Why is the Shirt launch in December

We where possibly severing with Kooga earlier in the year but came to a compromise to enable us to continue this year. This led to delays. We wont be next year.

Pass Sales.

Figures for season pass sales are comparable with last year at this stage give or take a few. it’s encouraging that we’ve already sold more than 700 passes to people who’ve not bought one before. The Rovers membership is above 5000, although has reached a plateau slightly the last few weeks. As I have previously said, I expect the benefits of Club Rovers will only truly be understood once the scheme is up and running.

On Morgan being linked to the Eng Post

Any successful coach gets linked with vacancies

On sniping and speculation from Hull FC fans.

Happy to do our talking on the pitch

Any word from the RFL about the accounts being late

None whatsoever

On Financies

Let's not dress it up - for the club to be self sustaining we need to have better facilities and to be playing infront of average 10,000 crowds if we are to continue to spending at or around the full cap and to be challenging at the top of the game.

The cost of getting to and establishing the club in Super League was always going to require investment in the short term in excess of operating revenues and the club planned for that. In the last 2 years as the club has continued to pay-off historic debt, invest in players and stadium development. Taking that into consideration we have still managed to reduce the operating budget deficit and are confident of making even bigger strides in this area in 2010.

The financial picture in the medium/long term is challenging for the game as a whole. There are average losses in excess of £540,000 across the Super League clubs. As a collective, we must work harder to reduce those losses. In isolation, that does not help us address our deficit which incidentally is below that average. I went on record 12 months ago saying that the club needs to “wipe its face”. It has not yet done that. I do anticipate some improved income streams and further cost cutting measures over the short/medium term. However, to fundamentally reach the break even and positive position, as I say we need to be playing in front of a core 10,000 audience. To do that, we need better facilities. We need to finish the east stand and also develop the north stand facility. If we don’t do that and don’t get help in achieving that the longer term picture isn’t great. The club is very important to the people of east hull, and the politicians and others of influence in this city need to pay due regard to that. We all have a part to play.

On John Prescott

Very active for us.

On the Harry Poole bar

Membership seems to have not worked too well the last 3 seasons - probably going to go to open bar - first come first served but still reviewing

On the Board and their roles and will it be added to

We could do that on the site (most are on there now). Paul Luen has joined the board and we are always willing to talk to new people who have the clubs interests at heart.

On redundancies

Yes we have but the context is different. We have streamlined the off-field maintenance operation. Two staff retired. We have out-sourced the maintenance facility to one of our sponsors. We have spent a huge amount of money keeping Craven Park within the safety standards. We feel we can benefit more from economies of scale in doing that. Several other redundancies have been made with a view to improving various aspects of the club. On the other hand, we have recruited in various new areas. We have a new Commercial Executive. We now have a dedicated Media Manager. This was previously a shared post and we now also have a dedicated football manager to provide Justin with all the off field support he requires.