City Till We Die, a community group representing a broad range of Hull City AFC supporter organisations, met with the Football Association on Monday 3rd February to discuss owner Dr Assem Allam's application to change the club's playing name to "Hull Tigers" from the 2014-2015 season. City Till We Die were requested to make a submission to the FA as part of their consultation with stakeholders. The meeting took place at Wembley from 3.15pm to 5.45pm. There to represent City Till We Die (CTWD) were three members of the CTWD group. Present to hear the submission were representatives of the FA. A 30 minute presentation was followed by a two hour discussion. Our submission to the FA has now been made public. It comprises of four parts: A 21-page document - http://citytillwedie.com/files/ctwd-fa-written-submission.pdf A series of PowerPoint slides - http://citytillwedie.com/files/ctwd-presentation.pdf Seven minutes of audio describing the campaign so far - http://citytillwedie.com/files/campaign-on-the-radio.mp3 A three minute video... [video=youtube_share;edgwYedLYYs]http://youtu.be/edgwYedLYYs[/video] The FA were also shown a petition against the name change, addressed to Dr Allam, which has gathered over 15,000 signatories. Out of respect for the ongoing consultation process ( and in accordance with their wishes), City Till We Die will not be discussing any further details of Monday's meeting. City Till We Die would like to thank the FA for giving us the opportunity to express the viewpoint of the majority of Hull City supporters, who wish the club to retain our 110-year old name. We trust they will act to protect the history and traditions of not just our club, but also others who could come under threat in the future should such an arbitary rebranding become a commonplace occurrence. http://citytillwedie.com/fa-consultation/
May I add my congratulations to all concerned for their efforts. The video certainly makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up .. well done
I can understand some emotion for the team, but AA is making a business decision - to get more money into the club. Business and emotion don't go well together.
I liked the video but of the FA people who saw it how many will have a vote when the decision is taken?
Oh yeah? Well Mr Allam was an emotional guy telling City fans they can die. And how much of this business of the namechange is because Mr Allam feels very emotional about the city council not letting him own the ground?
I believe the group we met report to the wider FA council with their recommendations, but we might be sending a link to everyone who votes, to be honest there's been so many emails flying around this week, I can't remember exactly what all the plans are.
Excellent work. In the power point you say you've had messages of support from 91 of the 92, dare we ask who the one is?
I believe it was Accrington Stanley, they don't seem too big on social media there and we trouble getting in touch with anyone in time.
he wants it for business reasons. he doesn't want the stadium cos his heart is in it. saying "oh yeah" makes me think that the next line will be "but my dads bigger than yours!"
