Hull City thread

It's hard to criticise Phil as he had over 20 'quality' players say "Thanks, but No Thanks"! including, Beattie, Davies, Owen, Campbell, Fortune, Nolan, Scotland, Greening, Murphy, McCormack, Ledley, Harewood, Young, Zamora, Voronin, Hinkel, Beye and Negredo.

It has been announced that Paul Duffen has resigned as Chairman.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/brown-given-one-match-to-avoid-the-sack-at-hull-1811545.html

Jeezus not good news. I like PB and would hate to see him leave. So whats the future loking like now for the club?

future is, like all futures, uncertain

That's about all we can hope for because he most certainly will not be bringing in any 'quality' players.

wish i had a fiver for every time you said we're doomed. I'll tell you that for free

Pearson to act to solve wage blow-out 

yea supposed to be the 7th highest, if only that correlated to league position

apparently the refs decision to give them a 'marginal' pen and disallow a 'goal' for us made a bit of a difference

It was a penalty. Stephen Hunt was all over the bloke and is one of those players who can't keep his hands off an opponent. Geo's sending off was all wrong though.

do you think the free kick from Geo should have stood?

Perfectly good free kick - should have stood, but, as the commentators said "When you're down you're down, and nothing goes right"!

i didn't watch online and it wasn't on Sky

I could be a new local derby next season. Hull v's Leeds

Watched the highlights - very unlucky not to get at least a point...

He has used up all his options. He should have walked when Paul Duffen was given the @rse and possibly retained some amount of dignity but he has no option now but to fall on his sword or get the chop.

He has to be the sacrificial lamb now but the hard fact is that no footballer capable of performing at this level was willing to join Hull City and that was through no fault of Phil's. He may have had his faults and the Manchester City half-time debacle that will haunt him throughout his career but how quickly we forget that he took hold of us when we were in danger of losing our CCC status and took us to the 'Promised Land' of EPL football.

if we face a transfer ban in the Jan window -that could be interesting

if the media suggestions that we accepted 4 measly million for Turner a true, then i'm really pissed off

I read it was only 2.8? soccernet article?

1.2 went to Brentford and another of his previous clubs via sell-on clauses 

Yeah, that took McShanes move into the equation.

I did OzT. $40 for my troubles too. Though must admit, those were not considerations in my bet.

On the lighter side, let me inform you that Jozy Altidore is no longer a teenager having celebrated his 20th birthday yesterday whilst Jan Vinnegoor of Hesselink and myself celebrated our birthday's today. Jan turned 31 whilst I myself am a little older at 71. Happy Birthday to you

happy Birthday OzT,

Yes, I was my friend. The official gate was 55,019

my dad and Grandad were there,

Neil came later after the Hull City board thought that any old ex-England international could 'do a Carter' and lift the Clubs prospects. We got Wilf Mannion for 39,000 quid and 39,000 fans packed into Boothferry Park to see him. Stan Mortenson, Sir Stanley's partner at Blackpool, also joined us but none of them did anywhere near what Carter did. Billy Bly had a 'Goal booth' at the local Hull Fair where you would pay a tanner (sixpence) to have a go at beating him. Vigo Jensen, when he came to Hull City, did not qualify to be paid under the 'two year residence' law so 'officially' Hull City were not allowed to pay him. Undaunted, Vigo set up a stall outside Boothferry Park where he sold his own brand of sausages and would hand this over just before kick-off. Couldn't see anyone doing that these days.

Bullard is city's version of Ifill

I love Bullard - He may well be the difference between relegation and staying up.

Definitely the Man-of-the-Match and what has been decidedly lacking in our game. Gave us direction in the midfield and showed the likes of Marney just what it is all about and how it is done. I know Richard Garcia has also has a long lay-off but he appeared to be well out of his depth at this level but gave it his all. He would have a huge impact in the Australian A-League with Adelaide already reported to have made enquiries about him. Cannot see Marney coming back into the team after Jimmy's performance and whereas I think Mendy is over-the-hill he seemed to shine better than McShane.

Well done guys, the better team on the day won.
Agree Bullard was MOM, class act.

We'll have to get ya at home.
 

cheers Corkster, you are a better sport than me

For me, Ifil is our Ricardo Fuller

Tigers who are on their way to SA (injuries, form, and transfer window permitting)

sounds like a full-on match overnight - wonder if WHam's 2nd most famous kiwi-connected fan Frankie Mac got there ?  

Maybe he has been distracted by other things in claret and blue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8365188.stm

Everton have Neville, Billy the Russian and that one from the "Hair Bear Bunch" out

I'll keep quiet until after the game and then gloat that I won (either way) or be happy with a point . Feeling VERY conflicted right now.