Joined: Mar 15 2012 Posts: 1346 Location: Marfleet
Just so I've got this straight...
- Hull City need a certain type of covered facility for their academy to train at in order to reach the next tier of academy funding from the FA? - He/Hull City don't want to pay the £1.5m needed to build one. - Instead he decides to commandeer the arena for Hull City, using his ownership of the SMC, evict the clubs that use the facility, and spend £250k converting it to use as this academy. - Puts the blame for this action on HCC for not building Hull City their own £1.5m complex.
At the same time he withdrew £7m from Hull City last year - did I read that right? And spent £25.5m on players?
How much additional funding will City receive following this upgrade?
HDM wrote:Mr Allam said: "Sports clubs in the community are the responsibility of the council, not the responsibility of one person.
"I choose to take responsibility of the football club. You don't force me to look after the whole thing. There are elected councillors for that, rates and taxes for that.
"The council can have it [the SMC] for £1, have it for the community. The whole site was meant for the community but the SMC loses money every year.
"The contract with the rugby club loses money for the SMC every year. The arena loses £250,000 every year but we have contracts and we accept them with a smile.
"We have never complained. I have been accepting this every year."
Is Hodgson the new Griffin, or is it all about pace?
Joined: Dec 29 2011 Posts: 3607 Location: Back row of Threepenny, forever
Ian P wrote:Its time we all turned the heat up under this, too many people in positions of power are sat on the fence holding very large tubes of Preparation H. I have sent an email to my three councillors asking them what they are doing to protect a vital council owned facility from being turned over free to a privately owned business.
The local MPs I know are on the case now, he has really upset the Labour movement with his £1 million offer.
I emailed the SMC to explain their pricing policy of swill and nose bag.
Joined: Aug 18 2013 Posts: 710 Location: Kingswood the greatest place to live in Hull
I emailed radio burns this during his show,
Mr Burns,
Why should the sports clubs that use the Airco arena leave because Mr Allams says so, the arena was built before he took over the football club and the smc.
Do radio Humberside think Mr Allams is doing the right thing in evicting the clubs for the benefit of his football club yes or no?.
Or will you sit on the fence and not say anything that affects your relationship with him.
Joined: Jun 01 2007 Posts: 12671 Location: Leicestershire.
Suzie wrote:I would like to the think that the premier league... morally...
It may be prudent to prepare yourself for a disappointment.
weaver93 wrote:As SMC are in huge debt..
Could they be declared bankrupt? ... and a new company is formed to take it over??
By whom? That applies to both the declaration and of the formation of a replacement. Allam has not indicated that he'll withdraw support, if the council don't accept offer to sell - he'll just continue in his current direction.
Barnabus wrote:Just so I've got this straight...
- Hull City need a certain type of covered facility for their academy to train at in order to reach the next tier of academy funding from the FA? - He/Hull City don't want to pay the £1.5m needed to build one. - Instead he decides to commandeer the arena for Hull City, using his ownership of the SMC, evict the clubs that use the facility, and spend £250k converting it to use as this academy. - Puts the blame for this action on HCC for not building Hull City their own £1.5m complex.
At the same time he withdrew £7m from Hull City last year - did I read that right? And spent £25.5m on players?
How much additional funding will City receive following this upgrade?
From what I've read - yes, yes, yes, yes, dunno and wouldn't be surprised but not sure whether it'd be a nett spend. There was an article on funding levels academies in When Saturday Comes recently. I'll check it out later.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
Fields of Fire wrote:I emailed radio burns this during his show,
Mr Burns,
Why should the sports clubs that use the Airco arena leave because Mr Allams says so, the arena was built before he took over the football club and the smc.
Do radio Humberside think Mr Allams is doing the right thing in evicting the clubs for the benefit of his football club yes or no?.
Or will you sit on the fence and not say anything that affects your relationship with him.
Never got read out
I sent something similar and never got read out,that was no surprise because Burnsie takes off his defenders of the people cloak off when anything anti Allam is asked.
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