yeah chocnut - i've only just seen that,
manucho and your old lad Kilbane
Hull City thread
big game for you lads this weekend, I hate to say it but is it possible you'll pull off the double v arsenal this weekend???
just posted in your topic TP,
I'm not as confident as you seem to indicate i might be
as i wondered in the arsenal topic - perhaps, just maybe, if we are lucky, God willing, on a good day, if the football pixies smile on us ......
we might just frustrate an over-motivated arsenal side into some errors, if we can hold you scoreless for a while or if we nick one early
i expect i'll spend a fair bit of the game anxiously pacing the floor with the ever-present risk of ducking behind the couch when it all gets too much 
on a more serious note TP
Manucho and kilbane will be out to impress early in their time at Hull
the win at newcastle - albeit with a mix of reserves and 1st choice lads - will have lifted the tigers' spirits
on paper you should win, but as someone once said the game isn't played on paper
no doubt SiNZ's bloody machine has us down for a loss 
h-t 1-0 to them
started well, but lack a bit of spark apart from mendy's runs and the occasional good ball by doyle/ash
not sure if halmosi has something to give
and in and ideal world we'd have geo with 2 in front of him
still we are well in this (touch wood)
CMON U 'ULL!
Get in there, Come on Hull !!!
1-1, Cousin scores of a Mendy Cross. Hull playing well now. Arsenal limited to counter attack and Van Pissie free kicks.
Sh1t, Nasri makes it 2-1 to the Arse.
Bendtner makes it 3-1 :-(
1-1, Cousin scores of a Mendy Cross. Hull playing well now. Arsenal limited to counter attack and Van Pissie free kicks.
well that wasn't really true, after you guys equalised we pretty much dominated from there on in. unless our counter attacks just lasted 3 or 4 minutes at a time and then you guys attacked for 30 seonds?
what about that shout for a pen with no contact on the ball and Manucho smacked into
i reckon most refs would have given a free kick for that outside the box, so should have been a pen
thought we had a chance when we went to 4-4-2
doyle's inexperience and lack of organisation at the back might have cost us for Nasri's
- though with mendy pushing up we were fairly exposed down our right
arsenal's third possibly offside - but not a blatently as fellaiani's last week
Manucho looks good and Kilbane is a useful replacement for mcshane
but we need points!!!!
marlon king tossed out - for being silly boy
tigers2009-01-24 22:01:01
stelios giannakopolous - gone
and
dulux dog stand-in jimmy bullard in talks and medicla as fulham acept our 5mil offer - i 'm not sure if he'll sign - but i hope it gets sealed
edit - SEALED - the lad's ours,
but a 4 1/2 yr deal for a 30 year old ???????
hopefully it won't back fire on us in a few years time
Bullard would be a great signing for the tigers i reckon. He's class. Fulham may well start to struggle without him.
From Mirror-Sport:
Quote:
Fulham were reluctant to offer a lucrative long term deal to a player who missed 15 months with a serious knee injury after joining the club in 2006.
Bullard has missed Fulham's last three games through a combination of illness and injury and is not cup-tied.
Manager Roy Hodgson is also understood to have had reservations about his playing style and onfield discipline.
Unquote:
Bullard is a great larker but a born prankster. Would be great for off-field morale but is the kind of bloke who loves life and plays football because he loves the game. Watch some of his antics on YouTube - they are hysterical. Jimmy needs a Manager who can harness his talent, motivate his performance yet allow him some freedom to release his tensions. He does not take too kindly to strict discipline (shades of myself when I was conscripted into the Army) so Phil Brown would most certainly not want to keep him on the pitch at half time for a lecture. For the wages he is asking I would expect Jimmy to toe the line and knuckle down but he will react badly to being abused.
as above, bullard signed
hopefully no-one picks up a knock or suspension problems in the millwall game
be good to see what Manucho can do with a start
through to last 16 (turner, Ash)
tigers2009-01-25 10:06:06
(makes a nice change from the LDV Vans trophy )
)no injuries that i could discern
west brom (greening out for a coupla weeks probably), sunderland, blackburn all facing replays
manucho started but taken off at about 62 - saving him for the hammers game i hope
Bullard to make his debut v the club he played for as a youngster (currwent Tiger Garcia was at West Ham then too and possibly Vince Lia )
Well done on the Bullard signing... hadn't heard of him until I went to the UK last year, and they loved him over there! Especially when he came back from his injury and helped save Fulham from the drop. here's hoping he can do similar for Hull this year... don't want to be meeting you in the championship next season!!
Leeds_Chris2009-01-25 11:11:34
well, having watched the 'highlights', i doubt i'll suffer through the full match
duke did well, but aprt from the pen save , i would back Myhill to have done as well - for be fair Duke seems to put more work into geeing up the back four
Jimmy B looked a class above in the 30 or so mins he had, great to see him demanding the ball even though we were 2-0 down with only 3 mins left in normal time
great to see us start with 2 up top, i wonder if we'll miss Marlon king's efforts on the pitch
shame West Brom's robinson weaseled out of his red, still we (I) can't pin all my hopes on every team we play having their captain suspended for our match 
starting to wonder about these next months
Tigers, unfortunately for you the game came at a time when Upton Park was buzzing with excitement due to the overwhleming feeling that things are headed in the right direction (by players and fans alike)..
