What it shows (IMO) is that almost every club has/will have its own worries concerning identity, ownership, finance, etc.
When football fans up here ask me why the fans of my beloved home city are so upset about the name change (you'd be surprised how many of them initially think it's a great big fuss about nowt) I just say what if the name of your club was changed to Newcastle Magpies or Sunderland Black Cats. Incredulity follows. Well that will never happen they say. Before the cold dawn of realisation. If one club changes then others will start to name change like dominoes. One F'ing United, you can only have one F'ing United. Suddenly the beautiful game becomes akin to American Football, Baseball, One Day Cricket or God forbid Rugby League.
That it's all about his ego and nothing else and he shows little respect for supporters, and that he makes himself a laughing stock. Also some of them don't seem to realise he's lent rather than given money to the club and is earning interest on all that.
Quite right. Given the background, if I was a Councillor, I'd be tempted to publicly announce support for the name change just for the head meld it'd give Assam.
I was chatting about the name change to my Leeds United supporting mate yesterday, (yeah I do have one or two mates that support Leeds if I dare admit it). He said "Hull Tigers does actually sound quite cool". So I said "how about Leeds Peacocks, what do you reckon?"..... After a bit of debate we finally settled on Leeds United Thugs and Hull City Psychos as the new names for both our clubs! On the basis that it would improve marketability in inner-city gangland areas.
I don't know if it's his ego, to me it's all about trying to disassociate them self's from council which I can understand why. But Allam's also have a point about having tiger in the name to attract sponsors, it doesn't take much of a search to find quite a few Large companies with tiger in the name
Yep. I heard some twat on Talksport late last night suggesting it might not be such a bad thing, and saying that having the club colours changed would be worse. Going on about how he saved the club (which he almost certainly has) and how he's pumped in so much money and we should be happy for that (he has, and we are), and a name change might not be such a bad thing. Like all observers unconnected to the club though, there was absolutely no addressing of the main issue: that is, that the name change idea is purely and simply on account of the Council refusing to sell him the stadium and land around it, and that there is absolutely no evidence that the name change would make any difference whatsoever to investment. ****ing annoys me when ****s like this pass comment.
It's not just the stadium issue, the Allam's own some old buildings and wanted to convert them into flats or something but the council refused planning permission. To be honest you should be directing your anger at the council for holding the club back.
The Council can't just refuse planning permission on a whim. They'd get hammered by the Planning Inspectorate if there was a whiff of that. Applications get knocked back when the applicant can't demonstrate they meet the relevant national criteria.
The Council knocked the flats back because the building is right in the middle of an industrial area. It was in the Dull Daily about it.
It was more the proposed new development that went with it that lacked detail. The flats themselves would probably have been okay. Page 9. https://www.hullcc.gov.uk/padcbc/publicaccess-live/files/7ACCF3BE64F2A7B5714B7FD715C88D7B/pdf/10_00614_FULL-COMMITTEE_REPORT-478021.pdf
And therein lies a massive hole in Mr Allam's 'textbook' marketing' statement. The name 'Hull Tigers' would not provide a USP (unique selling point). It would actually provide what might be described as an RSP (restrictive selling point), as the club would effectively be making a declaration of restricting their marketing activity to the limited number of companies with 'Tiger' in their name, or with some kind of tenuous link to Tigers. The vast majority of companies have no link to Tigers whatsoever. It's not 'textbook marketing' at all. It's the kind of theory that a first year student might come up with, and probably swiftly dismiss.
the humberside tigers...................effin ell!!!! p.s.a mate of mine from shefield like hull tigers and would like shef wed to go back to there original name of wednesday!!!!
