I think that semis should be played at the Emirates and Old Trafford with the choice depending on the combined distance from the stadium of the two clubs from each game. Both of them are special stadiums but would require much less travel in a lot of cases and would keep Wembley more special.
it made sense to me. is english not your first language? all the earlier rounds are played at one or other of the teams' grounds, depending on the draw.
Not particularly, when teams near the bottom play each other, sometimes one wins, it's a fact of life. It does cut your safety margin to just 5 points. Surly if you see it as a bad thing for Sunderland it can't be good for Hull? I prefer to see it as it still being in our own hands myself so don't really care what other teams are doing until it gets down to the last 4 or 5 games. We've still got 12 games to play. Plenty of games for us to make or break our own season.
Point being you will soon be playing two games a week. Your manager was talking up the Palace game next week (already) as being massively important. No doubt last Sunday was too. Is tomorrow the same? Can't be every week.
A much better idea than Wembley although as the arsewipes are still in it would have to make sure they had to play at Old Trafford . Same for Manure would have to play at the Emirates, if they where still in it. Mind you would be a problem if the where playing each other. Nah on reflection should work it the same as all the other rounds.
A much better idea than Wembley although as the arsewipes are still in it would have to make sure they had to play at Old Trafford . Same for Manure would have to play at the Emirates, if they where still in it. Mind you would be a problem if they where playing each other. Nah on reflection should work it the same as all the other rounds.
I cant stand this "just staying up" malarkey. As though its easy "just" coming 17th. It s a battle week in week out battling against for the most part clubs with far greater resources and better players. In which we have to roughly win 10 and draw 10 games, against the best clubs around. I'd happily do that season after season, cos already its given me the best result I've ever seen us beating Liverpool 3-1 and nearly doing Man U. We'd have those moments year after year and it would mean so much more cos its us, little Hull city.
Soon be playing two games a week? Where have you been? sometimes we've played 3 a week! We used the squad for the last busy spell and will for this one too. Some of our first choice premier league players will have played 1 game in four weeks once the palace game arrives, that's more than a mid season break because we use our squad. Don't worry yourself about our legs, we're not.
I don't think that would be much of an issue if both teams got 50% of the tickets though. You could of course have other available stadiums like Anfield or the Millennium if you wanted to avoid teams playing at their own ground.
We've slipped back to 2nd bottom because we've only played two premiership games in a month and 8 days We've maintained top half form through this great stamina and squad rotation, you're forgetting it's our early season form that got us in this mess, we were 7 points adrift. We've done great through our busy periods so your point has no backbone due it's clear inaccuracy. Next?
When I first got interested in football as an 8 year old the maximum wage was still in effect. In the next five years Wolves won the league (twice) and won a cup final, Burnley won the league, and got to a cup final and were runners up in the same season. Ipswich won the league the year after getting promoted. Luton and Blackburn got to cup finals.Then the maximum wage was abolished and these clubs, which were all from smaller cities than ours were never able to compete on a level footing again. Even then, in the next 22 season there were 11 different winners of the league. Compare that to the same length of time the PL has been running. In the same period from 1958 14 different clubs won the cup. Since the PL came into existence 8 clubs have won the cup. Of course things will never go back to those days but with an equal chance and no TV saturation people tended to watch their local clubs. Burnley used to get 30,000 out of a population of 80,000. Bolton and Blackburn got good crowds. A shame, but you can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Great that your players have suddenly improved under Gurning Gus. Sounds like collectively they were failing under PDC. But you were no better the other week when we dicked you than you were with nine men back at the KC in Autumn.
Yeah, teams do tend to struggle when they have to play 87 minutes with 10 men. Sorry we failed to out play you.
There are more people with City as their nearest club than there are Sheffield United. Stop trying to justify the pathetic response to this game from the people of Hull and East Riding.
You've actually been quite fortunate (in that you had no ability to influence it) during the last few weeks with how **** the teams just above that dotted line have been. Your form being good or not, the psychological effect of the points gap being 6 or 7 points would have been pretty severe even with games in hand. As it is they've been so **** that 1 win out the 2 in hand and you're up to 16th. Makes for a more exciting end to the season anyway.
