WormInHand wrote:But Rovers have been given an allowance of 3600 tickets. Super League rules oblige the Home team to make 10% of the capacity available to the Away fans, that's only 2400.
So, by that we have generously given you an extra 50% allowance.
Not the actions of children acting pi$$y.
In fact, at the first derby at the KC after your arrival in Super League we did all we could to make you welcome. Invited your mascot AND your cheerleaders. Allowed those cheerleaders to line up with ours to welcome BOTH teams on the pitch TOGETHER, the announcer making as much fuss over the Robins as ourselves - the whole pre-match run-up had a communal carnival slant with no animosity.
I believe relations started to go downhill after this spirit was not returned by your club on our first visit to your ground. None allocation of the North Away stand to Hull fans only out of all other teams, the £17 charged for the South "Stand", the banning of Airlie, no joint entrance etc etc.
Sadly, that, and the handling by your officials of the Paul Cooke defection, set the tone for future relations.
Whoever it was who started it, and I think both clubs are equally to blame, the whole situation has developed into tit-for-tat actions due to the poor relations between the clubs, which to me seems to have worsened since the Cooke saga and it is us silly b*ggers the fans who suffer! It was a disgrace to let fans (from any club) queue from the early hours and throughout the day knowing that a majority of the poor sods were wasting their time and would go away without tickets. I queued for 3 and a half hours and was at the cut-off point and was told after about 3 hours that from me in the queue there would be no more tickets. I stayed until they ran out just in case they had miscounted but they ran out when I was 2 from the counter.
At least I have the comfort of being told I should get my tickets as I was first on 'The List' but why for everyone's sake can't the upper echelons of both clubs just get together and sort out their differences, a good punch-up if it helps, and then call it quits and stop messing us supporters around with totally unacceptable situations like this. The joy of Derby's is taken away even before they start with these nightmare ticketing problems. It was plainly obvious with the current success of both clubs that this Derby would sell out quicker than most so the full allocation should have been sent in one go.
