Hull City forum.

[Colin C No.3]

They’re not happy with the manager or ‘his team’.

Most saying he’s a league 1 manager who has recruited league 1 players & want him out, some giving him two more games tops.

A lot of them refer to him as Terry. Can’t fathom the ‘put down’ off hand.

They don’t seem happy with Malik Wilkes input to the side either.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

[drfchound]

Was Terry McCann a character in the tv show Minder.

[dijit8]

Yes I think it was Terry McCann

Not wanting to defend they have just sold their two best players who got at least half their goals

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Ha ha.

[Glyn_Wigley]

The real irony is, though, if he'd managed Rovers to where Hull are now I suspect most of us would be happy with a season like theirs..! Oh well, I'm sure he knew what he was getting himself into...

[mushRTID]

Great to read can we have a link please?

[the vicar]

There owner is not bothered about anything there fans say or want, all he is bothered is that they stay up as he wants to sell them and the higher division they are in means more money when he does sell

[The Red Baron]

There owner is not bothered about anything there fans say or want, all he is bothered is that they stay up as he wants to sell them and the higher division they are in means more money when he does sell

I agree. That's why I thought McCann was daft to take the job. It was pretty clear from what Nigel Adkins said when he left that it was a poisoned chalice.

[since-1969]

They’re not happy with the manager or ‘his team’.

Most saying he’s a league 1 manager who has recruited league 1 players & want him out, some giving him two more games tops.

A lot of them refer to him as Terry. Can’t fathom the ‘put down’ off hand.

They don’t seem happy with Malik Wilkes input to the side either.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

The owner sold their best players and left him to try get in play offs ..Doh !

[Wiltshire Exile]

Great to read can we have a link please?

Here you are mush:

https://www.not606.com/forums/hull-city.41/

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Great to read can we have a link please?

Here you are mush:

https://www.not606.com/forums/hull-city.41/

Having a read through now.

May I just say, how poor is their website lay out compared to ours.

Covered in adverts & no category break downs.

Don't know how lucky we are!

[drfchound]

...........and as I have often said, no different to ours from a point of view of people moaning or having those rose tinted specs.
Fans of all clubs are the same really.

[RoversAlias]

I see someone on there dragged up the own goal McCann scored in West Ham's 7-1 annihilation by Blackburn way back in the early 2000s. The young McCann's face is quite the picture after he somehow manages to send a clearance backwards into his own net, I remember coming across it the other month.

The peak of his top flight career as well, really.

[DRNaith]

Hull City is a strange going on.  The fans have recently had a cup final and semi-finals at Wembley, and also Premier League football, but have been so disconnected by the owners, and hike in ticket prices through removing the reduced cost ticketing (though that may be back now), that when I've attended games there (I get free tickets sometimes) the crowd is totally disconnected compared to a Rovers' crowd.

Whereas Rovers supporters, we would complain at the Ref and Linesman if a call incorrectly went against us for a throw-in, the Hull fans just suck it up. A hard tackle on a Rovers player, we tell the ref we're not happy, whereas the Hull fans just look at each other and agree that they always get bad refs.  What I'm really saying is that the Hull City fans have had their passion kicked out of them.

As already said above, we need to be grateful for what we have.

[adamtherover]

The real irony is, though, if he'd managed Rovers to where Hull are now I suspect most of us would be happy with a season like theirs..! Oh well, I'm sure he knew what he was getting himself into...

not really irony, as hull fans have a different perspective on his tenure than what we would have.  Ours would be the end of an upwardly going journey. Theirs is a recent ex prem side going downwards...  not relatable in the slightest...

[scawsby steve]

The other man's grass, and all that.

[Herbert Anchovy]

My best pal is a Hull fan. They weren’t too happy with McCann’s appointment in the first place but were willing to give him a chance. Unfortunately he’s seen as a bit of a ‘collaborator’ with the owners, who the fans have a real problem with. To be fair to him, they’ve just sold their 2 best players & have lots of injuries, but it sums up the clubs mentality. I was saying during the summer that he was making a big mistake going there and I think that’s coming to fruition.

[dickos1]

Up until the transfer window they were having a very good season.
They’ve now sold their two best players, any side that does that is going to struggle

[Alan Southstand]

Agreed Dickos, ask Oxford.

[mushRTID]

The type of owners that would sell their best players and still sack him.

If they do he can have no complaints, he’s not stupid he should have known who he was going to work for.

[RoversAlias]

Up until the transfer window they were having a very good season.
They’ve now sold their two best players, any side that does that is going to struggle

Their form had gone off a cliff before they sold Bowen and Grosicki. That happened 12 days ago but they lost three in a row before that, and have 2 heavy defeats and a draw since.

