Hmmm.



Barmy Army bringing the club into disrepute again?



I'd suggest the opening poster writes to Gary Hetherington.



I'll supply names if necessary.

I saw him trying to carry 2 bottles and a pint back to his seat – by the time he’d finished goading the Leeds fans he’d spilled most of the pint and @ £3 a pint that must have cost him 15% of his weeks Giro.

The seats at Hull, Wigan and even Huddersfield are not reserved so you can sit anywhere, they were reserved last night because the stand was full.

The stewards were also frankly clueless last night .... They're a paid employee of their club.



They have certain obligations to maintain. They are supposed to be, amongst other things, to take away the responsabilty (and cost) of providing members of the local constabulary from being in attendance inside the stadium.



Previously at Hull KR, they've had a buy-a-ticket-sit-where-you-like policy ... If this is the case, then fine. I don't have a problem with that and I am quite able to find my own seat. On entering the ground, I was told by one steward "That you've got to sit on the seat allocated on your ticket". If that's the case, then fine, but make sure you enforce it.



After finding the entire row (we'd got a block of about 8 seats on that row supposedly booked to us) with people already occupying the seats we held, upon enquiring with the nearest steward, I was once again confirmed that it was allocated seats policy this evening.



At that point I suggested that he 'do his job' and go sort out the row we were on, that sounded too much like hard work to him, so in consultation with his colleague the policy had a sudden change to 'sit where you like'.



Given that, as I said earlier, they have certain obligations with regards to crowd control and ground safety. I kept an eye on the couple of stewards that were in my visual range from time to time during the game. Not once did I see them taking an active interest in what was going on in the crowd around them. For exmple, the racist abuse given by a certain individual already mentioned on here was actually directed towards the black players on his [iown[/i team, but would have been clearly audible to his nearest steward. From what I observed, suggests to me that the stewarding job at Craven Park is one of the easiest jobs going, because there is little actual effort involved and the entire evening is spent perched on a stool at the front watching the game whilst getting paid for it and the ability to dodge work at every opportunity.



Indeed, during the Ryan Bailey incident towards the end of the game, one of the stewards was having a laugh and a chat with a group that only seconds before had been abusing someone that was potentially seriously injured.



Before Rovers fans come on here and suggest that I've got something against their club or I'm having a go for the sake of it. There are other clubs, including Leeds, who can and do make similar shortfalls in terms of their safety obligations. The vast majority of the time, there's nothing serious happens and there complacent attitude is reinforced. However, history is littered with events, where the 'it won't happen to us' attitude has cost many lives. I merely comment on what I see ....

Given in the Conan-Doyle books [size=59(Note To Comissioning Editors at Southern Televison - We should have done a 'Sherlock' when we had chance)[/size the famous detective is an opium addict, given the actions of the certain individual, a large element of method acting was being used ?

I made a half joking suggestion to my dad at the game last night that maybe when buying a ticket you should have to say that you are drinking at the game, that way they could give all the drinkers end seats so when they need a wee every 10 mins, they don't make a whole row stand up for them to get out.

You having a laugh - there were loads of empty seats.

He was certainly a "character" to say the least

Your having a laugh mate the stand wasnt full what so ever,there were people in our seats too.So do you really think that if someone is in your seat the whole of the stand is going to have to move about because of you..i dont think so,get a grip wherever you would have sat it would not have made any difference to your view of the pitch.



If you havent noticed u are also "allocated" a seat for Hull,Wigan and Huddersfield whether you choose to sit there or not is your perogative.

Nothing guilty about that,im sticking up for afew mates who caused no trouble at the game.



Thanks for your concern anyway.

I saw a poster on from here with a Cumbrian accent going back and forward to get his bottles of Carlsburg.



Was he one?

Dunno, but there were plenty of people sat in different seats and hardly anyone complained. We got there at 6.50 so managed to get ours which were pretty good and we were about 5 rows down from Loz and the gang. They didnt cause any trouble what-so-ever IMO and the only time they really abused anyone as a group was at this poor innocent Rovers fan (

) who walked across the front of us and was giving everyone some nice signs and abuse.



He deserved it

George dawes was another good one last night, that bloke in the white coat with glasses sat at the front "giving it large" when KR went over for the disalowed try. Soon sat himself back down sharpish when the try was not given. Although "sherlock" was a cracker.

The guy in black??

I noticed how those fans in front of us went fairly quiet when their try was disallowed...

Cant remember but he received a lot of abuse for it

There was sherlock and his peacocking strutting best which was hilarious, then that fat bloke all in black kissing the badge and flicking the V's as he strutted along the front of the stand, then those kids at the front running up and down flicking V's and kissing the badge too. Twas a fun night out to be sure.

The ones sat to the left were better. All up and having a go and then "NO TRY" came up





Thier faces... priceless.

yup

Its been a while since ive the "Millward" face.

Thats who i meant then we went in front!

Who are you to tell someone they cannot sit in their allocated seat?

If you read the blurb on the official site the north stand was reserved seating, ie you sit where your ticket says not like at the KC or wigan which are non reserved seating ie sit where you want first come first serve. The same thing is happening at Murrayfield Magic weekend, you can buy reserved seats or non reserved seats with the reserved seats more pricey and a slightly improved view.

TBF though it doesnt matter where you sit in that stand. The view will be the same. I wouldnt have been bothered if I had to move somewhere else.

If it's reserved seating you should sit in that seat. If you dont and are instead sat in someone elses seat then dont get all uppity when asked to move.



Its a lack of respect for other people.

I agree to an extent, last year we were right behind the sticks at the back, this year we were to the left of the sicks in the middle rows and being honest there wasnt anything to split the views.



My point is the attitude from a section of our support who think because they sing songs and stamp their feet can run roughshod over other people who wanted to sit in the seat they have been allocated.