New owner confirmed…

Everyone knows where to go in the stadium if you want to stand (north end of East or on the back row of the stand further down), if you're trying to stand for any length of time anywhere outside of that area then you can't complain when you get told to sit down. The stadium is all-seater, the club and the stewards (to varying degrees) have tried to squash standing for a long time for all sorts of reasons to the point that they refused to even consider railed seating pilots.

 

I think this is a really weird thing that's become trendy to say about Radio Humberside commentary. It'd be so dull if the entire commentary was just describing every pass literally. In all good commentary, there's an element of adding context around the game. Burnsy is good enough at his job to know when to talk about other things and when to focus on the action, so you've got no worries of missing any important action. He'll straight up interrupt the co-commentator if needed.

That balance is part of what makes an entertaining commentary. The novice commentators might not be able to do it, and in the case of James Fletcher, have to fall back on the blandest of descriptions instead.

I don't particularly want to have a go at JF; he is what he is and that's fine, but Burnsy is way ahead of him in that field.

 

It's probably become trendy because it happens so often and it's so ridiculously unneeded. I don't need to know the boot colours or particular shades of the shirts of the opponents, and Swanny and Burnsy seem to think it's utterly hilarious to continue on about it for what feels like half the game, both chuckling away at their jokes. I just don't really enjoy it when I'm generally listening because I want to hear about what's happening on the pitch. Burnsy also has a tendency to get on the players' backs quite quickly (as he's continued to do in his tweets), which is even more frustrating if we haven't been given a better play-by-play as we have nothing to go on to get context for what he's saying.

I get that plenty like him, and fair enough, but I prefer a more professional play-by-play commentator like Fletch, even if others may find that bland.

 

It's not more professional, it's just less skilled. JF probably himself accepts that he's not on the level of someone like Burnsy. He's a rookie, and again that's fine but I think it's a bit insulting to Burnsy to compare them. It makes me cringe a bit how people are so negative about Burnsy these days. He's really not the problem.

 

Each to their own, we'll have to agree to disagree on what constitutes a professional commentator.

 

It’s not just the commentary. It’s the build up to the game and after, in which when Burnsie ran it was excellent. Despite what anyone says.

Ehab has killed all that now. Like walking to a funeral now a days rather than a ‘event’ and football match.

 

For the build up he was great, that's a very different skillset though and he was definitely great in that regard. Afterwards too. He's a great radio personality.

 

He supports Norwich City.

 

Obviously none of us know how it’s all going to go or how he will engage with the fans but I really hope he brings back many young kids we have lost over the last few years. I know in his interview he mentions about unhappy fans which happens with poor results which is true but has we all know there has been many reasons. Anyway I’m sure he has gone into it, hopefully he will speak to supporters groups ect. I’m also sure he will know lots about the club and the fans when you are spending that sort of money. It will be great to see the supporters backing has one and hopefully quite a number returning however you want them back not just for the first game but for a long time after. Hopefully it will happen very soon.

 

Pay on the day needs to be available, when I was playing amateur football, quite often games were called off at 1 pm, so we would all go to City to watch their game.

I'm sure there are many reasons why people had something planned that day, but it was called off, so they could then go to watch football.

 

Can you do pay on the day during these COVID times? I know here in Aus we need to buy tickets at least 24 hours prior to let them process who is able to attend.

 

POTD was an option at Barnsley last week

 

Any ideas yet about what you want to be when you grow up?

 

Tall?.

 

You can pay on the day at all our home games afaik. The club just seems to keep it a secret.

 

And, you could bump into someone on a Friday night and say there was a spare seat on the bus to the away game the next day and they could go. Or hop on the bus we had meeting us when the pubs shut. Dave Dewberry sometimes used to book a bus and round up a bunch of likely looking lads on a Friday after they had sunk a few beers. Such spontaneity would horrify some nowadays.

 

I’d like to say how glad I am to see you on here again. I’d like to but can’t fib…

 

Brilliant, well done. Good to see the level of your content has remained consistent.

 

I'm not the only one who thinks like that then.

 

I thought that "Acun" came across very positively in Bazz Cooper's HDM follow up article to his interview with our potential new owner "First Impressions of Acun Ilicali". In contrast to the Allams who had very little interest in and knowledge of Hull City except as a business investment he seems to be a true football "fanatic" and has followed Hull City for some time. As he said in the article...

"Ilicali says he remembers watching the FA Cup final against Arsenal, seeing Mo Diame’s howitzer to see off Sheffield Wednesday in the play-off final, and numerous games in the Premier League, particularly the sneering when the Tigers were top of the league.

It’s that spirit, that sense of togetherness which has inspired him to buy the club.

He is somebody who knows and understands football and watches an awful lot of it, and has seen 80 percent of City’s games this season live, albeit on television – whether or not Ilicali can bring a passion for football and a businessman’s mind and unite the two remains to be seen, but you sense he has the in-built drive to do so."

So we finally have a relatively young, "football crazy" prospective owner, with substantial financial resources and contacts, whose enthusiasm and plans for the Club we love augur well for the future. The next few years could be exciting times !!!!