@city1904 I have it on the best authority that in our promotion year we had borrowed to the hilt in the effort to be promoted and if we had failed the problems we have recently suffered financially would of been repeated but 2 years earlier. (I know its easy to say we all have this or that access to info but I have nothing to gain by being a liar). Without promotion we were up swanny creek not only without a paddle but with a hole in the boat. We had no plan B. Love the pictures
not sure if this has been mentioned, as i really am too lazy to read everything..but brown and horton are at cottingham osc on March 7th.. i personally cant wait to meet and shake the hand of one of my footballing heroes.
Agreed. No one took the piss when he was here (I mean our own fans of course) yet now he's a massive laughing stock.
I like Brownie on Five-Live when he's on, he sounds a lot more relaxed and in control than he did when he was a manager, I hope he gets one last chance somewhere as a manager.
I've heard Brownie on 5 live recently and would agree with what you've said. Would Huddersfield take him perhaps?
Wouldn't surprise me the wages we must have handed to Okocha and Pedersen i bet weren't cheap. However i am not downgrading PB's achievements and his persona i do indeed like the man as a person and i wanted him to do well at Preston. However there was a clear reason no other club bar Preston would touch him. Yet i will go to that meeting that DJ has mentioned and thank him for what he did.
Everybody says PB was crazy with his tactics and his signings, but I didn't hear anybody complaining when said signings gave us wins against Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Fulham, Newcastle, Manchester City, Everton....... I don't understand why he is coming to the OSC meeting, he isn't anything to do with Hull City anymore but I suppose he is a part of the history.
Regarding how Phil Brown is now seen by Hull fans - at the time of us playing in the PL we did not know the full facts about finances, wonder if we would have reacted in our 1st PL season if we had known the true facts. Secondly the half-time pitch talk was ultra-embarrassing and a chairman with bigger balls may have removed him after that incident. thirdly lets not forget the Bullard/Barmby fight in front of WI members (Bullard should have been sold then). fourthly the humber bridge "suicide" incident - that made the club a laughing stock when it was discovered someone was being (to avoid any liable) economic with the truth. And to those who show PB with manager of the month awards - a number of managers have been sacked after recieving one. Find one with him as manager of the season. Phil Brown did well in getting us to the PL, as will Nicky Barmby soon (and our finances will be in far better shape, and I can see us staying in the PL for a large number of seasons when NB takes us to the "promised land")
He might be happy with just a media role now, who knows, he seems to be getting invited onto the radio enough anyway.
That's because people complain about him changing his tactics. The second PL season in particular you could tell as soon as the team was announced whether it was going to be a good performance or a bad one.
What do Hull FC fans have to do with anything? In all seriousness though, I read this forum quite a lot and there are a lot of good points made from posters. But the amount of 'Premiership' fans on here is unbelievable. Real city fans call us city. New fans call us Hull because thats what the press refered to us as when we where in the premiership. Sorry that my first post is a rant but it really pisses me off.
Brownie was just on Five Live saying Arsenal had no plan B, C, or D, today, couldn't agree more- maybe his second coming will be in the media then, there are lots worse than him working as pundits.
I agree and unlike some pundits he has some experience of dealing with tactics, problem players and being a manager...... And he always has something interesting to say.
