Evenin' Bulls fans.

Haven't dropped in for a while.
I have to agree 4,000 in the Championship are good numbers, even for a successful Championship Club, which makes your showing remarkable all things considered.

Hull KR's stratospheric ST sales & attendance for Championship RL is a completely different animal. Much easier to get their fans to buy into the dream of a fast return than the Bulls fans predicament, though KR fans also have to be applauded for buying in in huge numbers.

It is heartening that despite the ferocious onslaught of sins brought against your lot that you can summon the will & spirit to fight again.

My advice to those who are riled by the ill tempered trolls who visit you for blood sports is to reply with a cheery quip, turn the other cheek & pity the sorry 8@$T@RD$ for they know not what they do.

Onwards & upwards.

Why not? Because you'd instantly annoy a large section of your fanbase who will have essentially paid more for exactly the same seat as those who have paid less.

Not something the club can afford to do when they're already having to do whatever they can to keep fans turning up.

It's easy to say it's a good idea if you're one of them who's getting the benefit for cheaper, but not quite so easy if you feel a bit ripped off by it. As I say, one game isn't a big deal. If it became regular, I would be asking for some money back and I expect most others in the stand would be too, as we'd have been ripped off.


It's a great idea at the start of the season before anyone's paid the extra. You can give them the option and point out you're only paying the extra for about 4 games in the year when the terracing will be open. People then choose to pay it or not. You can't just do it after people have already paid for the "upgrade" for the whole season though.

established.

I seem to remember that we did actually - probably 3-4 years ago, I had name on my seat. Or did I just dream that up?

I did mention that on my post....so you didn't dream it. Mine actually stayed on for a couple of seasons, though quite a few did fall off. I got the impression they went round and pulled them off after a while.

No it wouldn't.

The centre section was full, so if i had wanted "my seat" I'd first have to make my way along the row to reaach it, and then tell one of the lads sat there that number 80 is mine. He would not be happy, the game having kicked off, and if he and his mates moved now, they had nowhere in the vicinity to go where they could all sit together.

If the seats were marked "reserved" it would make no difference as basically the stand had filled up from the centre and nobody was bothered. I can't imagine a steward wanting to get involved, but worse would be the stick I would rightfully get for disrupting the view in the vicinity whilst it all kicked off.

The only solution is to restrict free upgrades to certain sections of the stand, eg the end bits or at the bottom. But that would be equally unfair against the stand passholders in those areas who paid more, and would have left large chunks of the expensive middle bit unoccupied as is the norm.

I don't want to see it unoccupied, but selling stand seats isn't my job, and I don't see why I should pay treble what the guy next to me does.

Yes it would. The vast majority of rugby fans would respect a reserved sticker and they would have no excuse when told to move.

On the subject of 'Attendances' those for the first round of SL fixtures were abysmal, just one over 10K. I worry that in future there may not even be a Super League to get into. The game will die on its feet if we can't do better, considering this was the opening round of fixtures a very poor effort.

So how does our attendance compare with the rest? SL and CS?

Personally, I couldn't care less about "reserved" stickers. I paid £50 extra on my season ticket for a seat and roof rather than standing. If someone gets a seat and a roof without paying that extra, I'm feeling ripped off, regardless of which seat they're in.

2nd best in Championship (behind Rovers' attendance against us the previous week, which was more than double ours).
1,000 less than the worst SL attendance so far (Widnes vs. Hudds).

If they announced that was the regular policy from now on, then yeah, I'd agree 100%. For a 'one off', weather incident, I'm happy enough though.

I think one of the problems has been caused by not differentiating on seat prices; for years, black were the most expensive followed by red and then amber but, as I understand it, this year they seem to have just called everything 'a seat in the stand', and made it the same price. Most of the reserved seats were, as you might expect, in the black middle section or near the edge of the red, so they could, and maybe should, have directed non seat holders to the yellow section. If they'd used stickers they could have told non-stand ticket holders to not sit in a reserved seat, with effective stewarding, job done.

Hindsight is a wonderful tool though and as the owners haven't been around that long I'll forgive the oversight.