You could have been in the Wizard Of Oz, either the lion, or the scarecrow, or just a friend of Dorothy's.
This minority thing, no one actually said it until Allam came out with it. Now it's the first port of call for any Allam fan when trying to justify their 'PL above all else' stance. A bit like how no one else thought about the idea of changing football club names to make money, but when the visionary doctator comes up with it people actually start to believe it. Even though when pressed he offered an academic paper published a month after he announced the idea as his justification. A paper whose author specifically said changing Hull City's name would be a bad idea. Pretty much whatever he says, the same people believe it and insist everyone else is just stuck in the past if they don't accept it
I would sincerely love to hear your reasoning and again could you answer my second rephrased question to Happy Tiger?
Nah. You're the same as the other Luddites. You asked a question hoping for a response so you could argue about it and try to force your own views on others. I gave you my view. You tell me I should think like you. That won't happen. The usual ****s have had their digs, and still have no real argument other than "I'm better than everyone else" so no, I'm not playing your stupid game.
It's his money and its only a name. It's still the same club, same team, playing in the same stadium with the same colours, the name is just being changed slightly, it's nothing. Dr. Allam has proved himself by earning his millions, he's invested lots of his personal wealth in this club not only saving it from liquidation but also to grow the club itself giving us the best and most succesful team in the pitch the club has ever seen in over a century of existence. Even if we're not convinced ourselves he at least deserves the right to try. We wouldn't have a name to argue over if it wasn't for him. I think it's time some folk sat down and thought about what's really important in life, a slight change to the name of a football club isn't.
What do you mean are you willing to allow this man? Since when did he need your permission to do anything? Does Richard Branson need to consult with you if he decides to change something about his business? It has been suggested by serious political commentators that the Labour Party may need to change their name in Scotland to have any hope of wrestling power from the snp. Yes I'm happy for him to change the name of the club particularly if that secured a new lucrative owner who has deep enough pockets to. I've the club forward. I still do not think the FA will give him the votes he needs to do this though so unless they do, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Trying to stay up, and.or trying to keep the nucleus of the team together if we get relegated is far more important to me.
To be blunt, I still have not met a fan who genuinely wants us to change our name to Hull Tigers because they actually believe in the stated case for doing so. I have only met apologists and appeasers who will accept a name change as the price of retaining Allam (or, more to the point, Allam's line of credit). As they cannot make any convincing positive case for name change, they usually have to resort to characterising any opposition to Allam's plans as a minority of negative luddites and bullying hooligans who don't properly support the team but would drive out the best owner we have ever had and willingly drag the club back to the dark ages (or at least League 2). PS In response to the point above, Richard Branson would be a pretty **** businessman if he didn't complete due diligence and take into account market research and what his customers want when making sweeping business decisions; I mean, a successful and respected businessman in charge of a multi-million pound business surely wouldn't make major decisions based solely on whim and personal prejudice would they?
I don't know if this has been said before, after all this petty name change garbage seems to have been going in forever now, but it really wouldn't surprise me if AA only considered a 'good home' for the club to be a buyer who will agree to a legally binding clause in the contract which states that the new owner HAS to forge ahead with the name change. It would certainly give a new owner the worst possible start, however I'm pretty certain that it would be highly entertaining and amusing for the Allam family.
