What they do and it's merits is open to opinion, how they do it is shabby and without style; their actions define them as really poor individuals who have an unhealthy opinion of themselves. What surprises me is some supporters couldn't see, or refused to see this coming. It's very hard to be enthusiastic about anything to do with the club, as it morphs into something only the Allams and their acolytes have wanted.
My last sentence was possibly not explained very well. What I meant was that the jury is out with Ehab as to whether he is vindictive, or just plane incompetent - I go back and forth on this.
Hull City: Portrait of a club in meltdown With no manager, no signings, and no plan, Hull City faithful look to the upcoming season with trepidation—and anger—at a team betrayed by its ownership. For a newly promoted Premiership club, the summer run-up to the season should be a time of celebration, of preparation, and of just a bit of trepidation. You’ve made it, scaled the veritable Mount Everest that is the gap between Championship and Premier League, and now your goal is to survive. The manager and board work overtime, evaluating the budget against the prospect of being able to say those magic words—Premiership football—that suddenly make players you’d like to purchase more amenable to what you have to say. For the fans, it’s the excitement of having made it to the big leagues, anxiously waiting for the fixture list to be released, marking off the dates and working out how many away games you’ll be able to get to this year. It’s the thought of following your team into the legendary parks of the English game—Old Trafford, Anfield, Stamford Bridge—and having the audacity to believe that in this era of hyper-inflated transfers and billionaire ownerships, your beloved underdogs might just be the ones singing in victory at the final whistle. The road to 40 points and survival is never an easy one, but the summer of a newly promoted club is one of boundless optimism. NO COMMUNICATION, NO MANAGER, NO ENGAGEMENT, NO SIGNINGS, NO IDENTITY, NO CONCESSIONS, NO HONESTY At least, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Fans of the newly-promoted Hull City, though, have little to be optimistic about. The Hull Daily Mail report today that first-team coach Keith Bertschin has been given the sack with 9 days to go before the season kicks off. According to initial reports, the club chose to deliver this news as the 59-year-old Bertschin was preparing to board the team coach en route to an Austrian friendly tour. This, of course, follows the abrupt exit of manager Steve Bruce two weeks ago, over an apparent frustration at Hull City’s flat-lined transfer season so far. Yes, that’s right. Hull City, despite having four starters who will enter the year on extended injuries, have not purchased a single player this summer. With 9 days left til kickoff, and 27 til the summer window slams shut, Hull City look set to kick off with a thin and battered squad held together by interim caretaker Mike Phelan, who has never taken on a managerial role in his two decade long coaching career. Oh, and they play host to Leicester City, reigning Champions of England, to start off their season. Nobody ever said the gods of football were just. Still, one has to feel for the Hull City fans and players alike. After a year of grinding through the Championship, culminating in a breathtaking 1-0 win over a strong Sheffield Wednesday side, those close to the team should be focusing on the season to come, looking to cement their side as a permanent fixture in the Premier League. Instead, they watch their club become a three-ring circus, buoyed by the apathy of a chairman who seemingly worries more about the club’s name than its long-term stability and future. The players, consummate professionals and highly paid ones at that, are likely to make no public comment. For them, the show goes on. Fans, on the other hand, are under no such obligation. The paying public has every right to demand change, and the Hull City Supporters’ Trust released a lengthystatement Tuesday announcing plans to do just that. please log in to view this image “No communication, no manager, no engagement, no signings, no identity, no concessions, no honesty,” the statement begins. It is a devastatingly succinct analysis of supporters’ feelings toward a club with which they have clashed often in the past, most recently last year where fans protested club chairman Assem Allam’s governance by displaying red cards in the home supporters’ end during a fixture against Brentford. The implication was clear to all: send Allam off, and take back our club. It’s a message that resonates with supporters around the league, who are no doubt cognizant of the fact that a committed, knowledgeable ownership can make all the difference in the world; indeed, Leicester City’s own Foxes Trust has reportedly lent its support to the cause. Hull City’s meeting with Leicester on the pitch may have already been decided. Indeed it is difficult to envision a scenario where Hull City does any better than relegation fodder at this point. One thing, however, is clear: while the team may ultimately be defeated on the pitch, and the boardroom may remain blissfully ignorant of the reality of their situation, the fans who turn up every Saturday to sing and cheer and watch the club they love will not go down without a fight. http://wearehooligans.com/2016/08/04/hull-city-portrait-club-meltdown/
Dear Sir Slimy Toad Ehab Allam I have some information that I know you will cream your pants over: I am 58 and I am fit enough to get into the Hull Tigers team for the first match. Just pay my expenses and a free orange at half-time and I am all yours. 4 of my mates last played 5 years ago but they are solid lads and worth a gamble......Eric Shun (fades after an hour), Chopper in defence (you can axe him if he's ****) and Jack sofalott (he's **** but he's got a lot of spunk). My mate I. Feltersnatch is a bit of a **** but he's good in the hole. My boss is a ****er (a bit like yourself) and he wants to manage the team and that will save you more expense. Our lass said she would do the laundry. My kids can sell the programmes. My Aunt Gladys will bake the pies. Uncle Ernie can whip up some of his home brew. Our kid said he will clean the bogs. My ex will have no trouble selling the memberships cause she will give every member a bonus. Her name is Ivana Havesex ****ing sorted Ehab, you don't the poisened dwarf Zola or the welsh choir boy.
Would it pain you terribly to learn that those puns are the sort of thing you see in those gift shops in Magaluf with a risqué pic of a cartoon bloke with a hat over his knob?
Just saw a claim on Twitter that players/management leaving the club are being made to sign hush agreements to stop them from commenting.
fairly standard in business contracts nowadays that you don't talk about goings on etc - if you think about it if they did go somewhere else and start discussing what went on at the previous place then they would be rightly concerned that they might do it to them when they left in the future - which is why you don't here people singing like a bird all that often
The bloke who tweeted that has previously claimed that Robertson had agreed terms with West Ham and Snodgrass had agreed terms with Newcastle, I wouldn't read much into it. It's not uncommon for anyone being paid a settlement to sign a confidentiality agreement, I'd expect it to happen with anyone leaving any sort of management role at the club, I don't believe the players a subject to any such arrangement.
I would agree the membership scheme is a good idea, but as is usual with our ****wit owners, they have made a complete bollocks of implementing it. As far as I am aware, certainly over the last few seasons, you have been able to pay by direct debit over a period of time anyway, so I don't see that it makes a lot of difference.
Rebranding commercially can be massively benefits to a business, more so when you need to improve revenue. Just rebranding a football club never was going to work, less so when you strip your "brand" of its identity
It looks like the cock up with the new LED pitch-side boards will result in some people getting restricted views... please log in to view this image
It just gets worse and worse I half expect the team bus to pull up on match day, hear a bang and puff of smoke come from the back, before the wheels and doors fall off, followed by the players throwing buckets of glitter at fans. Oh wait, circus's are organised chaos
Rebranding was not a moronic idea in my personal view, it was just poorly researched and executed! To add insult to injury they excluded without exception all stakeholders to the process including the fans
