Boxes left to tick...
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Well it does spread because most are called Smith who travel far and wide.
There’s 35 postcodes and unsurprisingly, they’re all in Norfolk. Your mate was right, Norwich has a far larger support to draw on than we do, there’s about 700k living within half an hour of Carrow Road.
Spiteful jobsworth Council?
Wonder what Allam would have done with it had they have sold it to him.....
But what's wrong with players from outside of the Hull area....?
Your philosophy would mean we didn't have Waggy, Geovanni, Jimmy Graham....
So is Hull. Though I did go down a couple of streets in Norwich with enough of an incline for visitors to boule whatever they boule down.
And Carter, Chilton. And virtually every good player we have ever had.
It appears you and Barca have completely misunderstood the OP, which was
‘What is left to tick?’ in the FUTURE.
So I don’t want to airbrush out our glorious players of the past such as Billy Woof, Dave Jones or even the interloper from Blackpool, but to look forward to home grown talent playing for their home team.
Perhaps in the Premier League again.
And winning the FA Cup, or League Cup maybe. In a ground that we own, packed out every week.
That sort of thing.
Our Academy has improved yet we have no real training ground legacy from 5 years of Premier League riches so I guess a lot of us would like to see a proper state of the art training ground from our next 5 years in the PL.
We'll never know will we ? What we do know is that nothing has happened to the stadium or the site since that meeting. The council obviously had no plans of their own for it. It's just ten years or what ever older.
SMC appears to be a vehicle for avoiding corporation taxes....
To save wading through it all can you give a synopsis of how it shows the SMC is a vehicle for avoiding corporation taxes? And whose and for how long?
They've put football club costs through the SMC, running up massive losses in the SMC in the process. This is partly so they can offset football club profits against SMC losses, but I suspect, is also to piss of the Council, as I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to wind it up when they sell the club.
No, obviously not, but within a group, the losses are offset against the profitable companies in the group.
yeah agree. Daftest thing is Boy Blunder is perhaps only a couple of steps away from that long term step.
Would he be imaginative enough, brave enough, maybe even less obstinate enough to go the whole hog and invest in grass roots locally?
I suspect the answer would be no, on Penny wise pound foolish basis, but he could get the talent conveyor belt extended into the local junior leagues.
He’s intimated that we might be a selling club in the future I get that. So instead of Darnbirough trawling stats sites for players to buy, put that money into grass roots, the club organising soccer schools involving club staff and local clubs coaches etc GLP for one mentions his qualifications and his lads teams - that needs tapping on a more regular consistent basis.
The resources are there, there’s a basic structure in place already (roughly) it just needs pulling together.
Then for every KLP we develop and keep we also don’t let go people like Coyle to Leeds -> Fleetwood -> Home ( can’t remember if he cost us a fee but obvs that would be saved)
Promotion/ Champions for his home club obviously meant a lot to Coyle judging by the picture of him hugging his (?) mum in best stand.
edit - someone just told me another one of the Coyles went to Leeds but ‘came home’ to City.
Got to stop talent leaving Hull in the first place.
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