Surely the fact they are doing tickets means they are having to pay someone to work on both the doors, therefore an extra unnecessary cost. If it was my local boozer and all of a sudden I was being asked to pay to get in, because non regulars were coming to watch rugby, then yes it discriminates against regulars, I'm assuming they didn't charge for the England v Italy Euro semi and again I'd assume it would have been busy even though it was on terrestrial TV. If they are doing tickets to avoid queues and over crowding, then why not just advertise that if you want to come in to the pub for the game, then you have to come and pick up a ticket/voucher before the day. I think most landlords would be happy if they had to put on more staff, because it was busy, rather than make a cheap buck and justify it by giving £1 to charity.

Please don't talk sense on here...you'll crash the site!!

Guys

I have enjoyed reading this thread and want to thank those of you who have posted in favour of what I am doing. Thanks you all.

FC Guvnor - I am sorry you disagree with the charge and I do appreciate your comments & opinion, but if your are one of my rugby regulars then you would of know 3 weeks ago that I was showing this game as myself and the staff have done our best to tell everybody who regularly use the pub about this. Very sorry if we missed you.

Rock God x - again I am sorry that you disagree with what we are doing here, but as you have already said you don't live in hull & have no interest in coming. Then why the hell has this matter incensed you so much??
Anyway I want to thank you the most as you Said earlier about me having tickets left, you may have been right but by you keeping this simple thread going for TWELVE PAGES you have personally help me sell more tickets!!! THANK YOU ROCK GOD X YOU ROCK!!!

And if anybody wants to know how my regulars feel about this game you can ask them tomorrow as most will be here watching the game, the others who are not watching the game are the ones with the blind folds & ear muffs on!!

Do come, Kathy. The obtuse moaners won't be there and the place will be packed with hopeful party-goers who don't mind exchanging a very few quid for a service not found elsewhere in Hull.

Hunched over a radio trying to make head or tail of Gollum's biased splutterings or in a crammed room filled with like-minded people with a view of the match and a pint in your hand... it's a no-brainer.

Thank you Clarence for giving me the option.

Wow 13 pages, like they say there is no such thing as bad publicity

Incredible, isn't it? There's not much on here that surprises me any more but this thread had me gobsmacked. Talk about a storm in a teacup.

Anyway - I reckon it's run it's course, and it [iis[/i technically free advertising (and as such against the AUP), so clunkety-click it goes.