fcimp wrote:Says a supporter of a debt ridden club playing in some grubby little hole at the back of beyond in front of smaller crowds every season. I do recall our board has actually got us out of debt and not got us deeper in the poop too.
Hull and it's board are happy to simply exist and more or less stagnate except for the flirt with the bottom of the table now and again, Rovers are progressive and have spent for now and for the future. In the last 5 seasons we know which fans have been happier and that will continue until you are long buried 6 foot under
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fcimp wrote:Says a supporter of a debt ridden club playing in some grubby little hole at the back of beyond in front of smaller crowds every season. I do recall our board has actually got us out of debt and not got us deeper in the poop too.
Does help when the governing body stump up the cash to pay your debt off, allow you to inherit a top 6 squad and coaching staff. Hardly a hard days work getting out of the $hit was it
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Wigan (top addirions to top side) Saints (good additions) Wire (will push all the way, but will just fall short of top 2) Leeds (another mediocre season) Hudds (good coach, good team spirit, good players) Rovers (should do better than last as we have a good 6 and a world class forward added, plus Hall) FC (same poor half backs, Westerman is a good addition, but not good enough on his own, Sharp is average) Bradford (should be a bit better this season) Salford (will be a suprise this season, some good additions) Cats (Weak squad) Cas (weak squad) Crusaders (will miss Noble) Wakey (weak squad) Quins (pi$$ poor squad)
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MrPhilb wrote:Hull and it's board are happy to simply exist and more or less stagnate except for the flirt with the bottom of the table now and again, Rovers are progressive and have spent for now and for the future. In the last 5 seasons we know which fans have been happier and that will continue until you are long buried 6 foot under
In the last 5 seasons we've made 2 major finals. Just a reflection on our differing levels of aspiration that your fans are much happier with much less including a deteriorating league position. Still, we await the sockfest over Morgan's annual claims to doing the double on the back page of the HDM in 6 weeks time. Unless Murrell gets there first
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gingerspice wrote:Your not in debt cos u got no sodding bills to pay we may ave smaller crowds but we make more noise and u know what else we would not dream of emptying a stadium at the end of the season because u lost to the better team in the season it's a well known fact that fans of other super league clubs can't stand fc fans so yeah you mite have a nice stadium totally cr@p beer and over priced but there you go and I'm proud of our board wanting to improve our club hang on and fc gone backwards the last 3 seasons with regards silverware no doubt I will ave all u fickle fc fans having a go but FACE bothered Er no
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rover49 wrote:Does help when the governing body stump up the cash to pay your debt off, allow you to inherit a top 6 squad and coaching staff. Hardly a hard days work getting out of the $hit was it
Don't go reminding them of a piece of their history that they've conveniently forgotten
Mrs Barista wrote:In the last 5 seasons we've made 2 major finals. Just a reflection on our differing levels of aspiration that your fans are much happier with much less including a deteriorating league position. Still, we await the sockfest over Morgan's annual claims to doing the double on the back page of the HDM in 6 weeks time. Unless Murrell gets there first
From where we've come from why would we expect that within 5 years we'd have had the same aspirations of the team that was actually in the Grand Final the year we were promoted? The fact that ever since the very week where we won in 2006 and you lost we've outperformed our expectations while you've failed miserably is proof enough which club has its bar set too high.
We've won the Grand Final and been promoted and improved year on year, not bad for a side that wouldn't ever get in the Super League, Would finish bottom and be relegated, Wouldn't ever win a game, Wouldn't ever win an away game, Wouldn't win a derby, is only there for 8 easy points, Wouldn't finish in the top 4, wouldn't win a play off game.
You reached two Major finals granted, shame you never bothered to actually compete in either of them. Nice day out though
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[quote="Mrs Barista"]In the last 5 seasons we've made 2 major finals. Just a reflection on our differing levels of aspiration that your fans are much happier with much less including a deteriorating league position. I hope that when we've been in Super League as long as FC have, then we might have a couple of major finals under our belts too. You never know, we might even win one.
MrPhilb wrote:From where we've come from why would we expect that within 5 years we'd have had the same aspirations of the team that was actually in the Grand Final the year we were promoted? The fact that ever since the very week where we won in 2006 and you lost we've outperformed our expectations while you've failed miserably is proof enough which club has its bar set too high.
We've won the Grand Final and been promoted and improved year on year, not bad for a side that wouldn't ever get in the Super League, Would finish bottom and be relegated, Wouldn't ever win a game, Wouldn't ever win an away game, Wouldn't win a derby, is only there for 8 easy points, Wouldn't finish in the top 4, wouldn't win a play off game.
You reached two Major finals granted, shame you never bothered to actually compete in either of them. Nice day out though
No you have not improved year on year, last year you finished lower in the league than the previous year, winning one play-off game is not an improvement because it never got you any where.
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MrPhilb wrote:From where we've come from why would we expect that within 5 years we'd have had the same aspirations of the team that was actually in the Grand Final the year we were promoted? The fact that ever since the very week where we won in 2006 and you lost we've outperformed our expectations while you've failed miserably is proof enough which club has its bar set too high.
We've won the Grand Final and been promoted and improved year on year, not bad for a side that wouldn't ever get in the Super League, Would finish bottom and be relegated, Wouldn't ever win a game, Wouldn't ever win an away game, Wouldn't win a derby, is only there for 8 easy points, Wouldn't finish in the top 4, wouldn't win a play off game.
You reached two Major finals granted, shame you never bothered to actually compete in either of them. Nice day out though
Ooh, comprehensive chompage. Look, you talk of setting the bar too high, but Hudgell said you'd be challenging for silverware from 2009 when you'd be in a 14,000 capacity stadium. Perhaps this letdown is reflected in dwindling attendances of the last 2 years.
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I do recall our board has actually got us out of debt and not got us deeper in the poop too. 
