Good as ever, but absolutely nailed it on Allam/name change: http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2015/04/things-we-think-we-think-181/ 1. A dismal capitulation at Swansea was the latest example of City embarking on a tough but not impossible away assignment, and losing in a feeble nature. After the stirring performance against Chelsea a fortnight ago, the aggression, togetherness and tempo of that afternoon was wholly lacking. 2. Steve Bruce can complain about referees and linesmen all he wants, but it really won’t wash. The officials were imperfect, and Meyler’s red card was arguably harsh, but City were responsible for this defeat, not the men in black. We fervently hope that Steve Bruce knows this and is seeking to publicly cover his charges – if he really thinks he and his players weren’t the agents of their own downfall, he is frighteningly out of touch. 3. What on earth was wrong with Dame N’Doye? He’s been a glorious breath of fresh air since joining, but at the Liberty Stadium he was isolated, sulky and ineffective. We especially disliked the way he turned his back on the play after not being fed the ball in the first half – just how does he expect to score while petulantly flinging his arms around while gazing at the heavens? Let us hope this was a one-off. 4. Results elsewhere made this defeat especially worrying. Wins for sides around us mean that a once comfortable-ish situation has rapidly worsened back to being quite grim. With testing games ahead and the rotten Swansea offering unhappily prominent in our thoughts, we arrive at the conclusion that the players have returned to fecklessly coasting through games, blithely assuming that everything will somehow work out and three other sides will keep us up. It’s the same ghastly complacency that cost us in Europe and that’s cost us time and again against beatable opposition in the Premier League. This is a side that is capable of splendid things, but lacks the application and the hunger to perform consistently. We’re being cheated; and the players are cheating themselves. 5. Southampton is going to be horribly difficult. They’re a genuine class above City and have achieved formidable consistency. Getting any sort of result there was always going to be hard, but this weekend’s unhappy conclusion makes leaving St Marys without at least a point unsatisfactory. Unfortunately it’s already easy to envisage that game: reasonably positive beginning, sloppy individual error gifting a goal following by meek surrender. 6. While Steve Harper and Eldin Jakupović are not good enough to be regular Premier League players…there can only be so long that Allan McGregor be permitted to continue in this run of form. Something has to change, and ideally that’ll be McGregor’s performances – but if not… 7. It wouldn’t be a week at City without contemptible conduct from Assam Allam, would it? We always expected he’d break his promise not to submit a second application to change Hull City AFC’s name, but seeing it was still revolting. It’s the detestable act of a spiteful, untrustworthy, bitter, hate-filled man who is wilfully committing serious long-term damage to this club in order to propagate his deranged vendettas against the council, the fans and the Football Association. We can no longer support a man capable of such vengeful acts. 8. In the meantime, the urgent priority must be the safeguarding of the name Hull City AFC. Allam’s promise-wrecking decision to make a second application will presumably be thrown out by the FA, with Ehab still laughably unaware that a business case requires making and the impossible task of persuading an increasingly disgruntled supporter base to support this mad idea still required. Ultimately, this nonsense will still fail. 9. It’s the cost of that success that worries us. You don’t need to go far to find long-serving City fans who are so thoroughly disillusioned by Allam’s disgraceful behaviour that they’re walking away from City and football in general. Those people may be comparatively small in number – after all, Boothferry Park was rarely full – but they’re the people who’d have stood by the club in the event of a relegation or two while the “it’s his club he can do what he wants” Premier League-only appeasers returned to their armchairs and Liverpool scarves. Instead, they’re being driven away. It’s heartbreaking. 10. Hull City AFC, you owe your travelling fans the larger part of £200,000. Get it sorted, right now. We’re sick of being fobbed off with deadlines that are never met and promises that are never kept.
They're bang on about N'Doye, too. Only last week we were praising him for stressing the importance of actually enjoying games in an interview - and then he suddenly acts like a sleep-deprived teen on Saturday. Really odd, and at odds with his previous attitude.
N,doye looks the part when he is on fire. Hope he does not become another Gedo who was affective at home and disapeared away.
