IMO, its not about BBQ's or pass holder events, its about the communication coming out of the club via the website, email and other media.

The club have tried to make it very clear that they will not respond to rumour and rightly so. Otherwise they wold have to made an almost daily statement denying something which someone has made up. That what makes the rumours threads on this board largely pointless. If it comes directly from the club then there can be no argument.

I'd rather have this than the unprofessional, oneupmanship attitude of a few people east of our club

Not saying I am right, just my opinion. How do you think the club could get closer to the fans?

Facebook!!! Its the future I tell ya!! Oh hang on wait a minute

Think the club has made significant strides over the last year or so and is getting there with media manager, number of forums, facebook, hull fc tv etc etc but after all it is a professional business so has to stay remote/insular to an extent from the fan base or risk losing its focus slightly and being tempted to do what people want rather than what is right for the club..

We seem to be struggling with this one. The only suggestion made so far is the "Hull KR seem to manage it", yet their fans are, IMO, poorly informed on a range of current issues. As has been referenced earlier, I'm glad that in the main our board avoid the rather tragic point-scoring of Hudgell, (bringing up Crocker in the League Express, despite the fact that Eastwood, Carney and Bird were similarly impacted at the same time) and Morgan (bigging up Hall's defence against Huddersfield) and leave this sort of thing to the fans who do it best; "She fell over", BTW.

I've found this thread quite an eye-opener. Normally we get a lot of criticism of our board, but perhaps what we're seeing is frustration at our under-delivery on the pitch just taking up more airtime than what appears to be a broad consensus that the board are generally doing the right things with the right intentions and if they announced they were leaving tomorrow we'd thank them for their legacy (if we couldn't persuade them to stay).

It'd be interesting to know if other clubs' shareholders do this.

Of course they do

Examples?

hudgel in the paper every day. Owners of saints, salford, quins, bradford, wigan, hudds, speaking to the press fairly regularly

We have a call a director night

Kath writes a column in the matchday programme.