Match Day Thread Hull City v Derby

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Slater is at his best when he gets forward and carries the ball, seems to have been playing within himself recently which I think is tactical. I think a lot of the players are stifled by the need to be compact and leave no spaces which is understandable really.
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
It was impressive seeing as we were at the bottom end of the old 4th division playing from a three sided ground which was falling to pieces. Also football as a spectator sport wasn't as popular as it is today due to a number of factors, mainly hooliganism and the Taylor Report. I doubt the figures you quote too, as one who was there, I remember the first home game that Lloyd attended was v Notts County and we got over 8,000 there which was a massive increase in those days and a very good crowd in the circumstances..
Do you also dispute the feel good factor Don Robinson created in a similar way to Acun? Robinson had a massive effect of the club crowd wise, and sold the ground out several times, and it was a ground with a capacity drastically reduced after the Taylor report, meaning it was a virtual ****hole, and football still wasn't exactly flavour of the month with the paying public. I heard today that even Liverpool only had a crowd of 35,000 the last time they won the League title, before the one they won during Covid when everyone played to empty stadiums.
I was at the AGM when Pearson took over, he sat on our table for the fund raiser the very same night and told us all his plans for the club, but I can tell you that the gates didn't immediately increase and it was hard work for him at first. Our table gave him and his commercial guy, John Holmes from Leeds Rhinos, plenty of ideas and to his credit he followed up on several of them. One was Roary's Bar' which he opened up in the gymnasium. He went through three managers before he hit it off with Peter Taylor, and when we started to win games and move up the league the crowds came back. At that time Pearson was a breath of fresh air to the club and he was as good for us as we were to him.
My point is that, despite all the bump we hear about Hull being a rugby town, etc, over the years the crowds have always flocked back in numbers when then club get it right on the field, no matter who is in charge. Because football is a very sellable commodity and it is very popular around here as it is in the rest of the country. Acun didn't do a lot different to several owners we have had in the past who all came in and recreated the feel good factor. Which shouldn't be too difficult to do.
To his credit, or more so the commercial team at City, to keep the crowds we have been getting at home all season, despite the results and awful football is quite remarkable.
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I wouldn't argue with any of that, here's all our average attendances if you're interested - https://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/hulc.htm
 
Gone For A Walk said:
Only just realised Bristol City play on Monday. We need them to lose or draw with Leeds so they have something to play for next Saturday.
The irony of relying on a favour from both Leeds and Bristol City eh.
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Another coincidental irony rests in the hands of the teams around us at the end of one of our promotion seasons - 2007-2008 season.

1st WBA
2nd Stoke
3rd City
4th Bristol City

All 4 of those teams can have a telling impact on our destiny this coming weekend, but this time at the other end of the table !!

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tigerscanada said:
Another coincidental irony rests in the hands of the teams around us at the end of one of our promotion seasons - 2007-2008 season.

1st WBA
2nd Stoke
3rd City
4th Bristol City

All 4 of those teams can have a telling impact on our destiny this coming weekend, but this time at the other end of the table !!
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I fear it’s the quality of our current team that’s going to send us down and not those around us this time.
 
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