I don't mind it! Humber Bridge, three crowns, and a reasonable looking tiger (granted the colouring is a bit gross). I've said before but I really find the current tiger quite dopey. By comparison for instance, a local footy club down here also nicknamed the Tigers changed their badge a few years back and this Tiger is much better drawn and evokes a bit more ferocity: please log in to view this image
Not sure it's about demanding anything, it's the 21st century and people have many choices as to what to do with their disposable income. If you intend to run a business or indeed a football club you have to treat your customers right or they will bugger off somewhere else.
It's horrendous that one. It was actually designed by the son or nephew of one of our owners at the time. Mental.
Oh, maybe I'm along in liking it. It's very dated, but the overall idea of it is nice. You could modernise it reasonably easily I would have thought.
There's lots of football related revenue streams open to Acun besides raising ticket prices or resorting to branching out into non-football related businesses, it's just what we're happy to put up with. A documentary of his first season in the All or Nothing style would be a great watch but could be a huge distraction, a pre-season tour to Turkey could be quite lucrative, Turkish sponsors also quite lucrative and probably the most straight forward option.
That's a rather simplistic response, but they do like good ones, yes, it's the **** ones they gripe about, and there's an opportunity to replace them, but the housing thing was more as an example of a subsidiary line of business. The real question was would that be possible under FFP, or would any profit fall in to the same general pot for the calculation.
I think it would be treated as income for a related entity as it wouldn't be Hull City owning the properties, it would be a subsidiary of the club or a related company. I don't have any examples off the top of my head but I think it'd be like how some clubs have sold the ground to themselves to generate income as a one off, where it's the club earning that income, even though it's a related company buying the club (the FFP is judged solely on the club's books, not related companies).
I was more meaning if Hull City as an entity owned the business, rather than them setting up a separate company. Much as they do with players etc.
Some of it is what the market will stand, another part is the belief that it is worth it. Some (ulrika for example) will pay whatever it costs no matter what the facilities, but there aren't many like that. Need to find a balance, and certainly not piss off too many too much so they don't come any more. Winning on the pitch helps a lot too.
