He wants to get to 10,000 - this is only 17% more than current.

5 years ago the average was 2,400 (2004 season under Reilly/Hall), so our current average is 355% up, not the 500 quoted.

Hull's last 3 years have been the largest 3 in their history.

All this proves that you cannot use history (including the 80's) to gauge future potential.

I'm disappointed - I've come to expect so much better.
Business plan! When do the council expect to have recouped the £44 million they laid out for the KC? The clue I suspect is in it being called a 'community' stadium.
As I say, I'm not a fan of professional sports clubs receiving public subsidy, but for a fan of a club who have benefitted from it on a fairly spectacular scale to come over all holier than thou and start employing business criteria to other putative projects is a bit hard to swallow.

Why don't you worry about the mighty Hull Super League who have similar debts that are owed to the Directors in loans !

I may be wrong but didn't they pay 900k?

no good asking any of the cabbages, there's some severe alzheimer cases going on in the west, they can't seem to remember anything pre KC!

Ooh, hark at her!

Councils are strapped for cash. As stated, if there is such a proven need for community facilities in East Hull I'm sure it will already be high up the council's priority list, so let them appraise potential locations against a set of community, accessibility and and financial criteria.

Still, you side-stepped Hudgell's image rights "rationale" quite neatly there.

The name of the KC has nack all to do with the revenue used to build it. Kingston Comms have a 10 year sponsorship deal with it. The windfall was taxpayers money which the council chose to squander on all manner of dumb projects - you should see the cash wasted on council house gates/fences etc around parts of the city.

Rovers turned down the chance to play there for 1 reason only - location. Had it been built centrally it would have been a worthwhile consideration.

Debt doesn't have to be paid back, just ask the former creditors of hull kr who had to accept a CVA not so long back.

The interest rate on directors loans is capped I believe at a much lower rate than current bank rate would likely be, plus is there any evidence that the Hull FC shareholders are charging interest on their loans?

You enjoy it like my avatar says

Ask the shareholders of Hull FC how much they got back at the time of the "merger" It was precisely zero! The directors have been paid interest at 2% above base rate,,,,, so far![/code]