Hull + Phil Brown

PHB · 05-10-2008 7:56pm #1

3rd in the league! 14 points!

Amazingly, 4 of the games have come away from home, with 3 wins and a draw away. Beating Arsenal and Spurs as well.
With any luck, they'll be able to get safe enough to stay, but they've already done a huge huge chunk of that.

What I relaly like is that Phil Brown seems like such a bloody nice guy, down-to-earth manager just putting in the work and seeing the rewards. Great to see.

~Rebel~ · 05-10-2008 7:59pm

PHB wrote:

3rd in the league! 14 points!

Amazingly, 4 of the games have come away from home, with 3 wins and a draw away. Beating Arsenal and Spurs as well.
With any luck, they'll be able to get safe enough to stay, but they've already done a huge huge chunk of that.

What I relaly like is that Phil Brown seems like such a bloody nice guy, down-to-earth manager just putting in the work and seeing the rewards. Great to see.

I'd be surprised at this point if they went down. Really have been so impressive, and what a buy Giovanni has proven to be! Its great that they have that little bit of skill and magic to go along with the work ethic. I dont think this level of performance will keep up for too much longer, but i could see them getting 50points over the course of the season.

estebancambias · 05-10-2008 8:06pm

I don't see where they will score goals from, once Giovanni stops scoring these crackers.

OPENROAD · 05-10-2008 8:14pm

Fair play to them, they have certainly surprised me, nice to see an English manager doing well, wheteher they will stay up or not,a long way to go, but every point they are picking up at the moment is a real bonus.

05-10-2008 8:18pm

Well i thought they were gonna be relegation fodder once they didnt get campbell in and didnt seem to fill that position but what a great job Brown has done there.

ntlbell · 05-10-2008 8:39pm

fantastic start to the season and they have done with some nice football too.

Dub13 · 05-10-2008 8:55pm

I would love to see them staying up.

jesus_thats_gre · 05-10-2008 8:57pm

Fair played to them. You can't but admire that they have achieved.

_blank_ · 05-10-2008 8:59pm

The Premiership is no place for a team like Hull.

Talk about a lack of glamour ffs.

estebancambias · 05-10-2008 9:06pm

couldnt give a toss about them at the start of the season but when i heard brown signed mcshane, i knew i'd be looking out for their result each week...

Dub13 · 05-10-2008 9:07pm

Hull is actually quite a big town with a population of about a 1/4 million people.I no what you mean about a lack of glamour but they are there on there own merit.

~Rebel~ · 05-10-2008 9:07pm

Des wrote: »

The Premiership is no place for a team like Hull.

Talk about a lack of glamour ffs.

what the premiership needs imo are teams which, on their day, can realistically get a result against any other team in the league. And Hull have certainly shown they can do that.

kensutz · 05-10-2008 9:11pm

Dub13 wrote: »

Hull is actually quite a big town with a population of about a 1/4 million people.I no what you mean about a lack of glamour but they are there on there own merit.

City

and before the start of this season they were the only city based team never to play in the top tier of English football.

Charlie · 05-10-2008 9:14pm

Great to see them doing well, and not bending over like Derby. However, I find Phil Brown to be quite detestable.

mike65 · 05-10-2008 9:15pm

Hull are the new Wigan 2005/06 and like Wigwam I bet thier points return will hit the buffers mid season but already having done enough to avoid the drop.

Mike

estebancambias · 05-10-2008 9:15pm

just reading about hull there, the largest ethnic group consists of the 749 chinese people in the city.

Dub13 · 05-10-2008 9:18pm

estebancambias wrote: »

just reading about hull there, the largest ethnic group consists of the 749 chinese people in the city.

Thats a very precise number.

Dave! · 05-10-2008 9:30pm

Great achievement for them so far, well done.

estebancambias · 05-10-2008 9:31pm

i wonder do any of the chinese attend games?

lordgoat · 05-10-2008 10:06pm

i haveit on good authority that 27 chinese people attend each match, they have a lottery system to allocate tickets.

pickarooney · 05-10-2008 10:42pm

estebancambias wrote: »

just reading about hull there, the largest ethnic group consists of the 749 chinese people in the city.

I'm fairly sure they're outnumbered by whites.

Frisbee · 05-10-2008 10:45pm

PHB wrote: »

What I relaly like is that Phil Brown seems like such a bloody nice guy, down-to-earth manager

+1
Great Guy, taken a liking to Hull this season. Even if they did beat us at the Emirates....

mikemac · 05-10-2008 10:45pm

Des wrote: »

The Premiership is no place for a team like Hull.

Talk about a lack of glamour ffs.

Nope, as said Hull is one of the larger cities in England and they deserve a Premiership team as much as anyone. So well done to them and I hope they stay up.

In fact during the Championship playoffs last year, there was a statistic that Hull was the largest city never to be represented in the top Division.
Bristol is currently the biggest city without a Premiership team but one of their teams, Rovers or City did play in Division 1

pickarooney · 05-10-2008 10:51pm

Des wrote: »

The Premiership is no place for a team like Hull.

Talk about a lack of glamour ffs.

Don't worry, I'm sure at least two people didn't take that at face value.

nlgbbbblth · 05-10-2008 11:00pm

micmclo wrote: »

Nope, as said Hull is one of the larger cities in England and they deserve a Premiership team as much as anyone. So well done to them and I hope they stay up.

In fact during the Championship playoffs last year, there was a statistic that Hull was the largest city never to be represented in the top Division.
Bristol is currently the biggest city without a Premiership team but one of their teams, Rovers or City did play in Division 1

Bristol City were in the first division in the late 1970s. Came 13th in 1978-79.
By late 1982 they were bottom of division four. :eek:

Dub13 · 05-10-2008 11:04pm

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Bristol City were in the first division in the late 1970s. Came 13th in 1978-79.
By late 1982 they were bottom of division four. :eek:

He said...

Bristol is currently the biggest city without a Premiership team.

nlgbbbblth · 05-10-2008 11:19pm

Dub13 wrote: »

He said...

Bristol is currently the biggest city without a Premiership team.

I know.

He also said

wrote:

but one of their teams, Rovers or City did play in Division 1

I was adding some background information to City's division 1 experience.

Vokes · 05-10-2008 11:20pm

charlie mchugh wrote: »

However, I find Phil Brown to be quite detestable.

Why, what did he do?

mike65 · 05-10-2008 11:26pm

Indeed, spill Charlie. Spill.

Mike

Skud · 05-10-2008 11:33pm

hull know they need another striker. they tried to get campbell last day of transfer window. What they doing is building a rep for themselves, hopefully they will get a decent striker in jan and go on to do really well.

Great achievement for them, they deserve some plaudits.

Pigman II · 06-10-2008 1:22am

I think the majority of the credit must go to McShane. It's no coincidence that Hull are undefeated since he joined. I confidently predict in time that he will become the greatest player to have ever graced the game.

Hull + Phil Brown

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