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That's like someone in the 80s complaining that Norwich aren't playing the WM formation. Times change, the problem we have is that Gunn and Duffy in particular are pretty crap with the ball at their feet, but if this is the way JHT wants to play then we have to accept the rough with the smooth.

I don't think this could happen, isn't there a rule against players registrations swapping permanently more than twice during a season?

Not a bad watch for 10 minutes. They clearly have ambitions for the stadium which exceed just knocking down the City Stand and building it again. As has been mentioned before there is a lot of land that will soon be available behind Carrow Park which I think the club would be stupid not to take advantage of, even if some of it is designated for housing.

But this just goes to show that the club can not progress without significant backing from an owner, hopefully MA. If you look at our wage bills in most of the last 10 years, then you'll see that the parachute payments and/or sky money have just about covered that. Squad investment has been funded by sales and I'm sure some commercial revenue, which leaves the club with nothing to do much else with. In that second PL season under Farke, if we'd have had an owner willing to stump up cash, as Brentford had with the signing of Eriksen in January which essentially kept them up, then I have no doubt we'd have made a better challenge of it. All your statement confirms is that the 'self-funding' model which we were rightly praised for because of our success in the Championship, can not succeed in the Premier League.

Some of you weren't here when PinkUn Pete used to moderate EVERY SINGLE POST before it was published. We should be thankful they aren't bringing that nonsense back!

I can predict the sort of people you follow on Twitter. Bet you are the sort of person who claims 'it's right there in their name' about the Nazi's 🤦‍♂️

What are you talking about? That table clearly shows that Delia has absolutely rinsed our club financially, scandalous!

I think there is some real nitpicking going on here to be honest. In another game the penalty never happens as Long doesn't have a rush of blood to the head and challenge for a ball he had no right to go for, and the second goal is saved easily (I think Long deserves much more criticism for letting that one in vs the penalty which 'can happen'). For the majority of the game we were in complete control, and it wasn't just possession for possessions sake either, we were constantly probing and asking questions of Preston. 9/10 those two moments don't go in Preston's favour and we win that game comfortably. I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and state that I enjoy watching Hoff's team more than Farke's, there is a clear plan with a much more vertical progression than we saw under Farke, plus he isn't afraid to switch systems to either close a game down or try to win it. We never really saw that under Farke, and I'd love to see Hoff earn some of the success we saw a few years ago.

They're pretty well connected locally and in the club, I'm fairly sure they are essentially treated as local press. Probably just as well as informed, if not more than so than local journos in Suffolk.

Brentford's capacity is 17.25k, and they are a Premier League club. I don't think comparisons with them are of any use, if we were in the PL again we wouldn't be having a discussion about how to increase attendances. Hull's stadium holds 25k yet their average attendance last year (in a season where they were pushing for the playoffs) was 21k, again another poor comparison. No wonder they were trying price promotions.

The price of the kids kits are the real disgrace imo, especially as they are the ones most likely to actually want a 'full' kit (no adult should be buying shorts and socks unless it is for charity or a stag do 🤣). If it wanted to kit mine out it would cost me over £210 just for the home kits. That's outrageous. And when you can go to a certain Chinese website and order the whole kit for not much more than a tenner, there seems to be no logic in buying kids kits from the club at all.

I tend to agree with your overall point, although I'd temper it by suggesting that JHT's team progresses the ball up the pitch at a far quicker rate than any Farke team did. I can see plenty of games coming up where teams try and sit in against us at Carrow Road and we win through quick turnovers and counter attacks (especially from set pieces). I was concerned we'd really struggle this season, but I genuinely think Hull aren't anywhere near the last team who will get spanked at CR this season.

It's not because they are 'cheap', although obviously the club will make more money from a Joma kit than an adidas/nike etc. The reason we went with Joma is because it gives the club the ability to produce bespoke kits which the big brands would not offer to us.

No, but my understanding is that the club were told by the SAG that they needed to do the away end otherwise no home areas would be allowed to be made safe standing at all.

They didn't want to, but they had to, that's what the club told us.