The poster you were answering out up a list of things starting off with the name change. You said apart from 2 things, neither of them the name change, other chairmen had done the same. So it is quite in order seeing the name change was one of those to ask which other chairmen have described the name of their club as lousy and wanted to change it without one shred of evidence to support their assertion if will be of benefit to the club.
He started by saying "Apart from the name change, he's also done these" I was pointing out that from the list he was making - which obviously didn't include the name change as he was specifying 'apart from the name change' - only a couple were unique to Allam. Interestingly ASI misuse can now be struck from the list anyway.
You agree with the way he used, or claimed to have used, the ASI money compared to what other clubs have done?
If it's used within the requirements of the fund then why does it matter? The outrage was because he'd 'stolen' the money, and he hasn't.
No it wasn't, the outrage was because he hasn't given the fans the benefit that the fund was set up for, a bullshit excuse for using it for a different purpose to all other clubs doesn't get him off the hook. If anything, it makes it worse.
If what Ehab says is true and the cost of travel/tickets for fans going to away games isn't mentioned in the report then he's hardly misusing the fund. I'll wait for the PL to comment on it before I say definitely whether it's been misued, but a lot of people on here have gone on about him pocketing the fund which is apparently not the case. I 100% agree that all tickets should be cheaper, that the club should be assisting both home and away fans however they can, but I don't think you can definitively say the ASI fund has been misused just because they've spent it enhancing the away experience at the KC, boosting our revenue in the process. Would be nice if it was a big higher because I doubt it's actually profitable..
These improvement and benefits in the away area, are they things over and above what could be called routine maintainance? Moving the dividing lines between home and away supporters can't be called a benefit. Can't open the link till later.
How can he have stolen the money? There wasn't a separate fund or money given, it was to be taken out of the money paid to the club's each season by the PL. it is the fact he has shown contempt for his own fans. Seeing as Steve Bruce says he shouldn't get criticism then I hope we don't hear him appealing for support at away games.Especially ones in London. Of course you can be sanguine about this as it doesn't really affect you.
Maybe he hasn't misused it technically. But to claim they have been correct and everyone else wrong is a bit like the proud mother at a parade proudly proclaiming her little treasure is the only one in step.
Even Ehab said said the name change was only worth a million or so. That's about equivalent to the money a club currently gets from being one place higher in the PL at the end of the season. In the context of the new TV deal coming in 2016 that amount of money will not give City an advantage over other PL clubs. And anyway it's highly questionable that City would raise even that million pounds extra. You always overlook that the name change idea came into Allam's head as his futile way of hitting back at the council after he didn't get what he wanted. It's not about making the club stronger, it's about punishing the council.
Surely Allam selling the club is not much of a risk - those who want rid of Allam are happy, and those who respect the Allams will be happy because Assam said he would only sell to a responsible owner so we should be able to trust his judgement?
That wasn't what I was told when I first signed up to not606. I was told repeatedly that resistance was futile, the FA was useless and they'd give him what he wanted.
So the one who wants the name change can **** off then. Mind you knowing our of basket case of an owner that would be one he will sell to just to give the finger to the fans.
How is protesting at the changing of the name of the club the customers telling him how to run the club. If he had a solid business plan that proved catergorically the club would make huge profits I am sure all the fans would back him. But he hasn't got a plan. Every football marketing expert has said he is living in cloud cuckoo land. Apart from which everyone knows he only wants to change it because he doesn' want Hull City Council to benifit from the association with the name.
You really are a resounding dickhead tickler. It is not a load of claptrap at all. Allam has **** upon the fans, he has **** upon the community and he has **** upon the city. If it was possible to put the old fart on a plane back to Egypt I would escort him to it personally. He always gets himself in the press when he is putting things such as this robotic surgeon into a local hospital but he tried evict the local sports clubs from the Airco on the quiet. It was only because one of those sports clubs had the bottle to let the council and the media know what he and his son where up to. He is basically giving to the community with one hand and taking away with the other, in other words it is a big fat ZERO.
