The Ballot. What a joke!

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Simple if you want to be called HULL CITY and want the Allams to stay then vote Hull City and write at the bottom Plus Allams to stay if you don't want them to stay just vote Hull City but if you really really want the Allams to stay then support Hull Tigers ITS UP TO YOU?

No because that is regarded as a spoilt vote.
 
No OLM its all a conspiracy. They're out to get you. Please make sure you post regular updates on this matter too, and make sure you whine about it a lot too. Please encourage your fellow committee members to do the same.

Wait, what's that behind you? Oh its the 20k who will be voting for Option 3!! What's that? You didn't get to vote, so can assume theres another 20001 that couldn't vote no too?! FIX!!!!

Haha.

Happy Tiger, your head is as empty as a eunuch's underpants.
 
You seriously think this should be an anonymous poll...of season ticket holders? There are wild claims of fixing and corruption, yet the single control that guarantees that the voices of the actual season ticket holders and ONLY them will be heard you think is wrong?

Given the tactics being employed by CTWD who will come out of this with barely any credibility left, the absolute worst thing you could do for a genuine and properly representative poll of the season ticket holders would be to make it anonymous.

Erm, where did I say I thought it should be anonymous?
 
Really hurts not being able to control and manipulate it to suit your agenda doesn't it? Don't worry, Im sure all the people who signed the petition you like waving around like a battle standard will vote no.

Ah yeah, no, no they won't.

Btw yes, I am enjoying this.

Nothing hurts, you clown, the name change has already been rejected.

What this is now about, is making sure this bollocks doesn't continue for another year.

Something I would have hoped every Hull City would want.
 
Lammie, do you want me to scan an empty one and send it to you? If so Pm me on CI.

Cheers sunn, but I've got no problem getting a ballot paper and voting, it would just be rather useful if the club were capable of sending the ballot papers to all its season ticket holders, I wonder how many more don't get one and can't be arsed to go looking for it.
 
The choice on the ballot form is simple.

The free ride into the PL is over. Either support the owner or lose his funding. Forget exit planning and financial loss, look at this as the free fall element in the roller coaster ride.

We are about to enter the final stages of Assem Allams funding of the club.

Victory, there are no winners in this battle.

In the future could it be that Assem Allam will be considered to be the devil incarnate.

But when he is gone and the club is milked for all of its worth by the next generation of owners. When we are back to square one, facing uncertainty as Hull City has done so many times in the past, watch as the blame merchants turn on the CTWD.

Take note when the FA allow another club to change its name. What happens when as in so many sports, club names are changed simply for marketing with no historic links. What would really have happened if as part off Portsmouths rescue plan they had lined up an investment deal that required them to change the name to Portsmouth Tigers?

In five years time will we look back and think "Oh we got it wrong".

When I said the choice is simple, is it really that simple.........

By the way please remember that this is a forum. I am expressing a debating point and not my personal view.

The free ride was over at the beginning of this season when Assem Allam in his Look North interview with Peter Levy said he was running out of money. He has said it repeatedly since. Long and Jelavic were a calculated gamble which would be covered by the cup run and a decent Premier League position. However there is no pot of gold for next season. Ehab has finally said that the name change will not bring instant riches but is a 4 to 5 year strategy. In that time what will distinguish us from the rest of the Cities in the league is our performance on the pitch. Sponsorship and investment is dependent on our Premier League status not our name. If, and its still a possibility, we get relegated all interest in Hull Tigers will disappear.

The only question Assem Allam has to answer is does he want his £80 million back. If he does then the only way he can do that is by keeping Hull City in the Premier League, so no fire sale of players, no taking his money out in great chunks. We have gone from I'll be gone in 24 hours to I'll put the club up for sale.

I would have thought that Hull City is an attractive proposition for any serious investor that wants a football team with the potential to be a regular mid-table team in the next 4 to 5 years. There is the potential to develop the stadium and the surrounding land, we have a good manager and the basis of a consistent mid-table team. Just because we've had bad owners in the past doesn't mean we will in the future.

The tragedy for me is that Assem Allam could have had all this without the name change and his vendetta with the council. He's a grown man, he makes his own decisions and when he makes his bed, he has to lie in it.
 
Like many, I was opposed to the name change but would have been happy to keep the Allam's on despite some of their comments. But then I thought, what have they actually done any different from previous owners? Under Duffen's ownership we were promoted to the Premier league, survived our first season (not yet guaranteed under Allam's), and eventually left massively in debt. If Allam walks we will probably be in even more debt than we were before - so much for being a responsible owner.

Anyway, if they do go, who's to say that the new owner will be worse. For example, a US owner with interests in US sports might have a better idea how to market a sports team and have links in place with potential sports sponsors.

I'll vote 2, and take the risk that the Allam's will go.
 
You seriously think this should be an anonymous poll...of season ticket holders? There are wild claims of fixing and corruption, yet the single control that guarantees that the voices of the actual season ticket holders and ONLY them will be heard you think is wrong?

Given the tactics being employed by CTWD who will come out of this with barely any credibility left, the absolute worst thing you could do for a genuine and properly representative poll of the season ticket holders would be to make it anonymous.

Stop with the retribution bollocks too, thats the sort of crap that reflects badly on you and CTWD and displays childish levels of paranoia. The bogeyman is not under your bed nor is he coming to get you. Leaving aside the DPA and the rules governing this type of thing, it really is pathetic to even suggest it.

You really are a ****ing idiot! Do you really believe it's impossible to have vote which is restricted to pass holders and is still a secret ballot? I suspect you probably do.
Throughout this sorry Allam created saga, I have sincerely hoped for a compromise or at least a realisation of the truth from Allam and a way for him to save face and not be humiliated. I wonder how many, like me, now couldn't care whether he goes or stays.
Your rising levels of bitterness and stupidity on this matter have matched those of Allam himself. In fact, your obvious loathing for your fellow supporters, not to mention your lick-spittle grovelling and complete lack of self respect, coupled with your obvious inability to cobble together anything representing a logical argument, has I'm sure helped to swell the NO vote.
 
Cheers sunn, but I've got no problem getting a ballot paper and voting, it would just be rather useful if the club were capable of sending the ballot papers to all its season ticket holders, I wonder how many more don't get one and can't be arsed to go looking for it.

I didn't receive one either but will go out of my way to locate one. Furthermore, I will be consulting with my lawyers on the wording of the e-mail that accompanies my resounding "No" vote next week. I cannot help but feel that the "No" voters will be discriminated against as a result of this "non-secret" ballot. I would be very surprised to find an equivalent of a class action lawsuit does not exist in the UK.
 
For the record we're not relying on handouts.

The club will break even this year & be in profit next year.

All achieved as Hull City AFC, nickname - The Tigers.
 
Adult/Senior ticket holders, corporate members and I would assume the 16-22's(just the under 16's left out).

Aye, do you know how many that is?

I'm thinking on this poll, the 'no's' will have to be higher than the other two plus the abstainers combined.