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Leyton Orient v Hull City

Tonight, Hull are playing the 2nd leg of the Play off semi finals at Brisbane Road, London. Hull won the first leg 1-0 so we go into this match with a slight, very slight, advantage. It is the first time Hull have been in the Play Offs and I’m feeling nervous. I’m just waiting to start the journey and it’s a weird feeling. 3000 Hull supporters are expected, and I’m sure we’re going to make some noise and support out team the best we can. We’ve had such a strange season that we’re all really proud of what the team has achieved whatever the result.

Theoretically a live broadcast from the Radio Humberside commentary should be available here. C’mon you Tigers!

Hull City are in the play-offs

After a turbulent season, Hull City have made it into the 3rd division play-offs. This evening’s game at Southend was a draw which was sufficient to ensure we will finish in one of the 4 play-off spots. The official Hull City website states that Brighton will go through as champions, Chesterfield will be promoted despite the recent FA enquiry and so will Cardiff. Hull and Hartlepool are definitely in the play-offs.

So, it’s going to be a nail-biting end to a nail-biting season but at least this time for the right reasons. Of course, we’re almost certain to make it through to the play-off final. Why you ask? Well, Hull City have never been to Wembley. This year is the first that the play-off finals won’t be at Wembley (whilst it’s being rebuilt), so of course we’ll make it to the final and have to go to the Milennium stadium in Cardiff 😉

But, should the play-offs really happen? Is this a fair way to decide the 4th team to be promoted? Should the team who come 4th in the league automatically go up? I don’t know but as I said before, it will make it an exciting end to the season for this Hull supporter.

Hull City Latest…

Woohoo! After a draw with Plymouth Argyle last night at Plymouth, Hull are in one of the Play-Off spots. Okay, so we’re 7th and are only one point ahead of Rochdale, and they have 3 games in hand but at least we’re there for the moment.

Our new owner, Adam Pearson, has been speaking to the press and has said that Brian Little will be staying as our manager which is excellent news, and also that he plans to support the project to build a new stadium in Hull. He seems alright for an ex-Leeds Director and Huddersfield Town supporter 😉

And, the chap who used to spend his Saturday Afternoon’s being our mascot, Roary, is mentioned on the BBC sport news with his new club, Exeter City.

Plymouth Argyle have banned “Alex the Greek” (which is Roary’s new name/job) from the Plymouth v Exeter match. It would appear that Alex the Greek gets up to all the mischief that he did when he was “Roary the Tiger”, and Plymouth are concerned about him upsetting their supporters. He made the news with the FA Cup match between Hayes Town and Hull City when he was sent off (or at least escorted from the playing area by the stewards).

Exeter approached “Roary” last October and made him an offer he could not refuse. See Mascot swaps Tigers for leather on the BBC sport news site for more.

Weekend sports roundup…

Wycombe beat Leicester to get into the FA Cup semi-final (they’re going to play Liverpool). Not a bad achievement for a 2nd division team, especially one who had to advertise to find a striker, and who signed an unknown player from Belfast, Roy Essandoh, less than a week before the game on a 2 week contract. Quote from the Wycombe page on the Nationwide website – “Ten days ago the Wanderers striker was out of work but he responded to an Internet plea from the Adams Park outfit for a new goalscorer that duly led to the second half substitute notching the dramatic winner.”

Hull City lost to Brighton at the Withdean stadium by 3 goals to nothing. That result leaves Brighton 2nd in the league, and pushes Hull down to 10th. If we’d even got one point we’d have been in the play-off spot. There are rumours starting to circulate about who our new owners are, and apparently a press conference is expected at 5pm today… watch this space

It been turbulent few

It’s been a turbulent few months for my football club, Hull City. We’ve been in administration since 7th February 2000.
Yesterday, the creditors and the shareholders approved the bid, which means we are just waiting for the FA to approve the deal. The buyers still haven’t revealed who they are yet, apparently we find out more next week, but at least we are still a going concern. And whilst that’s all been happening the team (who haven’t been fully paid since the end of December) have been working really hard to get us to one place off the play-offs. Brian Little, our manager, was awarded Nationwide Manager of the Month for February (Division 3) and we then proceeded to lose our next game – fairly typical stuff really and it was against Cardiff away – a tough side at the best of times.