I just quickly re-read it. If you're offering this thread as a cross section of City fans, it supports what I said more than it supports your claim.
I trust Assem Allam to sell us to a good owner with the money to take us to the next level. Hull City has huge potential for commercial development and becoming an established lower half Premier League team. Despite everything Assem Allam's legacy is dependent upon us being more successful. He doesn't want to be seen as the next Adam Pearson. If he can't take us into the Champions League he'll settle for creating getting us into the Premier League and creating the infrastructure for us to flourish. It is always difficult to take sides in another family's row because you don't understand all the sub-texts. I see you've started booing your team despite the investment made this season and having one of the finest up and coming young Premier League managers. A bit ungrateful, don't you think? Easy isn't it? To comment from the outside without watching the team week in, week out.
I don't hate Assem Allam. I'm starting to really, really dislike the man though. Though I do also have sympathy for him and his family as I genuinely think, from what I've seen and heard, that his mental health is failing in some way.
The nail was in the coffin early on for me. You cannot own a local football club and not liase with the community (ie HCC). Companies change their names all the time, change their logos, change their colours, it matters little to the community. A football club's sole objective should not be to make profit. The original idea of an 'associaition' is healthier whereby the organisation breaks even on the balance sheet and re-invests any profit.
5 posts, on a forum with 2364 registered members, pretty much proves the opposite. There are obviously some who have come to hate the owner, which is a shame as he's done a lot of good, but unfortunately much of it has been overshadowed by his ridiculous behaviour.
I never used the word 'hate', I said that how the man is viewed by a segment of your fanbase surprises me. Having read plenty of the threads on the subject on here over the months, are you really going to try and tell me that there isn't a segment of your fanbase who want the man gone?
I wasn't going to go through every thread I just grabbed a few I saw while scanning through this thread. DMD suggested "Most don't hate the owner" which is hard to believe for someone coming onto our forum like Tobes.
It's only hard for him to believe because he hasn't bothered to get the full picture. Even the clips you posted don't show any hatred, simply an acceptance from some that it's possibly time for him to move on. Something Mr Allam seems to agree with.
I doubt this lot would be able to come up with anything quite as genius as that I'm afraid! Sadly it can't be shouted from the terraces anymore.
It only surprises you because you haven't got the full picture, as Obadiah has already quite sucinctly pointed out.
So referring to someone as "a pig" a "plague to our club" a "****" a "****ing berk" isn't showing hatred?
There are people who want him gone, yes. There are people who would accept 2nd division football or lower if it meant the back of him. If he sells us to somebody who has a lot more money to invest in the club then there will be many more saying thank you Assem Allam and goodbye. Most fans owe their loyalty to the club not the owner. Assem Allam could have had the freedom of the City but he alienated a sizeable proportion of the Tiger Nation. You should really ask yourself how did that happen after promotion, an FA Cup final and the investment in the youth academy. It seems certain his tenure is over, we'll see what the new owners bring, most probably money to get us to the next level. Not guaranteed but given Assem Allam's character, probable.
It's a tiny minority of our fanbase that want him gone. The fact is, that he wants to go, more than the fans want him to. All the fans ever wanted was for him to drop the name change nonsense.
The fact that a section of you want rid of the man who's overseen your return to the top table and the biggest spending in your history is something that the casual observer might find odd. If you can't accept that may be the persepective of some, and have to attempt to belittle that view by suggesting that anyone reaching that conclusion bascially doesn't have a clue what they're on about, then more fool you.
