There's nothing new in ANY of that, but it still begs the question of how the group was formed or how it will progress. Seems pretty much a room full of the usual unrepresentative faces. He's also wrong about groups being given the opportunity to sit together, as the timing and system simply didn't allow it, and yes, it was asked of the Club. All in all, it sounds as expected, the club explaining why things are fine and we'll all have jam tomorrow, rather than a meaningful dialogue on how things can be improved. They don't seem to accept fans are unhappy, so see no need to look for why, just to consider unhappy fans as 'moaners'. That, is piss poor marketing.
Bitched the attention-seeker whinily, descending as usual into his comfort zone of name-calling and insults.
It doesn't fit with the fact that the badge has been due to change for ages, but they didn't see fit to ask fans opinions, just present a fait accompli. The OLM comment's just an easy hit to deflect issues. It's an admission they didn't want any debate.
"This is what we've decided- now tell us how you feel about it, then we can demonstrate we 'consult' fans to the likes of the PL and FA"
What i meant was how can our club ( or any club ) submit their kit for the following season in February ? When did we do the deal to change from Adidas to Umbro for example ?
I already knew JM quite well, so I'm well aware he isn't the antichrist. The format is such that there will be the same meeting with different people a few more times, so that everyone who put their name forward can be seen, then there'll be follow-up meetings with less people (I think) going forward. If I'm invited to be part of that then I'll definitely want to be there yes. The sponsor is being stuck on by the club shop after the kits reach us, I think it was done too late to be printed on by Umbro. I have to admit I didn't understand that part of the discussion fully, but I think James was just talking about not applying for some kind of trademark at a certain time, the badge itself wasn't actually delayed for that reason I don't think.
Great that season ticket sales are doing good . That's quite a posative post you did PLT ( for a change ). Keep it up keep telling the club not one person Prefers Hull Tigers to HULL CITY despite the **** poll they did Most important thing for me is cheap tickets for young people even free if need be its vital we get the next generation hooked on supporting the club
Ps OT Still hoping Mr Kempton will go-to watch City with his dad Really sad if you don't because you will lose the future memories of days at the footy with your dad. Special times Mr Kempton .
How can the club give tickets out free mate when we are going to sell out!! Its a shame people cant afford to go but thats life, cruel as it is. So if we extended the stadium we should give thousands of tickets for a quid or nowt?? No business can afford to do that, build 10000 extension and give em away for free!! The good news is we have obviously gained loads of new fans as season pass holders cos Dutch knows thousand and thousands who havent renewed and walked away. So they're waiting in the wings if we ever get new owners
That's worse than your usual piss poor bait. If you want to debate what I've put, that's fine, but snide attempts at twisting things just shows you've other issues and no real argument. Give it up, it's boring.
Very interesting piece you did about what happened at the group PLT and thank you for taking the time to type it out to let others know.
However we do it I just think it's important that we get the next generation into following Hull City Maybe I live in the past but I'm not sure if groups of lads off the estates can afford to go like in our young days Ee lad I use to come home with change in me pocket having gone out with half a crown pocket money . Ps....if ticket sales are only down 900 at present that's great news .
No you're right, we talked about marketing for ages and James even had to politely ask me to give everyone else a chance to get a word in at one point cos I'd been banging on about the lack of marketing so much
Cheap tickets won't do that, it will just attract glory supporters and day-trippers who are willing to take advantage of a good deal. Trust me, I know people in Hull who support teams like Man Utd and Liverpool, they use these special offers to satisfy their footballing needs. They don't give a f** about Hull City and just see it as cheap entertainment on a Satuday afternoon whilst they check the scores of their 'real teams' on their iPhones.
It was mentioned that not a lot has been spent on marketing in the past, but my understanding was that that amount has significantly increased now and we should see some effects of that soon. I gave some specific examples such as the signs around the perimeter of the ground still advertising the 'new' 13-14 home kit at the back end of last season, and various suggestions were made from all almost everyone there. Really the key thing is whether progress is actually made, because the sounds were positive, but I've heard things like that before from Nick Thompson and even Pearson. This problem has been going on for far too long and progress never seems to be made on it no matter how much the problem is identified and discussed. Hopefully this time it will lead to progress.
