Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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Mckechnie Orange said:
To be fair there is a bit more to do in Hull on a weekend than in Suffolk and Norfolk where the options are basically footie and shagging your cousin.
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Come on Orange. It's hardly the glittering west end. How is Mrs Orange? Have you rekindled the flame after her indiscretion with your pal?
 
Summerof69 said:
I caught the tail end of those big crowds but also the periods where we struggled to muster 5k home attendances due to the dire straits we were in and the equally dire football on display. A lot of those fans that drifted away then, wouldn’t have brought their kids/grandkids and so a lot of that legacy was lost.
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I was there during all of that. At one time I had been in 9 of our 10 lowest ever crowds. My wife was with me in our second ever lowest league crowd of 2,037, or something like that.Down to7 of them now as missed a couple of midweek ones when working shifts. Pleased to say both my kids are City fans despite us leaving Hull before they started school and them being surrounded by kids with usual big teams shirts on. And I didn’t force it on them. Took them to matches when they were little. But they both decided you should support your local club, one you can go see, rather than one you have no connection with from your armchair. Whenever they have done something which had me in despair down the years I think at least I am not a total failure as a parent,they both support City.<laugh> I remember going in the pub when we got off train after playing Cardiff and going back up to the PL my lad telling a load at the bar that they could go on about Man Utd and Liverpool for the rest of the lives but they would never experience the feeling he had just had watching his home town club get promoted. I can think of 4 lads around same age as me, 3 of them now deceased but but saw all their kids who are the same ages as my two on the train back from City last season.
 
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Off The Line said:
Having been born and raised in the Ipswich area as a Hull fan, my local options were pretty much limited to the latter.
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I have always liked Ipswich for convoluted reasons since 1959. Theirs, .Hearts and Fiorentiina are the results I always look for after City, all for different reasons,
 
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BlackAndAmberGambler said:
It’s almost getting to the point where we are going to need a bigger ground capacity. If our fan base carries on growing like the last year or so, we are either going to have to expand, disappoint several people or move.
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I'd be delighted to be proven wrong and see it happen(fan base continuing to grow) but I very much doubt there'll be the requirement to expand or move.We drew big crowds towards the tail end of last season due to the Club making large reductions to match day ticket prices and giving tickets away..
 
Jezz511 said:
Kings Lynn is one of the most boring places on earth. Feel like people underestimate Hull a bit until you see some other **** places.

Quite like Banham zoo though
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Had a good night out there om way back from Norwich. Probably because we hsd beatem them 3-0 in the Cup and numped into some Ipswich fans who insisted on buying drinks.
 
HCAFCHangout said:
Its been said on here about the current regime's plan is to keep prices low and get the proverbial bums on seats. So far thats working and I would imagine as long as the team performs well it would stay the same. Christ we had a couple drab draws and gates still exceeded 20k late in the season.

With the top notch catering at the minute and increased gates I can only imagine game day spending has sky rocketed. This coupled with supposed sponsorship deals from abroad means we can manage for now. I would imagine over time the club will slowly increase ticket prices and I dont think anyone would begrudge them given its already one of the lowest. The fact is this fanbase was destroyed and yes whilst everyone was affected by COVID it hit clubs like ours harder when the fanbase was already at an all time low prior to it.

There's a clear plan and it wont happen overnight. But again to compare us to clubs with established fanbases that have been well run despite their on the pitch success (and again I would argue Norwich have been far more successful than us in the past couple years) is silly.

Clubs like Boro and Norwich can charge what they want. They know the fans will pay it and if they dont they have money in the bank to fall back on especially for Norwich who still have 2 years of parachute left. We have to build it back and then think about increasing it.
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I completely agree with you post but in today's game I don't think it's a massive deal. Hypothetically, even if we had an extra 10,000 members who spent £300 each, it's only an extra £3m. You can blow that easily on a few **** signings.

Recruitment is pretty much the be all and end all. When you can sell a good youngish Championship player for 8 figures, the strategy of 3/4 of the league seems stupidly clear to me.
 
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Shark Sports said:
I completely agree with you post but in today's game I don't think it's a massive deal. Hypothetically, even if we had an extra 10,000 members who spent £300 each, it's only an extra £3m. You can blow that easily on a few **** signings.

Recruitment is pretty much the be all and end all. When you can sell a good youngish Championship player for 8 figures, the strategy of 3/4 of the league seems stupidly clear to me.
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for us in the championship without parachute its a bit of a bigger deal but otherwise I agree
 
Whilst we are waiting for our signings... Harry Kane has apparently agreed personal terms with Bayern... whether that means Tottenham will have their hand forced who knows... meanwhile Harry Winks looks like signing for Leicester..
 
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