http://www.clubcall.com/hull-city/bruce-fears-the-drop-1669012.html? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Hulls-survival-chances-hit-issues-pitch.html Apologies if posted elsewhere
If the owner / chairman stops his ridiculous name change campaign then all the protests stop. Simple. Perhaps Bruce should make this point to his boss.
Yeah, there's no way the "fans" will back down, unless they get their own way of course. I mean, who the hell does Brucie thinks owns and runs the club?
Bruce is spot on and any City fans should take note - protests during the match are completely ill-judged and wrong - all they will do is cost us points. It doesn't matter if you are against the name change (as I'm sure the majority of fans probably are) - protesting during the game is cutting your nose to spite your face. Those 'fans' who did it should have a long hard think about the best ways to protest - if they have the intelligence to have a long hard think...
As has already been stated, Brucie, unless he's going to support the odious CTWD and CI muppets should keep his opinion to himself. Any dissent will be punished by writing nasty stuff about him online and mocking up photos to portray him as a quisling before attempting to push him out and install a CTWD funded manager who does what he's told.
Interesting line :- Hull, by contrast, will continue travelling in the opposite direction unless manager Steve Bruce solves their chronic lack of firepower and owner Assem Allam reins in his dictatorial approach to renaming them The Tigers. This will have been a bit of a bonus fror Bruce (yes a Brucie Bonus) as it gives him a chance to deflect the blame for poor squad/tactical decisions during the game. The buck stops with the manager & players for defeats not the fans
Can't agree with this It was the dire performance that lost the game not some singing in the stands... was he told to say this? Come on Brucie...
The owner who is doing it should have a long hard think about the best ways to stop the protest - if they have the intelligence to have a long hard think...
I think this may be the problem. There were posts on Saturday saying that the players wouldn't have noticed the protest, it was obvious to me that they did and now confirmed by the manager. Can CTWD try to organise something other than in the ground on matchdays. If it's going to cost us points then it's just going to undo the good start to the season we've had.
I think that's unfair tbh. The people, on here, defending the 'in stadium' protests have previously insisted that the players either 'wouldn't notice' or 'would assume the singing was just good support'. However now that Bruce has said it's distracting i'm sure they'll accept they were wrong. Unless they believe Bruce is just using the protest as an excuse for losing, he's quite inventive with excuses I seem to remember
It's a separate issue. SB is telling us the protest was a hindrance to the team - listen to him.. If there is another protest during a game then you have to conclude the people protesting are not City fans - they are silly ****s wanting a bit of notoriety for themselves...
Are you serious Syd? Apart from a 4or 5 minute tussle over the banner with the inflammatory "We are Hull City" across the front, the "protest" seemed to be confined to singing which provided just about the best atmosphere of support for the players ever heard at the KC. Now I wasn't there, but constant complaints on here about dire atmosphere as well as what I see on the tele, seems to support that. As for people having a long hard think - I, like many, share the concern about fall-out and the possibility of Allam bailing out but he has created this entirely unnecessary division and has the power to fix it. With a bit of imagination he could even save face in the process. Someone posted earlier, (Strov I think) that people should not risk everything by flying in the face of reality. I agree with that and said a few days ago that no matter what happens, Allam won't be around forever but in the meantime methods of protest are limited and singing at a football match is not as stupid or potentially damaging as saying, "If you don't like it, don't attend and I'll refund your money".
How dare you suggest I and others are not fans. That's precisely the point - we're fans of Hull City, we're not fans of Hull Tigers. No, I simply want to look my nephew in the eyes when he asks me what happened to Hull City and why didn't I do anything to stop the plan to extinct them?
I'd say it hindered the team too if I'd just lost 0-1 at home to Crystal Palace. The poor performance and lack of goalscorers cost us the match, as we all know, not 5 minutes of singing a Hull City song and a bit of pushing and shoving in one corner of a 25,000 capacity stadium. I like Brucie, but this is a little disappointing from him. He gets paid very handsomely and will be expected to back Allam up at all times. I do believe that immediately after the banner incident there was an equally loud rendition of Steve Bruce's Black & Amber Army. We support the team and we support the manager. Allam needs to stop twisting things and jabbing Bruce in the back with his long fingernails, telling him to say stuff to the media. Concentrate on training Steve, leave us to make our own minds up about the name-change stuff.
Put it his way then - Can you name me a time when protests by home fans against their club have led to the team playing well/better than usual?
I made the mistake of thinking it was the campaign flag, but it was not. Whoever it was made a mistake, but it was not the campaign. There were three reasons we lost on Saturday: The set-up the manager chose relied on an impregnable defence and nicking a goal, our usual one - nil game plan. SB made this a flawed game plan when he played Elmo as a right-back. No creativity and no one to convert an opportunity into a goal; our final third is non-existent. We were poor throughout, against a team who were poor throughout.
So as a fan, you'd protest during another game even though it is certain to have a negative impact on the team? Is that what you're saying...
