>>6636
To be completely honest, I don't even mind if we do go down. I can't stand Premiership football. Elmohamady's handball goal today and his play-acting total shock when it was disallowed made me fucking ashamed to be a City fan, but that's about as Premier League as it gets. The Championship is my favourite league in the world, the perfect balance of footballing talent and old-fashioned attitude, it manages to produce amazing matches with practically no fucking about rolling on the floor pretending your hurt or chasing referees around with tears rolling down their cheeks about minor decisions.

That and I can see Bolton's football ground from my bedroom window at the minute so it would be nice to roll out of bed at 2pm and go watch City play an away game. Along with all of the other northwest teams we'd be playing if we went down. Fuck paying upwards of £40 for an away ticket, 'n'all.

>>6638

Aye, to be honest I'm of the same opinion. More games, more local away games that aren't a £150 day out, and it's as tight a league as you can get.

Not to mention relegation would be the chemotherapy to the cancer that is Allam's name change plan.

>>6639
I'd put in a transfer request if someone did that for me.

>>6640
Curtis Davies, can we be best friends?
No way, you spastic, you're a mentalist!

>>6641
Have a fucking word with yourself

Anyone going to the Leicester away game about 3 weeks hence? Should definitely be an interesting one. As it would be my first actual stop-off in Leicester I would really like to know whether or not there are any recommended deli's or eateries other than your bog standard Wetherspoons or similar? As I understand the place to be more enriched than others, I am expecting a good variety of quality food.

>>6747
>more enriched
NOT QUITE CITY OF CULTURE, THOUGH, ARE THEY
01482 01482

>>6747
Posting this one again.

So, anyone off tomorrow down to Leicester to hopefully revel in Nigel Pearson being thoroughly embarrassed?

>>6810

Aye mate.

Fuck Allam for trying to kick all the local, community teams out of the Arena so he can put a 3G in it. "Man of the community"? My fucking arse. What a precious little baby he is.

>>6811
I thought that was the council from when they're not busy trying to close charities feeding the homeless?

>>6812
What's that a reference to?

It's a smug day to be a City fan, boys. Let's be smug.

>>6813
>A HOMELESS charity is being threatened with prosecution if it continues to serve hot food to homeless people.
>Hull City Council's environmental health officials have contacted Hull Homeless Outreach to say they are breaching food hygiene regulations by serving the food at St Mary's Church in Lowgate.
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/8216-Stop-feeding-homeless-hot-food-8217-s/story-26163154-detail/story.html

>>6817
The Allams are well within their rights to re-apply for a name change for or during next season though. If they had any sense, they'd drop this nonsense once and for all.

>>6818
I can't believe someone actually complained to the council about them doing it.

>>6819

Despite the FA report saying they would have to apply again, the club are trying to frame it as if the original "No" decision was put aside and there is no need to resubmit, since Allam has said he won't apply again.

And Assem Allam is a man of his word, y'know?

>>6824
That may have something to do with the tribunal having actually set aside the decision.

>>6825

They did, this is true. However they would have to apply again to the FA Council if they wanted a chance of being called Hull Tigers. And Mr. Allam has said he wouldn't apply again.

I don't even know why I'm bothered by the semantics when it's so obvious how he's not the man of community and integrity he proclaims to be.

Apparently one of the FA Council members (not the particular panel, the full 92 voting members) saying the fans should have the choice biased the decision. That FA Council member is also the head of the Football Supporters Federation, so of fucking course he's going to be of that opinion.

For me, reading the report, they've absolutely slated the club for being the bunch of vindicative cunts they are. I'd hope they don't wobble and the message is "sure you've found a loophole, but there are fundamental reasons this will be rejected again".

>>6826
>(not the particular panel, the full 92 voting members)
Except he was on the particular panel that made the decision.

>That FA Council member is also the head of the Football Supporters Federation, so of fucking course he's going to be of that opinion.
Yes, out in the real world that's called a conflict of interests. The FA got its officials to work out a policy regarding how to handle a change of name. The head of the FSF disregarded this and instead argued for the interests of supporters. Noble, but wrong.

While Allam has said he won't be applying again, he doesn't need to. The decision has been set aside, so the FA needs to look at it again, and maybe select the panel a bit more carefully this time.

Wahey.

>>6864
Guwwwoonnnnnnnn Ferriby!

- Allam booting local clubs out of Airco, allegedly demanding immediate planning permission for his half-finished blueprints.
- Name change looking certain to get filed for again after Ehab's interview with Burnsy where he demands that he and his dad still believe it is the right thing for the club.
- Season ticket prices up by at least £30, and need to be paid for before the end of the season, no indication as to whether the price will go down if we get relegated.

So, on a scale of 1-10, how embarrassed are you lads to be Hull City fans at the minute?

>>6875

I'm absolutely brassed off like never before. David Lloyd has nothing on the cunt.

I've been a season ticket holder since I was a sprog in '96/97. This was my last season as an 18-22 so I'm going up to full price. The deadline for renewals is before we know which division we are in and what name it will be under.

