Well spotted, original post corrected

As I banned from their forum I have been laughing my head off at some of the comments. It may have slipped their notice that Hull SL were in fact offered an equal share of the SMC by Adam Pearson. The problem was that Fatty Richardson was only interested in getting his money back that he had "invested" in Gateshead as was Kath Hetherington and they could not raise the money to be part of the company. It was AP who was the driver of the project and Hull SL did nothing but move in when it was built.They, like Hull City and tenants of the stadium which is run by SMC for a profit and nothing more. There is no conflict of interest between Duffen's role as Chairman of both companies. They were given a date by the RL for a fixture and Duffen quite rightly could not commit the booking until he knew what Hull City's fixtures were. This would be because moving a match on the day of the RL game had to have the approval of both the FL and the club involved. Nobody has thought to ask why the RL did not offer a game which could have been played on a Friday night or a Sunday,after all that is when ALL other RL matches take place!

you need to get out more then.

TBF this isn't a HullFC v Hull City debate it is a bout the people of Hull being denied live International RL in their home city despite its huge demand.

Duffen is out of order and owes the people of Hull an explanation.

Totally agree.

has he not made a statement?

He explained it last night on sportstalk, how much more crystal clear can it be that with Hull Fair already causing problems in october, he would then have to go back to the FA, before the fixtures are even known, to say he might need to move things around even more. He asked the RFL to wait, they told him no, what more can he do.

Fraid i don't listen to that tripe anymore.

All i'll say is where there is a will there is a way, besides it doesn't start until the 24th Oct so Hull fair will be gone by then.

He's making it out to be far more complicated than it is.

The RFL wanted to agree a set date. Duffen would simply have to request to the fixture schedulers of either the Premiership or the Championship that City either have an away fixture on the agreed date or their match is played on a different day that week. He could put that request in now, should be sufficient notice . Simple.

By his reckoning, no outside event can EVER be organised between August and May as City do not know when they're playing. Crap.

Wigan manage it. Adam Pearson managed it. Manchester United manage it.

However, it could explain why our Community stadium has failed to provide the people of Hull with a major non-sporting event since The Who played in May 2007.

I think the illustrious chairman of the SMC is not fulfilling his responsibilities. And that is to the detriment of all rugby league fans in Hull, and the rest of the non-footballing community.

Adam Pearson also had his problems of allowing the community stadium to provide for the rugby league community of Hull by asking for fifteen to twenty thousand for a local amateur teams to play in their finals, no one seemed to give a toss about them! Given the fact that this is, according to some, such a massive rugby league city, I'd have expected page upon page of complaints at the time, of which I remember very little of.

As for what you feel Duffen should do, I'm sure he knows more about the in's and out's of running a stadium than you do so why not let the bloke get on with what he does while you spend all day on a message forum.

So why Have Wigan got one then? Do they not have to get back to the F.A. too?