mwindass wrote:
More from Steve Mascord
HULL FC CEO Richie Myler hosted a media briefing at the club's training base today.
OBJECTIVES:
"I just want us to be proud of this club again - everybody. And I want to have the respect of our opponents.
"Success is getting this club back to a consistently high performing level.
"I want a competitive team. I'm not saying we have to win every week. I don't think anybody wants to come to Hull and see a 50-0 drubbing.
"And I want to see smiles on faces ... if we can finish in a respectable position in the league and win as many games as we can, that's a success
Don't know about anyone else on here, but these words from Myler essentially sum up my hopes for the coming months. No-one is expecting to be frantically buying tickets for Old Trafford come October, but what we are looking for is commitment, desire, work rate and, most of all, pride in the shirt, the club and indeed themselves in how they conduct their business each week. If they can achieve even that, it will go a long way to getting the core supporter base back onside after the horror show of 2024.
I get the feeling, reading Myler's words today, that as a club we had become a standing joke last year throughout SL, virtually dismissed as even the vaguest of threats to anyone (coming within a hair's breadth of losing to London three times hardly altered anyone's perception of what a basket case the club had degenerated to). It is imperative that we start to regain a degree of respect within the game right from the off, and show people that we are once more a serious proposition and we are here to compete as a basic requirement if we are to make any progress from our very low starting base.
As always, the proof is in the pudding as they say. Ultimately it's results that matter in the end, but Myler's quotes show that everyone connected with the club is acutely aware of the enormous task ahead of us, but everyone seems to have rolled their sleeves up and are already getting stuck in. As (long-suffering!) fans we need to do the same.
With Hull Fc, you're either in or you're not. It would seem that, even after enduring the worst season that any of us have ever witnessed (by some margin as well), most of us are still in for the ride. I still think the coming months may be a hard watch at times, but I am more optimistic than we have reached and passed the bottom of the curve than I would ever have thought possible when last season ended, so we have to be thankful for at least that.
There will be ups, there will be downs, we'll fight and argue on this board as we always do on here!!, but that's what comes with supporting one of life's most bizarre, perplexing, frustrating, unfathomable clubs, they always have been and I suspect Hull Fc always will be!!
(PS I'm in full-on Wilf disciple mode tonight, hence the wordy missives!!
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