He'll be quiet until we've got some new signings and then passes to sell the script is well worn now.

And ill be a lot more thorough in my assessment of our signings this time, i.e. are they from the HullFC NRL equivalent teams who are struggling basket cases like Canturbury and Wests, do they regularly play the position we claim they play, where other SL teams linked with signing them etc

Agreed, I gave Okunbur and Pele the benefit of the doubt that they could be rocks or diamond signings but I was just trying to convince myself they might be ok. Sadly I should have listened to my head rather than my heart.

Assume we have all read the BBC sport story RE: Chelsea supporters group feedback to their club? All a bit deja vu after reading this thread, although at least they have a conduit into the club, pointless as it will likely turn out to be. Difference there is Boehly et al have the EPL riches coming in and huge financial backing from Blackrock, so the fan income is almost irrelevant; the polar opposite of Hull FC. Close to "irreversible toxicity" indeed... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68618210

Assume we have all read the BBC sport story RE: Chelsea supporters group feedback to their club? All a bit deja vu after reading this thread, although at least they have a conduit into the club, pointless as it will likely turn out to be. Difference there is Boehly et al have the EPL riches coming in and huge financial backing from Blackrock, so the fan income is almost irrelevant; the polar opposite of Hull FC. Close to "irreversible toxicity" indeed... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68618210

Noises of takeover interest

Who's the EX player ?

Tim Wilby?

Was writing the above and thinking exactly that!

Probably digging the Mally Walker rumor up again .

What are the Healeys up to?

Kath bored in retirement?

Every six months

I reckon if we did get taken over then a lot of home truths would come out about Pearsons tenure especially the last few years that would make him just as bad as Kath Hetherington and her clan. Its almost like theyre a mirror image of ownership tbh. They both came in, steadied the ship, got decent managers and built the squads, Mcraes team (first time) and Radfords team were both class and were nearly there but just not good enough but then under both ownerships the teams were dismantled and not built on and the teams dropped to the bottom of SL and became a laughing stock. The current team is way poorer in personnel than what Agar had and is gonna take a hell of a lot of fixing though.

I agree, but does it give a bigger question of is it even possible for Hull to get bigger than our mid 00s and mid 10s size with the stadium and lack of assets? It feels like without a massively rich owner the status quo wont be broken.

Interesting question. A lot of the time it does feel like we made a rod for our own backs though both of those times with things like Cooke's unsigned contract in the 00s, not replacing Motu in the 10s etc. Obviously there's more to it than that but we do seem to have this habit of shooting ourselves in the foot in some manner whenever we seem to have built something or laid some foundations at least.