The crowd in the two home games has been better than half of last season at a much lesser attendance too. The QPR atmosphere was brilliant too from our lot. I think it's only going to improve too.
Ehab will be issuing a statement saying that the fact we took more to Doncaster tonight than we did to Old Trafford for a semi-final shows the fans are behind him and things are going in the right direction.
Just back, great performance by the boys, first half for me we shaded it, second half came out a bit slow, and Donny upped their tempo. Batty and Weir were excellent, Clackstone has improved and looks physically stronger, obviously the loan last season has brought him on. Mannion did well, though his distribution at times was poor. But no one had a bad game, and they played some really neat football. We might have lost 2-0, but the city fans won the support gold medal, and it was great to see them really get behind the youngsters.
Aye but his dad isn't. Interestingly, most Egyptians regard themselves as Arab not African, according to this article. So **** him, he knows its an insult. https://dailynewsegypt.com/2012/09/06/are-egyptians-africans-or-arabs/
Sixes seem a bit harsh that Chazz - first half the kids more than matched them, no-one looked to have a bad enough game to be marked 'barely average': the stronger team won in the end but, some good football was played by the kids.
Top @Carabao_Cup away following - 22/08/17 Sheffield Weds - 2,602 Leicester - 2,264 Brentford - 2,218 Hull - 2,179 Sunderland - 1,929
Really good to see all the youngsters on twitter this morning saying how great it was to make their debuts, and all of them mentioning how good the fans were. Regardless of the reasons why it was obviously a huge evening for them One example
Always thought this was the best protest possible - impactful in media terms and gets straight to the point on a cultural level that the Allams will understand. Well done lads.
Darren Ferguson: "We knew it would be an under-23s team. What helped (Hull City) was their supporters. They were outstanding."
I'd completely forgotten about this bugger - but he scored against us in Donny last night...used to impersonate Buddy Holly, now he's impersonating footballers
Any walker will tell you that even the wintriest and most fleeting shaft of sunshine can briefly illuminate the bleakest of landscapes. It needn’t last long, and it may change very little; but you savour it nonetheless. Savour this League Cup defeat at Doncaster, my friends. Marvel at our 2-0 loss to a side we were three divisions above last season. Because we are Hull City AFC, beset by malice, and there’s really nothing else we can do. The ever-churning social media informs us of the team an hour before kick-off. With the exception of the redoubtable Rick Skelton and his hardy band of U23 regulars, who can truthfully say they’d heard of more than half of them? My wife notes that she taught one. None of them will remember the Smiths, Pulp, Cool Britannia, Boothferry Park or trebles for singles in Sharkeys. It transpires that the average age of the side is 19 years and 11 months. You don’t need to be particularly old to suddenly feel it. They were, for the record: Mannion; Lenihan (c), Clackstone, McKenzie, Fleming, Annan, Weir, Batty, Hamilton, Olley, Leur. Seven City debuts, and a side captained by 23 year old Brian Lenihan, now a veteran of four first team games in England. Robbie McKenzie, wearing the famous #37 shirt, was a nice lad at school, incidentally. We began with the City youths kicking away from the 2,000+ away fans, and they started terrifically. Composed in possession and fighting nerves and a much weightier Doncaster side in a way that made you feel a gulping pride, they stuck it out then started to play. And they could play as well, with lots of neat interplay, assured touches and smart one-twos. The City fans roared their encouragement, breaking off only to pour torrents of scorn on the Allam family. “Where’s the money gone” was a familiar entreaty. Well, when Andy Medcalf publishes the next set of accounts we may find some interesting answers, though forensic accountancy skills aren’t required to observe the difference between income and expenditure on football players. In the meantime, an invitation to stand up if you hate Allam found very few willing to remain seated. The vitriol was universal, by a distance the greatest at any match thus far. Doncaster pressed their way back into the game, and began to create opportunities of their own. They were unlucky to not score shortly before the break when some defensive uncertainty led to a shot smacking the inside of Mannion’s right hand post; luckily it bounced to safety. Still, the kids stuck it out and made it half-time, an achievement rapturously received by the Tiger Nation. We began to wonder if a shock victory against Doncaster Rovers was even possible. It was not. The home side scored early in the second half, and then shortly after, and dreams of a famous win in South Yorkshire were replaced by the gloomy possibility of these willing but cruelly exposed young lads taking a wholly undeserved shoeing. Leonid Slutsky must have wondered the same. Asked to wave a few times by the supporters who are pained at the colossal betrayal he is experiencing, there was nothing he could do. His bench was nothing but even younger youngsters; no gnarled old pros on there to offer a bit of guidance. On we went. And on the youth went, too. Heads briefly sagged but didn’t reach critical drooping status. Mannion kept things respectable when they threatened to not be, making two fine saves that, from our distant vantage, appeared to also strike the frame of the goal. And the boys rallied, and reapplied themselves, and kept going. By now, tiredness was clearly an issue and some of the neat football of earlier had been replaced by slightly hopeful long balls that were all too easy for actual grown ups to deal with, but not one of them gave up. I wonder if the targets of David Meyler’s ire for non-trying were watching? City made a couple of changes and towards the end Greg Luer slashed a shot wide when an appealing City move cut open the Doncaster defence – a shame, as even though the result was a fair one, a goal would have been just reward. But it wasn’t to be. City went down 2-0, but the boys were cheered off at the end anyway. It’s funny to take pride in such an evening, but it shows that all isn’t lost. No matter what, there’ll always be young players itching to make a professional debut; their collective sense of pride in finally making a Hull City AFC debut was demonstrated in gushingly enthusiastic social media utterances that brought a smile on the way home. You were a credit to yourselves and your families, young men. And the City fans were ace too. There’ve been times in the past when we’ve been just about all the club has left, and if the Allam family has its way we’ll be there again soon. But an angry, defiant, and passionate night’s work acted as a reminder that as long as we give a toss, there’ll always be a Hull City. And if it doesn’t look much like the one that realised our dreams between 2004 and 2014, then never mind. It’s ours, not theirs, and however hard they try, they’ll never destroy us. http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2017/08/report-doncaster-2-0-city/
MANAGER Leonid Slutsky’s problems at Hull City are piling up higher than the Moscow snow in February... http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spor...ity-s-problems-in-caraboa-cup-shock-1-8716484
