I'm convinced that if Nick had both the financial support and personal support Steve Bruce has had he'd of been a successful. Just because we ended up a fantastic manager and brilliant successful manager like Steve Bruce doesn't excuse the way Allam's treated Barmby.
I would have thought with his connections with City, if his fathers situation had not happened, SB would have had him in our development squad. It seems strange that he could have gone anywhere, but to end up at Leicester does seem rather staged managed.
Stop being a ****. I never once have questioned Nicks professionalism while on the pitch. He played with the same commitment all the way to the end of his career with us. Like Chazz said, he was committed and professional at all of the clubs he played for. The fact is, he's not a Hull City fan, yet he's lauded as one of us. He isn't. In fact by the sounds of it, he prefers watching egg chasing. He was a great player from Hull, he saw his career out with us, then dropped out of football and Hull City completely. We dodged a bullet there with the manager role I reckon.
He went to Leicester because they showed a real desire to sign him and offered him the best deal. Jack will be a good pro. Some of the bollocks posted about NB are hilarious, maybe if you actually knew the guy you could comment with real authority but I guess it's easier to make it up **** and worse actually try and pass it off as the truth.
Maybe he's just that good, perhaps another one trick pony that never kicked on, it does happen!!! That said he's done well to land a two year deal Leicester.
How sad, less than a week after competing in a FA Cup final, a poster has the need to denigrate the playing ability, application and commitment of one of the best footballers our club has employed. I don't care who a player supports or what his favourite sport is, he has a right to a life; but for ****s sake, Nicky Barmby was always a class act, he simply got older, don't we all? It had nothing to do with money, it had everything to do with home, family and pride. To interpret it in any other way defines you. Like many, I wish he had never taken the managers job; I said so at the time. Once done, though, I got behind him. His sacking was shambolic and AP played his role in that. Change the tune; it stinks.
I can't fathom why people feel the need to have a go at Nick Barmby . Truly one of the greatest players to ever wear the shirt Unlike that total waster Bullard
What did AP do? I thought Pearson was one of the driving forces behind Barmby getting the job and always backed him.
Was he though? Other than his first and last seasons, he barely managed half the games we played each season. I think the fact he happened to be born locally tricks people into thinking he was better for us than he actually was. He's not on the Dawson/Ashbee/Windass level of legendary-ness, he's more at the Ryan France level. Decent player for us? Undoubtedly. Could we have done it without him? Probably.
After our best ever season, an FA cup final and some much needed changes in hand to seating in the KC, people are still denigrating our owner, you know, the person who's bankrolled this entire thing. Stop making Barmby out to be anything other than a talented and committed professional who played where and when he could. We're lucky he felt he wanted to end his career with us, but he didn't do it because of the same feelings over the club as Deano always had, and still has. I get why some of you don't want to believe this, but it is what it is. I do not dislike Nick, I am not putting him down, he WAS a fine player, even at the end. The appointment as manager was a mistake. Even as a player he was "passionate and opinionated", it was never going to work, notwithstanding his lack of experience and ability to move us to the next level. Yeah, that's subjective, more time he might have improved, equally he might have made things worse. That really doesn't matter, there was a problem, it was fixed, and we benefited from it. We never got the explanation from his side, he never came out in support of CTWD, he doesn't do punditry, he simply does not involve himself in anything at all to do with the club, even the FA Cup Final, he quite clearly isn't interested in the club. In this context, the club, as we keep being told, is us, the players, the history. Dr Allam is simply a caretaker for the next owner remember? You know what? Good for him, he clearly has other interests, and he's perfectly at liberty to pursue them, even Hull FC is that's his thing. So stop with the suggestions he's still hurt over the sacking and is boycotting the club because he's still in a mood with Dr Allam, or that Dr Allam has completely banned him from having anything to do with the club, that is just bollocks. Change both of those tunes, they also stink.
Talkiing of released sons OF Ex. Hull City players. City pundit Peter Swan's son "George Swan" has now been released by Manchester City. One of many English/British players released by the Blue Moon.
