Saw Assam Allam getting into a Y reg BMW this morning, if it parked in the same place tomorrow, shall I let it's tyres down?

Y reg? Crikey he must have spent all his money then

You're not Andre Marriner are you?

Yes, thank you Wilf, Chamberlain Road it was!

I share your fears. While I may have quailed before the accusations of "paranoia" in the past, relying on the Council battle and my gut feeling to formulate my impression of the nature of the beast, his more recent staggering behaviour justifies every reason for our concern. I really hope the FA calls his bluff and his pride forces him to find a buyer. He's a threat to anyone involved in business with him, I believe. A very dangerous loose cannon.

Chamberlain Road was secured a few years ago and is part of a larger Barratt deal to redevelop the site, with FC having the greenspace aspect of the development. FC will have changing facilities and pitches at the back of Dove House if the plans agent changed too much since submission a couple of years ago. I worry about aa and his approach.

Into the relegation mix they go. Hopefully back down a peg.

Who?

it's harsh to wish the team and it's supporters ill fortune, just because their owner is a maniac.

I see AP is quoted this morning as saying that our "big lads" were part of our initial success, I must have missed our barn storming start to the season, AP is almost as arrogant at Allam, just in different ways. It takes a level of arrogance to succeed at anything.

Success can be measured in many ways and doesn't just have to be a "barn storming start to the season".

Many people, until Sunday, were commenting on the progress the team were seen to be making on the field.

These comments were not just from blinkered fans but also pundits such as Kear, Cullen, Clarke etc

Given a full (or near full) quota of props would make a big difference to our performances.

It's not paranoia in any way. Many of us have had the utmost suspicion of Allam and his motives since we heard his first Blunderside radio interview when he talked of 'knowing nothing about rugby' and how a KR/FC merger seemed logical. His actions since then have simply reinforced early doubts.

Kear, Cullen and Clarke who are currently coaching, errrm......

That means what exactly?

Have to be a coach for your opinion to count now do we?

He just likes to go against the grain.

I wonder how the vote went - 5 days and still counting.

Maybe they've asked Mr Putin to be the Returning Officer.

Apparently, 6000 or so voted, and the result will be announced on Monday afternoon....

....after 400+ supporters have been contacted to check and confirm how they had voted.

I though that was know in the trade as "spoilt papers".

who gives a toss

Fewer and fewer.

can't believe this e is on our board. Would have hoped mods would lock it by now

As I said after the 5th time you posted on this thread, don't read it if you're not interested in the guy who is effectively our landlord and who could/is making life very difficult at times.

^^^ this

With only 6,000 or so voting, I guess Mr Allam will be claiming a moral victory, whatever the actual vote.
12,000 have, in effect, voted for option 3 "I am not too concerned and will continue to support the club either way."
I suspect that was part of his master plan when he set loaded questions.

I caught some of this on the radio last night heading to the KC. They said that 4000 were ineligible to vote because they're junior passholders but that still leaves 8000 who have chosen not the vote/option 3 so I can see Allam claiming the moral victory as you say.

Out of curiosity what were the questions exactly?

• Yes to Hull Tigers with the Allam family continuing to lead the club.

• No to Hull Tigers.

• I am not too concerned and will continue to support the club either way.



Didn't realise that juniors were excluded - makes my sums look a bit off the mark.

Thanks. Your figures may have been off the mark but it's still more people choosing not to vote than those choosing to vote.

• Yes to Hull Tigers with the Allam family continuing to lead the club.

• No to Hull Tigers.

• I am not too concerned and will continue to support the club either way.


I think the answer to that conundrum lies in the questions, as the Allams intended.

Not one Hull City supporter I have spoken to wants to change the name from Hull City to Hull Tigers. This appears to be the majority feeling judging from their forums and the general word on the street. However, ther is certainly a very hefty number who do not want the Allams to walk and are terrified they will, leaving - in their minds - the club in ruins. Despite that not being an option - the Allams simply cannot afford to just walk away, they need to sell the club for an acceptable price - it remains a very real fear sown, of course, by the words and threats of the Allams. Their latest implied threat being in the wording of the questions.

I.e., If you vote yes to Tigers we will remain at the club. The inference, obviously, being that a no vote means they will go. That in itself would be sufficient for those already frightened for the future of their club to abstain. Problem is, I read somewhere that the Allams are considering everything [iother[/i than a cross against the 'No to Hull Tigers' box as a positive vote for change - that includes the 'Yes' votes, the 'not too concerned' votes [iand[/i the abstainers. So the result will inevitably be lauded as a 'positive for change'.

110 years of heritage dismissed because of the good Doctor's pride and hatred of the City council. Luckily, the sporting media are almost unanimous in their scorn and ridicule of the 'referendum' and the FA are similarly unlikely to be fooled. The only media dissenters flying in the face of the opinion of their peers? Why, it's Radio Humberside and the HDM, of course, terrified they'll lose their access rights.