Hull Daily ****e at it again.

Negative reporting on the clubs request that players take a 20% pay cut as a result of the lost revenue because of the coronavirus outbreak. Thrown in for good measure this weekend is the rehashed bollocks about football hooligans rampaging through the streets of Hull...…...40 odd years ago, citing the leader as Sinbad who to my knowledge never went to a City game in his life.
Meanwhile two weeks ago when Adam Pearson announced exactly the same measures for Hull FC they headlined that it was good news adding favourable comments from the club captain etc etc and how necessary and sensible it was.
No added 'derby day pitch invasions' etc to add a bit of meat to the story either.

 

Ehab's got a nice new yacht though, nowt wrong there.

Wonder what happened to all that money we made from transfers that we didn't spend.

Definitely no correlation at all. None. Absolutely nowt.

 

As the best run club in the country you would expect us to be first to ask the players to take a pay cut.

 

After some of the recent performances I'd be embarrassed to pick up the wage packet. Though it's a short career. Isn't it?
What's rent-a-thicko, Rooney been saying about a pay-cut. Hardly the sharpist tool in the box.

 

Why is ours 'unsavoury' but an identical request in the same city, in the same economic climate, to a club playing from the same stadium, but a different sport granted, reported on as being sensible and reasonable with favourable comments from the club captain to back it up ?
I also don't see why they have to drag out the 'football hooligans rampaging through the streets of Hull' piece out yet again, what's news worthy about that ?
The senior Tigers donated a five figure sum to the NHS last week, did you see that reported in the HDM ?
I also don't think we are the first club to ask our players to take a pay cut at all. We weren't even the first in this city.

 

The post isn't about you though is it ?
My point it, and is often shouted down on here, that two clubs operating in the same city, playing from the same stadium, although different sports but in the same economic climate meaning both are trying to attract support, sponsorship and so on. Yet football often gets the ****ty end of the stick whilst everything RL do is reported on as being squeaky clean, good for the environment, wholesome family fun and great entertainment/value compared to football. This highlights exactly my point. Adam Pearson request to his players/staff is sensible and reasonable in the circumstance yet two weeks later Ehab make the same request and it's 'unsavoury'.

 

How much transfer income did Adam Pearson receive in January, or the months since then?

 

But the fact that UP has posted three times (with justification) about the same subject, may make you think what is the silly old bugger on about now.
You might then look at what he is on about and find that everything he says is factually correct. Not heard from a mate, or a man in a taxi etc but from the local paper that reports on YOUR club i.e. Hull City.
Are you really content that the paper reports so negatively about City? OK the pay cut request stinks (typical Allam stunt) but is comparable to other clubs. But the links in the article about City violence - why?
No links in rugby reports about the Huddersfield semi final televised barney, Rovers v Salford in the million pound challenge (or whatever), various FC v Rovers matches marred by violence.

The paper that reports about YOUR club is a ****ing disgrace and should be shown to be so, as UP has done.

 

You are assuming that City got paid up front for Bowen and Grosicki ? When everyone else knows they didn't. We are still paying some players Premier League wages for playing in the Championship. How many players do FC pay £10k a week to play for some one else ? Point being the costs involved in running a Championship football club on gates of 10,000 must be fifty even 100 times more then they are for running a RL who attract similar sized crowds. The argument stays the same only the local rag reports it differently.

PS to OLM. I haven't bought the HDM for three years now. This stuff is available free of charge for all to see on their website.

 

I hate to say it, but I agreed with UP this time, assuming what is stated actually was reported as such (I can't read HDM/Hull Live. It makes that bastion of imbeciles, Mongbook look semi-intelligent).

 

It’s a **** rag and it always has been.

 

I’m not assuming anything of the sort about the payments, I’m fully aware of the terms. The fact that the money comes in stages makes it easier to support staff during a long term crisis.

I happen to think that players should take a wage cut to help the covid crisis, in our division and the division above. And I think that should be done through the tax system, and include all extremely rich people, and should not be based on the health secretary or poxy local rags trying to shame and isolate footballers.

I also think the lengths you go to to shoehorn rugby league into a myriad of football issues is ****ing pathetic.

 

You think so ? So clubs don't bank/invest it & get some interest to help the cause if it all comes upfront?

 

I am not shoehorning rugby league into a myriad football issues at all.
I am highlighting the difference in the mood of reporting on exactly the same issues by two clubs in the same city by the same news media.
Also asking why we should have a hooligan article re printed again as if to back up how 'unsavoury' football is. .
I think that is pathetic.

 

With no sport on Phil Buckingham is digging up some interesting City stuff, however the old City Psychos article was misinformed rubbish.
Expect a lot of nonsense next month when they celebrate 40 years since peak eggchasing day.

 

I agree Phil Buckingham has wrote some good stuff recently. I think this Psychos/Monte Carlo stuff comes from the news desk, not the sports desk and as you rightly say it is misinformed rubbish and I've read this at least three times in recent months on Hull Live.
Buckingham isn't the problem. The problem lies with the 'everything is rosy' theme that runs through everything RL. Even the sacking of the coach live on SKY was glossed over as a good move.