hull smallears wrote:You want to check your "company" name situation out from 99 before spouting Bile.
We're still called Hull Fc remember donut.
What you need to remember is that Fc are respected whereas your mob left to rot and fester as noone really cares whether you exist or not. Get prepared for De Ja Vu. Noone is going to bail you out.
Mid-way through the 1998 season, Gateshead was granted a franchise in the Super League ahead of Swansea and Cardiff. A competition was held to determine the name for this club, and Gateshead Thunder was born with Shaun McRae as head coach.
Despite early season problems in attracting fans to a new summer sport, by the end of the season the average gate had risen to 3,895. Gateshead finished in sixth place - just two points outside the play-offs. They had beaten St Helens home and away and beaten Wigan 'on the road' in Edinburgh at Tynecastle. Matt Daylight was the joint leading try scorer in Super League and winger Ian Herron was one of the deadliest goal-kickers in the top flight.
Gateshead Thunder claimed to have lost £700,000 during their one year in existence and on Monday 15 November 1999 the board announced they would merge the club with Hull Sharks, accepting a £1.25 million fee from Super League Europe to do so. The Association of Premiership Clubs blocked proposals for the newly merged company to enter a separate Hull-based team in the Northern Ford Premiership [1] and so the new club would be called Hull FC and play all its home games in Kingston-upon-Hull. This was widely seen as a takeover simply to allow Hull to remain in Super League.
), with us being in a strong league position, anyone seen what odds are on us winning it?! 
