Knowing what their fans are like they`ll be expecting a walkover against us, and they are very quick to turn on Fat Sam and the team if things aint going right, the longer we keep it tight the more frustration there`ll be in the ground, and hopefully effect their teams performance.
Plus a few of them played 2 hours mid week and a shoot out. Let's hope that had an effect. Who are they missing from the AFCON?
No. I just looked a bit stupid. I stood for moment wondering why we we playing in white and West Ham were in red. A very senior moment! Then I realised it was Derby and Forest! I'm hoping I don't look anything like the same after the match tomorrow.
I expected nothing less. I'm hoping you will be dancing in the winder like that bloke I've just seen on the Money Supermarket advert. kinell that freaked me out
Seems a bit harsh to me. Sanogo wanted to stay in London. Think we may still get Gestede. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/17/steve-bruce-hull-city-premier-league-west-ham Hull City travel to West Ham on Sunday needing points – they have slipped into the bottom three – and goals. Steve Bruce is exploring the possibility of signing a striker on loan since discovering Nikica Jelavic and Abel Hernández could both be out for more than a month, and has already begun to hint that the club’s location – out on the east coast, that is, not near the foot of the Premier League table – is a hindrance when trying to persuade London-based players to join. If Hull supporters think they have heard all this before, they probably have. Sunderland fans definitely have. Certain events have proved cyclical in Bruce’s managerial career. He will always be associated with vacancies at Newcastle, he will always deny being interested and he will not generally be believed, although on this occasion it would be a surprise were Mike Ashley to recruit a manager actively involved in a relegation struggle. Bruce has a decent reputation for going into clubs and making an improvement. As he showed at Wigan, before moving on to Sunderland, he can usually sort out the defence and improve a team’s overall organisation. It is continuing the upswing the following season that frequently proves difficult. When supporters are hoping to build upon what has already been achieved, and often when Bruce has been given a little more money to spend, performances obstinately flatline instead. hat happened at Sunderland. Bruce wryly suggested his eventual dismissal was because he was a Newcastle fan, though he knew as much as anyone that under his stewardship the team appeared to have run out of ideas and action needed to be taken. Now the same thing is happening at Hull, barely recognisable these days as the team that gave Arsenal such a fright in last season’s FA Cup final. Perhaps things might have been different had Bruce’s gamble on Hatem Ben Arfa worked out. Plenty of people wanted it to, but to no one’s enormous surprise it backfired. Even Bruce must have been half expecting that. He said at the time of signing the enigmatic Frenchman that the only reason a player of such quality would end up at Hull was because he had experienced problems with his previous clubs. Hull are now added to that list of Ben Arfa’s previous clubs, Bruce evidently unable to make the breakthrough that had eluded Alan Pardew at Newcastle, and in hindsight it is tempting to conclude that the only reason a manager in Bruce’s position took such a chance was the relative rarity of hearing a player say he was happy to try his luck on Humberside. Hull were in the hunt for Jermain Defoe before Sunderland knocked them out of the running by offering the former Spurs striker a three-and-a-half-year contract, an almost unbelievable incentive for a 32-year-old who had already moved out of the Premier League to the less competitive MLS. Bruce was also interested in the possibility of taking Adnan Januzaj on loan until Manchester United ruled out any temporary release of a player who is struggling for game time under Louis van Gaal, and would have liked Yaya Sanogo but discovered the Arsenal striker just loaned to Crystal Palace preferred to stay in London. Creatively turning his attention instead to Blackburn’s Rudy Gestede, who has just three appearances for Cardiff in the Premier League but is a reliable enough goalscorer at Championship level at Ewood, it appears an asking price of around £4m was too high. “I did enquire about him but it’s not going to happen,” Bruce said. “The club spent quite a lot of money in summer and it is just unfortunate that some of the players we bought are now injured. I’m still hopeful of bringing someone in this month, but we won’t be spending like we did in summer and for the moment we will have to go with what we’ve got.” That in turn puts the spotlight on the owner, Assem Allam, whose commitment to the club has been questioned since the day he threatened to sell should he fail to get his way over the proposed name change. Allam backed Bruce in the market in the summer and if he sees a long-term future in the Premier League he possibly needs to do so again. Certainly Bruce needs to buy goals from somewhere. Palace have just added Sanogo to their roster, Sunderland have Defoe, QPR have Charlie Austin and Burnley are arguably best-equipped of all in the goalscoring department with Danny Ings, Ashley Barnes and Sam Vokes. If Allam’s policy is to sit tight and hope for the best it is a risky one. Bruce needs goals now.
We always wait until the last minute to get deals done or that appears to be the case to me. By doing so we lose 2 or 3 games without the new acquisition. I just hope we don't do it this window.
Sometimes it can't be helped - you call club B about player X, and they'll let you have him but only if they can sign player Y first from club C, who will only sell Y if they get Z from D... And Z is holding out for club E to come in for him.
McGregor Chester Dawson Davies Figueroa Livermore Quinn Ince Ramirez Brady Sagbo Tell Sagbo to earn himself a move with a good performance. No point pretending we've got a strike partnership. Just get him to hold it up and get the midfielders around him. I wouldn't mind the Maguire up front idea too much. Better than a pair of wingers up there.
If we have Dawson for Carroll, then Maguire up front is well worth a punt, as I think he would cause mayhem in their backs.
Good Morning Hull fans. We'll line up like this: ..........................................Adrian Jenkinson...........Collins................Tomkins............Cresswell ..............Amalfitano.........Song..............Noble ......................................Downing ........................Valencia...............Carrol Sakho is injured and Kouyate is away at AFCON. We had a long night on Tuesday against Everton but 4 days should have been enough time to recover. Carrol and Valencia are starting to look a good partnership and I think one of them will score today. We can't hold onto a lead at the moment. We've thrown away a 1-0 lead to draw 1-1 in four games running! I'm going for a scrappy 2-1 to us which I would be delighted with seeing as we haven't managed to win a game since 20th December. Safe trip to anyone thats coming down. And after today, good luck for the rest of the season.
You can hang on to a lead against us. You are unlikely to ever see a team so clueless and useless in attack.
You might be surprised. Our full backs bomb forward all the time and leave our CB's completely exposed. You will get chances and will score at least one.
