Did say this, if a bucket collection were done, more than the £15000 would probably been raised. Its only be done in this way to highlight FC. IE THE BOARD.

Not quite sure about the football ground bit but the rest is absolutely spot on.

1)Its for charity.
2)Its reasonably priced to come to our place anyway.
3)Its one pound.
4)If you dont like it,spit your dummy out and dont bother coming !

good job you lot dont

I think people have a valid point here. Donations to charity by supporters should be at their own discretion. I'm willing to bet that most people who attend the match will have already donated to Children in Need. It's very easy to say "If you don't like it don't come", but there's a principle involved.
If the club wants to make a genuine donation to Children in Need and insist on raising ticket prices a fairer way to do it would be for them to match the donation paid by the fans out of their own profits.

We don't alter every week just for a set of jockey's from the west of the city



Start the what charity are Rovers gonna support for our home FC game.... I'll start with.... ermmmm....

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Quite. Exactly what Hudgell does when he charges £7 more for the derby than any other game. He pockets the £7 though, so it is a bit different.

1) Indeed it is, and as most of us have said we don't have a problem with where the money is going.
2)You think it's reasonable to charge £24 for a concession ticket for the West Upper?
3)Well that depends how many tickets you're buying doesn't it really. If a family had come to the game, mum and dad would have put a couple of quid in the bucket, but I wouldn't expect the kids to do so too.
4)We don't work like that, you see we DO support our team in 'any kind of weather' unlike our neighbours who complain because they don't get a discount to come into our ground.

The attendance from Rovers for the Horne testimonial game will be interesting to see, sadly he may be the one to pay for your clubs treatment of Rovers fans here, especially the way the tickets have been handled.

could be worse, what could happen is we could charge you extra and keep it to ourselves

A very simple fact overlooked by many bobbins

I was just about to say the exact same thing. Atleast ours is going to charity and not in a pocket !!!

Trace, you're probably the best poster on here but you're way off the mark claiming Rovers have been mistreated. Face it, Hudgell started this by charging a different price for the derbies only. He pocketed the difference. That's fair enough and the result of supply and demand. It's frankly outrageous for Rovers to try and take any sort of moral highground on this one when FC are similarly charging a one-off different price and donating the difference to charity. Let's see whether Hudgell will be magnanimous enough to make a similar donation from the FC game where the prices differ from what everyone else is charged by £7. Dressing up a £7 difference ad a "discount" that appliesfor for 12 out of 13 games is just silly.
The point about boycotting the Horne testimonial, when the kid's been through a career threatening injury and a diagnosis of diabetes and supported Rovers as a child because of a £1 donation to Children in Need is staggering.

2) its all about "maximising profit and good business sense" (c) numerous rovers fans. (Its also a lot better value then the south stand at craven park on account of you can actually see the pitch).

3) agree it probably should have been a bucket collection, would have saved a lot of bother and quite possibly made more money.

4) I believe south stand at craven park was sold out, which somewhat sinks this point.

£24 for a ticket to sit in comfort with a second to none view of a sell out sporting event, Erm yes extremely reasonable !

As for Richard Horne's testimonial it will be a sell out, dont worry about that !!!

I honestly cannot see where the Rovers fans are coming from on this one. Even some of the more sensible posters have completely missed the point and as for boycotting the Richard Horne testimonial, i find that sort of threat totally out of order.

Edited for accuracy

the point is the donations are being made by the supporters of hull fc and hull kingston rovers, not hull superleague ltd. and that is what the fuss is about!

Fair do's

If you read my post again you'll see I put 'sadly' it might affect Horne's testimonial game. I've been supportive of the lad, he's come through a lot, but if Rovers fans don't come to this game it will be down to your own club.

Well said (other than the bit at the start about Trace being the best poster on here)

Spot on!

So thats your only gripe?????

Don't you think you're being a little petty???

So why is it your club increases their ticket prices for your home derby game and pockets the difference but when our club increases theirs and gives the difference to charity there is an east hull outcry !!!
You lot are astoundingly blinkered sometimes !!!!

at the end of the day i could'nt give a tos$ if im sat at the kfc or on the terraces of cas, wakie or bradford, i go to watch what is on the field! the ticket pricing is getting stupid, you can watch premier league football for the same price as what it has cost me to get in the west upper (not that i would want to). i think £20 should be the top end of the spectrum.

Exactly......


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