We gave Bellers the boot and got twice what we paid for him return, and have made a couple of exciting signings as well.
Commisserations for the loss, I know what its like to see your club in freefall (two seasons ago the Hammers lost 8 straight), but I am confident (and hope) you will be in the top flight next season. Bullard will make a difference and another signing or two in the off season will follow I am sure. Keep the faith brother.
Hammer Head2009-01-30 08:05:46
cheers Hammerhead, good of you to offer a bit of hope
i've been keeping the faith for 38 years, so I doubt I'll stop til my heart does
I do think we will survive but this second half of the season will be a whole lot less pleasant than the first
according to some sources, we've signed a young defender from the french 2nd div for 1.8 mill squid and he won't play for us until next season , so i guess the club's senior management fancies our chances (that's a fair few quid for a championship player)
three points v the Throstles would make a nice start to Feb
CMON U 'ULL!!
so, that's what a point looks like
and that's what another one looks like
YES!
that first half was the longest i've ever sat through, better stuff in second
defending from the top is really making a difference for us
Fagan ran himself ragged, geo and marney put in a shift
turner was assured and dawson was lucky
I almost say you should have had all three Tigers.......
We were disgraceful......downward we continue to spiral......grrr!!!
We were disgraceful......downward we continue to spiral......grrr!!!
we rode our luck in the first half coxey, and some most refs would have blown against dawson in the box - if they got a decent look
but in the second half we certainly closed your lot down, Fagan enjoyed his day against Bosingwa
shame for us the Kilbane's header missed and that Fagan had his blinkers on
anyway I'm just relieved to see us inching away from the bottom 3
a good next few fixtures for us
all the best for the rest Coxey -smash some of those cellar-dwellers for us !!
hull city... bloody legends
good to see Gardner back, with Zayatte in mid and scoring
not so good in terms of fixture congestion
Bullard off to Denver for arthroscopy surgeryon a 'minor' cartilege tear
not great news
Bullard out for the rest of the season
f**king awful news
f**king awful news
I'm not sure how it is my fault.
not bad for a friday
HN has been on the receiving end today, let's cut him some slack, he's been blamed for several things now! LOL
i'd rather be blaming Hardnews, than blaming the ref after tomorrow's game
fagan out, ashbee doubtful apparently
I'll take a point but would love 3!!!
It's going to be very difficult for us to get any points from the rest of our games when we have no strikers whatsoever.
Manucho couldn't score in a brothel.
Daniel is injured yet again (still).
Caleb is sadly not up to this level.
Craig Fagan is injured yet again (still).
Deano is far to busy scoring and keeping goal for Oldham - and laughing his head off!
Marney couldn't hit a barn door from 2 yards.
Geovanni is good for half a game but cannot do it all on his own.
Garcia is far from comfortable at this level.
Couple these with the fact that intensive training is taking it's effect on Ian Ashbee (reported to be injured), Nicky Barmby (in the winter of his career), Boateng carrying injuries, Gardner (just returning but would hardly be match fit) and Zayatte still wondering where he is supposed to play and what to do and you would have to be blind, dumb, deaf and stupid not to realise that we are up the proverbial creek without a paddle.
We have lost King and McShane, Jimmy Bullard was the proverbial 'accident waiting to happen' (costing us 45 grand per week and no insurance whatsoever - a total of 15.3 million quid (35 and a half million dollars) over the next 4 and a half years) and we are unable to secure ANY 'quality' player whatsoever as they simply do not want to come!
Pretty grim I would say.
On the brighter side Turner and Dawson have lifted their game to a level previously thought to be beyond them whilst Matt Duke has not only triumphed over cancer but has also made a return of Lazarus-like proportions like the 'phoenix from the ashes' and resurrected his flagging career to take the Number 1 spot in goal.
This has been the best season in my 63 year support of Hull City and I am deeply grateful to all concerned in making an old man's dreams come true. We are facing a Herculean task in not letting this slip through our fingers.
1-1 half time v's the Yids. Dawson equalised but his bro is only on the bench.
That was Turner that equalised.
Final score 1-2 - Woodgate for Spurs in the 85th minute.
I have changed my mind on survival and predict that we will go back down.
Yeah, losing to my sorry mob at home is really a litmus paper test, isn't it? However, I like your gaffer and am confident he can do the business (and furthermore, don't think Blackburn can!)
Blackburn are playing much better football than us - mind you EVERYBODY is playing better football than us with a mere 4 points out of a possible 24.
Baggies are gone for me and I believe, sadly, that we will join them with Middlesborough being the other to drop.
Give it a good shot but without Premier League Players we cannot hope to compete in the Premier league.
without Premier League Players we cannot hope to compete in the Premier league.
I managed to catch a bit of the game this morning (mainly to check out the form of the Croats) and this perfectly encapsulates Hull to me - great determination and passion from players, but they're just not good enough.
West Brom, Boro and Stoke (if Beattie picks up an injury - shame we did not get him!) to go down
hopefully we can outperform that lot or blackburn
clearly, feeling our lack of depth
agree Manucho has disappointed
Maltby (physio) needs to provide some miraculous patch-ups and quick!
agree OZT as season worth hanging around on planet earth for
I'm still hanging on to blind faith
CMON U ULL!!
fa cup jaunt continues, burnley or arsenal next up
a pleasant-ish distraction but really all i want is some points in the league