: Thu May 28, 2009 9:11 am
sparky fc wrote:
We the supporters have a right to criticize when things ain't going right.We pays our money, which is intern invested throughout the club.If the club wanna serve up poor entertainment maybe they should start charging the oppropriate amount £1 agame or £10 for a pass.
Apart from the odd howl of frustration about giving away a stupid penalty I have never, in my many years of supporting Hull, openly criticised an FC player until Thorman finally over-tested my patience against Leeds. I always like to see the positives and support the individuals through thick-and-thin. They are not robots and, no, Hull can't afford a team built entirely of "greats" so they will make mistakes and put in poor performances individually and as a team. I still strongly support Hall who I think is a future potential world-beater but he is a young lad whose confidence took a knock and, I believe, the coaching staff has done the right thing: I hope we see him back in the centre berth soon. The problem with Thorman is that both the officials at FC and
he himself lauded him as our great hope for 2009 - he was going to be vociferous on the park, organising the team whilst breaking the defence down and giving us options with his kicking game. The latter he has done on occasion, but not enough occasions for me, and I don't see him organising the team or taking the line on often enough; nor has he seemed to be building a partnership with Richard Horne. He has made two mistakes with poorly executed options early in the tackle count this year and both have cost us dearly at crucial points. I can't think of a scrum-half this year who has not made him look less than ordinary. Finally, his defence is awful. If the coaching staff can sort those problems out then we'll be fine. Unfortunately, I don't think it can be done: I do not say it lightly when I say that he needs to go but I strongly believe it to be true. Returning to my first sentence, I feel terrible saying this about any player in an FC first-team shirt at any grade.