I said from the off, AP was a significant factor in our current position, and the rise since leaving fer ark, but he has said himself we probably wouldn't have got to the Premier league , and therfore Wembley or Europe with him at the helm as he wouldn't have taken the necessary gambles.
Pearson said himself many years ago that the major factor in him buying the club was the pending construction of the new stadium. So, the council must be applauded in their part of our long overdue renaissance back in the early 'noughties', along with Pearson and Peter Taylor.
I do wonder if these anti Pearson brigade where around 15 years ago The man was the catalyst for our glory years and i will always be extremely greatful for that
So are you seriously saying that the council 'wanted' to lose £100k plus on a court case they didn't want to win? A council that doesn't have a pot to piss in?
Yes true but Pearson was the only one to take it on at the time. If he hadnt come in at that time it wouldnt have never happened.
I'm sure another party would have bought the club and moved us to the KC. Whether we would have had the same success is another matter.
Pearson is a boardroom journeyman! Leeds, us, Derby, us, FC, leeds again! Why would we as fans want him here again? He did well for us before but we should be aiming higher then a part owner who's only ambition is to make money for himself. Im not a AA fan! Far from it but I wouldn't want AP back.
I dont remember anybody else wanting to save us at that time. Also it wouldnt have been long before the cash set aside for the building of the KC would have disapearred into spending on local services
you could write similar about most managers and most players we've had. q: Why would we as fans want him here again? a: He did well for us before that'd do for me.
According to Angus Young they didn't spend anywhere near that figure. They used their own staff who they were paying anyway. Plus maybe a couple of grand (or less) for a barrister to go to court with the council's brief. Do you really think the council was looking forward to telling Assem Allam to take up the 3g pitch? The Airco for All campaign disappeared months ago, it isn't going to cause the Council any problems, unlike Assem Allam.
I got a load of **** thrown at me for saying the other Pearson is a great chap when you meet him and "that we can only go by public persona". I've met both over 50 times, Nigel is the much better bloke.
You could apply all this to the Labour council ruling at the time yet people still slated them whenever possible.
I just think it's a different story when you're talking about owners! Apart from foreign owners! How many teams have an owner who supports another team? Pearson is torn between Leeds & hudds I think?
Four pages dicussing the merits of Adam Pearson being part of a consortium takeover, after it was established in the first few posts, that he won't be
I never understood why Nige acted a twat when faced with a microphone or camera, as you say, he was very amiable in person.
They had to be seen to be doing something. It gave them breathing time to see if the campaign grew or melted into the Humber. It melted into the Humber and is unlikely to re-emerge.
People forget that FC had been signed up to the KC project for over a year but no way we're try going ahead without the football club as the stadium we have now wouldn't have been justifiable. Buchanan and Hinchcliffe wouldn't sign up as it would have exposed their shenanigans. Only when Pearson bought us and committed City to the project did it go ahead. If he hadn't bought us we could have gone to the wall, as could FC who had all sorts of problems with debts and the money which the Boulevard needed spending on it, and the KC could have been a 15,000 seater stadium with standing areas as demanded by many rugby fans and the more cynical of Hull residents who said that 15,000 was big enough for FC and City would never fill one that big never mind 25,000. There was a campaign lead by their fanzine editor Vince Groake a Jim Gardner for a 15,000 capacity stadium with the capacity to swap ends at half time, a rugby tradition apparently, standing all around and a stand named The Three Penny Stand. These clowns were given a lot of space and airtime by the HDM and RH. I have contacted the HDM and asked them to contact them to get their thoughts on what would have happened if a 15,000 stadium had gone ahead. No voncerts, no internationals for football or rugby, no City in the PL and even fans missing out for derby matches. They could have been asked about their comments which included the KC would be a white elephant, Hull City would never get more than 15,000 this century and the only way to fill it would be if Leeds United relocated. They either haven't bothered, unsurprisingly, or they did and they didn't want to be embarrassed.
I was there at Boothferry park when Adam Pearson picked up the microphone and told us "We won't be able to take you to the Premier League, but we will definitely take you to the Championship". A big statement that when you consider we were in the fourth division and he delivered.
