I supported Liverpool and I'm not ashamed to admit it, but now I have my fourth season ticket at city and I've been to more city games than Liverpool I'd class myself more a city fan now.
I went right through school being laughed at for being a City fan. All I got was ****ty City Just just deal with it I have 4 Hull Kr friends. 1 hull KR/ Ipswich 2 hull kr/ Leeds utd 3 hull kr/Newcastle 4 hull kr / man utd None of them either go or are interested in hull city all from Hull At work 5 of us go to watch football 2 City 2 Leeds 1 Newcastle all from Hull How does that fit into your ideal old boy
There appears to be a deal more animosity between City & FC as opposed to City & KR.This I believe has been fostered by Allam and is centred around the joint tenancy of the KC.Theres lots of City fans who think its THEIR stadium and resent HFC sharing the stadium, yet I don't know a single Hull fan that regards the KC as theirs.
Seeing as this animosity was there for a long time before Allam appeared on the scene your post is wrong.
Point taken, but nowhere near the levels we have today and IMO (we are still allowed these, I believe) the catalyst is Allam/Stadium
Yeah it goes to show that the largest percentage of football fans in Hull support teams from outside their own City.
Ive never liked the Dullers since they did the dirty on the Hull Vikings speedway team (Boulevard years). But watching them(2nd half) on thursday was so funny.
I find the term 'local' quite abstract when describing Hull City these days.There's not a lot local about our team any more apart from our name and where we play our home games. Our squad is sourced from around the globe, our presence in the community practically none existent, young kids in the academy don't stand a chance of ever playing for the first team, our last local player was hounded out of the club by our mad Egyptian owners and even the majority of our season ticket holders don't live in Hull. In contrast Hull FC played more local players in their game on Thursday then we've played in all our games in the last decade. I know its not the clubs fault and its just what happens in modern football (especially at this level) but you can't honestly say you don't envy the fact that both FC and Rovers build their squads around Hull born players, developed through their academies, who grew up supporting their club and eventually they get to represent them at the top level. Footballs changed so much that it will never return to that but I imagine when most of the older generation fell in love with football this was very much the case.
Obviously there has been animosity (on both sides) for years, but the issues with Allam and the stadium have undeniably brought them back to the surface.
Nonsense ^^^^^ most of this. If the Hull born players are good enough then they will make it in the PL. It is upto them. Liam Cooper has the potential but he went off the rails (during the Bullard era).
So your implying people from Hull just aren't good at football then? Ignoring the fact the financially driven, instant success culture that surrounds football these days detracts from local players ever standing a chance?
Local lads in PL football is not an issue unique to Hull, its down to the finance & instant success culure that Airlie Tiger mentions above.With the pos exception of Southampton you could go through the entire league and not be able to pick a side of local, homegrown players.The Harry Kanes of this world turn up once every Sheffield flood, and if you take it further its a major impactor on our nationals sides lack of success
If the local players are good enough then they will play for the club. Hull staying in the PL and with a much better youth set up will hopefully attract the better players who have in the past gone elsewhere.
Like Nash said, its not our problem, its the current state of the game in this country, all teams would rather bring in imports to achieve instant success rather than develop their own players. It even happens with the top academies, Danny Welbeck is an England international but Man U (a team that finished 7th) would rather bring in a £200,000+ a week loan signing than continue to play him.
I started going to City in 1963. The most enjoyable times were 1965/6 season and Terry Neill's first season. The team was hardly made up of locals then. Two of the locals, Chillo and Pearson, weren't born in Hull either. I don't envy the fact that the rugby teams are building around local talent. It shows how the game has contracted as evidenced when they play Australian side. England struggle against New Zealand which only has one professional,clu in a country with a smaller population than London. FC and Rovers, along with Wigan caused a lot of problems, paying huge fees by rugby standards. In fact for a long time the highest transfer fees in this city had been paid by rugby clubs. It was only when City paid £200,000 out that they finally overtook them.
No it doesn't. Though a higher percentage do than in a lot of other places. Especially amongst rugby fans.
