Well, what a few days for Hull City fans. From a lacklustre performance in a shocking game of football, to revelations about the lateness of everyone’s favourite Tigers twitterer, leading to reports of the club facing financial troubles, Paul Duffen coming down with the flu just as everyone wanted an interview with him, and eventually the shock rumours that the Tigers chairman, and or manager may have left the club to be replaced with fan’s hero Adam Pearson.... Phew, let’s go through it chronologically.

It’s not often I agree with Phil Thompson, but his slating of Saturday’s game against Portsmouth was spot on. It was shocking stuff, as two very poor sides failed to string more than three passes together. I truly pity anyone who went of their way to watch that encounter, and the fans showed their first genuine show of dissent against Tigers boss Phil Brown, treating him to renditions of “you don’t know what you’re doing.” I am an advocate of keeping Brown in the job, and I still think he can keep us up, but performances have to be better than Saturday’s effort, starting with a very winnable, although still tricky trip to the fun loving utopia of Burnley

Probably the only thing of genuine interest from Saturday was Jozy Altidore's omission from the squad. Whether or not he would have made a difference from the bench is moot, Brown was spot on to send him home after turning up so late. Such a ridiculously unprofessional attitude cannot be tolerated. What was strange was Brown's reaction to Jozy's apology. In fairness, club business should be kept in house, but I thought it was quite a touching and honest gesture. Brown's criticism of the American forward was at odds with his own assertions of keeping things in house, publicly declaring the 19-year-old would be fined. Another fine example of man-mis-management from Mr Brown. Let's hope the youngster's confidence is not dented by this episode, and he can get a run of games in the side.

The pressure on Phil Brown was relieved in a way on Tuesday, as City fans were distracted by a story in the national press that the Tigers could go into financial meltdown. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the figures, and I suspect now is not the time to panic, but figures banded around of £23 million are somewhat disconcerting. What is clear is that City are not debt-free as we were led to believe, and that the sale of Michael Turner was clearly driven by a need to service a debt. Will we go to the wall? Probably not. Will we sell all our players if we go down? Quite possibly. This one will probably rumble on, but without clarification within the club, the fans could quite easily turn nasty.

Which leads nicely to the potential return of (Sir) Adam, whose arrival would massively reassure most of the black and amber faithful. His appointment would be a real coup for owner Russell Bartlett, who must understand the esteem Pearson is held under by Hull City supporters. Obviously, this is all conjecture at the moment, nothing has been announced, other than that Pearson has left his job at Derby County. Duffen has curiously been unavailable for comment for the past couple of days, apparently struck down with swine flu. While this may be true, the suspicion is that the current Tigers chairman has been shown the door, with Hull City's owner Russell Bartlett reported to have held meetings in the City, with a view to restructuring the club's hierarchy.

Let's just pre-suppose that this is true, that Duffen has gone and will be replace by Pearson. It would be a massive day in the club's history – a return by one of the club's very favourite sons. For those of you new to the Hull City soap opera, I'll give a quick run-down on the Adam Pearson story....

Peo/Sir Adam took over Hull City in 2001, where after years of mis-management, the club sat in administration in division three of the football league (now League two). It didn't happen overnight, but success eventually came to the club, with back to back promotions leaving the club in the Championship. Pearson sold the club to Bartlett, making a personal profit of several million pounds, and allowing further investment to push the club into the Premier League. To say Adam Pearson is a Hull City hero is a massive understatement.

What would this mean to City? Hopefully a slightly lower profile in the media. I've nothing personally against Paul Duffen, and I know him to be a very generous guy, but feel he's a bit carried way with his media profile. Pearson will keep a lower profile, and will hopefully improve the club's national image, which currently stands as a laughing stock. Would Pearson keep Brown in the job? AP did bring in Phil Brown originally remember, and I feel he'd give him until Christmas at least. Rumours abounded throughout Wednesday that Brown had been removed, with several bookmakers refusing to take bets on Brown being dismissed. That has since been denied by the club, but Brown's position would surely be closely scrutinised by any new Chairman.

There's a lot going on at City at the moment. Duffen, Pearson, Brown, the clubs finances, the Altidore situation... What do you guys think? I'll do a Q+A tomorrow if I get time.

Cheers guys (and girls!)

TC