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I'm guessing we'll be in their group in the FL trophy, except that it might not happen and even if it did no-one would care.
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We won 1-0 in a pre-season friendly there not too long after it had opened.
Just has a quick peek at Hull's results and following their 2-1 win at QPR on 29th Dec they sat 3 points off the play-offs and 16 points clear of the bottom. That 2nd half of the season really must have been bad.
Took 6 points from a possible 60pts, 3 draws (Birimingham 3-3, Swansea 4-4 & Reading 1-1) and 1 win (Middlesboro 2-1). Conceeding 54 goals and scoring 17 goals. The win against Middlesboro was an injury-time winner by M.Wilks. |
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I'm sorry if anybody else has mentioned this but Hull City seem to have gone downhill with the lack of investment; and that seems to go back to when Allam was stopped from being able to buy the ground and changing the name to Hull Tigers by the FA. A large percentage of Hull supporters were against it too.
His argument was because the Tiger is regarded as a lucky symbol in parts of Asia, the shirt sales could have been immense.
My question as a lifelong Grimsby Town supporter is, would we be happy if somebody wanted to invest 30, 40 million in our club, to be called Grimsby Mariners?
I don't understand why so many Hull fans were against a name change. Their club badge is a TIGER; The home shirt is black and amber stripes, like a TIGER; For goodness sake, their nickname is the TIGERS. "City" is a dull suffix. Lots of teams are called City: Leicester, Norwich, Stoke, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Coventry, Bradford etc. "United" is dull. "Town" is dull. Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday, Crewe Alexandra and Accrington Stanley are great names. |
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I don't understand why so many Hull fans were against a name change.
Their club badge is a TIGER;
The home shirt is black and amber stripes, like a TIGER;
For goodness sake, their nickname is the TIGERS.
"City" is a dull suffix. Lots of teams are called City: Leicester, Norwich, Stoke, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Coventry, Bradford etc. "United" is dull. "Town" is dull.
Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday, Crewe Alexandra and Accrington Stanley are great names.
Can't disagree with that. Grimsby Mariners does have a ring to it. Bring on the red crosses  |
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I don't understand why so many Hull fans were against a name change.
Their club badge is a TIGER;
The home shirt is black and amber stripes, like a TIGER;
For goodness sake, their nickname is the TIGERS.
"City" is a dull suffix. Lots of teams are called City: Leicester, Norwich, Stoke, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Coventry, Bradford etc. "United" is dull. "Town" is dull.
Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield Wednesday, Crewe Alexandra and Accrington Stanley are great names.
You opinion. To me Hull Tigers sounds like some new breakfast cereal. It was the owner's idea to appeal to the far east market. Why? Who knows, but we can guess. It's the difference between a name and a nickname I think. The former is more formal, the name to be used on the sports pages and league tables, the latter is more of a personal attachment for the fans of the club. It is special to them and for them. I would hate our club to be officially renamed Grimsby Mariners or something like it. Mariners is what we the fans call our own club, the name is ours, it belongs to us. |
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Well let's put it this way, the fans backlash regards the name has secured their historical name, has potentially cost them millions in additional sales/sponsor interest based around the Tiger name, has helped deliver 2 relegations, is forcing out a man / family previously seen as saviours, has set the club on a downward spiral which they may never recover and has took the bounce out of Burns and Swanny.....
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Just need Bournemouth to get relegated on Bournemouth, will make my week even better.
Fed up hearing about how little Bournemouth are over achieving, bank rolled by Russian money.
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We won 1-0 in a pre-season friendly there not too long after it had opened.
Just has a quick peek at Hull's results and following their 2-1 win at QPR on 29th Dec they sat 3 points off the play-offs and 16 points clear of the bottom. That 2nd half of the season really must have been bad.
Isn't that quite reminiscent of our 2nd half of the season collapse under Lyons? Didn't hull city relegate us that year. What goes around comes around! |
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Isn't that quite reminiscent of our 2nd half of the season collapse under Lyons? Didn't hull city relegate us that year. What goes around comes around!
Yeah, they did by drawing 2-2 at BP when we needed to win. We went to Stoke last game already relgated and got pummeled 5-1 (We had a young keeper in goal making his only appearance for us that day, can't for the life of me remember his name though). We beat West Brom at home mid-March and were sitting comfortably mid-table but then went the last 10 games of the season without a win, losing 8. |
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