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August 31, 2009
NEWS – City confirm Sunderland can talk to Turner
Depressingly but unsurprisingly, Hull City have accepted a bid from Sunderland for defender par excellence Michael Turner and now it is entirely up to the player as to whether the deal goes through.
The details of the bid are, again with some predictability, undisclosed at this stage but seems likely to involve the acquisition of one, possibly two, of Sunderland’s fringe players to follow Paul McShane, whose arrival at the KC was confirmed yesterday.
Now it seems to be in Turner’s hands. It doesn’t do any harm to hope that he might realise he is on to a good thing at the KC and shouldn’t join a club with notoriously impatient fans who will destroy him should he ever have the nerve to make a mistake, especially with an apparently large price tag to burden.
The deal has until 5pm tomorrow – bloody Bank Holidays – to go through. Either way, Turner will play in City’s next game as the Tigers travel to the Stadium of Light on September 12th.
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MATCH REPORT: Wolves 1-1 City
A curious match, this one. City scored early and were good in the first half, rubbish in the second, left with a point (just), and all we could talk of was Michael Turner.
It shows this impact this redoubtable individual has made during his time at City. If the following reads a little like an obituary, than that’s not entirely unapt. There was a gloomy suspicion in the away end at Wolverhampton that we were seeing the end of an era – the Michael Turner era, which brought about the happiest times we’ve ever known.
Let us fervently hope this is not so. To their discredit, neither the manager or chairman seem to be overly concerned with retaining him, issuing irritatingly waffly statements about “hoping” to keep him. The player himself, we understand, has no great desire to leave City, though it’s only natural that if a big club came in for him he’d accept that his England ambitions would be better served there. But Sunderland? For £6m, and two fringe players? Such a transfer would greatly increase our chances of relegation, would short-change City to a huge extent, and would be frankly a disgrace.
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OPINION – Turner sale could hugely change perception of DuffMan
City fans are currently crossing their fingers, legs and hearts as well as offering prayers to the god of transfers, in the hope that City’s prized asset Michael Turner will not be sold on deadline day, Tuesday.
Manager Phil Brown, rather than categorically stating Turner is not for sale as he should have, has said the club would listen to ‘mammoth’ bids for the frankly superb centre-back, hinting that chairman Paul Duffen is quite open to the idea of flogging the finest player in the club’s history. Such statements invite bids from other clubs, and though we’ve said no to Liverpool, Sunderland now look poised to break the Tiger Nation’s collective heart by taking Turner, a player unanimously loved, to the Stadium of Light.
That we would even consider selling Turner raises many questions, first of Phil Brown, but mostly of chairman Paul Duffen… (more…)
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August 29, 2009
RESULT – Wolves 1 City 1
Hull City struggled their way to a share of the spoils after being outplayed in the second half by a profligate Wolves at Molineux.
The Tigers took the lead after three minutes when Geovanni headed in Stephen Hunt’s exceptional cross, but failed to make another worthy chance for the rest of the game, allowing Wolves back into it when Richard Stearman guided in a free kick early in the second half.
Wolves’ finishing was poor afterwards, with ex-Scunt Andy Keogh especially guilty, though he couldn’t be blamed when his goalbound shot was magnificently blocked by the flying body of Michael Turner, which could end up as the last great act of many by the Tigers defender, who seems bound for Sunderland before the window closes. Match report to follow.
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TATWATCH – Hull City Boothery Park t-shirt + gift box
Unofficial. Available from: Ebay. Price £12.99
I’m always reminiscing about the good old days at Boothery Park aren’t you? I really miss the Klemptun stand.
FFS, Boothery? BOOTHERY? And you’ve made 50 of these? Good luck shifting those, you clueless fucktards.
Tod rating…
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August 28, 2009
MATCH PREVIEW – Wolves v. Tigers
City head to Molin-yeeeee with a spring in their step after recording back to back wins for what seems like the first time since pre-flood days. Jozy ’Big Unit’ Altidore could get his first Premier League start having impressed as a sub against Bolton and scoring his first City goal in midweek against Southend. He could lead the line for City with support available from Stephen Hunt and Kamel ‘4 lungs’ Ghillas when we have possession.
As for Wolves, Sylvain Ebanks-Blake is unlikely to have recovered sufficiently from a hamstring tweak so new boy Kevin Doyle will make a first start up front. Stephen Ward and Greg Halford are also in contention to return. Wolves played well against Manchester City last week but still lost 1-0, though they advanced in the League Cup in midweek with a win over Swindon on penalties.
