But you need something behind it to make people support it- that's why Barca, Liverpool, United, Real Madrid are the biggest clubs in the world. Ours hasn't got any history of glory behind it. We'll get nowhere. We've only got our traditional name to cling onto. Plus, Hull Tigers is a ****e name.
I thought you were campaigning to keep "Hull City AFC" as a brand? So you agree that a "brand" is important in the financial success and well being of a club?
I'm campaigning to prevent a pointless name change of my football club. Every business is a brand of some sort, some are merely more recognisable than others. Ironically, we don't even promote that brand in Hull, never mind Asia.
It's kinda crappy that we should even need to think about promoting the club within Hull. Sadly, I think we do. The egg chasers seem to engage more with local kids etc than the footballers do, which is a massive missed opportunity.
I didn't say we did nothing, just that we do very little, the egg chasers buy and sell us when it comes to interacting with the local community. When was the last time you saw a Hull City billboard, or bus-side, or even an advert in the HDM? We went through most of a promotion season with a third of the ground empty and we rarely did anything to try and fill it, a couple of kids for a quid matches and a couple of discounted matches to the Hull & East Riding FA and that was it.
I think before the club starts concerning itself too much with attracting new fans from anywhere, it should worry more about the fans it's already got. The interaction between the club and the fans has been very poor for some time now, there's been no fans forum recently. There was a FLAG committee set up, but after two meetings it went into hiding over the name change debacle. There has obviously been no consultation with the fans over the name change, which our owner informed us via The Guardian was taking place(while being somewhat insulting to the fans). There is so much the club could be doing better, I sincerely hope it addresses this in the not too distant future. When a product is hot, it's an easy sell, but if you don't look after your customers while you product is hot, they'll all desert you if the product goes off the boil.
As my personal site stalker, I was just giving you the opportunity to post your usual one word response.
The Guardian was the first time he said he planned to change our name to Hull Tigers for next season. Before that, it was some vague nonsense about being Hull City locally, Hull City Tigers nationally and Hull Tigers internationally.
I don't think a meeting with three people would be classed as consultation by anybody unless they represent the overwhelming majority of fans. If that was the case the FA would know that the vast majority of fans opposed the name change and would take that into consideration when making its decision.
You'd best give the FA a ring. You seem to know more about their system than they do. Why are some people frightened that the efforts of the campaigners are being so succesful?
Talking to three people could not possibly be considered 'consulting the fans', whoever those three people were. You are coming across as someone who is particularly desperate to see a popular movement fail.
What threads stay up on this site are none of your concern, you are free to post on them or ignore them, you're not the thread police. If you don't like this board, stop coming on it, nobody is forcing you to post on here.
I see York City official has tweeted saying that official documentation sent to them for a forthcoming Juniors game referred to us as Hull Tigers.
