RoversTrace wrote:I emailed Hull FC to ask them to clarify the situation regarding the charity donation from tickets being sold, and asked if they will also be donating a percentage of season ticket revenue for this game. ie if they are donating a pound from every ticket sold will they also be donating a pound from every season pass used for the game, meaning that if the attendance were 18000, then they would be donating 18000, this way Hull FC as a club would be making a donation. Alternatively, leave the price the same with them donating a pound from each ticket. As things stand at the moment the donation will be coming from anyone who buys a ticket, thus mainly Rovers fans, not Hull FC. If money is only going in from ticket sales, surely it would have been better to have had a bucket collection, then the Hull fans could have contributed aswell.

I'm still awaiting a reply...

Mrs Barista wrote:What do you think of Rovers raising prices by considerably more than £1 for away supporters at certain games and pocketing the difference?

hull smallears wrote:Even though £1 from our £215 pass that we have paid is going to children in need?
Get over it please
Whilst you are on with FC, ask them about the tickets for the North stand

Mrs Barista wrote:What do you think of Rovers raising prices by considerably more than £1 for away supporters at certain games and pocketing the difference?

RoversTrace wrote:Thank you, you have answered my query before your club managed to, that is all I wanted to know. So in that case the donation from the derby match will be in the region of the day's attendance. A credit to the rugby league supporters of the city.

I don't need to get over it, all I asked for was clarification.

Wouldn't seem much point asking about tickets for the north stand, they will probably be on sale before they reply Once Rovers announce when they are going on sale, someone from my family will be there in the queue.

Gordon Gekko wrote:I think it is very good business

Mrs Barista wrote:Exactly. My point is that the differential is a) far less than that applied to away supporters for Craven Park derbies and b) Hull FC are not profiteering here, they are giving the money to charity. Rovers fans getting all indignant about it just look ridiculous.

j_hunter_hkr wrote:Hull FC aren't giving any money to charity. They'll be keeping 100% of their usual ticket revenue for a derby and mereley forwarding on all of the extra money on behalf of the paying customers.

I just think it's very odd that instead of Hull FC dipping into their own pockets to be charitable, they're dipping into ours.

j_hunter_hkr wrote:Hull FC aren't giving any money to charity. They'll be keeping 100% of their usual ticket revenue for a derby and mereley forwarding on all of the extra money on behalf of the paying customers.

I just think it's very odd that instead of Hull FC dipping into their own pockets to be charitable, they're dipping into ours (and by "ours" I mean all of the paying fans)

Mrs Barista wrote:Hudgell tested the theory that fans will pay over the odds for a derby ticket to the tune of £7 or so each and pocketed the difference. You can hardly criticize FC for recognizing that fans will pay extra and choosing to donate the extra to a good cause - that would make you look cheap and two-faced