Ah I see - Sky News on Twitter. Am delighted but they can’t have seen it from this angle https://x.com/f00ty_analysis/status/1757554046360019291?s=61&t=88L3OLQ94LuzTVwODQu6Wg
Well he will for sure get goal of the season this year nobody is going to top that unless Mcloughlin does an Double twist overhead kick.
Wes Burns scored a belting trivela for Ipswich back in December. That one was likely to win goal of the season. Also Rothwell scired a cracker a couple of days ago for Southampton. It's a public vote I believe, so can see too many people still bitterly sitting on the own goal bandwagon, unfortunately.
Now that we beat a team who are duff, we need to get the losing Huddersfield monkey off our backs and beat them convincingly, and hopefully get something at Southampton
Fantastic post TT. I haven't been following the Tigers as long as you, I started going at aged 6 and saw us lose 1-0 to Scarborough in my first game. I look back at those days and remember going to teams that my dad and Grandad said were decent sized clubs ("this'll be a tough one"), like York and Carlisle. So using that as a yard stick, I recall one of my earlier seasons we went down to the bottom division, Swansea, Brighton and I think Carlisle went down with us, York stayed up that season. How those clubs' fortunes have changed in my lifetime. There were clubs waiting in the division below that came from places I'd never even heard of before, we played Fulham that season (think they went up) and I remember asking where they were from, was told London and then wondered why they weren't called "London United or something like that." Turned out there were many teams from London. Ah, the learning curve. Everybody at my school was a Leeds, Liverpool, Man U or Newcastle fan at the time, nobody bothered with City, some kids hadn't even seen the ground. All I ever got was "why Hull City? They're rubbish!" Yeah, they were, but by that point they were my team and I was taught the value of supporting what you loved, not what was best. Maybe the two for me weren't mutually exclusive. I guess my point is that those memories of going away to Mansfield, being yanked out of school to get a bus to Torquay, asbestos warnings at Roots Hall (Southend) and the toilets at Shrewsbury consisting of a wall and a drain that poured your piss directly into the river are some of the best times of my life and yet the current regime and state of the club has me more excited than those times, even more so than it was under Bruce in the Premier League, and those were heady heights indeed for this lad. Throughout it all, the fans I was surrounded with were genuine, they were passionate and not all of them spent the afternoon hoarser than Paul O Grady after 20 Superkings. Although many of them will no doubt be gone, they set a marker that support was not about how loud your voice was, but about how you show support by any means possible, even if it's just waving a flag. A lot of the social media fans are younger, so they take in a lot of foreign games from the Bundesliga and Seria A, where football culture is quite different and the support is all about display and showmanship. We won't ever have a Yellow (Amber) Wall like Dortmund do, probably won't have a Poznan like Lech (Leicester tried to nick it and it didn't last very long). I'd love us to have a "Welcome to Hull" banner in the style of Galatasaray when they played Man U and be as loud and boisterous as fans on the continent, but it just isn't going to happen. It just...isn't the British way. So when social media fans and those ****ing divs that post at the bottom of the HDM articles (seriously, fine to have an opinion, but Jesus was more optimistic as they were nailing his hands to the planks), they seem to see "success" as "Man City", good football as "Barca esque" and good support as "flares, banners and shouting". Not entirely their fault, the media does play it up, but I can see where it comes from and we need to remember that the kind of support they dream about isn't realistic and isn't Hull City. There is every reason to be positive, we always need to look at the big picture, we've just had it worse, we've now got it better, we can't sulk because it isn't 100% perfect and we're not dicking teams every game. I think we'll finish 5th or 6th, but if we miss out, we've still made huge strides and I'd be optimistic about our chances of automatic promotion next season if we miss out this.
FYI, like Syd did this morning, we'll be doing our pod this evening at 8pm. Expect someone to just not shut up about Philogene. Watch us chat utter bollocks if you fancy it. Or wait until the audio comes out tomorrow, and you'll avoid our ugly mugs.
