I think they cut the corporation way too much slack and have never held them to account. Dunno about the Beeb- never noticed any bias one way or the other. With City it is all over the place and has been for decades- one day good, one day bad. One journo supportive, another negative. Depends on the Sports Ed I suppose. What the paper has lacked for decades is a wholehearted and unequivocal backing of City like other clubs in other towns seem to get.
And what cracks? We are top by 4pts with a game in hand, free scoring and hardly conceding, I know you really want there to be cracks, but there really isn't
I'm not saying we didn't deserve to win, we definitely did. I'm saying that the performance wasn't our best, a local paper pointed that out and people are pissed off that it's been pointed out instead of praising them, which they also did. If their keeper hadn't made a mistake, we wouldn't have won. The result was what we deserved, but the scoreline should have been higher.
If you think we've played our best every game this season, I advise you to sit and watch the games back. Don't hold us to the standard of our opposition. We can beat what's in front of us, but a meek 2-1 victory with an 8% goal conversion ratio isn't cause for a ticker tape parade. It'll come, we're getting better as the team gels and there's had to be some rotation to keep it fresh, but by our own standards, we aren't doing our best. Which is ok, because if we aren't at our best and we're top of the league, that's fine. I'm just not ignoring the other stuff, and neither will Grant McCann.
The mistake people make is thinking that the HDM exists to inform people of events. It doesn't, it exists to create clicks on its web site.
Please point out where I've said we have played our best every game or that I expect us to? And also not playing our best every game doesn't mean they are cracks that people paper over! No player or team will every play their best 100% of the time. We are not the finished article but I'd say cracks is a poor choice of words at best and just flat out daft if that's actually what you ment.
I don't expect us to batter every team 10-0 with 30 chances a game. But I would expect a team of our quality to score at least 3 if we have 25 shots on goal and play the way we did. If we aren't playing at a consistently good level across the season, I'd argue that's something to look at and not ignored just because we are winning. The whole crux of this is that people seem cross that the HDM doesn't dole out praise week in week out, but why should they if there are things like this to be pointed out?
The Mail. What is the Mail? well it's people just like you and me. Need to get them onside and keep them sweet.
For the record, Manchester Evening News has used the term 'wasteful' in plenty of headlines on their match reports (as, I'm sure, has every other local paper at one time or another, it's a fairly common term).
Yep, me included. Not sure who does the website as I seldom visit it, but in fairness to them the paper edition had the headline of "Super-sub Eaves fires City to win in McCann derby."
Mine too - my day starts, coffee, toast n marmite, Teletext; used to be followed by Ceefax and then the general knowledge quiz on Channel 4 text, Bamboozle! The beeb have tried several times just lately to ditch the text service, bloody rubbish idea!
People get itchy about it because some of us have long memories and the HDM have a history of running Hull City down whilst trumpeting everything the RL clubs do way out of all proportion. Of course you will think that is a massive over reaction, others who have followed City for a long time may see it differently. The HDM can also be very good when they want to be which proves they can do it. I actually think the new reporter is decent, so far, but we have had some absolute shockers in our time. Also todays headline says Wednesday win was comfortable so what's happened to the 'wasteful tigers' ? We were comfortable and wasteful then ? That aside, just how long have you followed Hull City, Steven Toast ? By follow, I mean actually attend matches on a regular basis ?
