So with Ash Lord moving roles has anyone got any insight on what's going on there? I'm out of the loop these days due to the protest but would be interested to know. I wonder if they're actually chucking some money at it for once and getting someone with actual appropriate experience? I don't know why I asked that actually, we all know the answer... It does beg a serious question of why we're happy to double the wages of an experienced EPL player like Shane Long yet we pay any non playing staff absolute peanuts?
Sorry to derail this one slightly but when the dust settles will anyone at the club realise just what an enormous commercial opportunity they have spurned with the Cup Final? A few low quality tacky items appear with a week to go...... Underwheming. The corporation too seem either incapable or unwilling to celebrate the team's historic achievement, either for the city's benefit or their own. Between them, a sad, sad state of affairs. In 2008 we had a real wave of enthusiasm, a synergetic pride and feel good factor, a city draped in black and amber. Now there is a palpable standoffishness around. Hope the club can sort itself out commercially one day but they've missed the boat big time in 2014.
It's not that derailed and it comes under the second part of my post. You get what you pay for and the non-playing staff work exceptionally hard, are hugely committed and under staffed but at the top, say in Marketing or Commercial, you need someone ****ing good who is experienced and well paid. Is it a shock therefore that when you don't do that this is the outcome?
I get the impression that there is no heart and soul at the club, no one (higher up)who actually supports the club and feels the pride, excitement like the fans do. They seem to go through the motions reluctantly and reactively.
Do you remember all the banners on the lamp posts etc, all generating an excitement in the city. Now neither party ( council/Allams) want to do anything that might help the other. The other issue, marketing, is an absolute joke. I despair at the enormous opportunity they have missed. Its a disgrace.
I think back to Adam Pearson when he was in sole charge of the club. He would have ensured the club exploited Wembley for all it was worth. To be fair even Duffen would. The club shop is an embarrassment and this is all a missed opportunity by the club. The lack of a decent chief executive is there for all to see. and there is a patent lack of real football people at the club. Nick Thompson, hopeless as he was, hasn't been replaced and we need someone in that role who can get on with running the club effectively.
If you arrived at Paragon Station or by road, you'd have no indication that we were a week away from playing in the Cup Final. Civic pride anyone? The club belongs to the city whether owners like it or not.
[video=youtube;FYaN85YgQPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYaN85YgQPk[/video] It's our 110th anniversary this year- did you know? I bet it has never occurred to anyone at the club that this is a milestone to celebrate or make money out of. For the current owners, our history only started in 2010. Hellas Verona- a smallish club in Serie A - managed to mark their 110th with this ad for a gala civic/ football night in the city's Roman arena. Should we expect a '110' keyring?
Ash is clued up lad, if he was left to get on with doing his job(rather than spending half his time stopping anyone getting a microphone anywhere near AA), then he'd be of great benefit to the club. His replacement is currently being sought, the job is advertised at £20-25k a year. Ash is taking up a new role within the academy set-up, but I don't really know what that role is.
I suppose for the area £20-25k is an average salary, but for that position and the football industry, that seems somewhat underpaid to me!
Yep, it's f**king pathetic for a head of media position at a club / company high up in a billion pound industry. Aston Villa's equivalent is on a 6 figure salary and that won't be the exception. The going rate for area is irrelevant and means we will only get people from the area applying rather than someone with applicable experience. What's the job title btw?
I went on the Tigers online shop and clicked on ladies wear. One pair of jogging bottoms and 2 tee shirts to choose from. I was quite amazed overall at the lack of stuff for Wembley, what there was is like everyone has described "tacky" and oh those tee-shirts with the tiger/cup design. What a disaster. I am hoping that this week we will start to see some excitement and build up. I note next Friday night Look Lincolnshire (ooops sorry Look North) is coming live from Wembley Way.
You see that's weird, Ash was / is the main media guy and the title should reflect that. Is it perhaps a way to get around paying more for the role?
The lack of civic pride is appalling. We even had EYMS buses in the club colours in 2008. This year....................nothing. Yet we continually hear from all the 'experts' how much the clubs success is worth to the local economy. Compare this negativity to the trumpet blowing from the same council when Luke Campbell (local boxer) won a gold medal. And I'm trying not to go down the rugby league route again, but it has to be said if either of our two rugby league clubs had achieved even a fraction of the national and worldwide coverage City have this season, by reaching a major Cup Final and playing at Wembley twice and maybe three times in one year. Plus the huge benefits to the region from qualifying for Europe for the first time in the club's history which in itself will propel Hull as a tourist destination from Europe to heights never witnessed before, Steve Brady would be stood on the Guildhall steps in his chosen rugby league replica shirt, waving a massive flag and shouting how great we are from a massive megaphone. But it remains the enormous elephant in the room. And it's time it changed.
It's the clubs and/or owners responsibility to make the City and local businesses take pride in this achievement? ****ing hell, even for you Aggie, that's ****ing ******ed. Local businesses, if they gave 1 **** about the club and the fans would need absolutely no encouragement to display an outpouring of pride in the City's football team during this auspicious time. Blaming the owners is deluded and small minded. Maybe Hull is a Rugby Town after all eh?
It wasn't a rugby town last night was it ? 10,000 crowd for a visit of the league champions and the biggest club in the sport? The stand-off and cold shoulder treatment between club and council is creating a sterile atmosphere. Both should be working hand in hand for the benefit of club and city. I doubt if Hull City Council even have a representative at the Cup Final. Which if true is a disgraceful lack of respect because they have never missed the opportunity to show of the mayoral chains at a rugby league final.
I doubt there's another club in the Premier League that wouldn't have an FA Cup final billboard up in the city centre, reminding everyone of what an achievement this is. And not allowing any other retailer to stock City merchandise is ridiculous. The fall-out with the council continues to damage the club and it's pathetic, even if we win the bloody thing the open top bus isn't allowed to finish at the city hall.
