Feel sorry for the proper fans, but the thought of Allam kissing goodbye to that sky money soon gets me over it.

Interesting to see what they do next season. Bruce for me gets cut a lot of slack because he's a nice genuine guy, but ateotd City spent a lot of money this year and have horribly under achieved.

Not particularly a football fan, but feel sorry for the supporters and Steve Bruce. All this Hull Tigers nonsense can't have helped. It's Allam's club but he is ruining it.

In absolute terms £40-odd million is huge money. But everything is relative.

Estimated to have the 18th biggest wage bill in the division and they came in 18th.

Paying out a barely fifth of what the top teams do and finishing between genuine cash-to-points underachievers like QPR and Newcastle.

Bruce is no Billy Beane, but he's done okay.

Thats made my weekend. We're the top dog at the Stadium now. Not the second division outfit.

All the name change animosity can hardly help Bruce, either. £10m on Hernandez is looking like a monumentally poor decision, however.

Agreed. I think SB must take some of the blame because of the awful signings which were made.

Not so much this season's IMO. Apart from Hernandez, I don't think they were bad TBH. Ben Arfa didn't work out, but it was a risk worth taking on loan. They had bad luck losing Snodgrass straight away, again with Diame, Robertson started the season great, Dawson has been very good, and N'Doye did well at first. The biggest problem has been their best players from last year drastically underperforming. Huddlestone and Livermore have been nowhere near what they were, and Davies can't even get his place back. Jelavic started the season well but then struggled after his injury.

Fascinating really, how even the idea of a name change is unacceptable to Hull City fans.

Whereas you lot have been RFC, RFLC, Sharks and now FC and every time you simply transfer your allegiance.

Didn't you see this message board in 1895? Nearly broke the Internet.

No, rovers weren't involved

[iAll together now;[/i

Old Faithful..... what ever name we're known by,

Old Faithful we'll change it when we want to,

When the Rovers won the cup,

We were only runner up

For you Old Faithful, till we change our name once again.!

Bit more catchy than the never win at wembley version to be fair

When you have been as successful as Rovers have been over the last few years they are entitled to take mick.

I intended to respond in kind but my parents always told me not to take the p*ss out of those less able!!

My God - it really [iis[/i Bob Dylan!

(Beat's a bit skewed, though, you have to say cu-up and u-up to make it fit and the last line's a bag of spanners, but darling Bob is a hippy maverick, after all...)