I hadn't heard either of these reasons. I thought the official line was that it was a plan AP had originally requested it to boost crowd noise. Also that the police requested it so home/away crowd flow was less likely to clash. Even more reason to believe the badly hidden agenda.
Yeah I remember hearing a bit of that too, but it was probably during that weird phase where the club claimed everything they were doing was APs idea originally to try and make us agree with it.
It may be a reason, given the role the ulltras played in the name change campaign and the positions they held on the committee, why there was no organised campaign by CTWD against the move. In my view Ehab saw the financial benefits and grabbed the opportunity with both hands. The club statements at the time were just window dressing. The division between supporters only made the evictions easier.
None of the Ulltras were on the CTWD committee, although one of their main advocates was. By the time the stand move happened, CTWD had distanced the Ulltras because key Ulltras individuals had betrayed confidences about the campaign's business. CTWD had nothing to do with the stand move, weren't consulted about the stand move and never came to a collective opinion about the stand move. It simply wasn't our business at that time. These are the facts. Inconvenient for one or two folk looking to burn a witch, but there it is.
The focus on ctwd as a group rather than a collection of individuals is a red herring. A convenient one for some, but there it is. Presumably those betraying confidences were different to those not being listened to.
Whilst I was on the committee two members of the ulltras attended the meetings, including the one who betrayed our confidences. I now accept that CTWD's inactivity was down to it being none of its business at the time.
Rather than fans trying to blame other fans why not put the blame on those who were ultimately responsible the Allams. They pulled together a number of different things some going back years to get their aim of moving the hooligan element out of sight and sound.
Because events then echoed into future events. If nothing's looked at, nothing's learned and history repeats.
Now you've lost me. Not for the first time on this subject, if you have something to say just say it. This is why I said a few posts up that I think FEZ was right (easier with hindsight) by going to meet and negotiate with the Allams the fans gave some form of credibility to their plans and as we are seeing now the blame is put back onto those fans.
You're entitled to your opinion. I've my own reasons for posting as I do on this. I'd rather not bother, but every now and again I trip over some dust under the carpet. On the one hand you're saying the fans shouldn't have met the Allams, yet others are claiming they never met them on this issue. Not all the meetings were with the Allams. Cryptic perhaps, but there it is.
CTWD was a group. An organised group with a single aim. The stand move was not that aim. You could have set up your own group to fight the stand move.
Once again, you miss the issue in favour of your defence of a group not accused. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. You also don't appear to know the timings of how things panned out, or what else went on.
By the time of the evictions CTWD had stopped Hull City becoming Hull Tigers and agreed to merge with the Tigers Coop to become a Supporters Trust. I would have said that broadened the aims of CTWD.
Name Change rejected April 2014 East Stand Eviction process started before April 2014. Letters out May 2014. Supporters Trust formed 31st Dec 2014.
And in those two lines we have the shame of it - the last sentence even more so, fans divided ..... it was ever thus.
The process may have started before May 2014 but when were supporters told if the letters didn't go out until then? CTWD voted to become a Supporters Trust by merging with the Tigers Coop before April 2014. Only a pedant would have complained if CTWD had campaigned against the evictions on the grounds they weren't a trust. However that is irrelevant as the CTWD Committee at that time didn't think it was any of their business.
I was evicted I have no evidence at all, but I suspect some fans thought it was a good idea and suggested it...the owners thought it fitted their wishes (financially and because it moved us hooligan oiks out of their eyeline) so decided to do it I also suspect they couldn’t give a **** about supporters, and even less of a **** about noisy protesting ones so they implemented it in an appalling fashion. That may have been a mixture of lack of ability in running an football club, lack of ability to delegate so everything is last minute or deliberately spiteful, we’ll never know. I like where I am now I’ve got to know others around us If I get evicted again I’d probably cancel my pass and either not bother or more likely go on a mini tour around the ground annoying everyone by standing up in front of them You have been warned
