happen

Unless the Director's have debts to call in (I'm not sure whether we do any more or not TBH) then they can't just call in the investment, the club IS the investment and they have 2 choices - either close the doors and lose all their money or sell it (which won't be easy at the moment) either way it's not in their business interest to do either becuase they want to make money. ATEOD the board will know why fans are not buying tickets the only way they would consider selling to get their money out would be if they could see no reason behind the falling revenue or not see a way to restore it - our board would have to be fairly dosey to not know what was affecting sales right now, IMO of course.

your right

Ian, you should know better than talk sense, what with being a mod and all

A few points on this one. Firstly without the current set of directors there would be no club. At all. Secondly this board has presided over what IMO is the most impressive turnaround in financial performance in the competition, returning profit for 5 consecutive years. Thirdly the club still has negative P&L reserves, therefore payment of any dividends to directors is illegal under the Companies Act. They may take a salary, but given there are only 3 clubs in profit, we spend the salary cap and a big wedge to the SMC and have a decent academy set-up to run, salaries are unlikely to be massive for all 5 shareholder directors. Anyone believing the whole board have invested in Hull FC for massive personal financial gain are utter loons.

Have faith Mrs B, have faith.

There's too much at stake for the club not to 'engage the fans'
The people that run the club are doing a fine job off the field - recruitment has been good so far (2010)
We (Hull Fc) gambled and overloaded the forwards hoping for a bit of luck in the injury department and it failed (again) one thing is for sure in 2011 we need a better balanced squad.

I'm sure there'll be more signings to come; some fans just want to hear about them upfront (myself included) but we should all realise that's not how this club does its business.
Someone will probably pick me up for being a club pacifist; I can assure you I am not. I crave for this club to be up at the top and I [ido[/i hold those at the club responsible for us underachieving. Let’s make no bones about it: We have underachieved in the last few years, we all know that, I am also not daft enough to think the players, coaches, directors etc etc don’t know that.

I am as passionate as any fan that supports this club, or any other club for that matter. What I don’t subscribe to is the constant slag-a-thon that some fans seem to revel in.
After every defeat we get the ‘team-sheet tirade’: Players that have and on occasions haven’t played are dissected, hung drawn and quartered along with everyone else including the tea lady.

I will be there next season as Hull Fc are my team >In Any kind of weather<

Utter tripe.

Come on Mrs B rugby league clubs have been a well known cash cow since Adam and Eve. And you know as well as I do there are a whole raft of investors chomping at the bit in these cash rich times to jump in and take us to that next level.

I could have sworn that I agreed that the present board would be unlikely topull the rug from under the club.

Grade a licence rankle ?????????????


You really need read more " trolling for dummies"

Nobody is disputing we have turned around as a club off the field and it is something i have backed the club 100% over. Some people slate Rule/Kath etc but i think they have done an outstanding job on the whole. However the major part of the club is on the field and we have failed to deliver for to long and the fans are getting sick of it.

Nobody should be expecting us to win everything or anything for that matter. However what they should be expecting is to be able to compete with the other teams around them and we have failed to do this for too long. I love this club with a passion but there comes a point when you have to draw a line and that point is different with each and every one of us.

Quite. It's illegal to pay a dividend as we still have negative P&L reserves. We are one of only 3 clubs to make a profit (Warrington's off the back of CC success), and spending the full cap means the directors can't be taking huge salaries or the numbers simply wouldn't add up. I find it utterly staggering that people honestly believe that all 5 shareholder directors are syphoning off funds from a business the size of Hull FC and living a Simon Cowell-esque luxury lifestyle off the back of it. They may make a few quid when they sell the club, but no bugger else would put the money in to save us, and the business valuation will take into account the self-sustaining business model they have worked hard to achieve, so good luck to them.