Tape dump, wow that brings back memories. Used to play in Little Switzerland all the time as I lived up the top of Ferriby High Road. Paddling around in an upturned ship's life raft cover was a regular, god knows how toxic the water was however! Happy care free days.
It seems awfully coincidental that everyone was happy to keep going every week until 2014, by which time the stadium was some 12 years old and we'd been in and out of the PL for 6 years. Only once the name change came about and the Allams revealed themselves to be villains did attendances drop. 12 years is an awfully long honeymoon period.
Couple of things I remember about Little Switz were the numerous thick rope swings hanging of tree branches that had been hung by somebody, and the kids who bombed around up and down the sometimes steep hills that were at the bottom of the cliffs in the wooded areas. Great fun. Lots of minor injuries/scrapes on the bike I recall !
Yet we did in Division 3, and we did very regularly in the Championship in 2010/11 despite pretty poor results. Somewhere in between, the Allams happened.
I used to work(in the summer holidays) at a market garden operation called "Beans" I think it was, which I'm sure was on Ferriby High Rd. Picking tomatoes in the monstrously long greenhouse that stretched all the way down to the foreshore ? Bloody backbreaking and stiflingly hot job that was, probably for 4d-6d per hour. Took a couple of hours of hard labour to earn enough buy 5 Park Drive , and a couple more to be able to buy a pint of mild in "Top House" up Prestongate in 'Essle. Is the business still going ? Happy days.
Rome wasn't built in a day. Our support had been pretty ****e all the time I'd been supporting City (first match, 1969, rapid decline ensued). The arrival of AP and then the opening of the KC finally brought hope, excitement, interest. It was a new epoch, the start of new generations of support being built ..... which by definition takes time to embed. We saw good and bad, ups and downs in the KC years up to and including the early days under the Allams. There was a continuing pride, hope and interest in our club across Hull, the ER, and even beyond. The Allams have pretty much managed to demolish the above. We are pretty much back to square one ....... other than the point being proved, which was done in 2008 way before the Allams darkened our door, that Hull City can be a top tier team.
No idea if it's still going, but I assume you mean the greenhouses next to Grand Dale Garage? I was mates with one of the sons of the owners of the greenhouse business (for the life of me I can't remember their name) - I even helped out in the summers from time to time. This was back in the late 70s 'when I were young'.
That's the place - next to Grand Dale Garage. Suppose I could Google Earth to see if the greenhouses are still there. Early-mid '60s for me.
Oh bloody hell, not another one who thinks people need an excuse not to go? Can you please tell me why I, or anyone else, would need an excuse? What would you say if I said, "Well I don't want to"? Come on, why do I need an excuse?
I haven't commissioned any polls on folk who longer attend, but... I know some don't attend for anti Allam reasons, but there are plenty of others(*) who hide behind that rather than admit they can't be arsed/lost interest. (*Source- anecdotal experience)
I would imagine many of those who allegedly hide behind the Allam excuse just don't want to continue a conversation with someone who's probing for a reason for not attending. The latter attempting to elevate their "holier than thou" status. A pointless exercise to discredit "freedom of choice" by those who disagree with positions that differ from their own.
Another disliked chairman, another reason not to attend eh?. Didn't like Fish, Cheatham, Needler, Lloyd, Wilby, Hinchliffe either It's not a binary choice for many, who don't have years of support of many of us, and there are other factors at play, including the increasingly available access to televised football in the comfort of your own front room. It's cheaper, easier and more comfortable than ever before for people who are less committed. Just attempting to point out that the Allams are not 100% responsible for the fall in our gates, just as Steve Bruce's purchases were not responsible for our relegation....it's a little more complex than a one- reason cause. .
What would be the "straw(s) that broke the camel's back" that would cause you to relinquish your support of the team ?
I worked at a market garden near Brough one summer in the 60's. They had me re-varnishing the end of a 'kin great big barn which overlooked the main rail line into Hull. It was 2 storeys high and I had to paint the higher bits from a ladder, no H&S in those days... Anyway I made a right pig's ear of it. Varnish was running all over the place, it could have been a Jackson Pollock job. Worse though it didn't get re-done for years so whenever I came back to Hull on the train (4 or 5 times a year in those days) the evidence of my ineptitude could be witnessed by one and all.
I don’t think he, and PhilUpperWest/BillyBigBollocks/UrikaPeece and Al Rawdah and others would ever relinquish their support of the team no matter what.
