How many do you reckon we took? We filled that railway end and there was a few down the sides and seated. A Cas fan said it looked over 2000.

Any guesses?

Bigger attendance than the Wakey game too!!!



What a game!!!

By comparison, I thought Cas turned out quite poor tonight. Our fans were about 40% of the crowd and much, much louder than the home fans, it was just like the good old days but without the wind/rain/sleet/snow/Odsal fog !

Guess who was the only d!ck to wear a rain jacket and carry a brolly?

It was absolutely chucking it down only 20 mins before the game and on and off for 2 1/2 hours before that!

surely near 2000, every one of which filled with pride

I know mate, you were stood just in front of us at one point. Between the corner flag and the de-luxe SL standard seats

Were Cas fans getting in free with their season tickets for the game?

No that was the previous round for them.

That's good. The least we deserve is coming away with a few bob from a decent gate (around 5500 speccies I think).

That was the ammoumcment and seemed about right: There was a lot more space around me in the Princess St stand than normal.

Well done on a good turnout - marched your team's performance.

Juniors got in free with there season tickets.
All adults had to pay.

When my 2 handed in their tickets from their season booklet, they had to climb over the turnstiles.

Does this mean they were counted on the actual attendance or not?

One way of lowering the stated crowd, therefore giving us less of the takings.

They were free what is the point of asking for half of nothing?

By passing them over the turnstyle, a paying adult would be able to get in but the club says it was a kid and produce a kids ticket, vus reducing the split of the gate money.

Never thought of that.

Everyone who watches should pass through the turnstiles and be counted. They should then be able to validate the correct numbers from the number of tickets they hold and from the cash takings relevant to the particular entrance, be it junior, concession or adult.

You're being a bit paranoid there.

A) Why assume Cas would want to fiddle?

B) The turnstiles, the reconciliations and all figures are open to inspection throughout the process by our Club officials.

As only one class of entrance goes through one turnstile, a gate would have to be marked as junior on the reconciliation sheet and adult on the gate for what you describe above to take place. I think someone would have spotted that

Shaunna came through the Adult turnstyle with me on Saturday.

The whole entrance thing was a farce. We were told to buy tickets in advance to save £1 and to save queuing, yet on arrival the pay gates had no queues and the ticket only turnstile was 20 deep, the jobsworth muppet of a steward couldnt understand my gripe when I raised it with him.

Caught sight of the Deputy Cheif Steward at the end, so asked him, his response was Cas only expected 500 Fax fans as thats the amount of tickets they sent, so it was our fault. He was the biggest muppet of the lot. Probably couldn't wait to get home to his Wife/Sister.

The Woman on the gate was equally inept, shouting "does anyone know what a Halifax Junior Ticket is?" down the queue. Not rocket science really is it?

Probably, the turnstile operator will be fiddling for his own pocket

That's because the Halifax season tickets didn't have a designated voucher for the game. Whereas the Castleford Junior season tickets have vouchers saying Challenge Cup 4th Round, 5th Round, Quarter Final etc. The Halifax booklets had Voucher A, Voucher B, Voucher C etc. Half of those with season tickets had Voucher A's missing, some had Voucher B's missing.

Thern, when you bear in mind Voucher B (or C, or whatever) may be for a future cup game or for allocation of play off tickets, well you don't want to take the wrong one because thats a lot of upset Halifax fans come play off time.

Not sure how true this is but Halifax failed to inform Castleford that their season ticket booklets didn't have designated vouchers. Hope that clears things up. And no I wasn't the woman on the gate

And indeed were inspected during the course of the match by a Castleford official, Halifax offical and I presume an RFL official.

That's fair enough.

I'm not aware of RFL Officials ever checking during a game, and a lot of what goes on re ticket money is put down to trust. Unfortunately there are some who abuse the trust.

There was more than one ticket-only turnstile. For some reason, you all chose to try and get through the one by the Arthur Atkinson gates, causing a huge queue. I entered through one at the Wheldon Road End and found hardly any queue

I was at the Turnstile on Wheldon Road.