Well and truly found out there Ditchley. Although I vowed not to renew my pass I would still have been at about 90% of our away games. So not really a fair weather fan at all, just one who wanted to make a stand against the club.
It has shown that the drop in attendances and the mutterings of discontent have certainly hit home with AP and he has acted accordingly.

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and with the change in coach I will be on board for next season and back in the South Stand.

Not having a pop at anyone but can someone please explain the problem with the East Stand being reserved seating. Unless you can buy "reseved" tickets on a match by match basis (I don't know whether this is the case or not)I can see the issue that it effectively prices out anyone who can't afford a season pass and I sympathise with this, but that doesn't seem to be the problem for some people as there are at least a couple of posters who "won't buy a season pass" until there is unreserved seating available in the east stand.
Apologies if I'm missing the blindingly obvious but I'm just curious as to what the problem is

We will be buying 3 passes didnt renew this season due to the Agar factor.
Let the good times roll.

If all Reserved you might get stuck in front of a man with a beard who rants all the way through the game and youre stuck for the full season.

My problem with reserved east stand seating is

1) I sometimes take the in-laws/friends with me - they probably only go to half of the games per season. If I had a reserved pass, they wouldn't be able to sit with me. (I think if you visit the ticket office before the match day you can swap your tickets but I don't live in Hull and only visit for the matches.)

2) If you sit in unreserved, you can move if the person in front doesn't know the rules and is doing your head in. If you've got a reserved seat, you're stuck with them.

but, conversely, if they can sell every seat in the East Stand as reserved then they can fill it, I can see both sides of the argument.

When I got back to the UK in summer 2007, before I got a pass I used to go in West Stand unreserved, we were good then and the view and atmosphere was pretty good. The stadium looks fuller too as you are looking at the east stand!

I liked the fact you could to Hull sit in the ureserved part and if your mates who dont go every week fancy tagging along they can, we can all sit together too.
I hope they make it unreserved again, this season ive been in the south stand and its painful in there.

I am pretty sure if you get a pass and don't like the people around you the club would let you move it to another vacant seat.

for a fee, probably they would.

Its not often that any of the stands are at capacity (derby excepted) so on those occasions you took others with you, you could sit in a seat other than the one allocated by your pass.

I don't live in the area and for the 2 games I missed this season I exchanged vouchers at the ticket office 15 minutes before kick off.

If you don't like the person near you, as per my first point, its rarely packed.

A solution to your problem is, the West Stand.

The exact reason i changed from east to south for this year !

This happened to me a few years ago and club couldn't have been more helpful - AT NO CHARGE!!

Why do you think they'd charge a fee?

You just about get used to it after 4 or 5 seasons - doesn't stop me moaning about it though

because they would have to issue a new pass and do a certain amount of adminsitration, it's not FC that would do this but the SMC.

They dont have to issue a new pass, just a front ticket for your book. The vouchers dont have a seat number on them just a book number. Simple job of allocating you to a different seat and printing out the ticket for your pass.

they charge for a duplicate pass, don't they?

That is because they have to issue another book of vouchers. A change of seat is just one printed ticket which slots into the front of your book.
Also duplicate passes have been given free when the old pass has been shown (mangled in washer etc) but if you do not have the old book they cannot issue a new one without charging. If they did you would get people going in saying they lost their pass and then their mates have got a cheap pass for the season.

Back to student passes for me, definitely renewing

I know it's a different world but at Everton you can move your seat in the same stand for a £10 admin fee.

Oh yes I forgot you had become one of the great unwashed

I changed the seats for 3 season passes at least 5 times this season, which they did free of charge. Why would they charge for changing for the full season when it is obviously less admin than changing each ticket every week?

fair enough