We should be glad the malcontent keyboard warrior does not attend matches. I bet he would not dare to say to peoples faces what he spouts on here.

You know what, since Michael's so popular, I'll make an August Resolution (it's like a New Year's one, but you know, in August) to not give him any more stick and keep my opinions of him to myself. I'll try leave off Chalmers quite so much too. Let's say I'm feeling charitable and I was too harsh with the comment last night.


Back on the topic (again). As has been rightly said, you would think if the club do end up in the playoffs, surely the only right thing to do is to extend that early bird deadline until after the playoffs conclude? Whilst some fans will be happy to pay it regardless, I'm sure plenty would be holding off until they know what's happening, and the club will only end up losing out on a lot of potential season tickets by forcing people to make a decision before the playoffs finish.

They might decide to gamble and hope we go up after the deadline so that loads of people pay extra...

I hope we get the promotion but I'll still come to games if we don't. I'm too ingrained in it to stop now, and a match is still a match so I'll be getting a ticket, though I was forced to laugh at the news that, to reserve my seat, I had to renew by late September - if someone buys mine, I'll just get the one next to it....

I must admit the same thought has occurred to me over recent years. Before I stopped going, I used to go in the stand too (physical issues mean I struggle to stand for a full match) and it's been quite a few years since there was a lack of space in the stand to make it an issue if someone else gets your seat! Apart from those who have the little name plaques on their seats, I can't see many people being that bothered if they have to sit in a different one next year.

That would be a really sh*tty thing for the club to do.

Lol, the little name tags lasted about a season before they fell off, hell most of them don't even have the numbers on now!

I won't be buying mine any time soon. If they sell it then I will bare my arrse on the town hall steps, as I need radar to detect the nearest people in my section in the middle.

I'm tempted to buy it just for the comedy value

Which seat would that be again?

I find the interest in my bare arrse as disconcerting as unexpected

Congratulations HC. I accused you a year ago of not being a fan ("faux fan"icon_wink.gif and being a tedious boring repetitive poster, and you have on another thread admited that you are not a fan and on this thread that you are obnoxious boring repetitive obessive and compulsive ("too harsh"icon_wink.gif. After a year you have finally acknowledged that I was right. So a belated thank you. I will observe with interest whether you have taken the needle off the broken record.
Take note Bent Bong, not just what i said a year ago now being admitted as correct by HC but what other posters have said about HC on other threads. If you have any bongs you will apologise to me.

I'm not gonna lie, I've had something of a change of heart today (hey, I've even unblocked you). Personal circumstances away from this forum have made me re-evaluate a couple of things. Life's too short to be an a*se to people. If anything I've said to any other members on this forum has upset them, they have my apologies. I always try to say what I think, at the end of the day I'm honest. But maybe I'm too honest and sometimes tact or reservation is required. So I'll try to be more reserved and respectful. Even Mr. Gledhill has my apologies for my comment last night, it was too far and as Bullseye said, unfair. In fact for any previous comments, I regret any that may have caused upset.

I'm still going to be honest. If I think a player is crap or I think someone is talking out of their backside, I'll say so. But I'll try to do so with a little more tact.

I think a good guide is to only post what you'd be happy saying to someone's face. Keeps things in check.

There's nothing wrong with getting carried away with yourself mid-rant. In fact that's what the bulls Facebook groups appear to be exclusively for. Have a cathartic rage on the banter pages and when you come back here everyone thinks you're normal again. Ish.

Bullseye is inhumanly calm everywhere I've come across him though. Prozac maybe?

Maybe the missus is spiking my drinks with it? After Sunday's fiasco I was quite fecked off but a long way off raging. Middle age must be to blame.

The a read of the banter pages is reassuring in confirming that here is the best place for quality debate. I don't often post on there as I can't get into the emotive black and white mindset.

Quite.

We lost a match, though, if memory serves, we've done this before, with various degrees of regularity. so in truth, "nothing to write home about".

The banter pages tend to go into meltdown though and it you're not quite distraught and in a state of total distress too, then, in their eyes, you clearly don't know the seriousness of the situation and obviously aren't a 'real fan'.

I'm so glad it's much more restrained on here, where only around one in three give the impression that Armageddon is nigh.

I saw the Bulls put out yesterday that they've reached the 100 mark on season ticket sales. I genuinely can't remember what the take up is normally like when they go on sale. Anyone who can? Is that much slower than normal, or about the same? On the face, it sounds incredibly underwhelming, but I'm not sure if it's always like that as people don't just have that money lying around.

They've certainly started earlier than normal and I'd guess that would catch quite a few out, though I wouldn't doubt the prices will have an effect.

No mention of a 4 month Direct Debit option to take you up to Xmas - usually well received.

Well the post-Workington despondency will give way to renewed sales if the 14 team Championship materialises.

Agreed. If we are guaranteed to be going up at the end of the season along with a few more players of the calibre of Webster joining us for 2019, I can see there being a solid uptake in ticket sales.

Absolutely. Considering those fans that stuck with the club this season and bought season tickets will very likely renew should promotion occur. Added to the no doubt extra fans that will come back because of the promotion, good signings etc. And add to the fact there has yet to be any WUPs since the newco was formed (which let's be honest is what most Bulls fans are still scared about). There's likely to be a fairly good uptake I would think, be it before the early bird deadline or after it.

I've been critical before of the club, but I've always said one thing. It doesn't matter if I personally don't agree with a way of doing things as long as it's in the best interests of the club. Upsetting a handful of fans here and there will happen regardless of what you do, so the right thing should always be what's best to put the club in the best possible position. And if promotion happens (even if it's through this craziness of the RFL changing structures), then it's hard to say anything other than the club is moving forward and is in a much better position than it has been for a while.

Well, the truth is that the new system wouldn't matter if we weren't doing well in the league, so I suspect what you say is correct.