That is not true. We are this regions Premier club in size and statue and I think that should be reflected by all modes of the media locally. If the situation was reversed, and it might be one day, you would see the difference then. I remember it well when City were at their lowest, a time which coincidently was the time that RL popularity in Hull was at it's peak. The council were issuing tourist info ' Visit Hull the Capital of RL' and Fieldhouse in the HDM was pushing the 'Rugby Town' nonsense down our throats. A theme which was trounced on by all forms of the media and pedalled out at every opportunity, until people finally realised how stupid it sounded and it couldn't possibly be backed up with any facts and figures. In the ideal world we would all wish the clubs who represent our City well. I have the distinct feeling that we share our stadium with a code who only wish us failure because success could well be the death knell for them.
I'm not sure that age plays that much of a part, I'm over 50 and I can't remember a single FC fan at school, never mind one who took the piss out of City, that job was left to the Leeds and Liverpool plastics.
1980. Read a few back issues of 'In Any Kind of Weather' from when the idea of a super stadium for Hull was first proposed. I'll remind you, the editorial was something like... If the council have any serious intentions of filling a 25,000 capacity stadium they should invite Leeds United to play there because not in their wildest dreams will Hull City ever ever fill it....... You cannot have been around when FC fans turned up at BP on an offer of free entry from Don Robinson after they had kicked off at lunchtime at the Boulevard, and stood in the North Stand and vocally supported the opposition against us. Because you cannot remember doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I'm not the one to ask. I think 'arsecunt' comes straight from the mind of another poster (anyone going to stake a claim?) as his legacy to mankind. I've got no idea what CSM means, apart from Company Sergeant Major. I've led a very sheltered life.
I don't think we have any banned words aside from obvious racist ones, it made it through the swear filter. I don't think it's that bad a word, I know worse ones.
It's not a word, it's an abbreviation for something far more vile than racist, and someone was asked yesterday by OLM to stop using it, as there's apparently been a lot of complaints.
I don't get any bitterness from his post, just a fair degree of righteous anger - he's stating the facts, a large section of FC fans of that time wished us naught but bad luck (and worse) and, with a family full of FC followers, I can guarantee you that the same feelings exist today. Personally, I wish them nothing bad luck and hope I see the day when Murdoch takes his money away and Rugby League in West Hull goes down the ****ing toilet where it belongs.
It makes you wonder in what world some posters on here live in, where they think RL, particularly Hull fans (Rovers generally less jealous) wish us well, or are at best neutral towards us. We know some people support City and a local RL team too. But many people in HU land support a local RL side but an out of town football team. Sometimes the banter is good-natured, but sometimes it is not. Deep down, a proportion of local RL fans do not like to see a successful Hull City as it goes against their interests.
A lot of people object to the term and it keeps getting reported to the supermods, which is getting on their nerves, hence the request to stop using it.
Nobody's saying it doesn't happen, it obviously does, you only have to glance at their boards to see all the 'puffball' nonsense, but it's hardly worth getting worked up about.
Oh, 'ello, qunt. I was worried you'd left us. I'll be too busy again to play you (you know, like a drum set or other empty vessel) the rest of the day. I've got to go and bathe my pet squirrel. Enjoy the Soup Bowl!
Why would you think I'd have left? Do you think your scum posts last night worried or affected me in any way? No doubt you'll think Dutch's rash actions in deleting them means you'll be in some way protected & that not many noticed them. No amount of creeping posts you manage to post today will hide or cover them up. "Disgusting" was the main word used in the messages I received. You showed your true colours. Sad, bitter & rather pathetic. I pity your existence.
Hardly worth getting worked up about? If the 10,000 or so people in this city who follow RLput their money and support into the Tigers, we would now be getting gates of about 25,000 instead of 15,000. In the PL we would have been getting gates of 35,000 instead of 25, 000. Our stadium would be larger than at present to accommodate these. We would attract a bigger more lucrative sponsors. In all probability, we would never have had the bad decades we had until Adam Pearson arrived, and we would have had top flight football or won the FA Cup many many years ago. Our club would have a much bigger and illustrious profile, and a much better history. Instead, we are lumbered with buffoons who drive around with Hull FC and Spurs stickers in the back window. There's a case to be made that you wouldn't want such folk at the KC as they are clearly dysfunctional and challenged, but their cash would have been useful to swell the coffers.
The HDM weekly sports letters page used to be a particularly soapbox for the 'puffball' contributors, only football was described as 'wendyball' in those days. One weekly contributor was from Skidby who never had a good word to say about Hull City and always compared us and football to rugby league, which was a far superior game in his opinion. His letters appeared week after week all slagging everything off that City did or didn't do and it went on for years. City were rubbish, a disgrace to the city, would never and never had done anything and no-one was interested in them according to him. I happened to be in Skidby one day so I thought I'd see if the address given actually existed. I had my doubts because the letters were so obviously anti Hull City and regular that I actually thought they were written by someone on the sports desk to drum up interest in the letters page. Sure enough the address existed. The drive way gates had two Liverpool FC crests welded to them and on the front of the house was a HKR club crest. Which just about sums up every RL supporter I have ever known from Hull.
