Seen the three home games now after staying away for 2 years. Thoughts.... The ground is in a poor state - paint peeling off most of the internal concourse steels. It's sad to see large sections of the ground empty, it could and should be so different. The squad, although lacking depth, appears to have good hunger and spirit. Slutsky is a character, glad we never got Monk, this is more exciting. We have had 19 goals in our five league games F12 A7, so games are quite exciting, and good to bet on! Compare this to Preston, one place above us on 8 points, they have scored twice and conceded once all season, yawn. The standard of the Championship so far looks poor to me, just a bit of investment in our squad should give us a genuine chance of play offs at least. Thankfully even with the squad we have now relegation seems very unlikely (hope no one copies this in a post in May 2018). So a mixed bag so far, positives and negatives on and off the field. Lets see what unfolds before the transfer window closes, keeping hold of Grosciki and now Bowen, is key for me.
I'm sorry to say it is not lack of interest in Hull City for me these days its the dissolutionment with football as a whole, its sad, as I can take it or leave it, whereas years ago I would have lapped up every morsel of football news, action, transfers, the whole lot. But now I just shake my head at yet another multi million pound transfer and wonder when the wheels came off this whole charade parading as a sport I once idolised.
Still like youth football and pub games played by people spending money to play the game they love and enjoying it more than the unappreciative prima donnas earning a fortune from playing.
I think you have to try and not think about it ref. Bobby Robson was going to a game only a few days before he passed away. Greatest game in the world. FACT bit broad brush Castro. Ronaldo seems hated by a lot as a prima Donna but he's one of the most dedicated driven sportsmenof any era. And a massive talent.
Yes, I should have put too many to be more accurate. Was reading an interview with Mark Hughes this morning. He is someone whose love of the game shines through. Agree about the greatest game in the world. Quite a few in Hull, lead by Gollum, would disagree.
Best footballer there has ever been IMO. Real Madrid stats are....unreal......285 goals in 265 appearances since 2009.
I agree about Bobby Robson Chazz, but there again he was 'old school' he taught Jose Mourinho much about coaching, and yes maybe the greatest game in the world to a heck of a lot of people, but there again so is Formula 1, American Football, Tennis, Golf etc to name a few. Football was sacred to me at one time, and that meant defending Hull City AFC for many a year when in the 3rd division and, shall we say, struggling post Harold Needler era, against constant sarcasm from the Black & Whites and Red & Whites, it was a relief when Hull got thrashed in 2 consecutive finals at the old Wembley around 1950/60. I don't begrudge them their bit of glory now but I don't see any way back for football from ever spirlling transfer fees and its my belief that the 'elite' of many European football associations will one day create their own super league with all the massive TV rights and revenue to leave everyone else behind.
Being unable to catch the games lives leaves me following SSN if I can get a feed, shame it's not on Freeview anymore. The BT version is ****, all PL & nothing more. Tried watching it last week, but couldn't. Most of the games I've just followed on SkySports.com & even last night, I only checked briefly during it & after the game I read the report. I do enjoy the ups & downs of the Championship, but lack of coverage is a major let down. I aren't going to fork out for the live commentary on our site or waste my time trying to set up the Ifollow thing, so it'll just be the televised games & any game I can get to that I'll watch, the rest will be just whatever I can get. I'm still not hooked like normal, but it's starting to get me again!
I got told off by the mrs for pushing number two daughter in the pool for tackling me today I love it.
I don't hate Ronaldo He's an incredible player, consistently, and seems to do good things away from the game too Fair play to him
I agree with all that...apart from the bit about Formula 1 It's driving round in circles...basically it's the rich owners playing Scalextric Literally the most boring pastime I can think of (watching it that is) People who like it are not allowed an opinion on actually sport Apart from that you're spot on
I blame that pair of greedy bastards Alf Common and Johnny Haynes for the ills of modern day-football! Football has changed and will continue to change, the only thing that doesn't change is fans thinking football of yesteryear was better, they're mistaken. I have little doubt that in thirty years time the fans watching football will hanker for 'the good old days', they'll also be in error. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I take your point on Formula 1 Dennis, I have no interest in it, but then I used to go to Caldwell Park and Olivers Mount to watch motorbikes going round and rounds so a bit hypocritical of me in a way.
I'm afraid I would never imply that all the football played back in those halcyon days (to me) was superior to today's offering as have mentioned on the History thread how I spent many a miserable hour on Bunkers Hill/South Stand pissing wet through watching some dire games. What I will say though is that when a match was good it was far superior to the offerings of today even with the banal stats of passes, assist, how many times they picked their nose or scratched their arse, weird.
The driver in F1 is completely immaterial, as demonstrated by the FACT that Button wasn't considered good enough to get a drive for any team until Braun launched theirs and next thing he was world champion. And in what other sport is the equipment used by a team so instrumental in the result? Joe Root doesn't get a more technologically advanced ****ing bat. They might as well make the cars self driving.
They should really go the full hog and let the teams design the car then get Google to race them all using the same self driving technology Then keep quiet about it so it doesn't clutter up the proper sports pages
Football is great as a participation sport but as a spectator sport it isn't that great. It's very cheap to participate as you don't need much equipement. However the officiating in it can have a very disproportionate impact on results with decisions like penalties and sendings off, and that also encourages cheating.
Turns out it's not just us, this season Fiorentina have sold fewer season tickets than they did in the fourth division. http://app.football-italia.net/?ref...t#article/footballitalia-108852&menu=news-all
