AP is our de facto Director of Football (I forget his official title) and his role within the club has proved wrong many doubters (including myself) that Directors of Football 'have no place within the English game'. I for one will miss NP when he goes - he as a manager has worked wonders for us a club in strenuous circumstances (as a man I can take him or leave him I think there is definitely a hint of hypocrisy about the mans nature). However, NP's departure will make nowhere near the impact on the club in the long run as if AP leaves (although I acknowledge at the moment it's only a rumour). I really would worry for how the club will look going forward if AP goes. For all the Allams have done for the club, I doubt they have any real knowledge about football or how to run a club effectively - in terms of success on the pitch. Without AP at the club it would be like driving at the wheel with your eyes shut. I truly hope this is incorrect.
I said on the day he bought Hull FC that it was inevitable. He was never going to let someone else run a club bought with HIS money. It is not in his nature.
how about, AP to leave, Steve MaClaren as Director of Football in his place, joint Joyce/Solsjar managerial ticket?
Phil Buckingham from the HDF was on Talk sport saying that NP departure was purely because of money and nothing else. Read into that what you like.
I agree, I feel since AP took over Hull FC, he probably was not spending enough the time on HCFC, and maybe this was part of the reason NP also decided to leave, of cause the main reason was the dosh.
And what else is he going to say? He still needs to report on City to keep his job. If he came out and said it was because of the owners he'd get banned. Think about it. Anyway, he might not know. He's not particularly well connected.
We've got our toughest run of games so far coming up and our manager's ****ed off without explanation just two days after insisting he would be back in training with the players today. I am not amused. Sort it out HCAFC, or we're well and truly ****ed. We've got two weeks to find a manager capable of turning a squad largely made up of average individuals into a team that can challenge for promotion by playing the attractive football we Tigers fans demand. Mission: ****ing impossible.
They're not though are they? This is the kind of myth spouted by Leicester fans because they haven't heard of them. There isn't a better defender in this league than Chester, and Rosey and Dudgeon are looking like the two best full backs lately. Basso has no weaknesses which is a key thing for a 'keeper, I've yet to see anyone do what Koren does any better and in Stewart and Brady we have two quality wingers who create **** loads of chances. We're a tad short up front but that doesn't make the rest of the squad ****.
He's incapable of admitting when he's wrong, but he does speak some sense. When he first joined this board everything he wrote was utter bullshit, posted with no intention other than to rile the rest of us. I'm not sure if my attitude towards him is different now because he's changed and become more reasonable, or if it's because the the crap he came out with is now applicable to the club...
The actual facts would help, and if he is not well connected, as a HDM sports reporter he should make it his job to be.
I didn't say those players were average. They're not, they're good players. The rest of the squad is average at best. Whenever a player like Rosenior, Koren, Stewart, Chester gets injured, I **** myself because we've got poor reserve players in almost every position (if not all positions). With our strongest XI, we are a good team, but with one or two injuries to that side we become massively weakened.
Doesn't that apply to every team though? That's what makes them the best XI. Only sides like Chelsea and Man U can afford to have two full sides of quality players.
No, I don't expect any team to leave their best players on the bench every week, nor do I expect every position to be filled by two or three equally brilliant players. I mean relative to this division, our squad is poor for a club supposedly challenging for promotion.
He has a selective memory and blanks out when City do well. This would mean half of this season doesn't feature up until now. He treasures the memory and associates himself with the mockney ****s, who nearly ruined us (not bothered about his stuff about Browny- he did well for us despite most of our football being piss poor, there are odd exceptions of course). He thinks maligned players like Tony Warner & Delroy Facey are actually good. He'll probably be the first person to jump on the back of the new manager once results don't go our own way.
if Nigel Pearson goes, that leaves Mark McQuire as the only one in a senior role with any football knowledge, and his record suggests he knows a much as the Allams. If Adam Pearon goes, Steve McClaren has to replace him with Joyce/Solsjar below him.
Where the hell does this idea that AP actually knows anything about football come from? please log in to view this image LOOK AT IT. HOW THE FUCKING HELL DOES THAT GUY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL? He's been a complete disaster since he came back the second time. I'd love this rumour to be true, I doubt it is.
