fans forum

It was a bit of an odd one really, none of the submitted questions were actually asked and though they did take questions from the floor, it was set up to make it difficult to ask anything controversial. Also, there's normally a free bar, but this time we just got a voucher for a single free drink, cheapskates...

A brief summary of each speaker...

Wigley - Seems a nice bloke, who genuinely sounds excited to be with us. He described his seven weeks with us under Dowie as being grim, he took a bit of a pop at the attitude of some of the old players and the bad atmosphere at the club, stressing that it was the polar opposite of how things are now. He was asked why players can't play with both feet nowadays, he says they can, other than left footers, who he said were always completely one-footed. He made some interesting points about the amount of games at the moment and the ethic instilled in the players, he said terms like 'Mad March' were never used in the dressing room and all the players knew they just had to get on with the job and there was an attitude of no moaning about aches and pains, that they had a job to do and they just had to get on with it. Some of the older players are given the odd extra day off when we're playing twice a week, but Dawson never takes his.

Rush - He speaks as much like a fan, as he does as a member of the coaching staff, he's very obviously pleased with his role at the club. He said the current playing staff were brilliant to work with, also making some reference to the last lot not having the same sort of attitude. He also spoke about the training regime's etc, most of it was as you'd expect, though they all had a bit of a laugh about Hobbs, who hey have trouble stopping training, apparently they have to reign him back all the time, as he tries to do too much.

Those two were interviewed first(by the fat dj), AP and Nick were sat on the front row and there was a fair bit of banter between Nick and the pair of them, it was very obvious that they're good mates.

Adam - As PCT says, he was his usual self, a very polished performance. He made a bit of a speech at the start about the fact that the club wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Allam's, the club had £51m in total debts and had only £250k in assets and HMRC made it clear to us that there was no deal to be done. The speech was cleverly done, the way it was presented made it pretty much impossible to ask about why there weren't more additions in January, without looking like an ungrateful twat, so nobody did. Also, as PCT has mentioned, though he said he was enjoying his role and wanted to carry on, it sounded a bit like a goodbye speech and he sorted of hinted that him leaving wouldn't be his decision, but that of the Allam's.

Nick - As with Rush, he spoke as much as a fan of the club, as he did as the manager, as he usually does. He was very prickly when asked about playing left footers on the right and right footers on the left and why our wingers cut inside rather than trying to pass a man and cross. He said the players are not coached on going inside or outside, just as he never was, he said it was something that the players should be doing instinctively. He was so prickly, that no-one else asked him any more specifics about how he set the team up. He said that AP fields all his calls from agents etc and he doesn't know he'd manage without him, he stressed how much he wanted him to stay at the club(this immediately after AP answered the question about his ongoing role at the club).

The other things discussed were how poor the reserve league was and that we get far more benefit from the behind closed doors games we play against other clubs in Yorkshire, there's a lot of games played apparently, we've already played Sheffield United three times this season and the games are much better than our reserve games.

At the start of the night, there was a video showing all our goals this season, I had planned to make a joke about it being a very good video, but didn't people think it was a bit short. AP's impassioned speech about the investment that had already been made put me off raising the issue of not singing a striker in January. My submitted question about the future plans for an academy were not raised at all, perhaps they thought that was one that Assen needed to answer.

 

The pitch was mentioned, Nick just said the groundsmen were doing what they could, that it is what it is and they just had to deal with it and get on with playing. He said a lot of clubs were having similar problems this year, specifically mentioning Palace, who he said had an equally **** pitch.

 

Utter bollocks as normal.

If you understood the workings at the club, you wouldn't post such nonsense, you haven't the slightest idea how big a loss he will be, though I suspect you will find out in time.

Adam spoke last night about how gutted he was that he was no longer involved when the club made it to the Premier League, he has no doubt that we are on our way back and you could tell that he was half expecting that once again circumstances might conspire to see him not being involved again.

Adam Pearson is more important to Hull City AFC than any single member of the playing staff.

 

You didn't really need to read between the lines, he said he was very happy with his current role, but if the Allam's decided that his role wasn't necessary, then he would understand and move on(it was then that Nick chipped in with 'it's very necessary and I hope he's around for a long time to come'). I think the whole thing was aimed at Ehab.