I can't wait 'til I get to take 7 different buses to the middle of nowhere to watch the Melton Tiger Scaries at the Squash Arena play the Manchester Hunters. ***Resorts to punching his own face*** This mess has made me utterly miserable and led me to despise this godforsaken forum and half of you lot on it. It never used to be like that. I don't know why more people don't feel the same. Oh no, I do, BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE. I hate you.
"From day one when I took over the club, which was facing a winding-up petition, I said, to the Football Association and the fans, I was doing so as a businessman, that I would be running a business," Allam argues. "Nobody said: 'Go away, we want somebody who runs it as a football club.' But no one said "The name needs changing." No one thought the name was a hindrance. No one has ever run a successful business by alienating core customers. The core customers want a location-specific established for 109 years product. "As a businessman I am preparing the club to go globally selling merchandise. To do it you want a shorter name, and you drop the words which don't mean anything and are common. Leave it to me; I am the businessman running the club – I cannot afford to run the club by fans' feeling." But the current fans are the customers and don't like or want a new product. They don't support a brand or a name that is bastardised purely to attract possible short term investment from distant opportunists-they want what they have now. All available evidence and studies suggest that winning cups is the only important factor in attracting new support or sponsorship in new football markets. Adulterating an established brand to court unsophisticated customers is a risky strategy which alienates existing customers and current sponsors, many of whom will distance themselves from a a cheap ersatz version of the original. In other words, NAME CHANGE? GET TO ****.
So this protest is now dependant on every time Allam gives an interview to a hack? What has changed? This is exactly what he said on the Look North interview. He has never retracted that statement. And what exactly is he "pushing on" with. There is still nothing official logged with the FA or Premier League.
Do you actually go to the matches? There may not of been more than 150 on the march but there was loud applause when the banner went past the East Stand and for large segments of the game all you could hear was "City,City" or "There's only one Hull City". Hull City Tigers I might grudgingly accept but Hull Tigers is a step to far and I will stop buying all merchandising and bring my own drinks to the matches. My one regret is being away and not been able to add my voice to what is happening on Saturday
Excellent. Is there any chance someone knows someone who can bankroll 500 odd of these and sell them outside the ground.. There's your protest. Part 1.
But we are talking about people,who are passionate about the club. Not those who go and sit like they are at the theatre, demanding to be entertained before they condescend to offer any support. Or sit and say nothing unless it is to moan before leaving early as making sure they aren't late for their tea is more important than the result.(Although there are too many of those types in other areas of the ground as well). With a few honourable exceptions in one area most of the West Stand may as well not be there for all the support they give the club. A lot will be more interested in seeing the likes of StevievG and Rooney than supporting City. You could rename City to anything and they will still be there as long as they can watch the so called superstars as they are more interested in them than City.
Was sat in the West Stand and heard little. Also said banner passing skills need working on - looked like a long piece of string when it got through to E4 onwards
If he does go that way then it's a only a short step between that and renaming it A.A Milne. Then it's another short step before we become Hull Tiggers.
Lets just be thankful he came up with "Hunter" for some other team. Hull Hunters? Now even I would join an ill fated demonstration for that one.
I love the quote... "In time I would suggest names for all the clubs called City, but I do not have the time."
