Match Day Thread Hull City v Aston Villa.

Lewis Hamilton wears gloves and he's much faster than Bolt.

 

You’re kidding? He was here for nigh on a decade without moving. You’re right, not a great servant. A fantastic one. Service isn’t just measured by length of time at the club either. Think of all he did.
It’s hard to say a club legend isn’t a great servant. In fact, it’s bollocks.

 

I didn’t say he wasn’t a great servant. I just checked and I did actually say he was a great servant.

 

Who were you referring to when you said “not a great servant”? Jak?

 

I said ‘not by that measure’. There’s conceivably about another 50 measures.

 

If someone didn’t mention a player’s name or what he’d achieved and simply said he put in a transfer request the first time in his club career he was not being selected when fit, and then asked on that one single basis if that made them a good servant, what would the answer be?

My entire point, which I thought I couldn’t have made any clearer, is there are ****loads of measureables that collectively determine if someone is a great servant or not and it’s easy to be a great servant when you’re being picked to play.

 

Indeed. Even when he was out for a year it was obviously the medical staff's fault (© Sydney).

 

I heard he demanded Cod in the canteen and was given Haddock and in a fit of pique he put in a transfer request.
On that basis no he wasn't a good servant of this club.
Harsh but true.

 

Why did he hand in his transfer request then?

 

‘Player A doesn’t like his manager criticising his - admitted by himself - increasingly wayward off-field antics and he’s not happy at receiving a short contract offer. Is he a great servant to the club?’

 

There is no measure by which Ian Ashbee wasn't a great servant of Hull City.

 

That the final 18 months of Ash’s time with Hull City are so intrinsically linked with Bullard is a crying shame. The two were regularly seen around the bars and clubs of Hull, sometimes with a gaggle of the club’s younger players in their company. When question marks were raised about Bullard’s conduct and his commitment to the club, when his fleeting appearances on the pitch made it clear that he was not going to be our saviour, and the astronomical wages he was doing nothing to warrant made him seem more like the anti-christ as we struggled under a mountain of debt in the Championship, it was hard to disassociate Ash from it all.

One of the most heroic figures in our history and one of the most villainous seemed joined at the hip. When a Sunday newspaper showed pictures of Bullard getting up to some ‘high-jinks’ in Las Vegas, it was Ash stood grinning in the background (cruelly described in the caption only as ‘a friend’ by a sub-editor whose interest in football obviously begins and ends with Soccer AM). As rumours of rifts within the dressing room at the KC circled around Hull in Phil Brown’s final days, and Bullard got into a very public bout of fisticuffs with the saintly Nick Barmby, it was hard not to ponder what Ash’s role within it all was.

--- Ash was a true legend, and will always be so - however he didn't help his cause dicking around with Bullard

 

That's actually a reasonable post charon , well done for raising the standard on the thread

 

mine was only the last line - the rest was Amber Nectar

 

A good manager and chairman would have ripped up his transfer request. Fact