If we make it affordable like last time then it'll be high like last time. If it's the standard £27 then it won't be anything special. I keep saying it but we really should be focusing on ways to get people to come to games more rather than endlessly analysing who is right or wrong for not going currently or who's fault it is or isn't.
Fait enough - we are all entitled to our own opinion. Conversely I do like Adam Pearson. I find him alright as a person and whilst I don't know all there is to know about his business dealings I do know that as a business man he actually cares about and engages with his customers. He was instrumental in creating a real 'feel good' factor when he took over Hull City AFC which led to increased attendances including the 'sell out' crowd of 22,000+ to watch City in the fourth tier v Swansea. He was also instrumental in creating both a Fans Liaison Group and the HCOSC and he positively interacted with both.
Still think Pearson was our best ever chairman. Took us from a tip of a ground ( much loved maybe) with a hut for an office to a new stadium and the championship. Great home crowds and away followings. Loved every match day with the lads and the progress we where making. No one falling out, just good good days. Wednesday away, that night 4-2 victory, 8k followers, the night I new we where really going somewhere good. Can’t believe some didn’t rate Pearson as a Chairman..
I find it astounding that anyone doesn’t think AP was brilliant for us, supporting City during his tenure was an absolute joy.
We lost I think from memory 3-4000 season pass holders second season in the championship 06-07 So maybe they didn’t? After the dross of the previous decade anything was good I suppose He did a great job and saw a great opportunity and he’s a good salesman Could his ability have taken us higher? No don’t think so. He was poor at derby He was poor at leeds after us He was certainly a building block for the club to push further But he sold to some dodgy ****ers that nearly broke us knowing they didn’t have the funds to buy us
Hmm, the odd 20,000+ crowd in the 4th tier wasn't too shabby. Not many clubs have done that in my living memory.
Agree on Pearson prob not taking us higher. Think he said the same. Derby and Leeds are after he left us so not where I am going although Leeds not been a success is always a joy. Re sale of city I don’t know enough about but ironically did lead us to the Prem and 36 Million which should of given the owners cash they didn’t have. Just my take Chazz
I was there at BP, stood on the pitch we all were. He told us all to our faces "We will take you to the championship, I promise you that. We can't take you to the Premier league, we just don't have the money to do that" He delivered everything he promised. You can't ask for more than that.
I'm probably just shallow and simple minded, but I never have given too much thought about who runs the club, as there's sod all I can do about it. My choice is relatively simple, is the cost good value for the fun it gives me. Spending time being a back seat football club owner is far from my idea of fun,and certainly doesn't seem to be making those playing that game happy.
Where are they now? - the Allams drove then away. But you know that really. Supporter or not? Surely the club's emphasis should be on turning non-fans into fans and doing everything possible to create new fans. Do you think this could ever happen with the Allams in charge?
I don't know all the details. Are you saying Adam Pearson definitely knew that the new owners did not have the funds to buy us when he sold the club to them? Was he involved in 'fixing the loan'? Does taking out a loan necessarily mean that the new owners are financially insecure? I am sure many other clubs have been bought with the use of loans. Yes, of course, I know how it all turned out - but are you suggesting Adam Pearson sold the club knowing that this would happen?
My first matches were in the Terry Neill era, 1970 ish? I was 8/9 years old so thanks to older brothers who took me there from Brough area on buses. Since then, it remained in the blood. I never had a clue that era was a tipping point Urika? I assumed it was promising times with the savvy Terry Neill taking charge? The recent four(?) years of no concessions must have had a significant impact, and will take many more years to recover from that.
Adam Pearson knows the value of a supporter, the Allams don’t care, Pearson although trying hard at FC is struggling to get fans in, TV is the reason, fans can now watch games in the pub, via Sky or dodgy apps, same at City, I can watch every game at home for the cost of an app, £50, I don’t watch home games because I go to them TV has transformed footy for the home viewer and ruined it for the paying public. Time will come when no ****er will attend games and we will all be streaming it, via bastard Facebook or whatever.
