We are in the top half of a division that includes BIGGER clubs such as West Ham, Southampton, Leicester, Leeds, Forest, Reading and even todays opponents, Coventry. We are in a division above clubs such as Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Charlton who are arguably bigger clubs than Hull City too. Seriously, you all need a reality check.. Yes we are going through a bad patch but that is to be expected, our level is top of league one/fighting relegation in the Championship. I think it is nice to see us trying to play attractive football despite our problems and small income. I imagine most of the people complaining didn't support the club 10 years ago. Here's another thought, how about the fans don't make the KC so easy to come and play at. When we dominate the game the other team doesn't feel under pressure, this can easily be cranked up by the fans e.g. Old Trafford.
some people think the ball going in the onion bag once in a while is more attractive then passing it along the back 4 for ten minutes to top up the old possession stats which people use to try and justify the tactics...
We're in a fustrating run of form and seem unable to score, you can't blame people for feeling fustrated regardless of where we are with regards to other teams.
There has to be a happy medium which can be achieved. But the team needs help, when they have the ball the fans have to support the team, raise the noise in a positive way to make the other team actually feel like they are under pressure. Don't try to rush the players because they end up panicking and lump it to no where.
I'm a realist, Hull City aren't even second best.. And never will be second best in the game of football.
Lets be fair we have to stick behind the team, i barely remember a song being sung today. The attitude of some fans is abysmal, i don't mean you DJ or anyone in this thread, but the generic Hull City fan at the KC. We had battered Coventry but went 1-0 down and the barrage of abuse that started was a disgrace. We are having probably one of our ten best seasons in the history. No i don't accept second best, and today wasn't good enough but not supporting the side won't change that.
And you call that supporting? Hull City fan's aren't bad. They try to support their team, but for how long now have we been in a rut where conceding means losing. We never fight back. Knowing the match is more or less over on five minutes, makes it very hard for fans to get motivated and to get behind the team. I will sing my heart out at 4-0 down if I'm watching a team of generally well meaning but untalented Hull City players are giving it everything they've got, but I find it hard to muster a song when for the umpteenth time were seeing a squad full of talent give up and not even try.
Our style of football is mind-numbingly boring. All we do is pass it along the back four and then hoof it aimlessly to the wings.
Sorry but it's no different to any other ground. If the football is entertaining or dramatic the fans will be loud, if it's bland and predictable they won't, simple as. Me too, I was totally behind the team today (I always am, but made a point of being so today). I've been as negative as anyone else in the past week or so but today I tried to forget it all and just support the team. I made a point of clapping Cooper and saying something positive for every touch he had just after his OG (and others around me did follow so in some small way it may have helped) and there were others of course, but that kind of predictably ****e performance just puts me right back into the negative mindset I had before today.
I agree with James, the fans turn at the drop of a hat. Whoever is the manager I will support them but at the moment I am a bit worried like everybody else so the fans response is understandable to me.Once you start hitting a spiral of bad form against the crappest teams it can get out of hand. If we are fighting to stay in the Championship next year then realistically that is our level like James says, glad he is brave enough to state the obvious but the fans can moan given the last two results.
exactly, completely agree with that last part, people keep talking about the old division 3/4 days and how bad they where..but at least they tried, how can a team supposedly fighting for the top 6 keep going in at half time behind, and then come out in the 2nd half and trouble the keeper even less then the 1st half!....they just dont seem to give a ****
So many people are pissed off because this team has shown so much promise at different times during the season, yet time and again it has been the same issue which has resulted in us not winning. And no matter how many bigger clubs there are than us taking 0 points out of games away to a decimated Pompey and at home to the team with the worst away league form in the country is unacceptable. When we hear snippets in the press in the first half of the season along the lines of 'if we're in with a chance come Jan then money will be spent' only to see no money spent despite a really quite glaring lack of a cutting edge up front people get even more pissed off. Our recent run of form is shyte, really shyte, 4 wins in 16 since the turn of the year is what you'd expect of a team in a relegation struggle so I think we're perfectly entitled to be fu**ed off and the whole point of a message board is for people to vent their feelings and emotions.
I just hope if we do end up getting another manager it will be somebody who can rally the fans as Nicky did for the first few games, I still think he will be there pre-season unless we keep slipping but the worry is that is what will happen now, we don't want to start next year on a downward spiral from this, that's what finished Brownie off as he couldn't address any of the problems when the slump started
I think there's more frustration than normal, as most people are of the opinion that we came so close this season, yet decided not to take the final punt in January. We've seen some decent football with Nick in charge, his system would have been great of we'd had the players to play it, unfortunately we haven't and he wasn't able to correct that in January and with Koren out and having now lost our two centre backs, we're pretty much ****ed. Nick hasn't helped himself by not changing the system to suit the players available and when things have gone wrong, he's often made substitutions that made things worse. I'm not really sure if he's up to the job or not, I'd certainly rather he was naming himself on the bench at the moment, but this season hasn't been a disaster and if he does get to make the changes he wants in the summer, then next season could look very different. Personally, I'm happy to give him that chance, though he needs to take criticism better than he is now, as much of it is justified.
I'd like to see him there pre-season but maybe he's one of these ex-footballers who can't cut it as a manager, very disappointing the last few games, if we keep losing from now till the end of the season then they will have to consider a change.
"We are in the top half of a division that includes BIGGER clubs such as West Ham, Southampton, Leicester, Leeds, Forest, Reading and even todays opponents, Coventry. We are in a division above clubs such as Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Charlton who are arguably bigger clubs than Hull City too." WTF?!?! What's your definition of a big club?
It's bollocks isn't it? Just because those teams have better histories than us why should we expect to be below them this season? All you can go on now is things like fanbase and money. One of the things putting us behind other teams is the money spent on the team, James should have said this instead of going down the history route.
