Late reply but i'd say it went pete tong when he spent the most money any manager has ever spent at this football club whilst also spending the 11th highest on wages in the premier league and then proceeded to guide us to relegation. Id also say last season considering the players at our disposal, to be promoted via the playoffs was quite a failure.
So winning promotion via Wembley Final to the Premier League is a failure for Hull City is it ? What were we doing in the other 104 years when we won sweet FA and spent a fortune in doing so ?
What we did in the previous 104 years is nothing to do with now and is just the past. Simple facts are, we spent a massive amount of money, loads on wages, and he got us relegated with his awful style of football, and nobody can tell me different. Also a decent manager would have taken the squad we had last season up automatically. As for getting to the FA cup final, as good of an achievement that was, lets be honest about it! We only bloody played one premier league side on route to the final and that was at home so in hindsight with the draws we got on route, anything but making the final would have been failure! And lets not get into the appalling euro campaign that he oversaw. Blinkers off please because it's got all the makings of been same old same old this coming season.
No blinkers on me mate, I suggest you put the hangmans rope away too. You are having a go because SB spent more cash then anyone else, well he would, we were in the top league and our income was the highest in the clubs history. It was par for the course. We got relegated because of the once in a lifetime run of form Leicester went on. Then SB took us back up the following year and that's failure is it ? Tell me how many other previous managers have managed to get Hull City automatically promoted to the 1st Division ? One, Steve Bruce. The previous 104 years are important because every manager tried to achieve what SB has achieved twice and only one managed it, Phil Brown. All the others failed miserably and several bankrupt the club in the process. As for rubbishing our only FA Cup Final appearance. Whats do you hope to gain from that ? I could understand it if City had a glittering FA Cup history, but we hadn't before SB. One run to the 6th round in 70/71 ( every game at home and a 2-0 lead thrown away) Ditto, 65/66 And a semi final appearance in 1930. I fail to see where you get your high expectations from.
What a dreadful post. A combination of Ehab/Assem- style 'The past is 104 years of boring failure and we refuse to permit any mention of it' and then followed up with the nouveau fan mentality of moaning about 'awful style of football', 'easy route to the FACF' and 'appalling Euro campaign.' I'll take whatever style of football we play next season- why the **** wouldn't I ? I enjoy watching Hull City. Pretty winning football is the icing on the cake, not the main course.
That's not what he meant at all. In the previous 104 years we didn't have the wealth or resources that we've had since we've been in the PL. Our expectations/ambitions need to adjust to reflect that. We had one of, if not the best, squad in the Championship last season and arguably one of the strongest ever - up until Newcastle this season - and yet barely scraped through the Play Offs.
Surely if you are summarising City's FA Cup history there is one glaring omission. 1948/49 season 6th round!
Is this standard response of yours just a 'special function' key on your keyboard? Do you have a more up-market, expletive-free version? (Note the absence of any look-at-me-I'm-really-hard expletives in this comment.) For a short time I thought you were a decent poster, but for once I was badly wrong (mark it in your diary; it doesn't happen often.) With most of the Likely Lads on here it's usually obvious -- in their first couple of attempts at Internet glory -- that their basic language, the one they speak all day in their "profession" -- is rather more Prince Philip's than The Queen's English. If you're planning on coming on here many more times to salve your rather pathetic craving for attention -- just a rather obvious observation from your postings (I'm neither a psychiatrist nor a psychologist) -- it would be a good idea for you to get some professional training. Maybe Little Quilly has some Uni courses still in the original, unopened shrink-wrap? Just think, with a little effort, how many more 'likes' you could have. To match Quill's.
You're right, we should be happy just to be in the PL, and happily accept going down with 0 points and -60 GD.
I left that one for you to fill in. FA Cup runs eh ? one Final every 100 odd years and someone comes on here and rubbishes it. You couldn't make it up. ( not you cowboy)
Is there any post on here more annoying than one that just states Link? I mean, not counting Syd making up what someone said and then arguing against the point they didn't make, obvs.
Hang on. In 1966 Harold Needler invested £140,000 into the squad and bought three players at a price which in todays market would be the equivalent of three £10m plus signings, and that was for a club in the old 3rd division. Backing unheard of in this country for a club where we were. It was a massive investment. I remember the National Daily Mail calling us the 'Bank of England Club' I know that was once Sunderlands nickname but it became ours for a while in the media. We also added the Arsenal captain and Northern Ireland player manager to that squad a little larer on and broke the club transfer record again when we bought Ken Knighton. And where did that squad get us ? Where did Carters squad of 48 get us with another World record signing in our ranks and a host of Internationals on the books ? The 3rd Div North title, and that's it. We didn't barely scrape through to the Play Off's either. We were never out of the top six all season, topped the table for a decent spell and qualified for the Play Off's, which we won with some style. Your sky high expectations are not mine. I am a realist. We play from a small shared council owned stadium in a city that has never enjoyed any prolonged period of success on the football field, and there is a reason for that. We play in a city with a population of 250,000 ish in which another two professional sports club also play and compete with us for support and sponsorship and we have a fan base that despite not getting a snaiff of a Wembley appearance in 104 years suddenly get all sniffy of attending four in eight years. That's my way of saying they are about as loyal to the club as the Labour MP's are to their leader at the moment. No faith. But your posts testify that making me wonder why I try to explain myself so often on here.
Don't think you understand the concept of whooshing. Even more so considering I asked in the post if it was serious, meaning I also thought they were taking the piss and was making sure. Whoosh.
