Do you ask yourself who those people are and what their agenda is? In my experience, they are jealous local RL fans often of a certain age (40-60 years) some of whom double up by supporting either a Top 4 club or the vermin. These people have a vested interest in seeing us fail - as that benefits their club financially, and makes them feel better about their own spineless choices all those years ago. In Hudds yesterday, plenty of local males dressed in Arsenal and Man utd tops, not interested in watching their team v City. Bit of schadenfreude there seeing another town blighted by these traitorous ****ers.
That's the right attitude Chazz & why I want us to win the league. Truth is, it's different when we get there. We play the top 19 teams but in reality we're only competing properly against just over half of them & the prize we're all aiming for, from the onset, is 17th or above. If everybody said they wanted to get in the PL to compete It'd be great but spark a conversation in the pub or at work or on here & within a couple of minutes some ****er will utter something about getting in the PL being important because of the money you get which is **** & wrong. How do you think people will feel after 7 or 8 seasons of finishing between 9th & 15th with next to no chance of improving on it? I get over results quicker than most, on Tuesday me being pissed off with a ****er steward lasted a lot longer than me being pissed off with the result.
The next phase hopefully is the Academy lads coming through and really wanting to play for the shirt. That'll give the fans hopefully summat to back. Greg Luer should have been in the squad all season instead of Akpom. I see it as the only way to go.
I have hated the fact that the number of games played for TV this season has destroyed the value of my season pass. In some ways, and rather selfishly, the membership scheme as published the other week worked for me. It devalued each game. I want us to win and I will celebrate promotion, but then.....
This, nothing else. Besides our disagreement on whether or not a very highly paid, professional football manager, of great experience, should be fully accountable and open to both praise and criticism - I have no doubts he should, always -we do share a basic belief in how football should be. Luer out and Akpom in was the manager's decision, but I believe Bruce makes regular, very poor decisions.
certanly wouldnt be the worst thing in the world not getting promoted, could get gang raped by chimps that would probably be worse... but the whole reason people like the championship, because its more competitive, more chance of scoring goals and winning games etc becomes redundant if you dont want to go up, because the only reason scoring more goals and winning games is good is because it gets you near the top with a chance to go up!, take that away and who cares if you win games, might as well finish 18th in the championship every year instead of near the top.
Agree 100% I was at a football reunion a couple of weeks back and my mate said Citys crowds are pathetic. There was about 25 of us. I said look around you and tell me how many support city here. He counted 3 of us and i said what the **** do you expect then with all these glory hunting bastards he said yeah fair enough
Some of my all time favourites City supporting moments happened in the Premier League. Some didn't. Supporting a football team involves preferring to see them win, I assume. And promotions come from achieving that regularly. The problem is surely not Hull City getting promoted. The problem is the League that we get promoted to, if successful in May. There are signs that that League is changing, slowly, for the better, and I'd rather City had a seat at that table than not. Plus, we might get another moment like Geovanni at Arsenal or Alex Bruce vs Luis Suarez at the KC. Who wouldn't?
Premier League is a lot more exciting than lower leagues, it's as simple as that. If we had gone up this season we could have had the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic coming to the KC on a cold Tuesday night next season, imagine Harry Maguire taking him and Costa out with one tackle, the whole world would see it. You want to be up against the best, not the best in Rotherham
I know everyone has their own opinions but surely you want to be competing at the highest level, you want to see your club playing the best teams possible, buying the best players possible... I know we'd lose most games if we went up, but so what? Even if we went back down again the season after, I want to see City in the Premiership.
It's a lot more skillful than the lower leagues, but much less exciting. It's usually a two horse race at best, settled in late March or April. Maybe for starstruck neutrals they want to see the world's best winning against inferior opposition, but plenty more want to see a level playing field, noisy partisan crowd devoid of people taking pics on their mobile phones, Unfortunately, even in Hull, we have a generation of fans who have a sweet tooth when it comes to football and who want famous names who they've seen on tv. The notorious mobbing of Stevie G on the pitch in 2010 being a case in point. I want promotion but hate a lot of the **** it brings.
