In the first of a series of opinion pieces written by the fans, Hull City Supporters' Trust member Greg Whitaker discusses what he feels is a growing despondency at the club... Why there's a concern excitement is absent ahead of Hull City's top-flight return please log in to view this image It is now less than a month until Hull City's Premier League season kicks-off at home to Champions Leicester City on August 13, and what a long month it is set to be. Rumours of buy-outs, be it from the former CEO of Goldman Sachs or China's third richest man, now seem to be a daily occurrence both on Twitter and in Hull's local press. However, with the news this week that the Allams will not be selling the club before the end of the summer transfer window, despite not yet spending a penny to improve the club's current squad, not to mention the possibility of Steve Bruce leaving on the eve of a new season to potentially take on the poison chalice of the England job, there is no wonder the Hull City faithful are starting to feel despondent once again. While it feels almost churlish to feel disenchanted as a fan of a Premier League club, especially when there are fans of 72 other Football League clubs who would kill to be in our position, I, along with thousands of other Hull City fans, cannot help it. Our club is being slowly suffocated from the inside out, and if something is not done soon, I fear a generation of Hull City fans could be lost. In my lifetime as a City fan we have been battling for our very survival at the foot of the Football League, yet still as a Club we felt 100 times more unified then than at this very moment. Where do I start? The lingering aftertaste of pro-Allam fans v anti-Allam fans in the wake of the name-change saga, the decision to close the ticket office in favour of machines, or the scrapping of season tickets in favour of the now infamous 'Membership Scheme' which has abolished all forms of concession ticketing. Somewhere along the line the family atmosphere that has kept this club going in its darkest days appears, to me at least, to be dying. The mood among Tigers fans is at an all-time low, and that takes some doing! After a 'Golden Decade' for the club, fans have had enough of being treated like customers rather than the life and soul which has kept this club going for 112 years. The way I, and I'm sure many other City fans, feel about City at this moment in time has me wondering if I wouldn't have been happier back in League Two, without two pennies to rub together, but rid of soulless, corporate ownership. Who knows? But one thing is for sure – that family atmosphere that the Allams' steadily seem to be squeezing out of the club, would certainly have kept us going. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/why-...tory-29534577-detail/story.html#ixzz4F1qrqZqm
Good article. I struggle to see why some of our fans are still blinkered into thinking it has to be a them and us between the fans.
Probably because you were so very determined to make that happen, by defending the indefensible, simply to be deliberately obtuse. Unpalatable, maybe, but very true.
Any truth hurts you, you don't deal in it, do you. Never mind, just thought the hypocrisy cringeworthy.
Nah, he can find someone else to quote the endless repetitive ****e he spouts. Have to do a ninja attack on him, in and out quick, or he'll just bore you, and everyone else on here, to death.
Given what has transpired with Assem and now Ehab in charge of City, anyone who was pro-Allam must have changed their mind on the subject The indefensible cannot be defended. The biggest issue now is that they will want to save face - an almost impossible task given how much they've ****ed up the running of the club... I mean - Hull City Tigers, no name on the badge, telling fans to die when they want, then telling fans they have to earn their stripes, no concessions for those that need/deserve them - and when people stop attending, calling fans asking them to come back. It's been amateur hour for the last few years. Just get the **** away from any football club, especially ours
