Well I didnt watch Look North tonight, but I assume they had an interview with him. Anyway the following BBC article quotes from it. It's a good read and very encouraging, he's saying the things we all want to hear but it's nice knowing he also means them. Hopefully his is a long and fruitful tenure and i'm confident it will be. New Hull City boss Nick Barmby says his only ambition in management is to make his hometown club a success. Barmby, 37, ended his playing career last week before being placed in permanent charge of the Tigers following a caretaker spell in charge. "This is the club for me and the club I want to stay at," the former England international told BBC Look North. "I want a real good crack at this and hopefully I can be successful. I'm a very proud man to manage the club." Barmby continued: "I've never thought that if I do well here then I can go on, I've never thought like that." Continue reading the main story During his caretaker spell at the helm following Nigel Pearson's departure to Leicester City, Barmby steered the club to sixth position in the Championship with five wins and five defeats from his 10 league games. He takes charge of his first game in permanent charge against Peterborough United on Saturday, and says he is hoping to guide the Tigers back to the Premier League during his first season as a manager. "It's a tight and difficult league but these players have got as good a chance as any other team, as long as they keep believing in what they're doing and remain positive," he said. "You are going to get setbacks but it's how you handle those and bounce back. So far, the lads have done that well."
I just hope our transfer targets don't open the article in the same sized window I did: please log in to view this image NB: I'd been copying predictions from another forum into my spreadsheet when I went to the BBC site and hadn't resized it yet when I did it earlier.
Barmby could be our Dario Gradi. I love the way he has always lived here throughout most his professional career. He's a real ambassador for Hull and the East Riding.
It is great to have a manager who is in his dream role and does not do it for the money or for a chance to manage a bigger club. As for him staying in Hull throughout his career, he didn't live in Hull when he played for spurs as a young free single lad in London and then he met his hull born wife and never lived out of Hull again... I wonder who wears the trousers at chez Barmby......
Being a bit harsh.. i dont think any other club at our level or above would give him a shot at managing their team YET anyway,so none story for me am afraid.
It's all fantasy football stuff, which I love. Hull supporter goes on to manage his team. Win or lose I'm with you Nick. UTT
Committing to remaining manager of your hometown club, regardless of how successful you are as a manager, is not a story?
Majority of our fans live in Leicester, their lot have been following us more closely than most of us recently I dare say.
I think this is my first criticism of Nick. I think this was an unwise thing to say, it is the kind of thing the press will seize on, the kind of thing that could come back to haunt him, the kind of thing Phil Brown was expert at saying (not specifically) and regretting afterwards. Why put limits on yourself in public? If he thinks those things in private, fine but I really do not see the advantage of saying it in public. It is almost pompous in that he seems to be taking some kind of moral high ground over all other managers in football. It also will be seen by players as a lack of ambition, unless he is saying we are the biggest club in the country. Players like to know that their manager wants to achieve the same things as they do. At this level the staement is not damaging because we are below where we should be and where we aspire to be, but in the Premiership such a statement would surely not attract good players to come to the club. Strange thing to say, I hope he doesn't have cause to regret it and that someone advises him this kind of sentimental outpouring should not be repeated as it only has a downside.
You read it different to me racist, I thought he was implying he has the ambition to get his hometown club to a higher and better place and assuring us fans and even the players (after NP's little treacherous move) that his head is focused on the job and won't be turned.
Good to hear and the football world knows that Nick is Not drawn by money. Why would he ? He has more than 99% of us on here will ever see anyway in normal life. Nick is driven to get the club back to the PL and to manage it like it should be and should have been done the last time. Nick will have seen the awful errors that Brown made and with Adam Pearson by his side will be able to attract much better quality to the club. That was Phil Browns biggest problem. He could not attract much quality at all. Great to have Nick in charge and let the great times role.