I have been driving about the city this morning, city flags flying from the van. Expected to see loads of black and amber about, but barely a thing. The club are selling car flags 2 for £4 and MKM are giving them away for free and yet out of thousands of vehicles I've passed seen about 10, mainly in vans. Even MKM (big sponsor) staff car park of about 50 odd cars had only a few flags and this provides the company free advertising!!!!! I can't help but think local pride and passion in the club must be at an all time low. When city got promotion in 2008 there was a huge buzz around the City and a hundred thousand lined the streets to celebrate. Last year 5-6000 turned out to celebrate promotion. This is arguably the biggest week in the clubs history with the potential to win the most famous club cup competition in world football in front of half a billion audience - and David burns has spent most of this morning show apologising for talking about it!!! Maybe its just me but I have seen more pride from a lowly town club reach the first round proper than from the city of Hull reaching the FA Cup final. Where has the local pride and passion gone?
Back to the 3 word season review - Allam ruined it. Every single City fan I know now feels more distant and consequently less passionate about the club than they have ever felt.
Strange that Mr Crab....the city fans i know are all looking forward to the cup final and well pleased with this season. With many wanting to know when they can renew season cards for the coming season
No, what's strange is your comment - I didnt say for one minute that people werent looking forward to the cup final or werent pleased with the season. I said they feel more distant from the club than they have ever felt and their passion has wained. This is why we're seeing the sitting on the hands in silence. The KC has struggled for atmosphere since being built but 15,000 in the lower divisions were much more vociferous than 25,000 now.
Allam has drained most of the pride and passion out of the Club - when the players did their parade around the pitch at the end of the Everton game it was embarrassing listening to the subdued polite clapping coming from most of the stadium - contrast that with almost every other club in the prem / or the whole of the leagues for that matter then you get significantly more passion coming from the fans - we either have (A) some of the most wooden fans in the country or (B) everybody is totally ****ed off with all Allam's ****
Only in Hull would you get people complaining about the local radio station talking about the local team being in an FA Cup Final for the first time. Especially on a day the Cup is in the studio with a local legend.
Watching the Fulham game we had scored what could have turned out to be a vital goal and the camera showed a section of our fans. Some hadn't even got out of their seats and others gave the impression it was an effort to indulge in restrained applause. The comparisons to scenes of jubilation elsewhere was enough to make you weep.
I've seen quite a bit more support in the last few days than there has been the last few weeks. went in Morrisons on Holderness Rd yesterday - City shirt hung up over the booze isle with 'Good Luck to The Tigers in the FA Cup final' in big letters with black and amber balloons. went in Cooplands today - Hull City buns on sale. I think the support is a bit more subdued this time as the people I have spoken to who are non-football fans are all glad to see City in the final, but seem to have this '...but they've got no chance against Arsenal' mentality, where-as many non-football fans probably saw promotion Vs Brizzle as achieveable so were more happy/comfortable jumping on the bandwagon.
Its a mixture of these things, massive unhealed fan alienation with the owners of the club, complete lack of marketing by the club of the greatest game in our history, and a massive vacuum where a chief executive should be spinning all this up to f**k. However the fans are still hugely looking forward to Saturday, of course we are, but its still really sad how our Chairman has behaved and how alienated the support feels from the boardrom, pride and passion is still there but without any leadership. If we win it they would have had Hull Tigers engraved on it, shameful, and our victory parade won't end up outside City Hall, shameful.
Last night on Look North they reported that we had finished the season only 2 places above relegation. They could have said how we finished in the highest placed spot ever in our 110 year history. I 100% blame the local media for the apathy towards our club
Well my flags going on the car this morning and at school out of 15 cars 7 have now got flags on them so you might see more and more as the week goes on, as for feelings for City there the same now as when i was a young lad and always will be
Ok - so Bernsie apologised about talking about it when his show in a morning is all about ALL local stuff not just football, but at least he DID talk about it. That jumped up, opinionated bunch of twerps on the panel of MOTD2, or whatever it is on a Sunday, before the last game of the EPL spent more time talking about who would / wouldn't be in the World Cup squad and why Ashely Cole should go / not go than discussing the FA Cup which was less than a week away. Maybe I am cynical, but I guess it has to be because the BBC didnt have the TV rights or something that they dont want to talk about it. Re the passion etc I do suspect that recent performances had put a sense of dread into the City and they are just hoping for it not to be a cricket score @ Wembely next week.
The Royal Hotel has in the last 30 minutes. Unfurled 2 Flags above It's Entrance. Things are looking up.
That's because 99% of those fans there on Sunday will be at Wembley when it really will be the end of the season.
I noticed in old town on Saturday night that M and S had flags etc in the window. Other than that I didn't see anything else.
Same here Johnbo.. In fact the feeling I get from going to games has increased in the last 2 to 3 seasons. Different opinions....Different views ..Different situations
and those same fans will sit in silence until they yell at people to sit down - and gently applause at the end of the game, pick up their rug and flasks and look forward to Sundays sermon --- Everton showed our fans what proper support is like
A lot of the singing noise making generation have been priced out of football. Increase size of north stand and reduce prices to as low as possible for 21 and under in that stand .
