: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:16 pm
Noticed a passing mention to 'rugby' on the Yahoo sport section under Olympics.
Also though the Stadium will continue to be used by 'runners, jumpers & throwers' the LODA and the Ms Jowell know that it could become a 'white elephant' without an alternative major sport tenant or tenants.
As the major football clubs have turned the place down - upgrading to allow loads of boxes for the 'prawn sandwichs' and for pens to hold in the 'mob' would cost loads of extra dosh - as anyway they would not be willing to host atheltics, as top level football demands prestine pitches. In addition the roofs would need to be 'rebuilt' to cover the seats over the 'disused' running track - this would hasve been a very major cost negative for football - estimate £200-£250 million - to meet.
Hence the idea of trying to get the RFL involved......though perhaps not as a true 'national stadium' as the post 2012 plan is to reduce capacity to around 30/35K but rather as 'national/south-east Centre of RFL excelance.
.......will watch developments with interest as still believe we could get increased 'support' by baseing 'London' Superleague at this venue with it's much better public transport links. Also it will see RL returning to it's first post-war roots at the nearby Hackney Marshes which the majority of the current QRL fan may not remember or even know.
though it does explain why you are exiled from Hull 
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