Program is due to start any minute. I caught just a sneak preview around 4.30 this afternoon. He was comparing our revenue with Burnley and talking them down. He came across very patronising and disrespectful. He needs to show more humility.
Actually the point he made is totally relevant. And put across a lot better than it is by his father. None of which makes a case for a name change.
I don't listen to sportstalk very often but I normally hear a worrying number of "It's his club he can do what he wants." types. The people texting in seemed to be a bit better than that in the main tonight.
Quite an interesting interview. I found the bit about player purchase costs being spread over the length of their contract interesting. I'm wondering how that would work with Shane Long though. We paid 5million, spread the cost over 3 years, but sell him within 1 year (for a profit no less!). Would that give us an effective profit of 10 million from his movement alone?
Gwilym is appalling, he was cringey, don't put a dips**t in charge of interviewing a businessman about his accounts. Ehab is normally pretty good at this stuff, but I thought he made some poor statements tonight. He was good on the straight forward factual stuff, but fell apart when it was dragged back to the name change. The stuff about us being disadvantaged against mid table Premier League teams due to our low season ticket prices was painfully bad, our season ticket prices are absolutely mid table now.
I gave up with sportstalk a long time ago so missed the interview. Sounds as though I didn't miss much. Was LLoyd as bad as Amanda White was when she interviewed Assem Allam? Now that was cringeworthy, she was so poorly briefed that it was embarrassing to listen too.
To be fair, she at least pressed for an answer to questions nobody else dare ask. Gwylim was far worse, you missed nothing.
Whilst his Old Man talks in riddles, Ehab talks in clichés. He talks a lot but he SAYS nothing. That's probably because even after owning the club for 4 years their knowledge of the sport is still sadly lacking. His insistence that the amount of revenue generated is directly linked to the clubs final position in the table is misguided. Otherwise there'd be no point of playing the game on the pitch. The interview itself was comical. Both interviewer and interviewee confessing they no vey little about accountancy when the whole point of the broadcast was to talk about the accounts just posted. Isn't Allam senior an accountant/auditor by trade ? Surely he would have been able to impart his wisdom on the subject better then a self-confessed engineer ?
Amanda White is the only person I've heard who actually pushed Allam a bit about the name change and what the club was actually called . I presume thats why she hasn't been allowed near him since .
She did push him for an answer but she didn't know the club's official name herself, that's what I mean by being 'poorly briefed'. The clubs business name is different from the name registered to play in Football League and has changed several times since 1904. I remember attending an AGM when Chris Needler tacked PLC onto the end of the clubs name and no-one batted an eye lid because we were Hull City AFC, or Hull City FC, depending on your preference. It didn't matter as long as we were known and appeared in the fixture lists and so on as Hull City. At the time AA was making an issue of dropping the 'AFC or Associated Football Club' That wasn't the argument, and the club had been using Hull Tigers on emails since Adam Pearson's days. Amanda White, from memory, didn't grasp this and thought we were had always been called Hull City Tigers or something. It really muddled the argument because, quite simply the objections were about changing the ' Hull City' name, not the 'AFC' (I could be wrong on that) and no-one could care less what the club were known as at Business House or the Football League as long as we took to the field as Hull City and not some ridiculous mickey mouse name. Her sentiments were probably spot on but a golden opportunity to seriously question this nonsense before it took on a life of its own was lost. Just my opinion.
I heard the "interview" and I've met Amanda White. I'm not in the least surprised the interview went as it did.
You've got it the wrong way round, it's AA who thinks we've always been called Hull City Tigers, it was Amanda White who was pointing out that the company name and the playing name are different and we've never had Tigers in our playing name, she was bang on.