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REVIEW – The Official Hull City Quiz Book
The automatic reaction to any quiz is surely to complete it, then scour for any mistakes that you can gloat over. So it was interest that Amber Nectar was offered a copy of the Official Hull CIty Quiz Book to review a short time ago. With the almost obligatory foreword by Paul Duffen and a battery of kind words on the back page by City luminaries past and present, it’s compiled by Chris Cowling and Kevin Snelgrove, who seem to have plenty of form in producing quiz books on varying subjects.
At just over a hundred pages, including the answers, it feels slightly on the light side, but it has over 800 questions split into different categories: players, matches, seasons, history, and so on. The layout is pretty basic and the italicisation of everything is mildly annoying, but it’s not terminaly distracting. Substance over style, and all that.
Most importantly, the difficulty of the questions has a well-judged variety. Some are so easy that even the newest member of the Tiger Nation will answer with ease; some challenge even the most formidable of City memories – and I couldn’t find any errors.
Verdict: worth sticking in the glove compartment for away games.
Courtesy of the nice people at Apex Publishing, we have a copy of the book to give away. To enter the competition, e-mail your name and address to competition@tigernation.co.uk, and using an as yet undetermined randomising process we’ll post it out to the winner.
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August 27, 2009
AGAINST ALL ODDS: Who’ll win the Sack Race?
Did you realise that Phil Brown is, with many bookmakers, the second/third favourite to be the next Premier League manager to leave his present job? I had no idea this was the case. It’s hard to discern why. After all, Phil Brown has lesser demands placed on him compared to most this season. If we stay up, the season will broadly be viewed a success. Other than the recently promoted three, and maybe Portsmouth, where else will a manager do his position no harm by finishing 17th?
No, I’m not having it. Brown is close to Paul Duffen and only a disastrous run of results akin to the first half of this year would get close to seeing the manager’s position under threat. Given the influx of gloryhunters we’ve seen at the Circle in recent times, raised on a diet of Sky Sports’ hysteria and tabloid hyperbole, City fans remained commendably understanding when things went wrong last season and even a 1-5 gubbing at home last week was stoically stomached. That could change of course; but with relatively modest expectations, a genuinely supportive chairman and (currently) patient fans, William Hill’s quote of 3/1 on Brown leaving his job first is a joke.
Elsewhere, things are quite different. Just three games in, and a first title for Liverpool since it was called Division One looks no nearer. Rafael Benitez has spent a fortune winning a clutch of cups but treading water in the League, and patience – his, the fans, and the owners – must be wearing thin. At up to 5/1, he’s a much better shot than Phil Brown – as is Paul Hart, the favourite, and helpless captain of an increasingly leaky Portsmouth. If pushed, one may say that 10/1 on Gary Megson is worth a nibble. He’s unpopular with the fans, his team looks uninspired (albeit very early in the season), and a poor start could do for him.
Of course it’s an unpredictable market, and we offer a decidedly partisan assessment of it – but with the Premier League full of demanding fans, ruthless chairmen and unattainable ambition, it’d be a major surprise if Phil Brown left City soon enough to beat nineteen other managers.
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August 26, 2009
MATCH REPORT: City 3-1 Southend
Well, at least we didn’t have to travel far this time. And there was a slightly happier outcome. And, err, that’s about it.
We speak, of course, about the Second Round of the League Cup – never more burdensome a proposition than when you’re in the Premier League. Last season it took us to the desperately unappealing south of Wales. This time, Southend were the unlucky ones, being compelled to travel to East Yorkshire to watch our reserves huff, puff and eventually progress into the Third Round.
We were promised changes, and we duly received them. Phil Brown, sporting his cup tie black shirt, made eleven in total, carding an XI made up of subs, reserves, youth teamers and Jozy Altidore: Warner; Doyle, Cooper, Mouyokolo, Halmosi; Cairney, Featherstone, Barmby, Atkinson; Fagan, Altidore. (more…)
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City 0-1 Crawley
v Doncaster (Jan 31st)
Better than Waggy
Aaron Mclean7.2
James Chester7.0
Robert Koren6.8
Paul McKenna6.8
Tom Cairney6.7
As Bad as Bamber
Péter Gulácsi6.1
Andy Dawson6.2
Matt Fryatt6.2
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