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Tim Walter's future assessed as Hull City boss comes under fire after fan criticism
David Prutton believes Hull City fans are right to be frustrated with what they're watching under Tim Walter amid growing calls for Acun Ilicali to part company with the German head coach.
City fans were sold an attacking brand of football under Walter after he replaced Liam Rosenior but that has yet to materialise. His side were roundly jeered throughout the second half against Portsmouth on Saturday before being booed off by the majority of the 22,000 home crowd.
Walter then called on fans to provide more backing in one of his post-match interviews, comments which have not gone down well with supporters after another home game without victory. City have won just three of 19 league and cup games at the MKM Stadium in 2024, and their followers are fed up, something Prutton understands.
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"I totally get the frustration of the fans, I absolutely get that," Prutton told the latest episode of the 1904 Club podcast. "I think the thing that always makes you think, and I'm not saying it's identical to the Wayne Rooney situation at Birmingham City, but when there's a lot made of philosophy and style of football, and you don't see it - it's hard enough to win a football match in the Championship, to say we're going to win it in a particular style is bananas.
"The change has been made because the owner wants this type of football, just don't say that. The change has been made because the owner wants something different and when you say different, you think a bit more progress - top six, and it's not come to fruition.
"I was reading a few of Tim's comments off the back of it about being quite straight talking, and it being his second language, and there's no need for them to mess around and talking in riddles; I don't think that's true. I think most English and British managers I come across are straight-talking.
"We (Sky Sports) had Paul Warne on after the game on Saturday against Stoke. He had frustrations in the game; he also called out one of his players quite rightly saying Nat Phillips should have had a second yellow card which would have got him off the pitch. I talk to straight-talking managers all the time. Chris Wilder's one, John Eustace is another one, so I don't agree with his comments that I'm shooting from the hip and people aren't used to it; rubbish; we are used to straight-talking managers in this division.
"What fans aren't going to swallow is that we're going to play football like this because I've got this background, and I'm very entrenched and educated in this way of playing football, and everyone paying their money and going, well, that doesn't look anything like they're talking about.
"Fans absolutely have the right to do this. It annoys me that philosophies and style and the debate about that is almost said in this other world thing that fans wouldn't understand, rubbish. You understand cr*p when you see it."
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