The name change shite has been filed again too, a letter of intent anyway. Apparently Allam is going to make the exact same submission again, despite the FA even being polite enough to tell him it was a crock of shit, with no business case for a change put forward at all.

And yeah, apparently the "compromise" Allam was going to take over the Airco, with putting a "bubble pitch" on the hockey pitch, involved him seeking plain illegal agreements and money that the council could not agree to. Basically he's trying to make it look like they are at fault.

http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,674011&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&p_id=5860&p_month=Apr-15&p_page_number=1&content=pressrelease

Hull City Council in "actually growing a pair of balls" shocker.

>>6877
That's not backbone, that's a council being cunts over planning, as always. Though I daresay on this occasion it couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke, but don't mistake petty small-mindedness for honourable resistance. This is the same sort of thing which has Swansea's swish air-conditioned bendy buses going to the university all summer instead of down the seaside.

RIP, Ferriby.

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2015-04-26/uncertain-future-for-north-ferriby-utd/

ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ OH
CITY AFC

That's 6 bonus points, thoroughly enjoyed both matches.

>>6886
BRUCE'S BARMY ARMY

In other Twitter news. Bradley Wiggins helped us win Division 3 in '65-'66, don'tchaknow.

Sage for doublepost, blogfa.gs and hullfa.gs, but my dad gave me this and I have it up in my shitty little office to cheer me up.

Anyone of you lit considered forming a breakaway club? AFC City of Hull?

>>6890
There's already Hull United AFC (https://twitter.com/HullunitedAfc), born entirely out of the malice towards Assem Allam. Quite ironically, they played a friendly against City's reserves and won earlier this year. They've got quite a team behind them, as well, with Curtis Woodhouse doing a fair amount of bankrolling and Ian Ashbee as player-coach. They're handing out free lifetime season passes to anyone that attends their games while they're still in the Humber Premier League, as they clearly anticipate going a lot further. More power to them, I say.

The boys could do with talking to a proper graphics designer, though.

Just like when Dowie was in charge, it looks like losing to Burnley is going to lead to relegation.

>>6942
Hull have been really shit this whole season.

Oh Jake. Surprised it's marching powder though, he plays like he's been tranquilised recently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/hull-city/11608450/Hull-midfielder-Jake-Livermore-tests-positive-for-cocaine.html

>>6945
And the club have confirmed that he's been suspended, meaning that this weekend he won't be wasting valuable space that would be put to better use by Stephen Quinn or even David Meyler with the season he's having.

Hull City Association Football Club. May it stay that way forever.

>>7078
Brilliant weekend, wasn't it? Did you see the Allams' statement immediately after the decision?

Rumour mill has Dame N'Doye heading to Besiktas for €3mil, which is a bit below what I would have been expecting.

Bruce has finally had enough. Three weeks until the start of the new season and there's no new signings and only 12 fit players. No takeover talks until the end of the transfer window. This season has complete shitshow written all over it.

Championship starts tonight, lads!

UP THE TICS!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySY3Z286H24

>>8666
Fuck's sake, you've only gone and matched our worst league defeat in our history tonight. Last time was an 8-0 loss to Wolves back in the heady days of 1911 where half time was a gallon of mild and half a deck of cigs.

Embarrassing.

Just a 16 goal swing needed on the last day. Piece of piss.

>>8970
As a Swansea fan, I'd really appreciate it if you fine chaps could at least put a couple past the Cardiff scum. If you can't escape the drop, you can at least ruin the other side's day by denying them a spot in the play-offs.

>>8971
Ta for that, I'll let No Plan McCann know in the morning.

>>5417

>The fans counting down to 19:04 before they start the City Til I Die gave me chills down my spine. Allam's been trying all sorts to stop that, the other game he turned the screen with the clock on off for a minute around the 19th minute and last week he had the clock made tiny so you could barely read it, which I believe is where the countdown came from.

Got no idea what this is going on here but I'm really curious, what's the relevance of 19:04 and why is Allam trying to stop it?

>>8973
Formed in 1904. It's used as a protest song against the proposed change from Hull City to Hull Tigers.

Do you reckon we'll win League One? It would be the first actual league title since 1966.

>>9102

In the bag, hullfa.g. We should be beating Wigan, and probably Charlton as well with current form. Peterborough have to play Lincoln and Donny, so our nearest neighbours in the league could give us a hand.

Turkish TV tycoon agrees to buy Hull City for £30m - and vows to employ a Turkish coaching staff AND players 'to fly our country's flag in England'

https://www.Please don't ban me.co.uk/sport/football/article-10140261/Turkish-TV-tycoon-agrees-buy-Hull-City-30m.html

>>9765
Just glad to see the back of the Allams, so I can finally end my boycott of home games. As much as the Allam family has done - and continues to do - for the city, their name change proposal and how they handled the feedback is a massive stain on their reputation that I don't think a lot of people will allow them to recover from.