Things We Think We Think #183 please log in to view this image 1. When will City give us cause to write a cheerful TWTWT? It really would be nice. But when the club continues on its slow descent into the gutter, fans have little option but to criticise. And good grief, there’s so much to criticise about the owners of Hull City AFC at present. 2. We’ll start with 2015/16 season ticket prices. They’re going up, by 6%. Which means that someone has looked at this season’s prices, the costliest ever and some 30% up on the previous season, and arrived at the conclusion that they are too cheap. Think about that for a moment. The people charged with levying season ticket prices currently think the current prices are not high enough. 3. At a time when Premier League clubs are preparing to have even vaster riches shovelled at them by television companies, with the fans only contributing about one fourteenth of income and empty seats every week, Ehab Allam (for he is responsible here) thinks we need to pay more. This isn’t the outcome of rational thinking, because it will simply price many out and cause even greater ill-feeling among those who remain, a poor idea when discontent is already rising. There aren’t prices, they’re punishments, meted out because the fans refused to go along with the Allams’ cretinous name change idiocy. 4. As a side note, Liverpool fans are planning a boycott of their fixture at the Circle on April 28th, in protest about the steepling cost of £48 being levied at a venue for which Stoke fans were charged just £16. Good on them. If they’re successful and Liverpool return tickets to City, that’ll compound the problems the club are already having with a fixture that is yet to sell out. The foolish pricing policy will have ensured ripped off supporters AND empty seats at a time when Steve Bruce needs a full stadium and a upbeat support base. Slow hand clap, City. 5. It’s been a hectic old week though, and pricing folly is far from the only dopiness drifting from a decaying regime. It’s useful here to separate Hull City AFC and the Allam family, because it is very much the latter who are behaving so atrociously in regard to the Airco Arena. As City fans, it’s hard not to feel embarrassed by what’s going on, and we hope the wider community blames not our club as a whole, but its present custodians. 6. We are now in the scarcely believable situation of the local council threatening legal action against the SMC and actually cheered on by many for doing so, while the Premier League issues a lawyerly statement refuting previous assertions made by the Allams. Meanwhile, Ehab spews badly written nonsense at the council on a seemingly daily basis, even going as far as to ask them to break the law. Remember his father’s astonishment and anger with us for not rising up against the council when they were disinterested by his derisory bid for the stadium? Looks like the fans called that one right, Mr Allam. 7. The whole depressing saga of the name change is the cack on top of a putrid cake. The FA are to consult once more, with the Hull City Supporters’ Trust and the OSC both invited to make submissions. Do we detect a slight hardening of the OSC’s view? How on earth is the club going to get anywhere near to winning a properly-conducted ballot of its own fans given that “Allam Out” is no longer a view expressed by a fringe majority? Indeed, over two-thirds of respondents on another City forum expressed that view in a poll there. Everywhere you look, the current regime is viewed as discredited and their reign possibly beyond salvation. This all cannot have escaped the FA’s attention. 8. Let’s talk about football! Sadly there’s little cheer there either, with once-doomed Leicester now level on points with City and looking resurgent. In order to stave them off, City probably need 6-7 points, more than once seemed likely, and quite a lot more than present form suggests we’ll get. 9. That makes leaving Crystal Palace without at least one of them an unthinkable proposition. They were cuffed at home by West Brom on Saturday, and it’d be nice to think they’re winding down a little this season. City’s record at Selhurst Park can only be a source for glumness, but we really are running out of time now. Another of those nastily cheap away defeats we excel at amassing and we’ll probably be going into a horrendous run of fixtures already berthed in the bottom three. And that won’t end well. 10. Now isn’t the time for faint hearts, players phoning in 80% effort or overcautious tactics. Only wins are going to keep the Tigers safe now, something that tends not to happen when Nikica Jelavić doesn’t play. But things can change quickly. Victory over Palace and Burnley, and a point somewhere else and we might be okay. Right? http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2015/04/things-we-think-we-think-183/
From the title I thought this was going to be about Tickler developing a stutter. Excellent piece & representative of many supporter's feelings.
