Frågestund med Tony Warnersface
Jag har åter igen fått en supporter från England att dela med sig av sina åsikter gällande Hulls pågående säsong. Det är alltid intressant att läsa "infödda" supportrars åsikter och jag hoppas att vi får se liknande inslag från andra redaktioner. Jag väljer åter igen att publicera artikeln på engelska. Det är absolut inga fel på min förmåga att översätta texter men det skulle inte ge dem rättvisa.
Name: Tony Warnersface
Age: 20
Location: Sheffield, England
Hull City supporter since: First game 1997
1: How has the season been so far in your point of view? Have we played worse or better than expected?
Overall, I'd have to say worse. We seem to be turning around at the moment (barring Leicester), but if you'd have asked me in August if I thought we'd be in the bottom half at Christmas I'd have laughed you off. I expected us to be in and around the play-offs at the very, very least.
2: Which game has been Hulls best/worst performance?
Best performance I've seen this season, bear in mind I don't go to away games, is a toss up between the Derby and Bristol City games, in both games we dominated the games and showed our real capability, I just expected it to happen in more games. The Sheffield United game was the worst game of football I have ever seen, I was so bored I was genuinely annoyed that there was any injury time at all.
3: Which player do you se as our most important?
Jimmy Bullard, when fit he's the best player on the team by a mile and probably one of the best in the league. Though he still gets a lot of unncessary stick from people who can't grasp the fact that he gets paid a lot, I think he'll be key in our promotion push this season or next, despite reports it seems that the players get along with him, the manager clearly rates him, so it's time he got the backing from the stands that's offered to other players.
4: Are you pleased with Nigel Pearson as coach?
He's doing OK, I wasn't too impressed with his appointment as I thought if we were going to get a manager from another club then Nigel Atkins would have been my choice. Saying that, I'd be a lot happier if Phil Brown was still in charge, we played better football in the Championship with him and I think we'd stand more chance of going up with him in charge.
5: Which player has been our best signing/loan?
Liam Rosenior, which is funny because I didn't think McShane was doing too bad at all at right back, but now Rosenior's there I think he offers us a touch of class that McShane obviously couldn't, he's the type of player that will get us back to the Premiership.
6: Which team do you reckon is the best in The Championship, besides Hull City? And why?
I'm tempted to say QPR because they're top, but from my own personal POV I'd have to say Leicester, we were in form at the time and they completely outplayed us.
7: Why do you think that our promosing youth system has failed this season? We have more or less only seen Jamie Devitt play recently.
I just don't think our youth system is good enough to be honest, we haven't exactly got a reputation for building stars and whenever a youth player comes through we build them up to something they're not and I think it gets to their heads. Look at Cairney inparticular, we hailed him as a future star last season but really he was just putting in average performances in a poor team, this season it's come across that he thinks he's made it and doesn't have to try as hard. We need to send our youth out on loan before putting them in the first team, they get experience and a better attitude, which is why Devitt has succeeded where Cairney and Cooper haven't.
8: How come our results away has been better than our results at the KC Stadium?
Who knows, it's not long since we were asking the opposite, maybe it's because the atmosphere hasn't been brilliant at the KC, the wave of optism we were on at the start of the season has more or less whimpered out and the atmosphere is now like Master's Football.
9: Final question! Will Hull be able to reach the play-offs or will at take some more time? What do we have to improve for the future?
Easily, we've got the players to make the play-offs a real possibility, it's a tight league and I think if Bullard can keep fit then we should have a happier second half of the season and hopefully another trip to Wembley or Cardiff wherever they're being held this year.
I thank you Tony for taking your time to answer some of my questions!
