: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:27 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Quite. Exactly what Hudgell does when he charges £7 more for the derby than any other game. He pockets the £7 though, so it is a bit different.

A very simple fact overlooked by many bobbins

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:29 am  

Mrs Barista wrote:

Quite. Exactly what Hudgell does when he charges £7 more for the derby than any other game. He pockets the £7 though, so it is a bit different.

I was just about to say the exact same thing. Atleast ours is going to charity and not in a pocket !!!

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:31 am  

RoversTrace wrote:

1) Indeed it is, and as most of us have said we don't have a problem with where the money is going.
2)You think it's reasonable to charge £24 for a concession ticket for the West Upper?
3)Well that depends how many tickets you're buying doesn't it really. If a family had come to the game, mum and dad would have put a couple of quid in the bucket, but I wouldn't expect the kids to do so too.
4)We don't work like that, you see we DO support our team in 'any kind of weather' unlike our neighbours who complain because they don't get a discount to come into our ground.

The attendance from Rovers for the Horne testimonial game will be interesting to see, sadly he may be the one to pay for your clubs treatment of Rovers fans here, especially the way the tickets have been handled.

Trace, you're probably the best poster on here but you're way off the mark claiming Rovers have been mistreated. Face it, Hudgell started this by charging a different price for the derbies only. He pocketed the difference. That's fair enough and the result of supply and demand. It's frankly outrageous for Rovers to try and take any sort of moral highground on this one when FC are similarly charging a one-off different price and donating the difference to charity. Let's see whether Hudgell will be magnanimous enough to make a similar donation from the FC game where the prices differ from what everyone else is charged by £7. Dressing up a £7 difference ad a "discount" that appliesfor for 12 out of 13 games is just silly.
The point about boycotting the Horne testimonial, when the kid's been through a career threatening injury and a diagnosis of diabetes and supported Rovers as a child because of a £1 donation to Children in Need is staggering.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:31 am  

RoversTrace wrote:

1) Indeed it is, and as most of us have said we don't have a problem with where the money is going.
2)You think it's reasonable to charge £24 for a concession ticket for the West Upper?
3)Well that depends how many tickets you're buying doesn't it really. If a family had come to the game, mum and dad would have put a couple of quid in the bucket, but I wouldn't expect the kids to do so too.
4)We don't work like that, you see we DO support our team in 'any kind of weather' unlike our neighbours who complain because they don't get a discount to come into our ground.

The attendance from Rovers for the Horne testimonial game will be interesting to see, sadly he may be the one to pay for your clubs treatment of Rovers fans here, especially the way the tickets have been handled.

2) its all about "maximising profit and good business sense" (c) numerous rovers fans. (Its also a lot better value then the south stand at craven park on account of you can actually see the pitch).

3) agree it probably should have been a bucket collection, would have saved a lot of bother and quite possibly made more money.

4) I believe south stand at craven park was sold out, which somewhat sinks this point.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:34 am  

RoversTrace wrote:

1) Indeed it is, and as most of us have said we don't have a problem with where the money is going.
2)You think it's reasonable to charge £24 for a concession ticket for the West Upper?
3)Well that depends how many tickets you're buying doesn't it really. If a family had come to the game, mum and dad would have put a couple of quid in the bucket, but I wouldn't expect the kids to do so too.
4)We don't work like that, you see we DO support our team in 'any kind of weather' unlike our neighbours who complain because they don't get a discount to come into our ground.

The attendance from Rovers for the Horne testimonial game will be interesting to see, sadly he may be the one to pay for your clubs treatment of Rovers fans here, especially the way the tickets have been handled.

£24 for a ticket to sit in comfort with a second to none view of a sell out sporting event, Erm yes extremely reasonable !

As for Richard Horne's testimonial it will be a sell out, dont worry about that !!!

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:38 am  

I honestly cannot see where the Rovers fans are coming from on this one. Even some of the more sensible posters have completely missed the point and as for boycotting the Richard Horne testimonial, i find that sort of threat totally out of order.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:40 am  

Gordon Gekko wrote:

I honestly cannot see where SOME of the Rovers fans are coming from on this one. Even some of the more sensible posters have completely missed the point and as for boycotting the Richard Horne testimonial, i find that sort of threat totally out of order.

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: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:41 am  

the point is the donations are being made by the supporters of hull fc and hull kingston rovers, not hull superleague ltd. and that is what the fuss is about!

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:41 am  

bob bob bobin robin wrote:

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Fair do's

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:43 am  

Gordon Gekko wrote:

I honestly cannot see where the Rovers fans are coming from on this one. Even some of the more sensible posters have completely missed the point and as for boycotting the Richard Horne testimonial, i find that sort of threat totally out of order.

If you read my post again you'll see I put 'sadly' it might affect Horne's testimonial game. I've been supportive of the lad, he's come through a lot, but if Rovers fans don't come to this game it will be down to your own club.