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I see the Stadium every time I return from London, Donny etc on a train!!

Where exactly near the deep did you want a stadium building? A stadium needs car parks, out buildings, roads in etc and that is before you incluide the size of the stadium itself.

As for the Cities you have listed there is a general trend in all of them. They have succesful sporting clubs. We have a second rate soccer side, a Super League Rugby team that has won very few trophies in recent years (FC) and a side that has won nothing in the last 20 years (KR). At what point as a man with public money to spend would you think 'hmmm I think we need to take this sporting mecca and turn it into a dual stadium City'

I am 100% sure that should Rovers agree to pay much more rent than they do for the shed they currently use the SMC would change the colour of some seats just for them.

In fact I know 100% that Adam Pearson would gladly have them there, he has said as much.

The council looked at 5 or 6 city wide sites when reviewing where to build a stadium and only the current circle ground met most of the criteria. They also looked at places like Hedon road and Kingswood which didnt measure up.

That's ARCO. Are you sure you've been?

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None of the places you mention have 2 stadia built, paid for and owned by the local authority though. If rovers want to fund the build themselves, like liverpool and everton are looking to do, then I'm sure no one would have any objections

Not many places have one stadium paid for and owned by the local authority - there is the benefit of precedence. FWIW.

The fact that clubs the size of Everton and Liverpool in a sport as moneyed as football are, and have been for a while, [itrying[/i to fund their own new stadiums shows how hard it is. Rovers have done about as much as they can under their own steam. Even if they could, there'd be plenty of objections to East Park, I reckon.

Leeds have got a Super League Rugby side that are winning things year on year and didn't ask their Council to build them a ground. The football side have played Champions League soccer in this decade. Again, I do not recall Leeds Council building their ground.

Sheffield have not got a Stadium built by the Council or public money. It is a different point.

Manchester have one stadium funded by the Council and one owned by Man Utd or their owners.

Need I go on?

The community projects that you sweepingly refer to are going on now, and have gone on for years. There is no need for a fancy stadium in East Hull to continue. Maybe a leisure centre catering for 20 different sports on the site where Woodford is, I dunno, but a Stadium will not benefit any community project at all.

If you look into it the work Hull City and Hull FC do is done in Schools, at Brantingham and at Costello. They very rarely use the stadium or any of it's buildings.

If you are referring to the Internet usage for the public at the KC see the Freedom centre on preston road.

There is no logical reason for wanting a new ground other than for Rovers fans.

Even the Rovers board don't even seem to care other than to ask for some money to build a new stand with a gym underneath or whatever it is they wanted to replace the golf stand with