Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:32 pm
boardwalkempire4
Fringe Player
Joined: Nov 22 2021 Posts: 273
[quote="His Bobness"]Pearson is the sole owner of Hull FC but the club don't have a stadium and has no real assets. What exactly would any new 'investor' be buying other than your debts?
Rovers have several millionaire board members who have bought into the exciting project going on at Craven Park. Would they have come on board if the club didn't own the ground and surrounding land? Possibly not but they are all fully committed now and are supplying the best business brains...and money into Hull KR.
What is happening at Hull KR is built to last, you are going to have to get used to it.[/quote You’ve waited 40 years to write that
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:50 pm
boardwalkempire4
Fringe Player
Joined: Nov 22 2021 Posts: 273
I did write on here Thursday night that I’d joined the doom n gloom brigade. On reflection and having seen some of the other 1st round games. It’s a long old season there will be plenty of twists and turns to come. Lewis Martin looks the part. Hopefully Balmforth & Staveley can prove their fitness and kick on. Losing Sutcliffe one of our only few rugby intelligent players was a blow. If we can keep Sutcliffe & Truman fit then we can improve. Oh by the way an attendance of 20k is also a very positive point worth noting. Something our dobbin friends on here will never achieve on their own poorhouse lane patch
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:35 pm
Mrs Barista
International Board Member
Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29797 Location: West Yorkshire
His Bobness wrote:Pearson is the sole owner of Hull FC but the club don't have a stadium and has no real assets. What exactly would any new 'investor' be buying other than your debts?
Rovers have several millionaire board members who have bought into the exciting project going on at Craven Park. Would they have come on board if the club didn't own the ground and surrounding land? Possibly not but they are all fully committed now and are supplying the best business brains...and money into Hull KR.
What is happening at Hull KR is built to last, you are going to have to get used to it.
What has physically been built since the ground was purchased (not by the club apparently) 2 years ago? Genuine question - I remember Mike Smith talking about 14,000 capacity plans about 15 years ago but I'm not aware what the ground purchase has actually delivered in terms of new facilities/capacity.
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:33 am
Edenmain
Player Coach
Joined: Mar 01 2009 Posts: 631
His Bobness wrote:Pearson is the sole owner of Hull FC but the club don't have a stadium and has no real assets. What exactly would any new 'investor' be buying other than your debts?
Rovers have several millionaire board members who have bought into the exciting project going on at Craven Park. Would they have come on board if the club didn't own the ground and surrounding land? Possibly not but they are all fully committed now and are supplying the best business brains...and money into Hull KR.
What is happening at Hull KR is built to last, you are going to have to get used to it.
The land around it? It's not worth anything, what are they going to do, put up a fancy money spinning hotel up on Preston Road, behind the Go-kart track?
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:06 am
Tarquin Fuego
Club Owner
Joined: Feb 03 2004 Posts: 3695 Location: United Kingdom
It’s clear that the one game barometer is the only one needed this season.
I wish it was different but there is no catalyst coming.
Nothing can change for us this season.
I can see us finishing 10th at absolute best because of the Coach , Chairman and a small number of the players.
I’ve posted for a few years now that the common denominator in all this is AP
If this was a small company on the stock market then shareholders would have voted him out with no bonus
Think about it - would you have given Adam the job for this year ? No one would as we’ve failed under his leadership
However it’s his money and fair play to the guy as he’s tried hard and gone through a lot of stress.
So hopefully he gets that extra investment from local business people.
So for me it’s a long season watching live every week from Melbourne and I may even be over again this year to see a match and spend some more cash on Merch
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:39 pm
hull2524
Player Coach
Joined: May 06 2009 Posts: 7382
Lots of people unhappy with the State of play and rightly so. We brought Smith in to turn things around. No signs yet but only 1 match in. IMO this year will be tough. But I believe as he's told us again and again there's no quick fix. It is gonna be rough. What's our choices? Get rid of him? . Some say don't go although I believe some don't go anyway. If we all stopped going we would have no club. So that's a good plan. Then what?. Some of us are just addicted to our team. Yes we complain we crumble etc. But we still go. We can't help it . It's in our blood..
once a black and white always a black and white COYH
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:03 pm
Dave K.
International Board Member
Joined: Mar 14 2003 Posts: 25776 Location: Back in Hull.
hull2524 wrote:Lots of people unhappy with the State of play and rightly so. We brought Smith in to turn things around. No signs yet but only 1 match in. IMO this year will be tough. But I believe as he's told us again and again there's no quick fix. It is gonna be rough. What's our choices? Get rid of him? . Some say don't go although I believe some don't go anyway. If we all stopped going we would have no club. So that's a good plan. Then what?. Some of us are just addicted to our team. Yes we complain we crumble etc. But we still go. We can't help it . It's in our blood..
Think this season will be similar to last season, more lows than highs, we will beat London and win a few games, but lose plenty too, particularly when we get a few injuries, like we have now.
We have to show some kind of improvement. Particularly
Discipline Not let our heads go at a few behind Young players embedding and looking like SL players.
Post subject: Re: So exactly were are we going as a club !!
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:33 pm
RC15
Academy Player
Joined: Apr 10 2023 Posts: 33
Agree with much already posted.
Take issue with the "we must buy tickets/buy merchandise or the club will fold" narrative, because it is this very behaviour that has enabled successive owners to milk the fanbase for minimal returns for a very long time.
The two cup wins (incredible as they were) papered over the huge cracks - the fact Radford clearly targeted the Cup every year meant our seasons ended when it did every year; they just went on longer when we got to the final.
Home form has been shocking for a very long time, atmosphere at the KCOM/MKM practically non-existent, and these crystal clear warning signs ignored because season pass sales, merchandise,etc - that is, the cash cows keep stumping up regardless
When I first started going to the Boulevard in the 70's, we were cr*p, but the (frankly poor/limited) players put the effort in and seemed like they cared. I have not seen or felt this for what, six seasons and counting?
Ask yourself as I have done, in what other part of your life would you continue to accept it?
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