Hull fans on Friday

[S64 Blade]

They just need to take a leaf out of our book and get their shoes off in the car park.

 

[Sparky]

Makes our Red card protests in the McDonald era seem particularly tame.

 

[Liverpool blade]

I haven't properly followed the situation at Hull, so maybe there is justification for protesting during the match, but whenever these protests come up I just think about all the shit we've endured over the years - many, many years - and I don't recall that our fans ever went to such lengths (or should I say stooped to such depths?). It all seems a bit "snowflakey" to me, a sign of the times, maybe. I can't help wondering whether they would be doing the same thing if they were in 3rd. Maybe they would, as I say I haven't followed their current situation, but if they wouldn't, then essentially they are just protesting about their league position. Well, that's sport, it happens. We could all do that.

I know a hull season ticket holder and when allam bought the club. He was boasting about all the money that would be spent and then when they beat the piggies and got promoted. He said that they would be the next Everton. It was so funny to see it all unravel and the money started to dry up!!. Strangely he doesn't boast anymore!!. Let's stuff em tomorrow. UTB

 

[Booker4]

There's something really familiar about this?!

 

[ghandi]

I haven't properly followed the situation at Hull, so maybe there is justification for protesting during the match, but whenever these protests come up I just think about all the shit we've endured over the years - many, many years - and I don't recall that our fans ever went to such lengths (or should I say stooped to such depths?). It all seems a bit "snowflakey" to me, a sign of the times, maybe. I can't help wondering whether they would be doing the same thing if they were in 3rd. Maybe they would, as I say I haven't followed their current situation, but if they wouldn't, then essentially they are just protesting about their league position. Well, that's sport, it happens. We could all do that.

We did with the BIFA protests against Brearley.

 

[metalblade]

I don't have any problems with fans protesting against owner of the club they follow they pay their money and have every right to make their feelings known. The problem begins when it starts to impact on other clubs who have nothing to do with their grievances like what happened at Coventry ( their fans still don't get it ). How many Unitedites think that the whistles will only be blown on 30mins? More likely we will have a repeat of the Coventry game where it is constant whenever we are on the ball.
Charlton fans protested against their owners but never disrupted the games where other teams would be affected and got support from away fans too, this didn't happen at Coventry and I can see it turning nasty at Hull too #sheffieldUnitedfansareadisgrace

 

[Ricky]

If they're going to keep it reasonable and only blow their whistles on 30 minutes rather than all fucking game like Coventry did then good luck to them, and I hope Sky help them out with the publicity too.

But if they're at it all game then they deserve all the retaliation they'll get. Just as Coventry did.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

We did with the BIFA protests against Brearley.

You'll have to remind me. I wasn't one of the agitators back then. What did the fans do?

 

[SteveBlade]

So a few thousand fans are going to have whistles.

Surely there's going to be a considerable number of idiots who are going to pull a Coventry?

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I find the traditional baying mob in the car park, shoes off, demanding action works. At the very least the incumbent manager has to be snuck into the boot of his wive’s Mini and whisked back up to Dore.

Incorrect because...

No manager since Adrian Heath has been small enough to fit into the boot of a mini.

Dore Ladies don’t drive minis. They may wear them on Thursday nights in the Dev, but they don’t drive them. They drive Porsche Macans’.

 

[stringer]

It's a cliche, but ... there but for the grace of the corporate World Bank Gods go we.

Personally, I feel sorry for them. Not only that, I see them as one of the many precedents we should currently be highly sensitised to, given the possibility that we are about to be bought out by an absentee potentate with a history of asset-stripping football clubs back home.

Great post.

I haven't properly followed the situation at Hull, so maybe there is justification for protesting during the match, but whenever these protests come up I just think about all the shit we've endured over the years - many, many years - and I don't recall that our fans ever went to such lengths (or should I say stooped to such depths?). It all seems a bit "snowflakey" to me, a sign of the times, maybe. I can't help wondering whether they would be doing the same thing if they were in 3rd. Maybe they would, as I say I haven't followed their current situation, but if they wouldn't, then essentially they are just protesting about their league position. Well, that's sport, it happens. We could all do that.

When in United’s history has the club been shafted to the extent Hull have, with an owner that wants to change the fecking name, the actual identity of the club?

 

[Caveblade]

I can see another set of fans who are going to hate us by the end of tomorrow's match. I feel another sense of humour failure coming on as the ground resounds to the Blades singing "there's only one Assam Allam, one Assam Allam"

 

[Ranmoorblade]

If you don't want to whistle but still want to protest you can turn your back for a minute. FFS lol

How is that going to achieve anything, might as well just say on 30 minutes everyone go to the bog.

 

[grafikhaus]

Fair enough. Tell the world loud and proud City Tigers FC.

This is what happens when 'foreign owners' take over. The fans get all giddy and think they'll be the next Man. City (Barnsley being the latest), but they fail to realise that these owners always want to stamp their own personality on the club. So we have Cardiff and the proposed switch to red shirts and we have Allam with his 'Hull City Tigers' bullshit (which seems to be ongoing - Google Hull City FC)



Cardiff will probably go up, Hull will probably go down and the fans will let them get away with it because they're plastic and have no tradition - both coming from rugby towns. I wonder what next?

