Just listened to this, Prescott is embarrassing, idiotic & ignorant of the subject being discussed. The more he talked over & interrupted Rick. the bigger a dick he appeared.
Indeed, with a lifetime in politics, you'd think the fat **** would have at least learned some manners.
Just seen Steve Bruce on Sky News 17.15 today. Said he now wants people to concentrate on the team & hopes the name change thing will just go away. Said the chairman has proved what he thinks of the club by buying Jelavic & Long.
The name change isn't affecting the team, if anything, it's improving the atmosphere at games. What he thinks of the club is possibly more clearly proven by his claim that he'll walk away of the FA reject his application.
The name change is even the opening story on the CBBC Newsround programme(featuring Burnsy)... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03q010h/Newsround_16_01_2014/
"A teenager on the streets of Mumbai might not know the difference between, say, Newcastle, Aston Villa and Hull." WTF????
CBA to trawl through 45 pages to check, but has this video from a Liverpool fan been posted before? [video=youtube;hpADeT3RNi4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpADeT3RNi4[/video]
I watched it and your interpretation is strange. I thought he said that we should accept the name change and get behind the owner as the double signing shows the owners good intentions. He seems to have moved from his 'I'll speak to the owner' to he is now behind the owner. The futility of it all is sad. Bruce should have kept neutral.
"It's no use thinking changing the name or the colour of the shirt will pay instant dividends," he says. "Whether you're targeting India, Indonesia or Malaysia, you need a commercial operation set up there." From the BBC article linked above. We don't even have an effective commercial operation in Hull, let alone bloody Indonesia.
Well said T1. I've expressed the same view almost word for word several times in the past but instead of reasoned argument just got a load of name calling and insults questioning my age and purported senility. I've been watching the team for 65 years and have never supported any other. As the excellent and balanced BBC article correctly reports "Founded as Hull City Association Football Club in 1904, they have been known as "the Tigers" for most of their history, with the nickname a reference to the amber and black kit." I've never known them as anything but "the Tigers". Those people who rabbit on about our "history" and our "tradition" don't have a clue what they are talking about. From their comments most seem to have started following the team in the 1990s. Wtf do they know about history and tradition. I never heard anyone say they were going to watch "Hull City" 60 years agoi...it was always "The Tigers". If Mr.Allam walks will these "City Till I Die" folks be happy supporting a penniless club with crap players in Division 2.? Because that's where we will be heading. And the 4000 or so left supporting the club on match days will rue the day they drove out the only Chairman besides Harold Needler who has been willing to put the money in to get us players of the quality of Huddlestone, Davies, McGregor, Jelavic, and hopefully Long. Take a deep breath you CTID folks. You may be killing the golden goose and ruining the future of the club...for what? One word and a poor understanding of the clubs history and tradition?
That BBC article is shocking, some so called 'expert' thinks we can increase shirt sales and broadcast revenues in Asia with a name change. The clueless **** doesn't even know that not even Barcelona or Man United generate significant genuine shirt sales in Asia and Premier League clubs can't sell their own broadcast rights. I can't believe the BBC actually published such shoddy bollocks.
They bring up India, but you'll never beat Cricket there. It's their top sport and always will be. Why put **** loads of cash we don't have into a PR exercise over there and get nothing back. And that's before you bring the likes of Bayern, United, Liverpool, Real & Barca as our competition into the equation.
Not sure if you are referring to my comments or the BBC article, but if its the former I'd appreciate some specifics on the non substantiated, over reactive, hypothetical drivel so I can know what exactly you are referring to so I can respond.
