Remember it vividly - living and working in Leeds at the time when my brother rung me up and told me the news - receivership not administration ffs. Decided I had to come back to Hull later that day and went to Action Group meetings at Chalk Lane. Very very depressing days. Talk of all the players being available to leave for free - Sheff U were after Gareth Roberts, lot interest in Mutrie and Tony Norman. Mutrie had just scored a hat trick I think in a 5-2 win against Hartlepool in front of just 2800 fans at BP the Sat before I think - having bought some shares via the Action Group attended a very volatile AGM in the Gym at BP when Christopher Needler and Dave Dueberry crossed swords in and around this time. Spoke to Needler in the boardroon after the meeting and he made it clear that he didn't rate Mike Smith and his management team that were on big bucks and weren't delivering. Putting the Club in Receivership was the opportunity to rid the Club of Mike Smith etc and start again. I believe Bristol City did a similar thing soon after us - The Football League soon outlawed this preventing Clubs closing and reforming effectively as a new Club whilst retaining their league status.
this will have been around the time i had trial with the club , I might have sunk 'em with my wage demands
I know Don Robinson became chairman, but not the outright owner of Hull City. How did Chris Needler manage to retain his share/control of the club after the receivership?
It shows that the player wages that we had back then where out of step with what was affordable. 9000 per week was far too much. Have lessons been learnt by clubs? Doesn't look it.i
I read that before reading the article and thought you were saying we were paying someone £9k a week in the 80s. I disagree about saying £9k a week losses is too much though, that suggests there's a level of ongoing losses that is acceptable and there isn't.
It wasn't wages that were the issue back then, it was just a complete lack of revenue, there was no TV money and barely anyone was going along to watch.
"Thirty years ago today Hull City became the first Football League club to call in receivers, a move that cast doubt over the clubâs future, writes Philip Buckingham. THE STORM clouds hung ominously over Britain from the outset of 1982. Under Margaret Thatcherâs unpopular Conservative government, the deepest recession for half a century was taking a heavy toll." Typical negative garbage from the Mail, written by someone too young to remember the times and not from this area, just repeating bollox written by others. If Margaret's Thatcher's government were unpopular, were we living in a dictatorship ? Or was it that the Tories were less unpopular than Labour or the Liberals?
The local news reports from the time... http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2012/02/tigertube-city-enter-receivership-1982/?
Slightly O/T but I think Phil Buckingham is a load of old ****e. His match reports and articles are crap, they are so predictable and cliché , all he does is state the obvious. I'd like to see somebody else given a chance, even if it's just for one article. And he's a Leeds fan.
His Twitter updates are actually very good, he'll even answer questions live at reserve games, which can be handy. He's also a Mackem, I think it's Fewings who's the Leeds fan and the editor Baxter is a Scunny or Donny fan(I forget which).
I thought someone on Humberside had 'outed' him as a Leeds fan. If he's not then I take that bit back but stand by the rest.
