1. Where on earth to start with Saturday’s appalling spectacle? City and Reading served up about us dismally tepid a fixture as you could ever want not to see. If we’ve seen a worse game of football in the past decade, then mercifully our minds have erased it. It was truly, almost memorably awful. 2. City did show at least a modicum of attacking intent, unlike Reading. They should be absolutely ashamed of turning up to a side as poor and off-form as ours and sitting back for a draw – and no, two first-half injuries aren’t an excuse for that. They were pathetic, and if that negativity comes back to bite them on the arse in May, good. It deserves to. 3. That City couldn’t break down a side – a poor side – with no particular interest in moving forward is damning. Nigel Adkins may have sorted out the defence, as two successive clean sheets indicates, but it’s coming at a high price. We need wins, quite a few of them, and rather quickly; but this cautious approach doesn’t suggest they’re coming any time soon. 4. We go to Sunderland this weekend, and if they beat us, we could end the day joint bottom of the Championship, spared the immeasurable ignominy of 24th place only by our deceptively superior goal difference. This is a worst case scenario, as both Burton and Birmingham have to visit sides in the top ten of the Championship, but let’s not rely alone on City to actively avoid it – after all, Sunderland were bottom of the table when they all too comfortably beat us twice in the Premier League last season and for all their troubles, are equipped enough to do it again. 5. Meanwhile, there were almost certainly fewer than 12,000 in attendance on Saturday. How long before our first 11,000 crowd? And relegation or not, could 2018 see the Circle’s first four-figure home attendance for a League game? 6. Sky Sports – who may be regretting this decision in light of the Reading non-event – have chosen to televise our home game with Sheffield United next month. The Nottingham Forest fixture earlier this season saw many take the opportunity to broadcast our distaste for the Allams’ abysmal behaviour to the nation. If they refuse to act properly during the present transfer window and refuse to restore the club’s name and concessions, it’s easy to imagine a repeat, and very possibly on a larger scale. Their move. 7. City have tabled a bid for Aberdeen’s Scott McKenna to the tune of £800,000, which the Scottish side has turned down. Reports now say that City’s follow-up offer is valued at, er, £800,000. Presumably while stifling laughter and shrugging shoulders, Aberdeen have not surprisingly rejected this too. In what world does Ehab Allam live in whereby he thinks he can persuade any party to give him what he wants without actually spending the requisite cash? Aberdeen must think we’re run by an idiot. And maybe, just maybe… 8. What odds on him offering one final bid of £400,000? How long before Nigel Adkins realises he’s been taken for a mug? 9. Forest at home in the FA Cup. It’s often the case that an unexciting draw leaves one scrabbling for positives. And here’s ours: it’s winnable, and means we’ve a chance of making the fifth round. That’s about it though. 10. Have you seen the state of the ‘branding guidelines‘ supplied to HCST by the club? One page of hopelessly amateurish nonsense dated 2014/15, that has taken them months to provide. It does confirm a few things we already suspected though: 1) The now departed Tom Rowell’s assertion that there was no standing directive to not use Hull City AFC was a flat out lie. 2) The current round of fan consultation is an exercise in futility. 3) Ehab Allam’s self image does not correspond to reality. He clearly thinks he’s a brilliant, leftfield thinker, yet has no insight into how stupid he looks with each action or utterance. When you acknowledge that the ‘Governing Bodies and Media’ don’t use your inconsistent preferred branding, you’re acknowledging your own failure and lack of business nous. http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2018/01/things-we-think-we-think-288/
Agreed, it's negativity and cynicism for the sake of it, not the best result but it was an improved performance and a step in the right direction.
I thought our display was inept and rubbish considering the magnitude of the game. They could have won it twice with two free headers and would of summed up our dour accident prone ridden season.
I thought nil-nil was a fair reflection of the game, but only because minus-one-all isn’t an option available on the vidiprinter.
Just had a look on Sweaty Chat and they're calling us all the ****s re Scott McKenna. http://www.afc-chat.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=41202&page=15
At last minute I went on Saturday and wished I had stayed at home and watched some slow drying paint go hard. I thought Bruce was negative but at least we were playing some good football. One up front at home is never going to work against a team that's set up to hold out for a 0-0 draw and try and pinch a goal (as they nearly did but thankfully Greggs double save came to the rescue) Football is an entertainment business and at £27 to sit and freeze in a outside library you can keep. I will not be rushing back anytime soon . Crowds will soon drop to 4 figures although the creative accounting of the owners will keep it in 5 figures
I listened to it on Viking 2, whilst ripping my arms and face to shreds trying to extricate 30 years of ivy growth from a bramble-infested hawthorn hedge. It sounded like I had more fun than going to watch the game.
Ehaw will not be bullied or blackmailed. He has the moral high ground. I guess many before me have requested a '****er' emoji and been refused.
Haven't we struggled for years to break down any team that sits back? Under Bruce we were much better on the break.
Depends what people are basing it on calling it an improved performance , one thing we were actually decent at under sluts is playing struggling teams at home ,
Yep, the one reason we ain't bottom is we smashed Bolton burton and birmingham at home Drew with sunderland The bad news is We still have burton, birmingham and sunderland to play away
There's some right dross down at the bottom of the Championship (including us). Could be a season whereby a relatively low number of points keep you up. Which is good news for us.
Ha. We made this list which is sponsored by an anti-suicide charity. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/6-most-depressing-clubs-to-support/vi-AAuDF7C?ocid=HPCDHP
