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MattTheTiger said:
I don't know about the signings olm. Hunt, altidore, bullard, king, geo, zayatte, pederson, okocha, campbell and deano were all decent signings. The rest were either dire or questionable. His man management skills were awful though. Having players sit on the naughty step whenever they spoke out was just comical. Tbh though, Brown should've had till the end of the season and then have got sacked.
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Or, he should have been made to walk in late Dec./early Jan., once another manager had been lined up!
 
originallambrettaman said:
I don't know anyone who thinks Brownies departure was well timed, or anyone who wanted to see Dowie take his place, so I think we all agree on that particular issue.

But the reality remains, that overall Brownies signings were poor, his man management skills were poor, his results were poor and though the timing was bad and I think he'd have done a better job than Dowie, I still think we'd have gone down and I don't think that results were the main reason he went.
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Actually, I thought it was reasonably well timed, and I was extatic to see Dowie take over, just a shame it didn't work out I'd have loves for him to still be here now! Although we are looking very good under Pearson, so yeah time will tell.
 
midlands_tiger said:
Actually, I thought it was reasonably well timed, and I was extatic to see Dowie take over, just a shame it didn't work out I'd have loves for him to still be here now! Although we are looking very good under Pearson, so yeah time will tell.
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I suspect you'll be in the minority, I don't know anyone else who didn't think the Dowie appointment was an unmitigated disaster.

You didn't vote for Stacey big nose on the Babes 5 did you? :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
sagegee tiger said:
After the initial "Honeymoon Period" when we went up to the PL (i.e., till Jan. ,09),which was roughly when the top teams found out we were a "one trick pony", and Brown showed he had no other ideas on how to "surprise" them, we died our slow death in the PL. Brown did not keep us up in the '08/'09 season other teams results (or rather, lack of!) kept us up there( ask any NUFC whining bastard!),
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We beat every team below us, we deserved to stay up. Even if we were the 17th best team in the league.

which, come the '09/10 season was like watching a favourite family member slowly die from cancer. Brown had come to believe the hype, that had been spun about him in the media, or, he would/should have resigned earlier than when he was pushed. If he had thought more of the Club, than his own public persona, he would have stepped aside soon after it became clear, to the fans in general, that he did not have any way of combating the other teams in the PL from ****ting on us from a great height, week in week out till the last game of the season, when The Tigers left the top fight of football in the UK, not with a roar, but, with a whimper.
The decision to appoint Dowie will always be seen to have been a mistake, but who else could/would have taken on such a task at such a late point in the season? He was the Doctor brought in to switch off the life support machines. The management did not have a clue, the players did not have the impetus, to turn things around on the pitch during matches, and the Owner/s took too long to get rid of the failing management team, to give the Club a lifeline early enough to make a difference.
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You speak like we had no chance of staying up which is obviously wrong, we had every chance of staying up, wins against Burnley and Sunderland would have seen us do it, not to mention away games against Portsmouth and Wigan. Sacking Brown was a daft decision, AP clearly never thought about who he could replace Brown with and as a result plunged us into further financial trouble.

At least now, with the new owners, a new, and vibrant, management team, and, some young, hungry, and, exciting players we have started moving in the right direction now. Most fans have a new optimism prior to, and, after matches ( win, lose or draw!) on where the club is going in the foreseeable future, rather than an impending doom!
I, for one, would rather have the feeling that I have now, than the dread that last season filled me with.
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Poor choice of adjectives, Nigel Pearson may be many things, but he is not "vibrant", his team is not "vibrant" and they are definitely not as "hungry" as you make out (well maybe James Harper is), we have a dour team that only knows how to defend and has no plan B, hence our appalling record of being the only team not to win from behind this season. I have no idea who first came up with the usual set of adjectives we get given for this team, but they're just plain wrong. If the team is so exciting why is the atmosphere at the KC the worst it's been since we moved in.

The club is going to be mid table Championship for the forseeable future, fact is, a year ago today the last person with any ambition for Hull City was shown the door, the "Dare to Dream" era was over, and now we're settling for being a Championship club with no intention of being anything more. A sad day for Hull City and one in which the club stepped backwards for the first time in a long time.
 
TONY_WARNERS_FACE said:
hence our appalling record of being the only team not to win from behind this season.
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TWF, you have an interesting perspective on City. I agree with very little of it, but at least it makes me think.

We aren't the only team to have not won once behind. Coventry haven't managed it either. Whatever, its a crap record that we need to fix.

Conversely once ahead we haven't lost.
 
Oregon Tiger said:
TWF, you have an interesting perspective on City. I agree with very little of it, but at least it makes me think.

We aren't the only team to have not won once behind. Coventry haven't managed it either. Whatever, its a crap record that we need to fix.

Conversely once ahead we haven't lost.
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That's because when our Plan A of "defend, defend, defend" works, it works well (even if it's hideously boring to watch), but once we go behind we have no Plan B to put into action and the game whimpers out.
 
TONY_WARNERS_FACE said:
The club is going to be mid table Championship for the forseeable future, fact is, a year ago today the last person with any ambition for Hull City was shown the door, the "Dare to Dream" era was over, and now we're settling for being a Championship club with no intention of being anything more. A sad day for Hull City and one in which the club stepped backwards for the first time in a long time.
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You have no idea where this club will be in foreseeable future.

The reality is, that we were completely skint until January, due to the financial mismanagement of the previous administration and as soon as the manager was able to pay for players, he brought some in and got us up to eighth(which, for the record, is already better than mid table).

At least there's no question of the current manager getting a slice of transfer and agent fees.
 
OK, TWF has won me over. Everything is dreadful, it's not going to get any better. I can't imagine us wiining a game or ever playing attractive football. I don't know why I bother getting up in the morning because today will be rubbish. No point in entering the lottery, no chance of winning. The economy will never get any better. We're all dooooooooomed.......
 
Horsham_Tiger said:
OK, TWF has won me over. Everything is dreadful, it's not going to get any better. I can't imagine us wiining a game or ever playing attractive football. I don't know why I bother getting up in the morning because today will be rubbish. No point in entering the lottery, no chance of winning. The economy will never get any better. We're all dooooooooomed.......
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roll on death!!!!
 
Death will be horrible, no release from this drudgery. I bet death will be even worse than life. We'll be in the conference in no time......Doooomed.....
 
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