Tickets for the friendly at Hull FC (Jan 20th KO 2pm) will go on sale tomorrow from Savile Street store priced at £16 adults, £9 concessions

Ooh, FC charging the local rivals more than they charge Castleford fans the week before. Surely not.

Maybe they are charging Fc fans more for this game as well

Pearsons desperate for the money

That'll be why you requested a split gate to boost your coffers

I would rather spend the ticket money in rovers shop that way the club get all the money and The rovers fans dont get shafted!

The word "friendly" for these derbies always makes me smile.

Dunno, you'll still be taking home an overpriced tatty piece of rubbish, ruined yet further by an idiotic badge and associated with a horde of drooling lunatics.

Why would anyone be buying Hull FC Shirts from a Rovers shop

All friendly games are split gates so whats the problem?

Not true.

Its whatever the two clubs involved agree.

Why are you getting shafted?

Thats not what i meant. I meant by hull fc putting up The prices for derby game Id sooner spend the money in club shop than at kc.

Thanks for clarifying that chief.

Expecting a low attendance for this one, when the ticket price for a derby is higher than its regular counterparts, the 'any kind of weather' crew use it as an excuse to stay at home, not without first having a good moan about it.

In the case of Rovers we made it clear to Hull many years ago that we wasn't prepared to play a derby with yourselves if it wasn't an even share of the gate. Do you not remember the rather public spat Neil Hudgell had when we where offered a paltry 15k to play a friendly.

Just because NH spat his dummy out, in public, it doesnt always mean he gets his own way



The friendlies at the KC in recent years have had stadium expenses taken before any split, other that Rich Horne's Benefit game. By definition this is not 50% of gate receipts.

And there was me thinking the stadium paid for itself........Not.

I also said an even share. Never did I mention 50% of gate receipts. I've always thought a shared gate meant roughly 45% each with the remaining 10% covering the costs and match day expenses of the home side.

It wouldn't surprise me if the 'split' sees the SMC getting the biggest slice.

With all of the chopping and changing you get in friendlies these days I think the Wigan game (@ £10) is a far better option than the KC.

Think the Wigan game will have a lot of interchanges. Expect the Hull game to be very close to the thoughts of Sandercocks starting 17.

The 50% share was with reference to another poster on this thread.

I think you will be right. Lets face it, if both teams in the derby played youngsters and had 17 interchanges supporters of both clubs would not shell out every season. They want a derby to be a derby.