Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:49 pm  

Martin, Staveley and Charles apart, there isn't one player I'd be bothered about if they announced they were leaving from that side today.

Even Brown or Ese'ese, if it allowed us to bring in a decent 7 or centre I'd be up for it.

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:02 pm  

Another day, another dollar, another fifty point defeat for Hull Fc.

Disappointed (to put it mildly!!!) I was hoping to see at least SOME reaction to last Saturday, a little bit of fight, a smidgeon of pride maybe, but no, just a rerun of seven days ago.

Virtually everyone currently employed by the club (from Pearson downwards) has played their part in the demise of a once great and proud club. We are now nothing more than an empty shell of what we once stood for.

We might as well sack the entire coaching staff and simply let the players take it in turns to pick a 17 each week. It wouldn't be any worse than this ongoing shambles that we are enduring and least we, the fans, would know exactly who to direct our ire and fury towards.

I said earlier this week that we are at our lowest ebb for 50 years, but at least the team of the early-mid seventies had some fight and local pride in themselves, the club was just skint at that time unfortunately.
Given where we were just seven years ago, this is now arguably the lowest point we have ever been at. Truly depressing times for all of us, with no answers to the malaise and not even a chink of light in what has become a very dark and long tunnel.

Where's that hemlock and cyanide again!!!!!

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:19 pm  

Thank God I cannot go to watch that shower and when I can it’ll be another season consigned to the bin. Smith has got to be on thin ice , the players he signed just aren’t cutting it, every casual observer questioned the Okunbor signing, as a back rower he is the epitome of half arsed and just isn’t good enough. We badly needed a scrum half and had plenty of time to get one , but instead we signed an international hooker , to play in a position he can’t , continue to flog the clubs oldest player and have no clue in attack. We have conceded over 100 points in two games and replied with just two scores . I’d get it if Pearson admitted we are below cap and because there is no relegation aren’t bothered by that worry, so have decided to sign targets that nobody else wanted until we are again solvent , then we could accept defeats, but not in the manner of the Leigh & Huddersfield games . We will be very lucky to sell 6000 passes next year ; I have never sensed a more disenfranchised group of diehard fellow supporters than I do now. I got a pass for this season as you do, don’t you , knowing that I’d miss upto 16 weeks, but in a time where the cost of living is a major concern for all of us, won’t be doing that next year , I just can’t take the club’s contempt for the fans any longer . I’ve seen some very low ebbs in supporting this club, since my first game in 1975 or 1976 but , even with no money and patched up teams , the pride of the players became the same pride of supporters- now the history of our club is being blackened by a team with no idea or discipline and a coach who cannot admit he is wrong. Something has to give - even when we got shellacked during Radders’ tenure , there was usually a response but under Hodgson and latterly Smith we have a team that wouldn’t worry the elite of The Championship. Sacking coaches isn’t the best formula for success but I don’t see what else Pearson can do. This club needs to engage with supporters or it’ll be doomed , and their current stance is the opposite of that, almost feeling like contempt for the people who keep them viable . Who could we get though as replacement? No real candidates scream out and who’d take the job anyway? Worrying times as the club is in free fall and may even be finished due to the parlours financial state it is in. Despair for the loyal thousands , utter despair.

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:34 pm  

As the saying goes "the fish rots from the head"

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:42 pm  

Really don’t think dropping Lane and putting Balmforth in the 17 will make any difference.
However much posters criticise smith.
The players have consistently let themselves and the club down.
There’s enough local hull boys in the team so I would expect them to show some guts and not lay down again next week.

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:56 pm  

B0NES wrote:

I said on another thread , Id be surprised if Okunbor sees the end of this season .

It won'y be just him who doesn't see the end of the season. The rumblings on here suggest support for the whole rotten setup is dwindling and unless there's a mega change in the situation they'll be playing in front of vastly reduced crowds come Septembert

[Chris71]

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:36 pm  

hull2524 wrote:

Blame the coach yes. Penny always stops with him. But the players again downing tools to get rid of the coach. How many times we seen this ?.

Are they though or is that Smith just isn’t up to the job? Quite honestly there is absolutely nothing to suggest he nor whenever implementing anything since they arrived and I dare say we’d see little difference if they were released and we ran a team that didn’t train and just turned on game day.

Why would an experienced coach pick a player that is in the very last throw of his career and struggling with a hamstring issue for the past couple of weeks? Not only that but try and flog him for 80 mins?

I think Smirh has been found out and is past it & the game has past him by now. On top of them at we have an owner that has clearly lost interest and is now doing what Hetherington did in minimum outlay and maximum extraction of money for personal gain.

We will get absolutely mullered on Friday and there is no life in the club at all, it is rotten to the core.

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:37 pm  

Hessle Roader wrote:

It won'y be just him who doesn't see the end of the season. The rumblings on here suggest support for the whole rotten setup is dwindling and unless there's a mega change in the situation they'll be playing in front of vastly reduced crowds come Septembert

*May

[Chris71]

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:38 pm  

Hessle Roader wrote:

It won'y be just him who doesn't see the end of the season. The rumblings on here suggest support for the whole rotten setup is dwindling and unless there's a mega change in the situation they'll be playing in front of vastly reduced crowds come Septembert

Exactly who in their right mind would re new for next season other than blind loyalty? I can’t see many doing that at all.

Re: Giants in the Cup - can we get Up for the Cup? : Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:57 pm  

According to Smith everyone he comes across thinks he is doing a good job, you are all with him and there is no issue. I don’t know a sole or read anywhere anyone who thinks this. Is he delusional?