So you don't live in Hull then??

I live in East Hull as do 1000s of other FC supporters...there are very good road links to the KC

Yes, and i can get to the KC no problem.

But surly it would be a good thing for Craven Parks local community to have similar local facilities, local not being a 30min bus journey then a 15-20min walk.

I want better facilities at Craven Park, i want a new North stand and i want the stadium to be improved, if it brings new facilities with it then even better. As far as i'm aware the petition that was put together by the Rovers fan group is asking for some cash from the profit made in the KC shares sales to help HKR achieve it.

FC fans don't want it and see it as a waste of money, Rovers fans do want it and see it as a good investment, big surprise.

Pathetic response, but I didn't expect anything better from you.

You missed my point by a country mile, but never mind eh? you have an axe to grind and anywhere will do.

Rovers were struggling to pull in 1500 spectators when the KC opened its doors, a move across the city would have taken even more off that figure.

My stance on public funding for Craven Park is a matter of public record, I think its inappropriate in the current economic climate, and would be political suicide for any local council to sanction it. However, your good self and many others who keep rolling out the "you had a chance to share" bullcrap really have a poor grasp of the situation Rovers were in back in 2003. Considering the way you decry the 6,000 "bandwagoners" I would have thought your grasp of recent East Hull history would have been better. I was clearly deluded (as you are obviously).

And Rovers started of in West Hull, though I'd doubt anyone is alive to remember it (perhaps 1 or 2 of your current squad may recall them days?).

Why on earth would I know, or indeed care, where your clubs passholders live?

I don't live in Hull so I don't care what KUHCC do with their money, but surely no one expects that they will just hand over £millions to a rugby club that can't fund it's own expansion when it's forced with making big cost cutting decisions in the near future? Handing over wads of cash wouldn't seem sensible when they're likely to be making large scale redundancies at some.

I do, however, think that the posters who are suggesting that the council "invest" in the area may be on to something. If the council gave rovers £4m for a new stand and then rovers started paying a commercial rate for renting of the council owned facility at say £200k p.a. It would giverovers teh ability to grow their fanbase and the council a decent return of 5% p.a.

And we all know that any council or community based project in the facility would really be paying lip service to it

It's also interesting to note that the council seem unwilling to "give" land to HUll FC to build their new training facility even though the club has around £1.3m of tehir own funds to put towards it

cant we start banning some of these numpties?

What part of my post do you think is silly?

For a club that is £3million plus in debt and losing upwards of £500k year, what return are the council actually going to get for it's investment. Will it be a case of selling 2015 season passes in 2012 to cover the financial shortfall of actually paying a proper rent?

Some of the more sensible posters on here appear to be banging their head against a brick wall. Some Rovers fans will never be convinced of anything other than the council literally threw £43 million quid at Hull FC to build themselves a nice shiney new stadium anywhere they wanted and which they could use free of charge. No way in hell was there a whole consultation process with several possible sites considered and the best possible site chosen based on things like transport links. No Sireeeee it was all down to Hull FC demanding the council build them a stadium and only in the exact position they want. In fact I can exclusively reveal that the ONLY reason the stadium was built was so that Hull FC could get one over on Rovers. Fact.

Is it time to take the p1$$ out of FC for being tennants and having a really unfavourable rent agreement whilst pointing out we dont even own our stadium and football rule the roost yet?

Costs FC hundreds of thousands to play at The Kentucky Fooky Chucky, they don't even own it and the players have to clean all The Tiggers boots on a Sunday morning.

This has come about because it was all and only Rovers fans involved in the consultation every step of the way.

There is also one of those hideous green and orange Matchwinner kits buried under the half way line that I put a Romany curse on, back when I was a Romany from Romney Marsh before I found true love with gingerspice and moved to America, which with hindsight was a poor decision as it's costing me a fortune in plane tickets as a season pass holder and shoes because of all the ones I've ruined by crying on them when she calls me a mental.

Councils the length and breadth of the UK routinely offer support to businesses. The "return" they recieve is new jobs or safeguarding existing jobs and a boost to the local economy. Keeping businesses in business and paying business rates, people in employment paying rent and council tax as opposed to receiving rent allowance and benefits.

An economist might also cite the multiplier effect but I fear it would be lost on most posters who hold your stance on this argument.

Guarantee no, because the businesses need to be able to prove competence to carry out the work, but as long as they are then there is nothing wrong with the council awarding the contracts to local companies, even if they are more expensive than an out of town business.

80% of current rovers fans weren't watching the club when those accusations were flying around