Brownie for me! BUT why did he always give interviews when it obvious he’d just eaten something? He’d spend the whole interview raking his tongue around his mouth!
They looked round, rather disapprovingly as those were the days before libraries became “ fun zones “, because I burst out laughing. My inquisitive friend says you can use one dot, a full stop, or three dots, an ellipsis but four, or any other number of dots are meaningless.
I wouldn't argue against Dolan being a poor manager, but we had a couple of pretty entertaining seasons under him in which we nearly got into the play-offs. He made a handful of very good signings too. With Smith, again, I know he was poor, but he made some excellent signings and laid the groundwork for that great Appleton/Horton team of the 80s. Hateley doesn't really have any of that. No redeeming features, save perhaps for his contacts getting us those brief glimpses of Rocastle and Hodges, the signing of David Brown and that night at Selhurst Park. Which isn't a lot. I genuinely can't think of anyone worse than Hateley. Every other failure we've had at least had something else going for them or mitigating circumstances: Ternant rescued what looked like a nailed-on relegation before it all unravelled; Molby has the signings of Ash, Greeny, Keates, Stuart Elliott; Parkinson has the Turner, Marney, Ricketts signings; Phelan was taking on the Red Army armed with a water pistol; Slutsky went to Hull Fair.
Some fair points, but Dolan was an arrogant twat who lied about watching players who had been recommended and scrapped the School Of Excellence when it had some good players there. The coach, who was a school teacher was ****ed about by him and the club. Years later he coached the England schoolboys who won the schoolboys World Cup in France. Mike Smith- if you look at some of the players he had it seemed harder to get relegation than end up safe, not once, but twice.
I won't hear one word said against Dolan, not when there's a full ****ing lexicon available! The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
3 different disasters. Smith and Hateley both carried higher expectations with Smiths international manager experience at Wales and Hateley's playing pedigree at England and Rangers. Both very disappointing false dawns. Dolan came from Rochdale and delivered the same dissapointment but we never had the expectation we did with Smith or Hateley, its the hope that kills you. Dolan's dissapointment lasting 6 long dark years just makes it seem worse on reflection.
Steve Bruce was the worst IMO. Spent more than every other Hull City manager in history combined, still got us relegated, fluffed europa league, talked complete bollocks, was completely full of himself and was a snake that had his big long snake tongue stuck so far up Allams arse it reaches his mouth and gained muscle memory causing Bruce to repeat the drivel that Assem spouted. Plus all the nonsense about Altidore permanently disfiguring Alan Huttons face before he joined us. Just a massive bellend all around.
Bruce junior didn’t do too badly for us but playing him in midfield, where he was dog ****e, ahead of Tom Carney who he proceeded to let leave for a pittance was criminal. As was playing him ahead of a vastly superior Harry Maguire in 2015/16.
Love it - the new age ability to not foresee summat (with a silent pee). A great definition of short-sightedness.
