I'm not sure it was. By my reckoning it lasted about 6 months. We made a big deal about it when Robins departed and Keith Hill appeared to be right in tune with the strategy. It sounded good and it started to look good too. By Christmas we were playing some great football. Then Butterfield got injured, Leicester bought Drinkwater and Vaz Te was sold. Keith Hill saw his own arse, panicked and we reverted to type, filling the squad with useless loan signings like we'd always done and using up vital finances that would have been far better utilised if they were saved to bring in permanent signings who Keith really fancied in the summer. We lost 13 of our final 18 matches after the January transfer window shut, 19 of the final 27 in total. We finished 8 points clear of relegation, so we actually secured our championship status on 18th February when we beat Portsmouth 2-0. Didn't stop us throwing money at a problem that didn't exist though and the more we did that the worse we got.
That's a fair point. However, the club continued to tell us that was the strategy. It just wasn't very well managed.
I'm not sure they did. Like I said, they made a big announcement between the end of the 2010/11 season and the beginning of the 2011/12 season about the definition of insanity and FFP and all that, but I can't remember them saying anything on the subject since. I could well be wrong on that, they may well have done, but I can't recall it at the moment. I heard Keith Hill complaining a lot, I've heard Flicker, Wilson and Ben Mansford speaking about the generosity of Patrick Cryne, but not about us continuing down that path we set out on in 2011. I've heard nowt about us abandoning that approach either like, but they've definitely not been beating the drum about us continuing with that philosophy. Maybe we have, I don't know, but I believe our owner has been sticking his hand in his back pocket again and helping us out.
let's be fair, this isn't about us being allowed to spend money. it's about other teams not being allowed to spend money. we don't have **** all to spend, even if the rules allowed it.
Interview with the invisible man tomorrow in the Chronicle, explaining why he supports the Hull Tigers name change. Apparently. I have to say, I find it somewhat worrying that we've a Chairman we never hear from, who is seemingly against FFP. A director who supports name changes, and does **** all - from what I can see - for the club he's 'represented' for years. And an owner that hasn't spoken since Robins was fired as we 'prepared for FFP'. I see a scary few months ahead for us.
This is all too political for me and i'm not going to spend my night discussing politics when my new batch of squirrel porn as arrived