Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:15 pm  

Wildthing wrote:

There is now.

No, there isn't per se.

The Wheldon Rd End is now members only but fans can still stand/sit in any other part of the ground they want.

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:01 pm  

Members only home fans only same thing. We haven't had a proper home stand since they ripped the heart and soul of the ground (the south bank) down . So it's great to finally have a stand to see out our last couple of seasons at belle Vue until we move in the Wakefield community stadium which will be state of the art for both home and away fans. RL is not a segregated sport but whenever I get a ticket for an away match it's nearly always for a specific part of the ground

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:20 am  

Slugger McBatt wrote:

That's the problem. They allocate a side of the ground that is very popular with home support when they should more sensibly have allocated the East Stand paddock where relatively few fans go. I'd be interested to her the rationale behind that. I'm sure the home dugout will be delighted to have the Hull KR lot screaming in their ears all the way through.

Although it holds fewer fans, I fully agree with you Slugger and as others have mentioned, there are many Trin fans that occupy the Western Terrace, but not so many in the East Stand.
If the club had done this, it would also have been simple for entry and exit to and from the ground but, what do we know ??

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:16 am  

I've never had bother with away fans, other than big headed Hull FC fans who find defeat hard to take, and even then it was attitude rather than aggression. This whole business of segregation leaves me cold, and is the easy option to take rather than tackling the few idiots we occasionally see.

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:11 am  

wakeyrule wrote:

I've never had bother with away fans, other than big headed Hull FC fans who find defeat hard to take, and even then it was attitude rather than aggression. This whole business of segregation leaves me cold, and is the easy option to take rather than tackling the few idiots we occasionally see.

I hardly think this is a ham fisted way of getting rid of idiots, it's more a very naive way of concentrating the home support in one stand, nothing more sinister than that!

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:13 pm  

We're Wakefield Wildcats, we'll stand where we want!!

Will there be restricted entry points on Sat? If there's turnstile issues, as with the Fev game, it won't look good.

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:12 pm  

Completely agree with Slugger, as I said before the East stand/paddock is the most sparsely populated area of the ground. It seems daft to encourage the away supporters to congregate where a lot of home fans stand.

As an aside, I’m not sure if I've missed it, but will home supporters be able to get into and out of the North bank to facilitate those who 'change ends' at half time?

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:22 pm  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Completely agree with Slugger, as I said before the East stand/paddock is the most sparsely populated area of the ground. It seems daft to encourage the away supporters to congregate where a lot of home fans stand.

As an aside, I’m not sure if I've missed it, but will home supporters be able to get into and out of the North bank to facilitate those who 'change ends' at half time?

It wont be aproblem against the smaller clubs but, its going to be packed down the West side on Saturday.
Where will the "Chav's" go ?

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:51 pm  

King Street Cat wrote:

This weekend will be the perfect test of this brainwave when HKR fans come over in their millions. Personally I think it could get farcical but let's see on Saturday.

In the presence of the Sky cameras too! I sincerely hope that it all goes smoothly! As previously said, until people start screaming their heads of after scoring a try, how can you differentiate for certain 100%. I can see the situation now, away fans celebrate a try, a few home fans complain, stewards intervene and get heavy handed and the situation could escalate from there. I've seen it before but i hope it doesn't happen.

Re: Away fans to get wet!! : Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:03 pm  

Well I for one hope the club have a look at the response on here and see what some of us see and that its a bit of a daft idea that could have the club shown in a bad light and landed with a big fine.Know we are going early dont want to stand for ages at a turnstile and miss part of the game as for sure thats what will happen.