Same here. Our family has ALWAYS referred to our team as "the Tigers". My Grandad, uncles, three sons...our family conversations are about "the Tigers"...never Hull City, sometimes City...with bloody as a prefix when they've fallen massively short of our optimistic expectations, which used to happen a lot. Hull City is only used when we're letting some ignorant outsider know who we support. Hull is only used to describe where our family lived.
Whatever anyone chooses to call us, we are 'Hull city afc' and we always will be. If anyone doesn't like that...Well tough titty!
My uncle, who took me to my first game, always called us The Tigers. The mates that I started going with late 70's always called us City. Nowadays, everyone I know calls us City, unless they're not in Hull.
wtf does manchester city have to do with it? they weren't even the first club to have city in their name.
You know what I mean! City, Hull or Hull City, we all know what we're called, wherever I am determines what I call them!
It's mebbe an age thing? I started going with schoolmates in the late 60's, when we met it was always ''are we off to City?'', same when I started going with lads from work, it was never Hull, we were always ''going to City''. In the 60's & 70's any ****er going to Hull was going to watch egg-chasing at the Booolevarrrrrrd.
When talking about Football I refer to us as Hull, when talking rugby I refer to the teams as FC and Rovers
If your in Hull, then it's easy to call them City, if you're outside you have to explain who you support, if you're not in the UK you have to literally find out where they know in the UK then try & direct them from there!
It wasn't just me worried about January then. Still, if we are top three in January and a few get picked off, we would be an attractive club for young, hungry 'potential-rich' players like Clucas and I'm assuming we'd have the transfer fees of Mo or whoever to re-invest for them, plus Snodgrass won't leave I'm sure and if he gets fit and back to his best he will be a top player for us for the last 2 or 3 months I reckon. Bruce seems to know how to build a good dressing room (you know what I mean) and re-invigorate a squad, so I'm sure January won't mean the end of our chances of promotion this year but merely a different path to it. I'm much more positive when I'm pished.
^^^This. Although in recent years the number of people who know us has grown exponentially. Name change rubbish aside I do find it odd when fans get upset when people from outside of Hull refer to the team as simply Hull. I can't think of another club with this hang up.
It's both sad and daft, as well as being our biggest weakness when it comes to projecting the club's identity both inside and outside of Hull. Hull, Hull City, City or the Tigers are all fine; FC or Rovers are not and are only used for rugby league teams. If I were to speak of Hull, folk would understand I meant City as we only speak of football. What really boils my piss is folk talking of the 'lesser sport', it's childish and unnecessary.
I almost always say City sometimes the Tigers at work if I'm talking in a more jokey kind of way, even when I'm chatting to mates around the country online ( on XBL) I will call my club City , I don't often have to expand who I'm on about - probably only say Hull City if asked who I support .
But that makes no sense at all! When I lived in Bristol everyone just called them City or very rarely the robins. Bristol referred to the Rugby Union club and Rovers referred to their local rivals Bristol Rovers not Hull Kingston Rovers! You don't think context comes into this do you?
If I may add my two-pennyworth; Locally, I refer to the 3 professional teams as City, Rovers & Hull - I’ve heard others say City, KR & FC If for example in conversation on holiday I would refer to Hull City, Hull KR & Hull FC I know of hardly anyone locally that refers to City as Hull – in fact if anyone locally asked me if I’d been to watch Hull I would put them right and say that I’d been to watch Hull City as Hull is the rugby team – some may find that pathetic, but it very rarely happens, and when it does it’s usually said by the likes of the mother-in-law that has no interest in sport whatsoever. Nationally, I fully accept being called Hull, just in the same way I would say Derby, L**ds, Blackburn etc.. without giving them their full titles. However it does rile me when the likes of Sky show the league table with us referred to as just Hull – for god’s sake can’t they just add 4 more letters to say City – lazy bastards.
