What an absoultely diabolical situation! The City Council who built and own the KC have no say whatsoever in the goings on of the place and the Allams can basically do as they please with a council asset regardless of who they offend in the process. I hope this goes to the very top and sincerely hope that the council come out and tell the Allems that they will never sell him the KC and they somehow wrestle control back of the ground and its running.

Now this is getting silly.....

The rumour coming from Melton is that a certain Doctor has given Bentley 7 days to pay it's invoice before the badge is removed from a certain Car.

Can see your point of view totally Chris and agree with it. Was just trying to suggest a way of resolving the issue, whilst at the same time getting under the great doctor's skin by not allowing him to have his way!

I wonder what Kingston Comms think of this, as stadium sponsors do they condone this disrespectful behaviour? Also what do the other major sponsors in the ground think like Hudge? Is he prepared to withdraw his advertising at the ground to show respect for a legend of the City of Hull?

I can see this getting out of hand. The City fans are poisonous! What a marvellous situation the benevolent philanthropist has created - both sets of fans seen to want to rip each other's throats out, with the odd delighted peppering from the occasional Rovers fan. Well engineered, Allams.

i really cant see the problem, he is here for the good of the city, then threatens to build a stadium out of the city. He lends HKR 1 million as a soft loan and he lets us use his stadium! genius!! sighhhhhhhhh

Even better, we need to lobby KC to agree to a temporary name change of the KC to the Johnny Whiteley Stadium. After all as stadium sponsors they should be able to choose the name.

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The main news comes from the man at the middle of all this. Find out what Johnny Whiteley thought when he saw his pictures had gone from KC

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Top and Bottom of it is this really, Mr Allam has just told us that Johnny Whiteley and the Fc fans should be grateful that he has kept the name of th suite intact!! Its not stupidity or business its just arrogance surely Mr Man of the people sports for everyone realises that he is just looking stupid and if anyone had any wonder as to whether he is petty here is the proof!

Tomorrows Johnny Whiteley interview will show the man we are talking about here and should not be missed!

Keep on at the Council!

has had beem mention before boycot refeshment on the home games if all hull fc fans dont buy 1 coffee at the stadium that £20000.00 see how long he charges for photos them have to get that approch out there and get the fc an board with this

He's not bothered. That's the problem.
Only a public outcry and coucil support will bring down this dictactor.

I appreciate that everyone is probably sick to death on this story however I have just thought that SMC also run Caravan Park dont they ??? So surely if its a fee for advertising space then Rovers must also have to pay the same fee ???

Wonder when he will start charging them too

Not as far as I'm aware

But there is a rovers shirt within the Kc isn't there?? How much for that?

hudge probably gets mates rates!!

For me, the crux of the problem is that no money needs to be charged to put pictures up. To us, or City. There are better ways to raise revenue, if that is what this is about.

Does anybody know if the SMC have just added the cost into the contract or has it been there a long time but both teams have not been contributing.

If they have just added it in it is a ridiculous situation where you have to ay to put up some pictures on a council built stadium that the taxpayers of hull built.

If it has always been there then the Allams should of changed the agreement and not charged at all . Interestingly AP was running the SMC at the time so who's bright idea in the first place came up with this money making scheme.

Hull City Council have put out a press release in support of the fans of Hull FC today, should hit the papers tomorrow, we've been talking to them today, and reminding them that there is a re-negotiation clause in 2017, until that time there is nothing in the contract that allows for intervention,but as a result of the talks we are cautiously optimistic

that it will be service as usual this week.

I know it's a secondary thing, but having been to many stadiums around this great isle of ours I recall many a suite / stand named after sporting / local heroes. The last I noticed was at Wembley stadium where they have a Martin Offiah bar which is covered in pictures commemorating his great try in 94. How much does the RFL pay for that. There must be a going commercial rate for this. Wembley surely don't do it simply for the hell of it. Or do they. A stadium worth 3/4 billion quid must be charging.



Moving on. Unless AP has totally miss judged the feeling of us Hull fans on this issue and allowed Allam to do this then it is absolutely the right time to start taking direct action. This has been building since the reception area was covered in a Tiger. Wilf brought it up this time last year and slowly we have been eroded. We should to a man and woman stop purchasing anything from the stadium unless Hull FC are responsible for it. We should also encourage away fans to do the same. After all they will want to save what they have paid for the expensive seats they sit in.

The good doctor only knows one thing and that's cash. If he is losing then he will have to change. PR wise this will hurt City and potential sponsorship for them. Hull is a tight community and the business community will not want to be associated with a man who shows so little regard for that community.

"the allams insist both city and fc pay for the rights to hang up pictures"

that's the biggest load of bull i have ever read. Why would he charge a club he owns when hes gonna get the money back anyway.

it is a shared stadium and there should be equal amounts of pictures for both clubs.

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Hull City Council have put out a press release in support of the fans of Hull FC today, should hit the papers tomorrow, we've been talking to them today, and reminding them that there is a re-negotiation clause in 2017, until that time there is nothing in the contract that allows for intervention,but as a result of the talks we are cautiously optimistic

that it will be service as usual this week.

That's potentially great news, however I will never feel completely happy until we have an independent owner of the SMC.

Agree

Spot on Paul. Duffin stopped international rugby which I feel has contributed to the lack of decent World Cup games at the stadium, and now this with Allam.

It has to be independent OR we need it to have a board which represents all parties inc HKR if need be given its a stadium for the whole city / East Riding.