Hull City v Oldham Athletic

There was a match between City and Oldham at the Cottingham training ground today.
May I just say - I talked to Robert Koren and he assured me he was staying here.

City Team

Amos - Jakupovic
East - Trialist 14
Chester - Cooper
Bradley
Dawson - Dudgeon
Mckenna - Devitt
Cairney
Stewart - ***an
Koren - Aluko
Proschwitz - Cullen
Simpon - McLean

Score

City 1-0 Oldham

Aluko scoring from 30 yards (great goal)


Also, Craig ***an was playing and did set up Aluko's goal

I talked to Big Oli and he said he is number 16 and Dawson said he is number 3

 

Any word on official Aluko announcement?

 

I see Koren was playing. Did you get chance to ask him if he was staying?

 

Is this genuine - ***an was playing?!?

And I also love it when people ask players questions such as 'are you staying with us?'. What exactly is he likely to say?
"Well, the club has an agreed media line on this that they dont want me to go and that I want reasurrances of where the club is heading in terms of ambition and I've no idea who you are but - sod it - nah Im leaving mate for more money from Lester, Im getting on a bit you see and Ive probably got one last signing on fee in me. But keep it to yourself wont you?"

 

I heard someone say at Brid on Saturday that ***an is on trial with us, whereas I just assumed he was training with us. Are we actually considering re-signing him?

 

Actually when players are looking to leave they might say "It's all speculation" or "I have no plans to leave" or "I'm happy here" or "Lets wait and see". If they say things like "I'm not leaving" or "I'm staying here" then that is usually what they mean.

 

Is the right column subs, Charlie? Just Danny East says on twitter that he played 75 mins.

 

Alan Fettis told me he wasn't going to leave us the week before he went to Forest. Still hurt by the treachery

 

He said he loves the ideas of the new manager so he really wants to stay he was with Proschwitz who agreed with Koren and said the same thing, likewise Aluko

 

Yes I forgot to put that a trialist replaced him

 

You sure it was Amos and not Oxley? Just checking by the way, not disbelieving you!

 

Yes there were 2 goalkeepers on the bench - Jakupovic and Oxley, with Amos playing from the start

 

Cheers Charlie. Great info. Any pics?

 

We already know who was tested with the number 14?

 

gonna share your insight? I don't!

 

No Alex Bruce there?

 

Any ideas on who it was?

 

And I suppose Faye must be carrying a knock if he wasn't involved.

 

And Fryatt too?

 

Why Oldham are the team that ruined Hull City's future:

At the end of the 1909-1910 season (second division) City had been in the second promotion position (only two went up then) for the three preceding games before the last game of the season against Oldham (away).
A draw or even a tight defeat would have seen us up into the first division and the whole history of HCAFC might have been different. Unfortunately they beat us 3-0 and took our promotion place by 0.29 (of a goal) difference.
To rub salt into the wounds the scorer of their second goal was one Alf Toward. It was his 13th goal after we sold him to them at the start of the season.
After that we never got as close again until Deano finally got us there a hundred years later.