One anti on a forum posts a load of his views on something, and you think thats the end of it because of what you consider are his well reasoned arguments (i.e. he's an anti)? Brilliant. I guess because he's another clueless anti, his whining is ok, it's only when we pick the CTWD crap apart, or the stupidly clueless articles against the name chance apart that is just bollocks? <rolls eyes> Still, lets hope going forward we can emulate the awesome show of local support Sunderland enjoys in all their home games eh? lol
I think you'll find that quite a few of "my views" are just highlighting the view of the original journalist/blogger or filling in factual omissions in an article that you,among others,seem to continually point to as evidence backing up your assumption that Assem Allam has this brilliant master plan for world domination by changing a football teams name and,apparently,little else.Yes,I'll admit to having the odd rant as well,but only when I think he's spouting bollocks and deserves it.....a bit like you seem to do when you feel the same about CTWD articles. If that's me whining,go read your own posts and tell me what's the difference.
Is the post from HT for real? I mean really for real? If this is supposed to shoot down Happy Tiger you will have to do better, this is so full of garbage it's embarrassing. The article is dire, but if you are going to use it to prove a point do some research. Using comments like racist is a plain stupid. Mind you happy, Sunderland??
It wouldn't have been my first thought to be fair,but every person of asian/filipino extraction I've talked to about the Hull Tigers fiasco here has invariably said at some point " your owner sounds like a bit of a racist"(paraphrased of course,some swore quite a bit as well). Sure it's not a hugely scientific sample but in my experience 100% of people supposedly being targeted as future custom have said it's bollocks.Good job that's not why he's changing the name eh? quote: The Omega Man HT where did you get the fact that in 2010 Assem Allam injected 80m plus? I didn't.The article reads that he bought the club in 2010.....His investment of £xx has propelled the team to the position it is in when this article written,Jan 2014.I don't have the exact figures,and neither do you but the generally accepted ball park figure at the moment varies between $80-£90 million.The highlighting was mainly to show that for a supposedly respected financial paper it was very cavalier with its figures.As cavalier as me maybe,but I don't claim to be a writer for The Economist.
Heb tiger, purely as a counter regarding the marketing of PL clubs in Asia, I still believe that Hull City...The Tigers is better than Hull Tigers, but we have to stop thinking about just shirt sales and attracting indivual supporters. This article shows (I believe) that the club has to get into this marketplace pronto. The challenge is that so far we have not put up one single workable alternative. http://www.connectedasia.com/the-premier-league-sponsored-by-asia/
I agree,the club should be doing it's best to exploit the market as Hull City and utilizing a great nickname,The Tigers,but it hasn't. Manchester Utd,Liverpool,Chelsea etc. didn't need a single issue protest group to tell them that's where the money is,go get.Are you suggesting that CTWD are now responsible for the clubs commercial operations and overseas marketing?Just because a company's commercial ops are seemingly incompetent and/or lazy it shouldn't make the customer go out to find revenue.
I have posted before that the club should look at the CTWD and learn how it is done. I had an interesting conversation with a property developer about investing in Hull City. He was quite astounded that Assem Allam had asked for supporters to come up with an alternative. He was equally adamant that he would not put a penny into a business that could not market itself better in the PL and also he would never invest in a club that had a strong campaign group opposing it. What he said made sense, there are easier clubs to invest in than Hull City. He did like The Tigers and hated Hull Tigers. Saying the former was stronger. He was the one who changed my view on the development of the KC and a partnership with HCC.
YAWN......... all this infighting between all you soft, shallow bastards that care ever so deeply about a petty thing like a name change and the rest of us who don't really care. should stop trying to convince the rest of us cos we are deeper than that.
OLM? would you stop being known as olm cos you were forced to change your name?? Would you ****! now grow up son and stop trying to wum! senile ****/shallow **** - I can't decide which. It is like only going out with blondes.............. "who the **** cares how nice they are?............THEY ARE BLONDES!!" .........****s sake fella!!
I have only just realised that when I put www.hullcity.afc.net to get on the webpage it is directed to Hulltigers. A bit presumptuous !
We seem to be coming to some sort of conclusion. The report (Asia) tell us what we already knew, it simply fills in some figures. By exclusion, it kind of says the level of consistent football success a club should enjoy to be truely marketable; I would say a prolonged run in the PL is a minimum shout. Your property developer could have read this board to realise the club has the commercial nous of a frog (the croaky one), or he could visit the shop. Your property developer comes across a tad myopic. If he took the trouble to see what CTWD is all about he would see a very credible support group that any wise owner could use to the benefit of the club - it's certainly not an hindrance to growth. I'm baffled why he thinks the KC development is not viable - does he live in Hull?
This is the name change thread, if you don't really care, just **** off. And take your clown-shoe's with you.
example... look at TAFKAP......... (The Artist Formerly Known As Prince).... EVERYONE still refers to him as Prince.. but according to you shallow ****s. he is a brand new artist. are you lot for real? his back catalogue of songs are still there! just under a different name. But they are still his. so when 1 of his old songs are played, where do the royalties go?
Prince Rogers Nelson? That's his real name and would likely be the name under which copyright is registered.
you are splitting hairs here.................. point is that he is still known as Prince, the singer. Same as we will still be known as Hull City...
