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Plum said:
Aren't there rules about fielding what might look like a deliberately weakened team? The Barnsleys, Charltons and Hudds of this world might take exception to that.
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Five kids and six who aren't out of contract end of season? Put those not fit to wear the shirt on the bench.
 
there’s a bit of media attention around the club at the minute, With the athletic article and the clubs response. Also last nights defeat and how we react will be looked at. Whilst I see some of the points not to protest I remember a while ago people saying there wasn’t enough media attention around the club which would have helped a protest. So maybe this is a good time
 
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Last night's performance by the players was of course unacceptable. I dont know what the hell was going on with them. But I maintain the root cause, which is what I said, rests firstly with the Allams and secondly with McCann and Byrne. Their players, their playing philosophy (ha ha), their selections, their tactics, their coaching, their fault there's no leaders and experience on the pitch, their fault we have no RB, their fault they use basically the same set up defeat after defeat, their fault the manager stands emotionless on the touchline, etc etc. Chickens came home to roost last night.
Beyond that, name the players who don't try? Wilks and Bowler (or insert Samuelsen or Scott) who don't battle back .... is it them, all four of them, or is it instructions / set up? LDS who again looked utterly lost .... until the system changed 2nd half when he then seemed to know what his role was? JDW, lauded as great choice as captain only recently? (never a captain). No-one can say Honeyman, Elder, Batty, Magennis, Eaves, KLP, dont try or care (some may be not very good but effort isnt the issue). Honeyman ran his socks off again, but like a headless chicken BUT that's clearly the role he's been given, with free reign left, right centre, up top, picking balll up deep ... confusing the hell out of his team mates as they don't know where the hell he and they should be, but that's how McCann set his role. Even Pennington (poor) and Burke (shot of confidence) tried. Name names and state why, rather than simply stating a lame generic "players aren't trying or don't care"'.
No leadership, no Ash to bang heads, nothing from the touchline no belief in the system, devoid of confidence.
The blame rests with Allams and McCann.
Having said all that, it's still hard to accept that there aren't at least a couple of players flipping their lid on the pitch, but I guess it comes back to us having an horrendously unbalanced assembly of players (as in no leaders, experience, hard men, etc) that Enob and McCann have put together. Their incompetence is staggering.
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
Last night's performance by the players was of course unacceptable. I dont know what the hell was going on with them. But I maintain the root cause, which is what I said, rests firstly with the Allams and secondly with McCann and Byrne. Their players, their playing philosophy (ha ha), their selections, their tactics, their coaching, their fault theres no leaders and experience on the pitch, their fault we have no RB, their fault they use basically the same set up defeat after defeat, their fault the manager stands emotionless on the touchline, etc etc. Chickens came home to roost last night.
Beyond that, name the players who don't try? Wilks and Bowler (or insert Samuelsen or Scott) who don't battle back .... is ig them, all four of them, or instructions ,/ set up? LDS who again looked utterly lost .... until the system changed 2nd half when he then seemed to know what his role was? JDW, lauded as great choice as captain only recently? (never a captain). No-one can say Honeyman, Elder, Batty, Magennis, Eaves, KLP, dont try or care (some may be not very good but effort isnt the issue). Honeyman ran his socks off again, but like a headless chicken BUT thats clearly the role hes been given, free reign left, right centre, up top, picking balll up deep ... confusinv the hell out of his team mates as they dont know where he and they should be but thats how McCann set his role. Even Pennington (crap) and Burke (shot of confidence) tried. Name names and state why rather than lame generic 'players arent trying or dont care'.
No leadership, no Ash to bang heads, nothing from the touchline no belief in the sydtem, devoid of confidence.
The blame rests with Allams and McCann.
Having said that, its still hard to accept that there aren't at least a couple of players flippin their lid on the pitch but I guess it comes back to an horrendously unbalanced assembly of players (as in no leaders, experience, hard men, etc) that Enob and McCann have put together. Their incompetence is staggering.
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This is a good post
 
originallambrettaman said:
If anyone unfamiliar with the going’s on at Hull City over recent years, asks you to explain, just send them this...

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Great job ..... but even then doesn't tell the full story (Airco arena, failures to consult, no shows, broken promises, bizarre staged interviews, HCC emblem, removal of pictures at KCom, repeated forced seat moves, ...... )!!
 
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On Saturday, Hull City supporters are plotting to kick balls into the KCOM Stadium in protest against the running of their club.

Any fan whose boot lands in the vicinity of the opposition goal will be doing better than their team managed during Tuesday's 8-0 humiliation at Wigan, the club's worst defeat in 109 years and one that has sparked a fresh uprising against the owners, the Allam family...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...lls-8-0-thrashing-Wigan-long-time-coming.html
 
I'm not sure whether anyone is really thinking of protesting on Saturday, but if so, I'd like to plead with them not to, and to explain why.
There seems to be among some an attitude that a) It really doesn't matter if we get relegated and /or b) We have no chance on Saturday anyway - so why not go and protest even if it has a negative effect on the team.
Having supported this club for over 50 years, I've seen us get relegated to the third tier twice. On both occasions I thought maybe we would bounce back quite quickly. On both occasions we eventually left that tier to go down to the bottom tier and ended up in administration. League one next season, presumably in front of locked doors and very little TV money, is not something to welcome.
As for Saturday's game, I've also seen suggestions we should just play the kids - they cant do worse than eight nil. We need to do a lot better than lose eight-nil. We need to win. We're playing a battle hardened Luton side who are fighting for their lives. We need players who earlier in the season we were all enthusing about (Long, Burke, De Wijs, DaSilva , etc) to turn up determined to win and to put Tuesday's abject surrender behind them - not a bunch of kids.

I want rid of the Allams as much as anyone. But any protest which even to the slightest degree deflects from the goal of winning a football match on Saturday which could dictate the future of this club, is not going to achieve anything positive. Plenty of other opportunities will arise.
 
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The theory that the owners are happy for relegation are manifest with the decision to retain Terry's services. They wish to run the club on a shoestring budget that will have us in the national league before a return to the championship, while they continue to take money out, until that runs out, which can't be far away.
 
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