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Will be piss funny if they all turn their backs on 30th minute and billy or leon bangs one in

Even funnier if one of their own manages to score and none of them are watching lol

 

[mattbianco1]

Even funnier if one of their own manages to score and none of them are watching lol

No. No it wouldn't be.

Be funnier if we win 7 nil

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

GCB on 30 mins and drown it out ... that’s what I’ll be doing!

 

[I should coco]

When in United’s history has the club been shafted to the extent Hull have, with an owner that wants to change the fecking name, the actual identity of the club?

He's put a lot of money in and got them back to the Premier. The name change was very badly handled and he threw his toys out when the FA prevented it. Until then he had been the 'model' owner.

This is what happens when 'foreign owners' take over. The fans get all giddy and think they'll be the next Man. City (Barnsley being the latest), but they fail to realise that these owners always want to stamp their own personality on the club

He's not really 'foreign' though. He came to the UK in the 60's and built up Allam Marine as a proper manufacturing company employing hundreds of Hull scrubbers. He took over the failing local team and pumped money in.

He is obviously a stubborn old bastard and is cutting his nose off to spite his face now, but Hull would have folded (again) without him. He is not Vincent Tan or the Venkys.

 

[B.Lade]

This is what happens when 'foreign owners' take over. The fans get all giddy and think they'll be the next Man. City (Barnsley being the latest), but they fail to realise that these owners always want to stamp their own personality on the club. So we have Cardiff and the proposed switch to red shirts and we have Allam with his 'Hull City Tigers' bullshit (which seems to be ongoing - Google Hull City FC)

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Cardiff will probably go up, Hull will probably go down and the fans will let them get away with it because they're plastic and have no tradition - both coming from rugby towns. I wonder what next?

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But the hull city fans this actually will impact aren't the plastic thousands who will dissolve away, it's the core who've stuck with the club through thick and thin. Like everyone else I hope they don't blow whistles throughout to disrupt the entire game, but I understand why they want to put on an effective protest in front of the cameras. Unfortunately I don't see it making any difference with their owners...
As for no tradition, not sure when they were formed but it'll be more than 100 years ago so when exactly does 'tradition' begin?

As somebody else has put, this could easily be us in future and yes, our core support is larger and our history richer but surly we can empathise?

 

[B.Lade]

He's put a lot of money in and got them back to the Premier. The name change was very badly handled and he threw his toys out when the FA prevented it. Until then he had been the 'model' owner.



He's not really 'foreign' though. He came to the UK in the 60's and built up Allam Marine as a proper manufacturing company employing hundreds of Hull scrubbers. He took over the failing local team and pumped money in.

He is obviously a stubborn old bastard and is cutting his nose off to spite his face now, but Hull would have folded (again) without him. He is not Vincent Tan or the Venkys.

I understand he has some dementia type illness and his son who has taken over is, in the opinion of hull fans (I'm married to one) an idiot...

 

[fireblade]

I understand he has some dementia type illness and his son who has taken over is, in the opinion of hull fans (I'm married to one) an idiot...

F**k me that must be terrible.










Being married to a Hull fan

 

[west_yorks_blade]

I understand he has some dementia type illness and his son who has taken over is, in the opinion of hull fans (I'm married to one) an idiot...

Her brother not good enough for her then?


Sorry mate - just a joke! Couldn't resist.

 

[prince albert]

And the bride looked rather fetching in her matching pink sondico tracksuit top and bottoms, pink trainers and matching beanie hat.





Once it starts-only joking

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

This is probably all my fault


A Hull fan came on here last week and saw the Coventry thread that got revitalised and lured PUSBCCFC from his little rabbit hole to squawk about the whistles being justified again!

 

[B.Lade]

And the bride looked rather fetching in her matching pink sondico tracksuit top and bottoms, pink trainers and matching beanie hat.





Once it starts-only joking

Sondico?! Now I am offended!!! ;-)

 

[Finn Keane o' Balmaqueen]

The Ghosts Of Boothferry Park must be turnin' ....

 

[snootyfenooty]

If United fucked the club around like Coventry or Hull, I'd turn my back on them as well. Permanently. I've got better things to do with my time and money and certainly wouldn't waste it blowing a fucking whistle.

 

[Small Mendonca]

Looking on their forum, I really don't get the impression that whistles will be blown on 30 minutes only. It will be like Coventry Mk2.

 

[Hamburg Blade]

When in United’s history has the club been shafted to the extent Hull have, with an owner that wants to change the fecking name, the actual identity of the club?

So that's what the protest is about? Funny, because I thought that was a while ago and the fans protested in the usual way, unfurling banners, chanting etc, but I don't remember them disrupting Premier League games, probably because that was the time they were hitting the big time with the owners money and jeopardising their PL status was too much. Perhaps you can point me to media reports of the time of fan protests during a game that compare to this planned protest, because if they didn't, then it really is about current league position.

 

[The Crab]

If you don't want to whistle but still want to protest you can turn your back for a minute. FFS lol

How is that going to achieve anything, might as well just say on 30 minutes everyone go to the bog.

I do that pretty much anyway when I've had a beer or two.

The back turning, I dunno really, symbolic? I'd say the fans have to be seen to be doing something. Even if they did anything extreme, no guarantee it would have any effect. I read a lot about what went on at Blackpool to force the Oystons out, none of which moved them one iota. The killer for them was Valerie Belokan and his court case.