Point taken but wasn't it you who scoffed at the notion there were 10,000 in the MKM that day? I don't think you can have it both ways.
Anyway besides that, although the MKM is obviously far bigger than we need on a week to week basis it does gives us the opportunity to make the derby games into a major event and one of the few regular round rugby league games that draws a 20,000+ attendance. It makes it a real rugby league occasion rather than just a little local spat. Also, it wouldn't take much of an upturn in Hull's fortunes for us to be drawing crowds of 14,000-15,000 again for the bigger games. If we ever were in the unlikely position of moving to a ground of our own we wouldn't be using Craven Park as a model either. Though improved to an extent, I still think it's an ugly hotchpotch of a ground that would take an awful lot of money just to upgrade it to a modest standard.