First we need to make the playoffs, then relax & take them! If we don't, it's not a disaster as some would make out, yes it won't be easy, but a new manager, new players & new hope! We're due another Parkinson/Pearson to unearth some up & coming players & bring through some kids. They **** up, we **** them off & appoint someone that can utilise them into challengers! ****ing that simple!
Realistically, if we did get promoted, I think that Bruce would want to ride out his contract (and the Allams would likely let him), because as it is I think the managerial roundabout isn't going to let him get off at any premiership club in the near future, if at all and we know he thinks he deserves to be with the 'big boys' - oh and he would likely be given another £40 million to spend. So, together with a group of players that he cannot motivate in this division with a £5 million promotion bonus chest, if we miss out on promotion, so be it, I would be happy for a new Hull City to emerge. New ideas, new impetus. What I would hate, is for us to go into the premiership and get mullered 4-0, 5-0, every week. I would also like to be proved wrong, but I can't see it unfortunately.
It was a wonderful achievement and a lifelong dream for me to see Hull City in the English Premier league. Since then of course we have come down to earth with a mighty bang. We have finished 17th, Relegated, 16th and Relegated in our 4 seasons in "The Promised Land". We Won 32, Drew 41 and Lost 79. We scored 144 goals and had 243 scored against us. Not one of our players managed to reach double figures for goal-scoring in any one of those seasons. No 'quality' player seemed to want to join us. We were plagued by injuries and all the "Messiah's" we brought in to save us fizzled out like damp squibs. I didn't enjoy the Premier League experience very much and I believe it is going to take a different owner to Mr Allam and a Manager who has the pulling power to attract the quality players needed at that level to survive. I might yet see it.
The difference between Hull City, Arsenal, Man City, Utd and Chelsea is that those four clubs are expected to win at least one trophy every season and they all have a long tradition of doing so over a very long time. Meanwhile Hull City fans on here who are only seeing the club in this position for the 3rd time in 112 years some how think we have a god given right to be not only running away with the title but doing it in style. Take a reality check fellas. This is as good as it gets and as good as its ever been.
You're missing the point. Certainly I am not expecting City to run away with the title, let along do it in style, because we don't do things that way. i.e. Typical City. But to be serving up the standard of football recently seen is far from a remarkable achievement and it is you that needs a reality check chap. The standard of players we have seen through the years is not a patch on the squad of internationals we now have. 'All' that one expects from them is to play to the standard they are capable of. They are not doing that and are underachieving dramatically. Simple as. And it is still likely that we will get through the play offs and win at Wembley.
FFS. How many more times have we been 4th in the Championship at this time of the season ? once, twice ? in 112 years ? And your splitting hairs over it.
Didn't answer my question. 4th in the Championship is 'as good as its ever been'? Pretty sure we've been in the Premier League for four seasons.
.... Reminder, the season isn't over yet. And just think if we do get through the Play Offs and win at Wembley, as you seem to fear, how **** we will we be ? Reality check chap ? What's that then ?
.. 4th in the Championship is pretty good in my opinion. I'm satisfied with it. I would have liked automatic promotion, I would have liked a title having only seen one in my 50 odd years supporting City, and that was only the 3rd division title. But so would every other fan of every club in this league bar the two who will win automatic promotion. In context ( again) 112 year history, 4 years in the Premier League, three serious shots at promotion from the old division two and the other 100 odd years spent bouncing up and down the lower leagues. So, evened out, 4th in the Championship is as good as it's ever been, unless you want to split hairs over it.
When this sort of slump in form happens I always find myself wondering it it's not caused by some of the players not actually wanting promotion deep down as they know they are not Premiership calibre. In these cases they know that once promoted they will either be released or transfer listed by the club, which may mean no job or having to accept worse terms with another club, while if they have a few years left on their current contract they know they can sit it out & cruise along with their current club in the Championship
is it just me or are you all optimistic? mid table mediocrity ? you sound like Leeds fans! "were better than that!"..................... obviously not, thats why were gonna finish 3rd or 4th.................... "YAY playoffs !"
every player is arrogant enough to think they can play in PL.. so I dont think your argument holds true. which player thinks "oh Im not good enough"?
In context, our current squad is a better squad than the ones we've had in our previous 4 seasons at this level, yet we're looking like this season we'll finish off worse than we did in 2 of those seasons. There's no expectation of a god given right to win the league, there's an expectation that our best squad of players will ****ing well play like we all know they can. The fact that if they did we would be walking the league is a consequence of that ability, not the cause of us thinking it's there.