Their Play-Off hopes have evaporated since the turn of the year. Shame.

[sedwardsdrfc]

He's been fairly lucky that they didn't sell those players in the summer. At least they gave Hull half a season of pretty decent results. Looking at his signings it's clear he is basically shopping at a top end league 1 market so the fans can't expect too much, but they will just as we would.

[nortikorner]

Another sit com
Hull and Back

[drfchound]

I hope he isn’t coming back.

[Drover]

I see someone on there dragged up the own goal McCann scored in West Ham's 7-1 annihilation by Blackburn way back in the early 2000s. The young McCann's face is quite the picture after he somehow manages to send a clearance backwards into his own net, I remember coming across it the other month.

The peak of his top flight career as well, really.

HaHaHa,just watched that,I either never seen it before,or I forgot about it,he did'nt even miskick it,he actually missed it altogether and it bounced off his other foot/ankle into net.As you say,his face is a picture,one of the best I've seen after scoring own goal,I think he might actually tried to blame the keeper,the way he looks at him.Pure gold.The thread headline says in his last game for West ham,so must have been a costly mistake too.

[Colin C No.3]

No he won’t ever be coming back here hound.

However unlike Paul Dickov whose services, he was told, were no longer required by Doncaster Rovers in September 2015 & has never managed a team in the professional game since, McCan’t, even if/when sacked by Hull will still carry some kudos with him on the back of (ironically), what he was able to achieve with us on what was ‘allegedly’ (cue Darren Ferguson) a tight budget.

[grayx]

Aren’t hull still 10pts clear of relegation?
Under the circumstances i’d say avoiding relegation would be quite an achievement for Mc Cann.

[drfchound]

No he won’t ever be coming back here hound.

However unlike Paul Dickov whose services, he was told, were no longer required by Doncaster Rovers in September 2015 & has never managed a team in the professional game since, McCan’t, even if/when sacked by Hull will still carry some kudos with him on the back of (ironically), what he was able to achieve with us on what was ‘allegedly’ (cue Darren Ferguson) a tight budget.

Oh I know he won’t be coming back.
He would not be made welcome by the fans and from what I have heard, he well and truly burnt his bridges with the owners.

[mushRTID]

No he won’t ever be coming back here hound.

However unlike Paul Dickov whose services, he was told, were no longer required by Doncaster Rovers in September 2015 & has never managed a team in the professional game since, McCan’t, even if/when sacked by Hull will still carry some kudos with him on the back of (ironically), what he was able to achieve with us on what was ‘allegedly’ (cue Darren Ferguson) a tight budget.

Oh I know he won’t be coming back.
He would not be made welcome by the fans and from what I have heard, he well and truly burnt his bridges with the owners.

Is that because of his decision to go or more the way he conducted himself?

[Colin C No.3]

He clearly went for money, managing at a club in the Championship that he must have thought he could embed himself at, improve theirs & consequently his own standing in the game, something he must have thought would take longer to do with us.

Plus Hull have better facilities, a larger capacity & better stadium & more recently a more successful recent history than us.

Put all of that into the mix & you might well argue that at the time his reason to go there was for him, ‘a no brainier’.

However, as with every important decision you make in life you should employ due diligence. He clearly didn’t do his homework on the current club owners, the squad he was inheriting, the finances available for transfers & wages that would enable him to buy better than League 1 rated players.

Either that or he went into the job with his eyes wide open knowing full well that the owners were attracted to him because he had performed so well with us in his first season with a ‘limited budget’ & that they expected him to do the same at his new club.

If the second scenario was the case, then I would suggest his ego clicked into gear & he actually thought ( & if so clearly underestimated the expectations the role brought) he could emulate what he had achieved with us with in one season, with a club barely out of the Premiership.

So he left a club where he was well thought of by the fans & supported by the board (even though that support allegedly didn’t include some of the players) & where he could reasonably expect to build his reputation along with the clubs in the knowledge that Rovers do not have a reputation as a club that sacks managers on a whim. Relative long term security then for him & his young family.

But no, he burned his bridges leaving a club that had provided him with only his second ever managerial role in a state of turmoil regarding players being shown the door & incoming player negotiations still to be signed off.

He saw ‘Gold in them there hills’.

Except now he perhaps realises that the ‘gold’ he thought he saw was in fact the ‘orange’ shirts his new team played in & Hull has no hills. In fact it is as flat as the current feeling of their fans towards him & the players he has brought to their club, as flat as the dressing room & training ground must feel, as flat as the owners wallets & maybe, just maybe if he thinks back to where he was this time last season, as flat as he’s feeling right now.