It was a toss up between Hull and Huddersfield for the worst ever SL team that year and IF Hull were relegated they would have not merged with Gateshead and you would not have got a new stadium and the club would have folded.

Thanks?

......and your point is?

What did the so called "merger" with Gateshead have to do with the building of the KC stadium?
Totally unrellated...

Absolutely correct, all three clubs in city were invited to play at the new stadium. Rovers were nowhere near super league standard (bit like now) and declined to take part, because they thought they had a new sponsor (Caddick) who unfortunately for them pulled out at a later date. If they had come on board the KC would have been built on a different (more central) site.

Huddersfield finished bottom. I don't recall them getting relegated?

The club would have restarted at the bottom, like rovers did when they folded. At least the merger did not result in a load of local businesses getting shafted which is a bonus/

Mmmmm, but we beat Sheffield, I know because I was there, which saved us from bottom place. We did merge????? Seem to remember RFL gave us 2 million quid to absorb a failing team. The KC was built, and would have been irrespective of anything else that may have happened. If ifs and ands were pots and pans, the rest is history, Challenge Cup win, 2 finals at the New Wembley, a Grand Final plus who knows this season. Really poor trolling old boy. Lock it.

And weirdest post of the year goes too MR FRISK.

I remember you now !!!!

You were a horse at Aintree

Just a few pointers for you:

1) In 1999 we knew we were in the financial doodoos thanks to Lloyd's antics. We made an application to the RFL to drop down a league, the same league as KR, and rebuild from there. Barry Lilley asked all the chairmen in that league to vote against it. Enough did and our application was rejected. This was when Shane Richardson decided to move his money from Gateshead to Hull, where he knew the fan base to sustain a SL club was based. It was the then KR chairman's bitterness towards us that actually helped us to survive, how ironic.
2) The KC Stadium was nothing to do with our league position, it was built with community money and would've needed both us and City to make it viable whichever leagues we were in.
3) The obsession with the merger with Gateshead from the dark side is really quite pathetic. We had financial difficulties due to poor management and Shane Richardson saw an opportunity, one he wasn't getting from Gateshead. At least we didn't go into administration meaning all our debtors lost vast amounts of money unlike KR.

Can't believe so many have taken the bait!!