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| Quote: I_Pitty_Stevo "I honestly do not understand what people are getting so wound up about. To my mind the club are being very sensible;
They want to keep costs down and so aim to open the bare minimum turnstile and have the bare minimum stewards. To do this they need to have a good idea of numbers upfront. To do this they encourage everyone to get a ticket upfront, and make it ludicrously easy to do this by allowing people to buy online and print your own ticket. They are charging £10 for the match, and £15 if you want to sit, I for one dont think that's bad. They are charging more on the day to discourage people from leaving it to the last minute and making numbers unpredictable, makes a lot of sense to me if the club want to control costs.
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I can understand your point, and to be honest I'd agree with most of it, however, I'm far from sure that many of the.. shall we say over 55s? would totally agree with the idea that printing out a ticket from the internet is making anything "ludicrously easy". Whilst accepting what you say about keeping costs down, I still think the easisest and definitely most "ludicrously easy" way of granting admission is to put someone on the gate.
Let's be fair, I somwehow doubt we've suddenly got card reading turnstiles, a la Headingley, so I'm guessing the printed out ticket checking is going to be done manually, by a paid mambers of staff at the gate so, personally, I'd say that putting on an extra couple of staff to deal with 'walk ups' would very likely pay for itself.
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| Quote: Bulliac " I'd say that putting on an extra couple of staff to deal with 'walk ups' would very likely pay for itself.'"
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Just open one gate for an hour - surely it can only be minimum wage, so let's sat it costs £8. If ONE person comes through that gate it has paid for itself...
Anyone who sits in the main stand, as I do, will be well aware of the number of not just 'over 55s', but 'over 75s'  Why make it more difficult for people who, I would imagine, have been loyal supporters for very many years? |
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What time is kick off? - Bulls webpage countdown just now says 1hr 28 mins so I assume its a 3pm kick off?
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Lineup for today:
Brandon Pickersgill
Josh Rickett
Liam Johnson
Ash Gibson
Ross Oakes
Lee Smith
Elliot Minchella
Steve Crossley
Vila Halafihi
Mikey Wood
Matt Garside
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For those who went, how did the young uns do?
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I thought the team played well. The early try for fax aside we were pretty much in the drivers seat all afternoon.
The new guys seem to be clicking well and our discipline seemed much improved as there seemed a lot fewer silly penalties given away
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We defended well. We didnt have any real idea in attack. We had 5 or 6 chances in first half we should of scored. They scored and that was it.
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From listening online we sounded much more solid in defence. We did well in attack too considering we were missing our first choice halfbacks.
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I thought they played pretty well. I was more nervous than my lad before the game. Could do with another prop like Crossley
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I agree Rodge. It's a long season and we need a bit more experience up front.
Even though it was just a pre-season match I think we can take a lot from that game. It'll be interesting to see how Elliot goes against his former teammates.
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Played well. Apart from the first 5 minutes, which seemed to be a bit of a wake-up call, we generally out-enthused Halifax. Our academy kids seem to be further along in development than their lads, partly due to our set-up I would think and partly due to the 1st team games several of them got last year. Kear certainly seems to have them enjoying the "D" more, which is a massive improvement already, after only a couple of weeks.
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| Quote: Bullseye "I agree Rodge. It's a long season and we need a bit more experience up front.
Even though it was just a pre-season match I think we can take a lot from that game. It'll be interesting to see how Elliot goes against his former teammates.'"
Yes he's looking forward to it, hopefully another good team performance |
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| Quote: RickyF1 "We defended well. We didnt have any real idea in attack. We had 5 or 6 chances in first half we should of scored. They scored and that was it.'"
Reading that, thought you'd been narrowly beaten! Just seen the score on Bulls' website. Nice first result.
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