I am not happy with the way this d!khead has deprived us of an international in Hull this year. He bleats about the not been able to leagally allocate a specific date in October/November to play a Rugby League International and blames it on the RFL for not waiting till June.
How come then ;
1. Old Trafford is booked for 10th October for the RFL Grand Final
2. Wigan have agreed a weekend in November Sat/Sun TBC
3. Doncaster have firmed a date for one international.
4. The Galpharm has firmed up a date for one international.
5. Elland Road has been booked for the the Autumn International Final.

He does not want the comunity stadium to be used for the comunity, only for the out of towners that come to watch Hull City.

I listened with interest to the Hull City Fans Forum on Humberside tonight as Duffen and Brown were the guests on the panel. During the show David Burns, in his normal brown nosing way to Mr. Chairman (Duffen) commented I bet you have received a lot of mail and texts form the RFL Fans regarding the lack of an international at the KC. His reply was no I did not think they could write, Burns quickly moved him on quite embarrased by the comment.

That man is a tool and I would hope we and the tennants at the KC can get a good chant of Duffen Out at the good friday Derby just to show the football git what the RFL fans in Hull think of him. Then we can get back to hurling abuse at each other.

Aren't you a Rovers fan?

is this on a pod cast?

the fc fans might but i dont think many city fans will be there

Well spotted, original post corrected

As I banned from their forum I have been laughing my head off at some of the comments. It may have slipped their notice that Hull SL were in fact offered an equal share of the SMC by Adam Pearson. The problem was that Fatty Richardson was only interested in getting his money back that he had "invested" in Gateshead as was Kath Hetherington and they could not raise the money to be part of the company. It was AP who was the driver of the project and Hull SL did nothing but move in when it was built.They, like Hull City and tenants of the stadium which is run by SMC for a profit and nothing more. There is no conflict of interest between Duffen's role as Chairman of both companies. They were given a date by the RL for a fixture and Duffen quite rightly could not commit the booking until he knew what Hull City's fixtures were. This would be because moving a match on the day of the RL game had to have the approval of both the FL and the club involved. Nobody has thought to ask why the RL did not offer a game which could have been played on a Friday night or a Sunday,after all that is when ALL other RL matches take place!

you need to get out more then.

TBF this isn't a HullFC v Hull City debate it is a bout the people of Hull being denied live International RL in their home city despite its huge demand.

Duffen is out of order and owes the people of Hull an explanation.

Totally agree.

Spot on



Hull City partially fill the stadium with Hull based and out-of-towners to the tune of approx 23K each week. There are more than 25000 Rugby League fans in this city. Time to demand our rights as residents of the city entitled to the benefits of the stadium built for the people of Hull, with our money.

has he not made a statement?

He explained it last night on sportstalk, how much more crystal clear can it be that with Hull Fair already causing problems in october, he would then have to go back to the FA, before the fixtures are even known, to say he might need to move things around even more. He asked the RFL to wait, they told him no, what more can he do.

Fraid i don't listen to that tripe anymore.



All i'll say is where there is a will there is a way, besides it doesn't start until the 24th Oct so Hull fair will be gone by then.