When my 2 handed in their tickets from their season booklet, they had to climb over the turnstiles.

Does this mean they were counted on the actual attendance or not?

One way of lowering the stated crowd, therefore giving us less of the takings.

They were free what is the point of asking for half of nothing?

By passing them over the turnstyle, a paying adult would be able to get in but the club says it was a kid and produce a kids ticket, vus reducing the split of the gate money.

Never thought of that.

Everyone who watches should pass through the turnstiles and be counted. They should then be able to validate the correct numbers from the number of tickets they hold and from the cash takings relevant to the particular entrance, be it junior, concession or adult.

You're being a bit paranoid there.

A) Why assume Cas would want to fiddle?

B) The turnstiles, the reconciliations and all figures are open to inspection throughout the process by our Club officials.

As only one class of entrance goes through one turnstile, a gate would have to be marked as junior on the reconciliation sheet and adult on the gate for what you describe above to take place. I think someone would have spotted that

Shaunna came through the Adult turnstyle with me on Saturday.

The whole entrance thing was a farce. We were told to buy tickets in advance to save £1 and to save queuing, yet on arrival the pay gates had no queues and the ticket only turnstile was 20 deep, the jobsworth muppet of a steward couldnt understand my gripe when I raised it with him.

Caught sight of the Deputy Cheif Steward at the end, so asked him, his response was Cas only expected 500 Fax fans as thats the amount of tickets they sent, so it was our fault. He was the biggest muppet of the lot. Probably couldn't wait to get home to his Wife/Sister.

The Woman on the gate was equally inept, shouting "does anyone know what a Halifax Junior Ticket is?" down the queue. Not rocket science really is it?

Probably, the turnstile operator will be fiddling for his own pocket

That's because the Halifax season tickets didn't have a designated voucher for the game. Whereas the Castleford Junior season tickets have vouchers saying Challenge Cup 4th Round, 5th Round, Quarter Final etc. The Halifax booklets had Voucher A, Voucher B, Voucher C etc. Half of those with season tickets had Voucher A's missing, some had Voucher B's missing.

Thern, when you bear in mind Voucher B (or C, or whatever) may be for a future cup game or for allocation of play off tickets, well you don't want to take the wrong one because thats a lot of upset Halifax fans come play off time.

Not sure how true this is but Halifax failed to inform Castleford that their season ticket booklets didn't have designated vouchers. Hope that clears things up. And no I wasn't the woman on the gate