Yes I do. Beating Boro in the final, knowing Sunderland and Newcastle are relegated, would make me smile. A lot. If we don't go up, you can forget the thought of us being sold. The Allams will not give us away, and no one will be interested in buying us for the price we'd be. Going up they have a better chance of selling, and recouping their money. He's an accountant ffs. No one locally will ever buy us. Our only next owners is a foreign syndicate type set up. They're not interested in buying anyone outside of the PL. Least of all a club with our pedigree and expectations. We're not glamorous, we're not a former "big" club with years of winning history. He also won't sell us to a bunch of crooks. You might not believe that, but I do, I have to, the thought of all that again makes my stomach curl. If you need a reason to get behind the team and push them onto victory it's really easy. You want the club sold, we have go to win and get promoted. If we stay down, I'm sorry to say we'll see more ideas for money raising in football. Thats coming from someone who likes innovation, change and new stuff, especially if it upsets the accepted wisdoms.
Absolutely! Promotion is the quickest way to see the back of the Assad and Eeyore, this time next year we could be sitting pretty in the PL with new owners or we could find ourselves in Boltons position! This feeling of apathy really needs stamping out, we won't stand a cat in hells chance in the playoffs if the fans don't start getting on board. The other 3 teams have fans that are jacked up about the possibility of promotion. We've a great chance of playing at Wembley in 5 weeks, that's an exciting prospect surely? I'm counting down the days to the playoffs personally.
I see less chance of them selling if we get promoted. The money on offer will keep them in charge, they are business men after all.
Yes. We should be focus sing on 4th place to ensure home advantage in the second leg.We have 3 games which are "meaningless" for the opposition so we should get 9 points...I bet we don't.. I hear the club is sold with 2 prices fixed depending on the status next year and the setting up of the membership scheme is a condition of sale.Probably rubbishy but an interesting angle.
Well, using the old adage "It was fun while it lasted" I don't mind admitting that I cried when we made the Premier League for the first time but came down to earth very quickly with an almighty thud when the realism set in. Four seasons finishing 17th, then Relegated, followed by 16th, then Relegated. Watching the likes of Jozy Altidore, Danny Graham and Sagbo. Be nice for King Tut to get his money back (he won't be spending anything on the Club or players, don't worry about that) and then he might go away. As a Premier League Club we might stand a better chance of being bought I suppose but as there will be no Premier League 'live' Football for me next season I guess I won't have to put up with another season watching the "Hull Crabs" strut their sideways football again. I'm not particular enthused with Premier League Football for Hull City until we get new owners, a new Manager and some new players who know how to play football and put the ball in the back of the net on a regular basis. Sorry.
Not bothered either way. To go up and then stay up you need impetus, the lethargy around the club isn't going to go away overnight so we would struggle just as badly as last season. I don't think the Allam's want to sell but I very definitely want the Allam's to fail.
If we go up, the Allams will just take the 100 million or as much as possible and use it to pay off the debt and then sell the club cheaply.
I want them to go up because I want little Hull City competing at the top table, although I worry about our big game mentality and think we'll bottle it.
If people are feeling forced into staying away, which is where I am, much as I don't like it as a division, the prem is better for the long term future of the club, not just for the immediate financial gain, but because you can still get your City fix on tv. The atmosphere and experience in pub pisses on the stadium now. If people are walking away, it needs something to keep them thinking of returning when things are better. Staying down means minimal games on tv, so people will fill their time with other things, and City becomes more and more marginalised, which can take generations to put right. People have let their own position justify the lack of opposition before and they let us get our bellies tickled. We need to learn from those mistakes, and the first step is acknowledging them for what they are.
The depressing thing is the next owners may be even worse and more clueless than the current ones, with a similar lack of understanding about how to run a football club. Looking around, even at Championship level there are plenty of examples of usually foreign-owned barmily-run clubs. All this **** from the Allams about finding 'a good home' for the club .....surely no one is taken in by this? As always, they'll do what's best for them or what suits their judgement, and not what might objectively be the best outcome.
NO if we go up i expect 5,000 premier league only " supporters" will return to the KC Increasing the chance of this ****ty scheme taking off I also think the Allams will never **** off with the cash flowing into the club from the premier league
Don't you think they would keep the club and go for 100 million the next year and the one after that and the one after that...
I don't really care at the moment Neither am I sure that going up would increase the likelihood of a sale
Yes. 40 year plus and counting following Hull City. Its our history and our club. We have already earnt our stripes.Time can be a healer and I think we forget how dire a lot of our seasons have been. Promo and the Allams will be off
The problem for them is, that for us to retain that status they would need to spend the majority of the Sky money on a squad which can even compete at that level. The clubs already there have squads way way beyond where we are currently and the money they have will allow them to cherry pick positions not a full squad let alone the salaries associated. And therein lies another problem, anyone interested in buying the club wont be interested in buying a club that will have a one year association with the premiership and as such the club for me is not a viable sale proposition at this time.
There is a very naive opinion being expressed that promotion will mean the Allams sell. I do not believe this anymore, and with the ridiculous tv money being given away from next season I think they will keep the club if we are promoted. There are some advantages of being promoted, but it brings with it the fact that the membership scheme will succeed thanks to the 1000's of PL whores who will snap up seats. The Allams will be let off the hook and they'll still be here, refusing to call us our name in another 5 years and generally causing division and despair. Personally I really aren't fussed either way. I have gone from being a City fanatic, watching them at over 125 grounds all other the country since '82, and I didn't even bother going yesterday. If someone had told me a few years ago that City would play Leeds Utd at home and we were on the brink of promotion to the PL and I would stay at home to cut the grass I would have said there's more chance of winning the National Lottery. That is what the Allams have done to me.
Bournmouth, Watford, Palace,Leicester, WBA, maybe Norwich have shown you can survive the premier League without spending loads. Its likely the big boys will drive up transfer fees because they have more to spend, but there are and will be good value players going cheap. The thing is not to get sucked into the hype and waste all the money.
