Hull City - Ist club to call in the receivers.

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Remember it vividly - living and working in Leeds at the time when my brother rung me up and told me the news - receivership not administration ffs.
Decided I had to come back to Hull later that day and went to Action Group meetings at Chalk Lane. Very very depressing days.

Talk of all the players being available to leave for free - Sheff U were after Gareth Roberts, lot interest in Mutrie and Tony Norman.

Mutrie had just scored a hat trick I think in a 5-2 win against Hartlepool in front of just 2800 fans at BP the Sat before I think - having bought some shares via the Action Group attended a very volatile AGM in the Gym at BP when Christopher Needler and Dave Dueberry crossed swords in and around this time.

Spoke to Needler in the boardroon after the meeting and he made it clear that he didn't rate Mike Smith and his management team that were on big bucks and weren't delivering.

Putting the Club in Receivership was the opportunity to rid the Club of Mike Smith etc and start again.

I believe Bristol City did a similar thing soon after us - The Football League soon outlawed this preventing Clubs closing and reforming effectively as a new Club whilst retaining their league status.
 
suttontiger said:
Spoke to Needler in the boardroon after the meeting and he made it clear that he didn't rate Mike Smith and his management team that were on big bucks and weren't delivering.

Putting the Club in Receivership was the opportunity to rid the Club of Mike Smith etc and start again.
Click to expand...

I know Don Robinson became chairman, but not the outright owner of Hull City.

How did Chris Needler manage to retain his share/control of the club after the receivership?
 
It shows that the player wages that we had back then where out of step with what was affordable. 9000 per week was far too much. Have lessons been learnt by clubs? Doesn't look it.i
 
Mel U said:
It shows that the player wages that we had back then where out of step with what was affordable. 9000 per week was far too much. Have lessons been learnt by clubs? Doesn't look it.i
Click to expand...

<yikes> I read that before reading the article and thought you were saying we were paying someone £9k a week in the 80s.

I disagree about saying £9k a week losses is too much though, that suggests there's a level of ongoing losses that is acceptable and there isn't.
 
"Thirty years ago today Hull City became the first Football League club to call in receivers, a move that cast doubt over the club’s future, writes Philip Buckingham.

THE STORM clouds hung ominously over Britain from the outset of 1982. Under Margaret Thatcher’s unpopular Conservative government, the deepest recession for half a century was taking a heavy toll."

Typical negative garbage from the Mail, written by someone too young to remember the times and not from this area, just repeating bollox written by others.

If Margaret's Thatcher's government were unpopular, were we living in a dictatorship ? Or was it that the Tories were less unpopular than Labour or the Liberals?
 
City Agro said:
"Thirty years ago today Hull City became the first Football League club to call in receivers, a move that cast doubt over the club&#8217;s future, writes Philip Buckingham.

THE STORM clouds hung ominously over Britain from the outset of 1982. Under Margaret Thatcher&#8217;s unpopular Conservative government, the deepest recession for half a century was taking a heavy toll."

Typical negative garbage from the Mail, written by someone too young to remember the times and not from this area, just repeating bollox written by others.

If Margaret's Thatcher's government were unpopular, were we living in a dictatorship ? Or was it that the Tories were less unpopular than Labour or the Liberals?
Click to expand...

Slightly O/T but I think Phil Buckingham is a load of old ****e.

His match reports and articles are crap, they are so predictable and cliché , all he does is state the obvious. I'd like to see somebody else given a chance, even if it's just for one article.

And he's a Leeds fan.
 
N said:
Slightly O/T but I think Phil Buckingham is a load of old ****e.

His match reports and articles are crap, they are so predictable and cliché , all he does is state the obvious. I'd like to see somebody else given a chance, even if it's just for one article.

And he's a Leeds fan.
Click to expand...

His Twitter updates are actually very good, he'll even answer questions live at reserve games, which can be handy.

He's also a Mackem, I think it's Fewings who's the Leeds fan and the editor Baxter is a Scunny or Donny fan(I forget which).
 
originallambrettaman said:
His Twitter updates are actually very good, he'll even answer questions live at reserve games, which can be handy.

He's also a Mackem, I think it's Fewings who's the Leeds fan and the editor Baxter is a Scunny or Donny fan(I forget which).
Click to expand...

I thought someone on Humberside had 'outed' him as a Leeds fan. If he's not then I take that bit back but stand by the rest.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back