Board? I don't need to do that, wearing club merchandise, paying him for a ticket to see the game, and cheering him I think is more than sufficient to show my gratitude to him for ensuring I have a club to support and can argue with ****wits like you online.
Or we could do nothing and end up below Division 2. I can't believe anyone seriously thinks CTWD even as part of any alliance would be capable of raising the type of money needed to sustain us, nor can I believe anyone is naive enough to think raising our profile in the ER and selling a few more shirts would help either. We need something radical, without that we'll just wither and die.
Who's talking about selling a few more shirts? Last season, in which we finished second and got promoted to the Premier League our income (excluding player sales) rose by £35,000. Not a lot for our most successful season ever, is it?
So you pay for a ticket to show your support for him? You don't do it to watch your team and support them? I'm not buying any club merchandise - I know it wont help the club and I was never a big spender but because many people are doing it it will send a message to Allam. I wont be renewing my Tiger Player subscription, either.
We will stop being Hull City the day the name changes. The club effectively dies. A new snide version will take its place. "They'll always be my team." "For me it'll always be Hull City." Get to ****. Hull City will be gone. It will be Hull Tigers (this franchise for hire, enquire within) Then Hull Tampax (this franchise for hire, enquire within) Then Tampax International (this franchise for hire, enquire within, can re-locate if necessary) Then Yorkshire Tampax (this franchise for hire, can relocate if necessary) Then Khan Investment Tiger (this franchise for hire, can relocate if necessary) Then Wang Yung Happy Dragon Inc (this franchise is relocating to Seoul)
You can't get it into their thick skulls, Asbo. TygerTyger/Happy Tiger/Pearson Park/etc. Sheer waste of time, as they just go round and around with the same old 'AA can do no wrong - he saved us' mentality.
Without us 'hooligans' and 'die as soon as they want' types there would have been no club for him to save......
Well said Canada Tiger, you mirrior my own sentiments. Forever City but with it maybe Crewe or even Harltlepool in front of 3769. Give me Arsenal, Tom Huddlestone and the Hull Tigers any time. Its a no brainer why would you want anything else. Beats watching Bill Bradbury, Brian Bulless et al in the Third Division N, would have given anything at the time to be Division 1. We had other smaller towns that were in that league but never Hull. If it takes being the Hull Tigers to stay there so be it. Thank you Mr Allam for giving us this season in the Premier League lets hope you and the Tigers will give us many more.
Re my last post dont really like posting on this topic nor reading about it rather read about football, but, do so to show that not all of supporters are against the name change.
It's not an 'either....or argument' though. It's not Hull Tigers or League 2 ignominy. Allam is motivated by spite to remove the word City from our name because he fell out with the Corporation. He has then decided to believe that changing the name will channel in funds that hitherto had been forthcoming. Up till now, no one has been able to produce a shred of evidence that such a change would have the desired effect. The only effects are a widespread derision usually followed by support of the existing name in article after article, from this country and abroad. He needs saving from himself and his autocratic management style, as he is danger of toxifying his legacy in this city and leaving a negative rather than positive impression after he's gone. Everyone around the world gets it apart from Assem Allam and approx ten posters on here.
So you're in favour of this name change - but as Agro asked earlier - what about the next one? or the one after that? This is a Pandora's box - once name change for commercial reasons is okay - it's okay forever. How long before we're the Total Network Solutions of English football? And if you're happy to support a team wearing Hull City's colours in the Prem - you could have done so the season after we were relegated - Wolves were still there and looked like us. Or is it the location that matters? How many Hull and Rovers fans would agree? Or how many Liverpudlians would walk the half a mile across Stanley Park just to see Prem football in Liverpool? Who cares if it's called Liverpool or Everton? There is NOTHING to link us with our past other than our name - we don't even have a link back to 2008 hardly. There are no players left, the management's gone - the owners have changed. Even if I didn't care one jot about the things I'd mentioned above - The fact is I haven't seen one article, one comment in favour of the change. No one is saying it will save us, or that it will make money other than Allam. Marketing experts have blown his idea out of the water. Even amongst his most loyal supporters on here, the most enthusiasm he can get is "I'm not against it" Sorry - but if I'm going to sell my family silver, I want to know a bit more about what I'm going to get.
It doesn't really matter about the name change now. Not that the name change doesn't matter, but now it is not in our hands. The process has started. Now the only thing that matters is the rest of the season.
The season has always mattered. The name change is still in our hands we have to tell the FA how we feel. Not just by our songs but in a more concrete form. First by signing the petition, if you haven't already signed. http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...erse-the-unwanted-rebranding-of-hull-city-afc Now the gauntlet is down its time to pick it up and show the FA we are City Till We Die.
If the FA repeatedly see that people don't want the name change they are much more likely to reject it than if we were all for it
I'd say the medium to long term future matters more than the short term. Our goal must be to preserve our identity, league placing a distant second.
I don't know what you were watching but they didn't wear black and amber atripes in 1948, or at any time in the 1940s and 1950s. Your memory isn't very good. 1947 was the first season we had a tiger badge on the shirt though. You won't be watching City in front of 50,000+ crowds at Man City or Liverpool either until they increase the capacity of the stadiums. Only Man Utd, Arsenal and Newcastle have stadiums which hold over 50,000. , Harold Needler apparently used the act of giving shares as a tax avoidance strategy due to the high taxes, over 90% at fhe time,if he had cashed in any shares and got a lot back as his companies did a lot of the work the money was used for on redeveloping the stadium. It certainly helped the club but was no more a gift than what Mr Allam's money has been.
Why don't you have the same gratitude for the man who saved the club twice as many times as Allam did?
As I have said there is no more that anyone can do. The process HAS started. It doesn't matter how loud anyone chants. The recognised supporters groups will be consulted by the FA. The club will be consulted and the other stakeholders will be consulted. Where does it say chants will be listened to or banners and emails read?
As people have alluded to it's success that will bring in the punters. It's probably a better bet that we change the manager's name if we want success on the pitch. We need a manager with the name of a big team to have success (Brucie, you know deedpoll makes sense): Arsenal Wenger has brought success to London. Man City did nothing under Sven or Hughes but then they brought in Roberto ManCini and it all changed. They realised that wasn't enough so they replaced him with ManUel Pellegrini. The daddy of premier league success, Ajax Ferguson. So come on Brucie, change that name to Steve Reality and we'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
